European Grade 4s have been a happy hunting ground so far this year, and there is a strong British contingent here, including 4 seeds plus Liam Broady playing his first ITF event of the year. (1) Rune Winkler (DEN) v David Watson (GBR) Gustav Kallen (SWE) v (7) Christopher Simpson (GBR) (3) Tom Farquha...
Ahmed El Menshawy is an early casualty here. The girls who played in the Sfax tournament last week should also be here, but I haven't spotted their draw anywhere yet. Boys Singles R1 (Last 32) John MORRISSEY (IRL) defeated (6) Ahmed EL MENSHAWY (GBR) 6-1 6-2 James TURBERVILL (GBR) defeated (4) Pave...
Remarkably Laura Slater is the third Brit so far to secure a doubles title this week (*) and still be in with a chance of a singles title. In the absence of the Omani girl she partnered last week, Laura heavily outranks the whole field, and teamed up with the other British Laura here (Deigman) to win the do...
The head-to-head is heavily weighted in Rafa's favour at the moment (1-5), but the most recent official encounter between them was at the 2008 US Open, when Andy finally turned the corner & beat Rafa in four. Hope the dodgy ankle ain't gonna restrict Andy's movement so much that the title is ha...
The Hutch is back with Stephen Huss; they are the 4th seeds and have drawn Ernests Gulblis & Igor Kunitsyn in the first round. They look to be in a good quarter of the draw but are in the same half of the Bryan brothers.
L32: Colin Fleming WR 590 v (6) Ilya Belyaev (RUS) WR 397 L32: Ken Skupski WR 618 v (SE) Patrick Telawetz (AUT) WR 1158 Fleming & Skupski are the top seeds in the doubles and they have a bye in the first round. They are both first on court in the singles tomorrow.
2pm local time, 1pm UK time. Tricky one, this. SuperMario leads the H2H 3-1 and won the last two meetings. If Andy was at his best I would be backing him wholeheartedly, but he seems down this week for some reason. Even Team Murray have looked glum when I have caught sight of them. I have my fingers firmly c...
Paul Brown has been ploughing a lone furrow for 2 weeks in South America, before 5 of our leading 1992 boys (and Steph Cornish) join him for next week's tournament. Last week was unproductive, but he has had a good run here. R1 (7) Paul Brown (GBR) BYE R2 (7) Paul Brown (GBR) defeated Dario Leiva (CHI) 6-2...
R1 (Last 32) Daneika Borthwick [GBR] vs. [Q] Laura Eline Faure [FRA] Chrissie Hoolahan [GBR] vs. Cathrine Arnholdt Pedersen [DEN] [6] Amy Bowtell [IRL] vs. [Q] Abbi Melrose [GBR] Leia Kaukonen [FIN] vs. Taro Keens [GBR] [2] Mai Grage [DEN] vs. [LL] Hannah Moran [GBR] Mai Grage played Fed Cup for Denm...
ATP Dubai $2.2 Million (Hard) - Andy Murray Delray Beach $500K (Hard) - Doubles - Jamie Murray, Ross Hutchins Davis Cup Play-Offs Roehampton - Josh Goodall, James Ward, Dan Evans, Chris Eaton, Alex Slabinsky, Colin Fleming CHALLENGERSWolfsburg EUR 30K +H (Indoor Synthetic) - Alex Bogdanovic FU...
Andy and the 31 year-old Frenchman have never played each other before. Match scheduled at the same time as today's, "not before" 2.30pm local time so 1.30 here if the earlier matches don't overrun. Gicquel doesn't have a great deal to show for his career, a bit of a journeyman really, but h...
Rotterdam, The Netherlands - Original Cut-off: 44 1 Nadal, Rafael ESP 1 2 Murray, Andy GBR 4 3 Davydenko, Nikolay RUS 5 4 Tsonga, Jo-Wilfried FRA 6 5 Simon, Gilles FRA 7 6 Ferrer, David ESP 12 7 Monfils, Gael FRA 14 8 Soderling, Robin SWE 17 9 Andreev, Igor RUS 19 10 Berdych, Tomas CZE 20 11 Tursunov, Dmitry...
Match presumably to be played on Thursday. They've met only once before, in the QF at Nottingham in 2006, so on grass, when Seppi ran out the winner 7-6(4) 4-6 6-1. A dangerous opponent, so not to be underestimated, which I'm sure Andy will not do, but surely one now well within his undoubted talent...
In qualifying hoping to join Dan Evans Marcus Willis WR 959 v (q14) Frederic DE Fays (BEL) WR 853 (q10) Joshua Milton WR 732 v Nikolai Nesterov (RUS) WR 1385 (q11) Daniel Cox WR 818 v Morgan Mannarino (FRA) UNR
The match is at 6.30pm UK time on Tuesday, according to am.com. Head to head 2-1 in Andy's favour, but Ivan won the last one, the Final of Doha 2007. Andy should win, I would have thought. Ivan is not the player he was then.
Another 128 qualifying draw and hopefully the rain has stopped. QR1: Nikki Prosser UNR v Jessica Ginier (FRA) UNR QR1: Nicola Mooney WR 1070 bye QR1: Danielle Brown UNR v Gabriela Eufrasio (BRA) UNR QR1: Edita Raca UNR v Yaroslava Zhishchenko (RUS) UNR QR1: Emila Banos-Gregorians UNR v Claudia Lore...
1 Nadal, Rafael ESP 1 2 Federer, Roger SUI 2 3 Djokovic, Novak SRB 3 4 Murray, Andy GBR 4 5 Davydenko, Nikolay RUS 5 6 Del Potro, Juan Martin ARG 6 7 Tsonga, Jo-Wilfried FRA 7 8 Simon, Gilles FRA 8 9 Roddick, Andy USA 9 10 Blake, James USA 10 11 Nalbandian, David ARG 11 12 Ferrer, David ESP 12 13 Monfils, Gael FRA...
Tournament Key : M-FU-GBR-01A-2009 Dates : 12 Jan to 18 Jan 2009 Venue : Glasgow, Great Britain Surface : Hard The first GB futures is in Glasgow and should be full of Brits. I will be going on the final Saturday and perhaps during the week. On the entry list are... Bloomers, Baker, Dan Evans, Chris Eaton...
Aucks and Andy have a wild card and they have drawn Julian Knowle & Andy Ram, the 4th seeds. Jamie and Vemic are here as well and they face Igor Andreev & Marcin Matkowski (only half of the Polish duo there thank god!)
