Eleanor Dean made a winning ITF debut here in 2010. Rob Smith is blogging from this year's event, with plenty of photos and detail of the prep, at http://itc-tennis.com/category/blog Unusually for a foreign ITF two of his charges meet in round 1. ITF rules on player segregation from the same coun...
Sam Vickers and Nat Beazant have been playing this week in the big end of season event. Sam was knocked out in the 2nd round, but Nat won her 3rd round match yesterday so is into the QFs. Streaming is available for this event - not managed to catch Nat yet but am keen to see how she's playing.
Just a quick congratulations to Freya Christie who made the semi-finals of this G4 tournament, winning her first three matches very easily, before losing in the semis to the eventual overall winner (Ivana Jorovic from Serbia).
DAs here for Baker, Goodall, Gabb, Rice and Gill. The draw is very weak. It looks like at least two unranked players are main draw DAs. QR1: Jack Oswald UNR v Bye QR1: Callum Kempe UNR v Salak Bazrganian (USA) UNR QR1: Bruce Strachan UNR v Bye QR1: Sam Hutt UNR v Ethan Tulliani (AUS) UNR
R1: Samantha MURRAY (GBR) 240 [1] vs. (WC) Tami GRENDE (INA) UNR (CH: UNR - H2H: 0-0) R1: Naomi BROADY (GBR) 341 vs. Jovana JAKSIC (SRB) 251 [4] (CH: Current - H2H: 0-0 - In good form, won last weeks $25K in Balikpapan, and a $25K in Poza Rica in April) R1: Melanie SOUTH (GBR) 475 vs. Margarita LAZARE...
Fitzy stays on and will be seeded. He is joined by Broady, JWH and Toby Martin In the main draw. In qualifying: Scott Clayton is seeded 8 and has a bye in the first round
QR1: Alexander Ward WR 443 v Andreas Vinciguerra (SWE) WR 568 QR1: Joshua Milton WR 371 v (wc) Andre Begemann (GER) WR 609 QR1: Oliver Golding WR 509 v (q6) Illya Marchenko (UKR) WR 125
A smaller tournament but Sacha Modica has beaten the number one seed so it seems nice to give him a mention (and Recci). R1 Sacha Modica def. Joakim Pinola (SWE) 6-2 7-5 Mason Recci (6) def. William Malm (SWE) 6-2 6-0 R2 Sacha Modica def. (1) Aman Agarwal (IND) 6-3 6-4 Mason Recci (6) def. Georg Lundkvi...
Carpenter is a main draw DA Another very weak field. Bugby, a late entrant, is the only ranked player in a qualifying draw of just 25 men (from a possible 64) QR1: (q1) Miles Bugby WR 1556 v Bye QR1: Sam Holt UNR v Bye QR1: James Allemby UNR v Bye
Another thread, 2 in a day. I'm seriously thinking about extending my trip to Eastbourne this year in fact I've already booked a hotel close to the venue, could cancel it nearer the time. Does anybody have any experience of this venue ? For instance can you buy tickets on the day or does it sell out in adva...
We have a quartet in the main draw here, including Cameron Norrie playing his first junior event as a Brit, and seemingly having the best of the draws (though the qualifier he faces reached the semis at the Banana Bowl G1). Evan Hoyt will have to take on Bournemouth Futures winner Borna Coric, while Lu...
R1: Francesca STEPHENSON (GBR) 909 vs. Jade SCHOELINK (NED) 954 (CH: 949 04-2013 - H2H: 0-0 - 3rd event in 6 months; Nov 2012, lost to Grace Dixon in Edgbaston but beat Anna Smith in Loughborough) R1: Lucy Brown (GBR) 803 [7] vs. (Q) Eleni KORDOLAIMI (GRE) UNR (CH: UNR - H2H: 0-0 - Last week was first event...
L32: (WC) Elena Baltacha WR 206 v Stefanie Vögele (SUI) WR 56 H2H 0-1, 4 & 3, Shrewsbury 75K 2008 Vögele is at a career high after reaching the semis in Charleston recently with a win against Wozniacki. -- Edited by steven on Saturday 18th of May 2013 11:44:40 AM
Both Brits are in the 2nd quarter with 3rd seed Kostova & 6th seed Smitkova. L32: Jade Windley WR 393 v (Q) Louise Boinay (SUI) UNR (CH 1061 last Oct) L32: Amanda Carreras WR 308 v Cecilia Costa Melgar (CHI) WR 368 (= CH) This week last year, Melgar needed a 3rd set tiebreak to see off Nik Slater in Sumte...
Just glancing at Ana Konjuh's first match back after long term injury (currently in a third set against a player ranked in the 200s, so not bad at all), and she has already served 13 DFs. She's by a country mile the best junior in the world. This morning, Bartoli lost serving 10 DFs to an Italian whi served...
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Ken was meant to play with Malisse here, but after Xavier withdrew he seems to have done a decent bit of partner hunting and just sneaked in as the last on-site acceptance with Seppi. R1: Andreas Seppi (ITA) & Ken Skupski v Mikhail Elgin & Denis Istomin (RUS/UZB)
Big British presence in Greece for this one. Goodall, Milton, Marsalek, Gabb and Rice are DAs. QR1: Graeme Dyce UNR v Bye QR1: Callum Kempe UNR v (q2) Julien Maes (FRA) UNR QR1: Joseph Gill UNR v Robin Moy (FRA) UNR QR1: Jack Oswald UNR v Bye QR1: Bruce Strachan UNR v Pavlos Karagiannidis (GRE) UNR QR1: S...
Subject to confirmation, because they are making a complete dog's breakfast of the draw (not actually showing the drawsheet at all) and it's all in Italian, but I think: L56: Laura Robson WR 41 v Venus Williams (USA) WR 21 (CH 1 in 2002) ... with the winner getting Serena in R2 edit: now confirmed --...
Doubles FQR: (QWC) Katherine WHITE/Alexandra WALTERS (GBR/USA) defeated Hiroko KUWATA/Tara VASOVIC (JPN/CAN) 6-7(2) 6-3 [10-6] 
R1: (Q) Katherine WHITE/Alexandra WALTERS (GBR/USA) vs. Danielle MILLS/Deni... 