L32: (1) Andrew Fitzpatrick WR 464 v (Q) Seong-Gook Oh (KOR) WR 1537 I am guessing that Fitzy needs some good results over these 3 tournaments in order to make this trip pay so lets hope for the best.
QR1: David Rice WR 593 v (8) Dane Propoggia (AUS) WR 506 QR1: Sean Thornley WR 722 v Ergun Zorlu (TUR) WR 1253 QR1: Lewis Burton WR 725 v Dorian Descloix (FRA) WR 787
Thought you might be interested in how my junior ratings look. These are all players eligible to play in juniors. Also shows what they are ranked in my Mens rankings. It takes into account all Mens tour results plus all Junior results of Grade G1 and above. The ones in bold played Wimbledon Juniors th...
ATP No British Entrants CHALLENGERSOrleans $125K+H (Indoor Hard) - (Goodall, Bloomfield)FUTURESUSA F26 $10K (Hard) - Alex Bogdanovic (Egerton)Sweden F6 $10K (Hard) - Dan Smethurst, Josh Milton, Tom BurnSpain F30 $10K (Hard) - Matt Short (Roenn, Suleau, Ward-Hibbert, Brown)Vietnam F6 $...
I am so amazingly happy. I am Scottish. I am a tennis fan, but I am a British tennis fan, I remember being angry seeing Dowdeswell lose to Italy in the Davis cup. seeing Castle lose to Wilander at Wimbledon. Cheering for Tim and Greg but never really expecting them to win. This is one of the happie...
The US Open Pickem competition is now open for entries at: http://www.britishtennis.net/Competitions.html Entries close when play starts so tomorrow at 15:00 GMT/ 16:00 BST. I know that's shorter notice than we usually give but there is an ongoing debate as to whether it helps to spend more or l...
With 4 direct entries (Liam Broady, Kyle Edmund, Josh Ward-Hibbert and Luke Bambridge) Evan Hoyt needs to win 2 matches starting today to join them. His opener looks very winnable, though his opponent did beat Peter Ashley earlier in the year. QR1 (4) Evan Hoyt (GBR) v Naoki Nakagawa (JPN)
Harriet Dart is amongst the British contingent here Boys R1 (L32) Robbie Ridout (GBR) v (WC) Andreas Stylianou (CYP) Dmitry Mnushkin (RUS) v (7) Samm Butler (GBR) (Q) Athos Stoupenos (CYP) v Jamie Malik (GBR) (6) Callum Poland-Smith (GBR) v (Q) Kemal Turker (CYP) Girls R1 (L32) (Q) Fanny Ostlund (S...
QR1: (qwc) Nikki Roenn UNR v (q8) David Sanz Perez (ESP) WR 718 QR1: Alexander Slabinsky WR 727 v (q6) Jean-Marc Werner (GER) WR 636 QR1: (q3) Alexander Ward WR 423 v Bye First two rounds of qualifying are being played tomorrow (Saturday).
DAs here for Bloomfield, Evans, Milton, Fitzpatrick, Marsalek, Slabinsky, Carpenter, Short, Gabb, Burn, Pauffley, Jones, Hudson and Bugby. Looks like possible wild cards for Ireland, Orton and Meehan (all on the acceptance list but not the qualifying draw) http://www.lta.org.uk/NewWebsit...
Tonight seems an appropriate time to mention Tony Hawks' movie "Playing the Moldovan's at Tennis", in which he attempts to beat every member of the Moldovan football team from the last time they played England, as the result of a drunken bet. The bet became a book and then a film, both of whi...
A stong British quartet here appear to have decent round 1 draws Boys R1 (L32) Joshua Sapwell (GBR) v Zvonimir Babic (CRO) Filip Kraljevic (CRO) v (6) Peter Ashley (GBR) (WC) Strahinja Rakic (SRB) v (3) Jonny O'Mara (GBR) Girls R1 (L32) (5) Katy Dunne (GBR) v (WC) Violeta Jankovic (SRB)
