QR1: (q2) Anne Keothavong WR 118 v Darya Kustova (BLR) WR 163 (CH 117 in Jan 2010) H2H 1-0: 2&2, Gold coast qual. 2008 QR1: Katie O'Brien WR 173 v (q16) Mandy Minella (LUX) WR 137 (CH 128 in Sep 2010) H2H 2-1: Katie won 3&2 at Nottingham in 2003, Minella won 3&4 at Fuerteventura in 2006 and Kat...
Coxeh is the second seed here and plays the unranked 17 year old He Feng (or is that Feng He?) in the first round. Milton plays Yao-Lun Chang of Taipei (ranked 1159 and 25 yo) in the first round. The top seed is Ze Zhang (or is that Zhang Ze?), who took a set off Ljubo last year and has won rounds at Challenger...
India hosts a couple of relatively weak Grade 3 and Grade 2 tournaments. Joshua Ward-Hibbert is the advance party trying to take advantage, but hasn't been favoured in the draw. R1 (L32) Joshua Ward-Hibbert (GBR) v (6) Vinod Gowda (IND)
For the second week running Georgina Sellyn gets a first round draw against a low-ranked local player. This year these two Grade 1s have been extraordinarily weak in depth, with no first-round matches involving two players ranked in the top 1000. R1 (L64) (WC) Viviana Onorato (VEN) v Georgina Selly...
R1: Jamie Murray & Santiago Gonzalez (GBR/MEX) v Scott Lipsky & Igor Zelenay (USA/SVK) Ross Hutchins was the first alternate in the advanced list with Lipsky, and they would have got in on site but Lipsky playing with Zelenay.
Robert Carter, Luke Bambridge and Toby Martin will try to go one better than Tom Farquharson, who was a finalist here last year. Toby's opening match as a qualifier is against the player who finished one place above Peter Ashley in the Tennis Europe Under 14 rankings last year. R1 (L64) (6) Robert Cart...
ATP AUSTRALIAN OPEN WEEK 1 (HARD) - ANDY MURRAYCHALLENGERSNONE THIS WEEKFUTURESGB F2 SHEFFIELD $15K (HARD) - RICHARD BLOOMFIELD, DAN EVANS, JOSH GOODALL, ALEX SLABINSKY, CHRIS EATON, SEAN THORNLEY (PRIDDLE, FITZPATRICK, BROADY, PRITCHARD, EL-MENSHAWY, GABB, TUTU, BURTON, STERLAND-M...
L32: Elena Baltacha WR 55 v Tamarine Tanasugarn (THA) WR 62 (CH 19 in 2002) There are very few easy draws at this level, but I imagine Elena would happily have taken this one before the draw was made, though I don't know who the winner would meet in R2 yet. They have played twice before, both times in the UK o...
Eddie Herr Under 14 champion Peter Ashley made his ITF debut here, but failed to qualify, unluckily running into the German (Johannes Haerteis) who beat him in the Tennis Europe Masters event. Girls R1 (L64) Kyra Akinnibi (GBR) d. (WC) Alina Novacek (AUT) 6-0 6-0 Rosalie Willig (GER) d. Alannah Grif...
L32: (WC) James Ward WR 201 v Florian Mayer (GER) WR 37 Not the worst possible draw - Dan Cox & the Bogster both managed to take sets off Mayer in 2009. The winner of this match with play the winner of (6) F-Loppy v (WC) del Potro in R2. I'm sure Wardy would like the chance to finish Feliciano off properly...
Wardy is the sole participant in the Oz open qualies and has been drawn against Chilean Paul Capdeville. James Ward GBR WR 201 v. Paul Capdeville CHI WR 167 Not sure if James will win, but in terms of seeds in his section, Wardy's got a favourable section
Grace Dixon has returned home to take part in the Glasgow $10K but the British contingent in Sweden has been augmented by under 16 national champion Jonny O'Mara Boys R1 (L32) Amar Hromic (SWE) v (Q) Jonny O'Mara (GBR) (WC) Elias Ymer (SWE) v Evan Hoyt (GBR) Girls R1 (L32) Alice Keddie (GBR) v Federica E...
QR1: James Allemby UNR v Carlos Rosique Alvarez (ESP) UNR QR1: (q14) Philip Barlow WR 1244 v Alexey Nesterov (KAZ) UNR QR1: Michael Suleau UNR v (6) Jordi Samper-Montana (ESP) WR 919
QR1: Katie OBrien (GBR) WR 179 v WC Emily Fanning (NZL) UNR QR1: Heather Watson (GBR) WR 176 v 7 Jamie Hampton (USA) WR 133 A very difficult draw for Heather. Jamie's rise has been more dramatic than Heather's. This time last year she was ranked 700+ and playing 25K qualifiers. -- Edited by SMC1809 on Fr...
The 2011 rulebook is now on the WTA website, and one of the changes concerns the rankings and the number of tournaments needed. "Players must earn (i) ranking points in at least three (3) valid Tournaments, or (ii) a minimum of 10 singles ranking points or 10 doubles ranking points in one (1) or mo...
ATP AUSTRALIAN OPEN QUALIFYING (HARD) - JAMES WARD SYDNEY $400K (HARD) - JAMES WARD CHALLENGERSNONE THIS WEEKFUTURESGB F1 GLASGOW $15K (HARD) - JAMIE BAKER, ALEX SLABINSKY, CHRIS EATON, SEAN THORNLEY (PRIDDLE, BROADY, EL-MENSHAWY, GABB, BAXENDINE, TUTU, FARQUARSON, HUDSON, BUGBY, OAKL...
This will be updated often so its contents are dynamic.Hopman Cup = 2nd Australian Open 18th to 31st Jan http://www.australianopen.com/en_AU/index.html = in the final lost to Fed Marseille 15th Feb did not play Dubai 22nd Feb out in 2nd round Indian Wells 8th Mar out in quarter final Miami 22nd Mar o...
(2)Great BritainLaura Robson & Andy Murray(4)ItalyFrancesca Schiavone & Potito Starace FranceKristina Mladenovic & Nicolas Mahut USABethanie Mattek-Sands & John Isner GB start their campaign against Italy on Monday 3rd.http://hopmancup.com/Teams-Schedule/M...
