You may remember Reus, near Barcelona, as the place where Robert Dee got his first win in Futures qualies. There are 4 Brits in a 4-round qualies draw this year: QR1: Kyle Edmund UNR v Carlos Gonzalez Tarrio (ESP) UNR QR1: Nihar Navapurkar v Robert Ziganshin (RUS) WR 1499 QR1: (q12) Jack Carpenter WR 1...
Scott Clayton is amongst the smaller group of Brits than usual for the 2 South African Grade 2s, and is the only one to avoid a seed. Boys R1 (L32) Toby Mitchell (GBR) v (5) Bar Tsuf Botzer (ISR) Scott Clayton (GBR) v Cem Ilkel (TUR) (Q) David Fox (GBR) v (2) Wayne Montgomery (RSA) Girls R1 (L32) (5) Megane B...
Sam Hutt and Jordan Angus are both seeded in the first of 3 Asian Grade 1s R1 (L64) (16) Jordan Angus (GBR) Bye (12) Sam Hutt (GBR) Bye (Q) Nikko Madregallejo (USA) d. Joshua Page (GBR) 6-3 6-7(5) 6-1 R2 Jacob Grills (AUS) v (16) Jordan Angus (GBR) Omar Jasika (AUS) v (12) Sam Hutt (GBR)
QR1: Dominic Inglot UNR v (q5) Marius Copil (ROU) WR 254 QR1: David Rice WR 429 v Roberto Marcora (ITA) WR 718 QR1: Chris Eaton WR 381 v (q3) Farrukh Dustov (UZB) WR 249 QR1: Sean Thornley WR 595 v (wc) Jeremy Vogt (FRA) WR 1285 QR1: (q6) Daniel Evans WR 271 v (wc) Lucas Szewczyk (FRA) WR 1367
Both Robbie Ridout and Jazzi Plews make the semis here in the first of 2 Moroccan tournaments Boys R1 (L32) (7) Abdelkader Benabdellah (MAR) d. (LL) Ben Stride (GBR) 6-4 6-4 (4) Robbie Ridout (GBR) d. Mehdi Laalej (MAR) 6-1 6-2 R2 (4) Robbie Ridout (GBR)d. (WC) Amine Ahouda (MAR) 3-6 6-1 6-1 QF (4) Robbi...
Matthew Short is a DA QR1: James Allemby UNR beat Yusef Dris Ahmed (ESP) UNR 6-0, 6-0 QR1: Nikki Roenn UNR beat Jerome Palaz (SUI) UNR 2-6, 6-1, 6-3 QR2: James Allemby UNR v (q12) Philip Orno (DEN) WR 1481 QR2: Nikki Roenn UNR v Jean Pascal Vernet (FRA) UNR
Luke Bambridge has joined the final section of the COSAT circuit, having spent time training with Greg Rusedski, and should be a high seed. Peter Ashley, Jonny O'Mara and Tom Hill also made the cut, but Alex Sendegeya and Clay Crawford had to go into qualifying. Both played Brazilians, on what Luke de...
R1: Jamie Murray & Paul Hanley (GBR/AUS) v Aisam Ul-Haq Qureshi & Jean-Julien Rojer (PAX/NED) If they can win that the 4th seeds (Bhupathi/Bopanna) likely to wait in R2
Morgan Phillips is a DA here QR1: (wc) Evan Hoyt UNR v (q1) Carlos Poch-Gradin (ESP) WR 589 QR1: (q15) Jack Carpenter WR 1116 v (wc) David Vega Hernandez (ESP) UNR
This is one of just 3 ITFs taking place next week (the others are the 10K in Antalya and the 25K in Wellington, NZ) and Lisa is still on the main draw list, though given her recent tweets about being ill, it would be a surprise (albeit a pleasant one!) to actually see her in the draw when it comes out. QR1: (q...
The ITF site is undergoing a revamp, which can be seen at http://beta.itftennis.com/procircuit/home.aspx I was having a look at it yesterday evening and it hasa better look than the old site (which usually rings lots of warning bells about ease of use, but in fact it seems to run at about the same spe...
In the wake of Dan Evans career best victory over Brendan Evans, i was wondering what are other Brits career best victories aswell as their best victory. The difference between being career best and best, career best is highest ever ranked player beaten while best victory could be winning a final or w...
QR1: (q8) James Ward WR 156 v (Alt) Robert Kendrick (USA) WR 280 (CH 69 in 2009) Since qualifying for Miami Masters 1000 last year, Kendrick has played just 10 matches (with a complete break in the last 6 months of last year) and lost 9 of them. In the two matches he has played so far this year, he has taken M...
L32: (4) Dan Cox WR 393 v (WC) Michael Redlicki WR 1600 And the in the doubles L16: COX (GBR) / FABBIANO (ITA) (1) Vs MIRZADEH (USA) / SHABAZ (USA) L16: EL-EFFENDI (USA) / WALSH (GBR) Vs BENNETEAU (FRA) / OUELLETTE (USA)
FQR: (q5) Miles Bugby WR 1318 beat (q12) Shi Saito (JPN) WR 1602 by 4 & 5 