Richard Gabb did the double here 3 years ago, and Samm Butler is well on the way to emulating him. Boys R1 (L32) (6) Samm Butler (GBR) d. Oscar Forssell (SWE) 7-6(4) 6-1 R2 (6) Samm Butler (GBR) d. (WC) Frederik Oervad (DEN) 6-2 6-2 QF (6) Samm Butler (GBR) d. (4) Jonathan Mridha (SWE) 7-6(4) 6-4 SF (6) Sam...
QR1: Anne Keothavong WR 89 v (q4) Mona Barthel (GER) WR 39 (= CH) H2H 2-2. That includes this year's AO R1 retirement when Anne was ill. The other three were all in 2011 and Anne won the last two of those, in Linz and Barnstaple. However, Mona has gone on a bit of a tear up the rankings in recent months.
Quite a big GB turnout here, with Josh Goodall likely to be the top seed in the main draw, Alex Ward seeded too and Bloomers & Burton also in the main draw. QR1: (q1) James Marsalek WR 659 v Florin Mergea (ROU) WR 1502 QR1: (q3) George Morgan WR 712 v Sebastian Beutel (AUT) UNR QR1: Ashley Hewitt v (q12)...
A party of British boys joins the COSAT circuit for the next 3 Grade 2s (others arrive later). Clay Crawford has a tricky draw against a French seed who has reached the final in his last 2 tournaments. Jonny O'Mara has tweeted an early win in 36 degree heat R1 (L64) (Q) Leonardo Civita Telles (BRA) v (16) T...
The main Moldovan tournament has upgraded this year from a Grade 3 to Grade 2 and added streaming from Centre Court. Pippa Horn is the one British player scheduled on that court. She's up ninth, with a very early start so probably early evening for anyone wanting to watch her ( http://discovery.md/c...
Bringing together stuff on the thread for the Hungary tie which is relevant to 2012 (I'll amend the thread title after Wednesday's draw, obviously): Unlike E-A Zone Group II, which always has 16 teams, the size of Group I varies depending on how many European and African teams have survived to play in...
First events are up on the ITF sites. 9th Jan 2012 - Glasgow Indoor Hard. F1 15k mens, 10k ladies 16th Jan 2012 - Sheffield Indoor Hard. F2 15k mens, 10k ladies 30th Jan 2012 - Sunderland Indoor Hard. 25k ladies
QR1: Dan Cox WR 394 v (q6) Carlos Salamanca (COL) WR 242 (CH 137 in 2010) Salamanca has quite a dire record against Brits, though that may be because most of his matches against Brits have been on grass! The most recent was a straight sets loss to Flembo in 2009 and overall he is 1-6 against Brits - the other...
Doha loses the 'a' ... QR1: (q5) Anne Keothavong WR 88 v Laura Robson WR 118 QR1: (q15) Heather Watson WR 106 v (wc) Klaudia Jans-Ignacik (POL) UNR (CH 410 in 2004 and currently a top 50 doubles player) -- Edited by steven on Saturday 11th of February 2012 09:18:22 AM
Boggo appears to have sneaked into the main draw as the last DA. QR1: (q2) Chris Eaton WR 359 v Antoine Benneteau (FRA) WR 748 QR1: Dominic Inglot UNR v (WC) Artem Baradach (BLR) UNR -- Edited by RJA on Saturday 4th of February 2012 12:26:38 PM
QR1: (wc) Robyn Beddow WR 1094 v (wc) Alexandra Riley (USA) WR 1140 (CH 867 in 2009) High quality WTA qualifying draw in Colombia (one of Mr Dee's old stomping grounds!) - Riley has lost her last 6 matches, Robyn has lost 11 of her last 12. The winner plays Karatantcheva in QR2.
QR1: David Rice WR 454 v Lucas Szewczyk (POL) WR 1371 QR1: Sean Thornley WR 601 v (q8) Olivier Patience (FRA) WR 418 QR1: Jonathan Marray UNR v (q3) Fabrice Martin (FRA) WR 267 -- Edited by wolf on Friday 3rd of February 2012 11:56:25 PM
An augmented British complement for the second Tunisian Grade 2 R1 (L32) (WC) Marouan Ferchichi (TUN) v Joshua Page (GBR) Thomas Colautti (GBR) v Mehdi Abid (TUN) Joao Barra (POR) v Toby Mitchell (GBR) (Q) Tomas Papik (CZE) v (SE) Jathan Malik (GBR) (5) Danil Zelenkov (MKD) v Scott Clayton (GBR)
