Richard Russell who passed away on 15th January 2025 was a Jamaican tennis player who played in all the Grand Slams in the 1960's and also the Davis Cup. However in the days before all these coaches etc, VIrginia Wade knocked up with him before her 1968 USOpen final against Billie Jean King.She wrote...
Although the main draw starts tomorrow this is a week 3 event, acting as a warm-up for the Australian Open. We had 3 players in qualifying and all were successful. Brooke Black has a tough draw though, taking on the Orange Bowl runner-up (who also won the previous J500 event in Mexico) Boys R1 (L64) (Q...
Boothy asked the question, so I asked Sheddie the question after Indy suggested it and Sheddie has kindly delivered! We have a whole new section and world - if you like this stuff, you can now find it easily; if you don't like it you can ignore it more readily!! A new start beckons!! thanks Sheddie for tha...
Couldn't find a thread for Jonny so I thought I would start one. I had the pleasure of meeting up with Jonny this evening in La Manga. He was drafted in to take part in their regular Friday night exhibition match and turned up expecting to play some friendly light hearted doubles with some of the coaches...
Ben Gusic Wan is the second seed here. He was originally scheduled to go on to the Australian Open, but he withdrew from that today. The British contingent is increased by Enrico Franchi coming through qualifying Boys R1 (L32) Aleksa Oparnica (SRB) v (8) Maximilian Carrier (Q) Enrico Franchi v Fili...
L32: (WC) Chirag Duhan (IND) WR 962 (CH = 959 last month) vs Alastair Gray WR 670 (CH = 237 in September 2022) L32: (Q) Sidharth Rawat (IND) WR 1010 (CH = 430 in January 2019) vs (2) Oliver Crawford WR 403 (CH = 190 in January last year)
J100 UAE Ophelia K Davies and Federica Barbieri (LL) are in the MD here Levi Taylor lost in the FQR J100 Turkey Megan Knight is playing here - 6th seed - she's only got one other J100 counter but obviously so so young that barely matters - will be interesting to see how she does J60 Sweden Harry A...
L32: (WC) Henry Searle WR 511 (CH = 506 last August) vs (7) Michael Geerts (BEL) WR 298 (CH = 212 in April 2023) L32: Johannus Monday WR 371 (CH = 369 last November) vs (WC) Ryan Peniston WR 428 (CH = 123 in July 2022) L32: Jules Marie (FRA) WR 339 (CH = 203 last March) vs (WC) Anton Matusevich WR 460 (CH = 38...
Separate thread, given the number of Brits in the draw (thanks to a couple of WCs!). L16: (WC) Liam Broady & Henry Searle CR 3270 (2266 [but a CH of 218 in August 2018]+1054) vs Ben Jones & Johannus Monday CR 641 (214+427) L16: (4) Scott Duncan & James Mackinlay CR 543 (200+343) vs Lukas Po...
Can't post this in the individual players forum, even though it kicks off with comments from Jamie Murray, as he's not a Brit. His name has cropped up on a number of threads in the last year or so & he would have started this week's Nottingham Challenger as...
QR1: Dylan Marks (*) UNR vs (q16) Timothy Phung (USA) UNR (*) only 15 QR1: (q5) Justin Roberts (BAH) WR 2152 (CH = 753 in September 2019) vs Blu Baker UNR (CH = 608 in November 2022) QR1: Duainne Miller (JAM) UNR vs (q14) Ying Hou UNR QR1: (qWC) James Wilkinson UNR vs (q11) Jeffrey Fradkin (USA) UNR
I'm just looking at the ITF junior calendar and the only 2 ITF junior events in the UK in January and February are at Liverpool. This isn't normal - am I missing something or have the LTA cut back on hosting tournaments?
this is a thread which Ill use to provide general updates on the 2024 player of the month and season votes and results as the season progresses. Im going to shortly post the past PoM and PoS rolls of honour and the 2024 calendar of dates for each month in terms of cut offs etc for each vote. But this first p...
So, a window arises to post this and we will have a CLOSE TIME FOR THE VOTE OF 7.30PM THURSDAY 6 players in each semifinal. Group One was made up of the players in positions A1, B2, C2, D1, A3, D3 from the first round and they are below. Remember to say if you vote and who for and why, it helps keep the thread al...
So, a window arises to post this and we will have a CLOSE TIME FOR THE VOTE OF 7.30 PM THURSDAY6 players in each semifinal. Group Two was made up of the players in positions A2, B1, C1, D2, B3, C3 from the first round and they are below. Remember to say if you vote and who for and why, it helps keep the thread al...
L16: (WC) Gastão Elias & Duarte Vale (POR/POR) UNR (0 [but a CH of 151 in August 2016]+451) vs (3) Cleeve Harper (CAN) & David Stevenson CR 289 (159+130)
The first J300 of the year has Allegra Korpanec Davies as the sole British entrant, stopping off en route to Australia R1 (L32) Eva Marie Desvignes (FRA) v (8) Allegra Korpanec Davies
J60 Sweden Harry A...
