I couldn't believe how well Serena played throughout the tournament to win the 2012 Olympic Gold Medal. I can't remember ever having seen a female player play a better tournament? Perhaps Graf's 1988 French open domination is close (factoring in the additional round )? I started looking at her perf...
Andy's half: [7]Ferrer v Brown De Schepper v Bachinger Odesnik v Phau J.Baker v [30]Roddick[19]Nishikori v Kukushkin Kuznetsov v Serra Soeda v Kunitsyn Haase v [9]Del Potro[16]Cilic v Stebe Ito v Kubot Pospisil v Querrey Giraldo v [21]Raonic[32]Anderson v Dimitrov Montanes v Baghdatis Karlovi...
Dominique Covington goes for her second title in Ireland, and all seeds negotiated the first round successfully. Unusually all 16 matches were decided in straight sets
The season of European Summer Cups starts today with qualifying for the under 14 finals - which serve as qualifiers for the World Team Junior Championships in August. We have our strongest team (Maia Lumsden, Gabriella Patricia Taylor and Jazzi Plews) and have quickly reached an unassilable 2-0 in...
R1: Matthew Short WR 772 v (LL) Sergiu Rogoveanu (ROU) WR 1293 R1: (q) Richard Gabb WR 793 v (3) Nikola Cacic (SRB) WR 403 R1: Toby Martin WR 782 v Duje Kekez (CRO) WR 637
R1: Julia Görges & Anna-Lene Grönefeld (GER) vs Elena Baltacha & Anne Keothavong And, unbelievably: R1: (5) Angelique Kerber & Sabine Lisicki (GER) vs (ITF WC) Laura Robson & Heather Watson -- Edited by Madeline on Friday 27th of July 2012 01:09:13 PM
ATP Olympics (Grass) - Andy Murray CHALLENGERSVancouver $100K (Hard) - James Ward, Jamie Baker (Golding)FUTURESWrexham GBF12 $15K (Hard) - Josh Goodall, Richard Bloomfield, Dan Evans, Josh Milton, Andrew Fitzpatrick, Dan Cox, Ed Corrie, Sean Thornley, Lewis Burton, Marcus Willis ...
Jonny M returns to the fray for the first time since his triumph with Freddie N at Wimbledon & there's a new partner for Dom: R1: (4) Matthew Ebden (AUS) & Dominic Inglot vs (WC) Steve Johnson & Sam Querrey (USA/USA) R1: James Cerretani & Igor Sijsling (USA/NED) vs (3) Jamie Delgado...
The European Championships count as an enhanced Grade 1 event (more points in the later stages) but our trio are unseeded (it appears that Pippa Horn is a late withdrawal), and will be hard pushed to make the later stages Boys R1 (L128) Nichita Cepak (MDA) v Jonny O'Mara (GBR) Evan Hoyt (GBR) Bye R2 Evan...
R1: Colin Fleming & Ross Hutchins vs Julien Benneteau & Richard Gasquet (FRA) R1: Jürgen Melzer & Alexander Peya (AUT) vs Andy Murray & Jamie Murray Not an easy first round for either pair! -- Edited by Stircrazy on Friday 27th of July 2012 01:50:56 PM
5 Brits here, all seeded Boys R2 (L32) (WC) Nathan Elia Schmid (SUI) v (16) Joshua Paris (GBR) Philipp Moritz (AUT) d. (7) Samm Butler (GBR) 6-4 6-3 (14) Jamie Malik (GBR) d. Moritz Kandt (GER) 6-3 7-6(1) (SE) Ruben Greiner (GER) v (2) Thomas Colautti (GBR) Girls R2 (L32) (8) Katie Boulter (GBR) v (LL...
Goodall, Evans, Burton, Short, Pauffley, Hudson and Oakley are direct acceptances. QR1: (q2) Adam Thornton-Brown WR 1522 v Bye QR1: Jathan Malik UNR v Ryan Talbot McElvenny (USA) UNR QR1: (q4) Harry Meehan WR 1874 v Darragh Glavin (IRL) INR QR1: Cal Cravan UNR v Martin Colenbrander (NZL) UNR QR1: L...
L32: (1) Daniel Smethurst WR 376 v Marko Danis (SVK) WR 857 L32: (4) James Marsalek WR 643 v (Q) Mario Turcan (SVK) UNR L32: Alexander Slabinsky WR 1151 v (WC) Patrick Ofner (AUT) WR 1787 Marsalek and Slabinsky would meet in round 2 and they are in the same half as Smethurst.
The under 14s represent our best chance of success in the European Championships, with 4 seeded players (each country being allowed 2 representatives). Seedings are based on Tennis Europe rankings, which are more reliable for the boys than the girls, some of whom (like Jazzi) are playing more ITFs...
The Irish Grade 5s have been a happy hunting ground for Brits in recent years. There are 16 in the main draw (32) hoping to continue this trend including Alannah Griffin (2), Freya Christie (3), Dominique Covington (4), Rebecca Smaller (5), Jasmine Amber Asghar (6) and Farah Abdelaziz (7)
As usual the Irish Grade 5s are dominated by British entries The British seeds are (1) Sebastian Rey, (4) Ryan Peniston, (6) Christopher Morrow, (7) Andrew Watson and (8) Christopher Reynolds
