I was really looking forward to going to Nottingham this year to see the Brits in action. However, it looks like the LTA's decision to create the Festival of Tennis with 2 weeks of high-prize money tournaments has led to a huge increase in top-level players entering. Whilst many of these will undoubte...
Katy Dunne may have just sneaked into the main draw of this Grade 1 tournament. Jessica Ren is playing her second qualifying round match at the moment and trails 5-3 to an unranked local girl. David Hodgetts plays later against the useful Aussie Jack Schipanski Live scoring at http://www.tennis...
Unless I've missed something, this week's Turkish Future has been overlooked - not that we've missed that much...! QR1: (1) Stefan Sterland-Markovic WR 1535 bye FQR: (1) Stefan Sterland-Markovic WR 1535 defeated John Valenti (USA) UNR by 3 & 3 L32: (Q) Javier Baños (ESP) WR 1629 defeate...
OEM is at the daw and reports: L128: Elena Baltacha v Qualifier L128: Anne Keothavong WR 108 v Vesna Dolonts (ex-Manasieva) RUS WR 101 Nice draws and although Dolonts has been improving a lot (the 101 ranking is a career high), Anne has good memories of playing her - the H2H is 2-0, booth in 2008, and sh...
The entry lists are out for Roland Garros, containing a couple of surprises. In the Boys there are just 2 of the top 40 missing, but one of these is Liam Broady. The bigger surprise is in the girls event, where Laura Robson has used her WTA ranking to enter. Boys MD 4 Oliver Golding 8 George Morgan 33 Kyle...
Talk about not getting a point the hard way - Miles Bugby recovered from a set down in all three qualifying rounds ... then lost to an unranked WC in R1 QR1: (q10) Miles Bugby WR 1240 beat Ramiro-Alexis Campos (MEX) UNR by 4-6 6-4 6-3 QR2: (q10) Miles Bugby WR 1240 beat Jorge Molina-de la Rosa (MEX) UNR by 6...
Amanda Carreras stays in Itaparica, but this week the tournament is a 25K instead of a 10K. L32: Amanda Carreras WR 581 v Paula Cristina Gonçalves BRA WR 600 They met in Rio last year, though on clay in that case, and Amanda won easily 3 & 1. The winner is likely to face the no. 2 seed in R2.
As part of their 125th anniversary celebrations, Wimbledon are running a competition to win Centre Court & Court 3 tickets for this year's Championships. If you are on twitter or Facebook, you will no doubt know this already, but I am posting this in case others are interested too. Each week on a...
Last week's 3 semifinalists have all stayed on for the second Turkish Grade 4 R1 (L64) (9) Peter Ashley (GBR) v Altug Celikbilek (TUR) (WC) Niha Navapurkar (GBR) v Sefa Suluoglu (TUR) (6) Yuriy Kryvoy (UKR) v Joshua Sapwell (GBR) (LL) Ata Hergunvarim (TUR) v (2) Clay Crawford (GBR)
Entry list is still pretty strong... Entry List:Main Draw Chardy, Jeremy FRA 55 Sela, Dudi ISR 108 Brown, Dustin GER 109 Huta Galung, Jesse NED 119 Lacko, Lukas SVK 120 Beck, Andreas GER 123 Falla, Alejandro COL 125 Muller, Gilles LUX 126 Souza, Joao BRA 128 Bolelli, Simone ITA 129 Gicquel, Marc FRA 13...
QR1: Felipe Sharratt (GBR) UNR lost to Graham Shaw (RSA) UNR 6-3 6-0 QR2: (q1) Lewis Burton (GBR) WR 1403 beat Daniel Sibbald (RSA) UNR 6-0 6-2 FQR: (q1) Lewis Burton (GBR) WR 1403 vs. Edward Louies Oueilhe (USA) UNR Lewis should qualify. Also, "Oueilhe" is too many vowels for one name.
Luke Bambridge's doubles exploits have earned him a Special Exempt and an opportunity to avenge a defeat a couple of weeks ago against an Italian wildcard. George Morgan has to tackle the 1996 sensation Quinzi whilst Liam tackles a fast rising 1995 boy R1 (L64) (SE) Luke Bambridge (GBR) v (WC) Amerig...
