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)
QR1: Emily Webley-Smith WR 266 v (q8) Wang Qiang (CHN) WR 247 H2H 0-1 - Wang won & 3 in Wenshan 50K qualifying just under a year ago. Anne, Hev & Laura all on the main draw entry list here, I believe.
This is on now as a podcast http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/5lspecials (I am using the link on the rh side to 'just listen') I think it is on normal radio 5live at 9pm also
No easy draws for the trio trying to make progress in the second Tunisian Grade 2 R1 (L32) Katie Boulter (GBR) v (8) Alice Matteucci (ITA) (3) Mayar Sherif (EGY) v Beth Askew (GBR) Harriet Dart (GBR) v Dominika Paterova (CZE)
