For those who hanker for the old days, this Youtube video has appeared on social media. It is a 15 minute highlight reel of the 1952 Women's Singles final at Wimbledon. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoSWyMdsfKM Thought some might find it interesting.
Scott & Hunter keep plugging away: L16: Scott Duncan & Hunter Reese (USA) CR 342 (170+172) vs Michiel de Krom & Ryan Nijboer (NED/NED) CR 579 (347+232)
L32: Qualifier vs Blu Baker UNR (CH = 608 in November 2022) L32: (5) Matías Franco Descotte (ARG) WR 838 (CH = 285 in August 2019) vs (JR) Oliver Bonding WR 1945 (CH = 1927 last month)
The first week of the back to back Liverpool tournaments starts this week with J30 and a TE event at the same. Qualifying for the TE is on the Wirral as the site cannot cope with the numbers. I'm planning to get down most days and I see some top GB players entered for TE. Quite a lot of the J30 players are fairl...
I suddenly realised that Matilda doesn't have her own thread - now that can't be right Matilda (born 2004) won her first adult ITF 15k title a few weeks ago, and got herself a nice starter WTA ranking too (WTA 1028) She's now ranked Junior ITF 24 She's the LTA's top girl hope (leaving aside Emma Raducanu...
As I recall, Emma's main journey towards top tennis started with a J5 she won at age 13 (nearly 14) So Clarice Ouvarova deserves a thread She's born in 2010 but still age 13And has just won the singles AND the doubles in the J30 in the Dom RepI've never seen her play and there's not much info about her in Br...
Only four players with a WTA ranking, and many I haven't come across before. I'll add further info as I research it. Esther Adeshina is missing from the draw and is still on the acceptance list, so hopefully she has been given a main draw wildcardQR1:- Emma Wilson (GBR) WR1004 [1] v Aimee Knowles (GBR)...
J100 Cyprus Ben Gusic Wan is top seed And won his R1 match, although with a pretty tight score Max Castle also won But AleksandarDaskalovic lost J60 Kenya Matt Upton is into R3 Nahla Jeilan lost her first match J30 Cameroon Jesse Abu won in R1 Grace Chinwike (top seed) has a BYE J30 Morocco Sofia...
QR1 (WC) Titouan Droguet (FRA) WR173 (CH =130) vs (q5) Billy Harris WR 113 (CH = 101)Billy a bit of a Lone Ranger in the qualifying draw, no less than 12 of the 16 man draw are French the rest being 2 Swiss a Dutchman and Billy.-- Edited by Madadman on Friday 1st of November 2024 11:06:53 PM-- Edited by Mada...
L16: (1) Jamie Murray & John Peers (AUS) CR 70 (31+39) vs James Duckworth & Christopher O'Connell (AUS/AUS) CR 2510 (1256+1254) -- Edited by Stircrazy on Saturday 2nd of November 2024 11:28:36 AM
R1: BOULTER, Katie (GBR) 57 (CH=50 2023) v YUE, Yuan (CHN) 73 =CHR1: RADUCANU, Emma (GBR) 299 (CH=10 2022) v ROGERS, Shelby (USA) 156 (CH=30 2022) They met in the US Open in 2021 with Emma winning 2 & 1R1: BURRAGE, Jodie (GBR) 102 (CH=85 2023) v KORPATSCH, Tamara (GER) 81 (CH=71 2023)They played tw...
