On the Amazon.com banner I've got at the top of my screen, they are advertising Andy Murray's biography, and a book called "Being Jamie Baker". I had a look, and book's blurb is... "An accident that should end in tragedy instead gives seventeen-year-old Jamie Baker a slew of uncont...
Morgan Phillips should be in the main draw here. QR1: Max Andrews UNR v (wc) Óscar Manciñeiras Cornella (ESP) UNR QR1: Aswin Lizen UNR v Victor Komlev (RUS) UNR
Nobody appears to have started a thread for this tournament ( ), so here goes... Qualy draw of 64, QR1 completed & 18 Brits survived to fight another day!
Some of our best 95/96s are in Italy, with Evan Hoyt getting a chance to recover from his Spanish exploits, courtesy of a first round bye R1 (L64) (14) Evan Hoyt (GBR) Bye Sergis Kyratzis (CYP) v Jonny O'Mara (GBR) Mazen Osama (EGY) v Tom Hill (GBR) Joshua Sapwell (GBR) v Edward Nguyen (CAN) Peter Ashley...
L32: Jade Windley WR 568 v Tang Hao Chen (CHN) WR 855 (CH 797 last Nov, now 18yo, junior no. 12 in 2010) L32: (8) Anna Fitzpatrick WR 505 v Zhu Lin (CHN) WR 603 (CH 495 last Oct, also 18yo, top 40 junior early last year) Both in the top quarter of the draw, the winners of these two matches will meet in R2.
Heather is playing qualifying here. She is in the same quarter as top Q seed Sloane Stephens (one of her best friends, if I remember right) but starts against one of Muzz's tips for the top, when he jumped on the bandwagon after she had a good run at RG: QR1: (q5) Heather Watson WR 113 v Caroline Garcia (FRA...
Q1: STRETTON, Millie (GBR) UNR v BEES, Hollie (GBR) UNRQ1: WATTS, Sophie (GBR) UNR v KUKAS, Steffanie (AUS) UNRQ1: BAMBURAC, Sabrina (GBR) UNR v OATES, Laura (GBR) UNRQ1: DEVINE, Emma (GBR) UNR v BROGAN, Anna (GBR) UNRQ1: BASTICK, Georgina (GBR) UNR v BROWNE, Julia (USA) UNRQ1: LUMSDEN, Maia (GBR)...
ATP Madrid $3 Million (Clay) -Andy Murray CHALLENGERSRome $35K+H (Clay) - James WardAthens $50K (Hard) - Jamie Baker, Josh Goodall (Bloomfield, Eaton)FUTURESNewcastle GB F8 $10K (Clay) - Dan Smethurst, Josh Milton, Andrew Fitzpatrick, Oli Golding, Liam Broady, Alex Slabinsky, Jam...
Lots of Brit interest here: R1: Simone Bolelli & Albert Ramos (ITA/ESP) vs Treat Conrad Huey (PHI) & Dominic Inglot (Qureshi & JJR (1), if they win that one! ) R1: (3) Paul Hanley & Marcelo Melo (AUS/BRA) vs Jamie Delgado & Ken Skupski (Hanley's obviously given up on Jamie!) R1...
By my calculations these are the 24 qualifiers as it stands (not taking into account points that come off before the deadline)USA 1 Bob Bryan (1) & Mike Bryan (1)Belarus 1 Max Mirnyi (3) & partner (probably Uladzimir Iganik or Alexander Bury)Canada 1 Daniel Nestor (3) & partner (prob...
Billy Harris has stayed in Eastern Europe for a weak Grade 2, and been rewarded with a section including a qualifier, wildcard and lucky loser R1 9L32) (Q) Bogdan Ursu (ROU) v (7) Billy Harris (GBR)
L32: Toby Martin WR 866 vs Or Ram-Harel (ISR) WR 1490 L32: Saar Steele (ISR) WR 1021 vs (7) James Marsalek WR 649 L32: Joshua Jones WR 922 vs (Q) Edan Leshem (ISR) UNR All three of our boys are in the top half of the draw!
Georgina Sellyn has come over to Europe for some Italian clay court events, presumably hoping to get into Roland Garros qualifying. She has the luck of the draw seemingly with a wildcard, qualifier and lucky loser in her section R1 (L32) (LL) Georgia Brescia (ITA) v (6) Georgina Sellyn (GBR) Giorgia...
QR2: Samuel Beddow UNR v Stefan Brian James (USA) UNR