Apologies for the lack of prior notice (though happily there are still about 70 hours before entries close!), since we only decided at the last minute that we are going to run a BOTB for the AO this year. I am unlikely to have a big enough block of free time early next week to get all the results pages up and r...
ATP Australian Open Week 2 (Hard) - Andy MurrayCHALLENGERSHeilbronn $100K+H (Indoor Hard) - (Baker)FUTURESUSA F3 $10K (Clay) - Alex Bogdanovic (Edmund, Marsalek, Bambridge, Broady)Preston GBF2 $10K (Indoor Hard) - Josh Goodall, Dan Evans, Dan Smethurst, Josh Milton, Richard Bloomfiel...
I'm sure many of us are intrigued about how LA will spin his story to the world to his own ends. Clearly his actions over an extended period of time are indefensible on a number of counts. 1. The years of sophisticated blood transfusions and chemical doping, all of which are of course illegal 2. The years...
Both Brits have drawn unseeded clay court specialists, which is about as good as we could have hoped for as far as QR1 is concerned. QR1: Jamie Baker WR 246 v Julio César Campozano (ECU) WR 222 (= CH) (q19) Matteo Viola ITA & former top 5 player (q9) James Blake (USA) are the seeded players in thi...
Boggo should be in the main draw here but probably won't be seeded this time. QR1: Liam Broady WR 885 v Hassan Ndayishimiye (BDI) WR 1106 QR1: Luke Bambridge WR 797 v Guilherme Hadlich (BRA) WR 1021 QR1: (q12) James Marsalek WR 616 v Dominik Varhanik (CZE) UNR QR1: (q9) Kyle Edmund WR 571 v Rafael Mazón-H...
Josh Ward-Hibbert first made an impact in ITFs in this Indian series a couple of years ago. Robbie Ridout is trying to follow suit R1 (L32) Karan Salwan (IND) v Robbie Ridout (GBR)
QR1: Sabrina Bamburac WR 825 v Mari Osaka (JPN) WR 914 Osaka is a 16-year-old who looks to be heavily under-ranked, having played only intermittently last year and reached a 10K Final, reached the FQR last week and qualified for the last 25K she played in 2012. -- Edited by steven on Monday 14th of Janua...
Just 2 Brits here for the Australian Open warm-up - Katy Dunne with a fairly good draw and Harriet Dart with a fairly tough one. R1 (L64) (11) Oleksandr Korashvili (UKR) v Harriet Dart (GBR) Ellen Perez (AUS) v (9) Katy Dunne (GBR)
Could this be one of the most competitive qualifying tournaments of all time to reach a $10k main draw, which in turn is one of the most overly competitive main draws I've ever seen. 4 rounds of matches just to qualify and just look at some of the names. And the next 2 USA futures events look very similar in...
I can't find the qualifying drawsheet yet, but the OoP on the app suggests Colin is having a go at qualifying here: QR1: Colin Fleming UNR v Michal Mertinak (SVK) WR 854 (CH 129 in 2005)
There are some very interesting ties in this week's British Tour. Anna Smith continues her return to competitive tennis and faces Mel South tomorrow. This will be a good measure of where her games is. In another QF, Fitzy plays Fran Stephenson. The top seed is Tara, and 13 year old Katie Swan took seven...
QR1: (q22) Anne Keothavong WR 142 v Grace Min (USA) WR 178 2nd on Court 5 after 23.00 GMT, so probably around 00.30 GMT The other seed in Anne's section is (q4) Tatjana Malek (GER) WR 115 (CH 64 in 2009), whom she beat in Ismaning in 2011, having lost to her 5 years earlier. QR1: Johanna Konta WR 153 v Anastas...
ATP Australian Open Week 1 (Hard) - Andy Murray (Baker, Ward)CHALLENGERSNo EventsFUTURESUSA F2 $10K (Clay) - Alex Bogdanovic (Edmund, Marsalek, Bambridge, Broady)Glasgow GBF1 $10K (Indoor Hard) - Josh Goodall, Dan Evans, Dan Smethurst, Josh Milton, Richard Bloomfield, Alex Ward, Neil P...
We have a Grade 2 followed by a Grade 1 in the old Czechoslovakia with Katie Boulter expected to join Billy Harris and Callum Poland-Smith having withdrawn from the trip to Australia Boys R1 (L64) (13) Billy Harris (GBR) bye (10) Callum Poland-Smith (GBR) bye
The entry lists are out for the Australian Open, with the main omission being Kyle Edmund, opting to play Futures events seemingly. Luke Bambridge is also down for Futures in the w/c 7th but has entered both the Australian Open (starting 19th) and the Traralgon warm-up (starting 12th). Katie Boult...
The defending champion here, Andy Murray OBE will play Ito or a qualifier in R2 and is then seeded to meet (8) Klizan in the QFs and (4) Dolgopolov or (5) Nishikori in the SFs, with (2) Raonic and (3) Simon the top seeds in the bottom half of the draw.
Hello ladies and gentlemen, may I introduce my self, I am an all round sports fan with particular interest in tennis and cricket, and all sports other than football really. I got particularly "interested" in tennis a couple of years ago through Steven's rankings page and the forums. I'v...
Since no-one else has stepped up to the plate, here be this year's ranking prediction competition. I've made some changes to the rules in order to try and make each player's performance have an equal contribution to your score regardless of their current ranking, and to mitigate the effects of injur...
QR1: Jamie Baker WR 246 v Julio César Campozano (ECU) WR 222 (= CH) (q19) Matteo Viola ITA & former top 5 player (q9) James Blake (USA) are the seeded players in thi... 