Lots of Brit interest here: R1: Simone Bolelli & Albert Ramos (ITA/ESP) vs Treat Conrad Huey (PHI) & Dominic Inglot (Qureshi & JJR (1), if they win that one! ) R1: (3) Paul Hanley & Marcelo Melo (AUS/BRA) vs Jamie Delgado & Ken Skupski (Hanley's obviously given up on Jamie!) R1...
By my calculations these are the 24 qualifiers as it stands (not taking into account points that come off before the deadline)USA 1 Bob Bryan (1) & Mike Bryan (1)Belarus 1 Max Mirnyi (3) & partner (probably Uladzimir Iganik or Alexander Bury)Canada 1 Daniel Nestor (3) & partner (prob...
Billy Harris has stayed in Eastern Europe for a weak Grade 2, and been rewarded with a section including a qualifier, wildcard and lucky loser R1 9L32) (Q) Bogdan Ursu (ROU) v (7) Billy Harris (GBR)
L32: Toby Martin WR 866 vs Or Ram-Harel (ISR) WR 1490 L32: Saar Steele (ISR) WR 1021 vs (7) James Marsalek WR 649 L32: Joshua Jones WR 922 vs (Q) Edan Leshem (ISR) UNR All three of our boys are in the top half of the draw!
Georgina Sellyn has come over to Europe for some Italian clay court events, presumably hoping to get into Roland Garros qualifying. She has the luck of the draw seemingly with a wildcard, qualifier and lucky loser in her section R1 (L32) (LL) Georgia Brescia (ITA) v (6) Georgina Sellyn (GBR) Giorgia...
L32: Anne Keothavong WR v (4) Klara Zakopalova (CZE) WR 45 (CH 27 in 2006) Anne last played the then Klara Koukalova 14 years ago, in a junior event at Bisham Abbey. That's a long time to wait for a chance of revenge! Zakopalova's favourite surface is clay though, so it's going to be tough.
Venturing far afield this week are Alex Sendegeya and Lewis Roskilly, and they are rewarded with decent first round draws. R1 (L32) Q/LL v Alexander Sendegeya (GBR) (WC) Andriy Lytvynyuk (UKR) v Lewis Roskilly (GBR)
Wardy in action here and is the 7th seed. R1: James Ward WR 150 vs. Andre Begemann (GER) WR 260 Begemann hasnt had the best of years having posted a 3-8 YTD in ATP Qualifying/Challengers and hasn't beat anyone in the Top 200 since November last year. 10 points goes to the winner Edited to correct spe...
ATP No British EntriesCHALLENGERSNo British EntrantsFUTURESEdinburgh GB F7 $10K (Clay) - Dan Smethurst, Josh Milton, Andrew Fitzpatrick, Oli Golding, James Feaver (Willis, Short, Broady, Pauffley, Carpenter, Hudson, Hewitt, Farqharson, Ross-Hurst, Jones N, Edmund, Oakley, Tutu, Be...
The run of high grade French junior events finishes as usual with this Grade 1. Luke Bambridge goes for a second major title in a row, but against a slightly stronger field than last week. If successful he would keep the title in Britain - Liam Broady winning here last year. Eleanor Dean is the only othe...
Four Brits have stayed for the second Bulgarian Grade 3 R1 (L32) Robbie Ridout (GBR) v (WC) Jordan Dinevski (BUL) Mikhail Khmiadashvili (GEO) v (6) Christopher Pearce (GBR) Billy Harris (GBR) v (Q) Gabriel Donev (BUL) Samm Butler (GBR) v Sam De Paepe (BEL)
The last of the Spanish Grade 2s returns to clay, with Evan Hoyt joining three of last week's contingent R1 (L32) Myles Orton (GBR) v Alexander Vasilenko (RUS) Q/LL v Tom Hill (GBR) Joshua Page (GBR) v (3) Eduard Esteve Lobato (ESP) (8) Evan Hoyt (GBR) v Clement Geens (BEL)
R1: Marcos Baghdatis (CYP) & Ross Hutchins vs Jérémy Chardy & Lukasz Kubot (FRA/POL) R1: Treat Conrad Huey (PHI) & Dominic Inglot vs (2) Julian Knowle & Jürgen Melzer (AUT/AUT) The winners of those two matches play one another. Nice to see Ross find himself a decent temporary pa...
SINGLES DRAW(1) Nadal v Bye - Garcia-Lopez v O.Rochus Q v Q - Bellucci v (16) Andujar (12) Granollers v Gil - Q v Kunitsyn Hanescu v Machado - Bye v (15) Tipsarevic(4) Berdych v Bye - Ramos v Darcis Q v Q - Jaziri v (13) Anderson (9) Verdasco v Beck - Paire v Rosol Gimeno-Traver v Kukushkin - ...
