Georgina Sellyn is a late withdrawal from the second Italian Grade 2 Boys R1 (L64) (WC) Jacopo Stefanini (ITA) v Joshua Sapwell (GBR) Tom Hiill (GBR) v (WC) Fabio Mercuri (ITA) (Q) Leonardo Biffi (ITA) v Joshua Page (GBR) Jonny O'Mara (GBR) v (LL) Daniele Capecchi (ITA) (10) Evan Hoyt (GBR) Bye Filipp...
Having passed a fabulous 3 days at the Caja Magica (Magic Box) in Madrid, as promised to a couple of people, here is a brief summary of a couple of classic matches that I had the honour to witness. Federer v Raonic Federer eventually won this 4-6 7-5 7-6, but that only tells part of the story. All the repor...
Nice to see a Brit seeded as high as 6th in a European Challenger again L32: (6) James Ward WR 137 v (WC) Marco Cecchinato (ITA) WR 507 Cecchinato has been thrashed by Dan Cox and also beaten by Morgan Phillips this year, so not a bad first match of the year on the devil dust. Bolelli is the other seed in hi...
Just noticed, when checking on the new WTA ranking points schedule that I was remembering something right, that it seems to hold out the possibility of 15K events for women at last, instead of the women's only Futures-equivalents being 10Ks, which were first introduced 28 years ago, when the priz...
Mixed bag of results in qualifying round1 BILLINGHAM, Peter UNR lost 7-6(7) 4-6 6-3 to NIKOLAEV, Alexey (RUS) UNR GORDON, Matthew UNR won 6-0 6-0 vs HUBBARD, Justin (USA) UNR BEDDOW, Samuel UNR lost 6-0 6-1 to BUERCHNER, Moritz (GER) UNR QR2 GORDON, Matthew UNR vs OLJACA, Mark (USA) UNR
L32: (8) James Marsalek WR 653 v Marcus Daniell (NZL) WR 761 (CH 617 in 2010) L32: Joshua Jones WR 922 v Saar Steele (ISR) WR 1025 (H2H 1-0, 4 & 6, Ashkelon 2011) L32: Richard Gabb WR 892 v Dorian Descloix (FRA) WR 993 (CH 666 in 2010) L32: Toby Martin WR 866 v Cristian Rodríguez (COL) WR 740 L32: (6) Sean T...
On the Amazon.com banner I've got at the top of my screen, they are advertising Andy Murray's biography, and a book called "Being Jamie Baker". I had a look, and book's blurb is... "An accident that should end in tragedy instead gives seventeen-year-old Jamie Baker a slew of uncont...
Morgan Phillips should be in the main draw here. QR1: Max Andrews UNR v (wc) Óscar Manciñeiras Cornella (ESP) UNR QR1: Aswin Lizen UNR v Victor Komlev (RUS) UNR
Nobody appears to have started a thread for this tournament ( ), so here goes... Qualy draw of 64, QR1 completed & 18 Brits survived to fight another day!
Some of our best 95/96s are in Italy, with Evan Hoyt getting a chance to recover from his Spanish exploits, courtesy of a first round bye R1 (L64) (14) Evan Hoyt (GBR) Bye Sergis Kyratzis (CYP) v Jonny O'Mara (GBR) Mazen Osama (EGY) v Tom Hill (GBR) Joshua Sapwell (GBR) v Edward Nguyen (CAN) Peter Ashley...
L32: Jade Windley WR 568 v Tang Hao Chen (CHN) WR 855 (CH 797 last Nov, now 18yo, junior no. 12 in 2010) L32: (8) Anna Fitzpatrick WR 505 v Zhu Lin (CHN) WR 603 (CH 495 last Oct, also 18yo, top 40 junior early last year) Both in the top quarter of the draw, the winners of these two matches will meet in R2.
Heather is playing qualifying here. She is in the same quarter as top Q seed Sloane Stephens (one of her best friends, if I remember right) but starts against one of Muzz's tips for the top, when he jumped on the bandwagon after she had a good run at RG: QR1: (q5) Heather Watson WR 113 v Caroline Garcia (FRA...
Q1: STRETTON, Millie (GBR) UNR v BEES, Hollie (GBR) UNRQ1: WATTS, Sophie (GBR) UNR v KUKAS, Steffanie (AUS) UNRQ1: BAMBURAC, Sabrina (GBR) UNR v OATES, Laura (GBR) UNRQ1: DEVINE, Emma (GBR) UNR v BROGAN, Anna (GBR) UNRQ1: BASTICK, Georgina (GBR) UNR v BROWNE, Julia (USA) UNRQ1: LUMSDEN, Maia (GBR)...
ATP Madrid $3 Million (Clay) -Andy Murray CHALLENGERSRome $35K+H (Clay) - James WardAthens $50K (Hard) - Jamie Baker, Josh Goodall (Bloomfield, Eaton)FUTURESNewcastle GB F8 $10K (Clay) - Dan Smethurst, Josh Milton, Andrew Fitzpatrick, Oli Golding, Liam Broady, Alex Slabinsky, Jam...
L32: (6) James Ward WR 137 v (WC) Marco Cecchinato (ITA) WR 507 Cecchinato has been thrashed by Dan Cox and also beaten by Morgan Phillips this year, so not a bad first match of the year on the devil dust. Bolelli is the other seed in hi... 
QR2: Samuel Beddow UNR v Stefan Brian James (USA) UNR