Smethurst and Marsalek are DAs here. QR1: James Allemby UNR v Mor Bulis (ISR) UNR QR1: (q2) Jack Carpenter WR 1115 v Bye QR2: (q2) Jack Carpenter WR 1115 v Juraj Masar (SVK) UNR Carpenter only has unranked Israelis in his section. Allemby would play another unranked opponent in the second round but...
A tougher draw for Jamie Murray & Paul Hanley in Kiwi-land than for Colin & Ross in Oz: R1: (4) Santiago González & Christopher Kas (MEX/GER) vs Paul Hanley (AUS) & Jamie Murray I seem to recall that González is one of Jamie's many previous, not very long-term, partners...
OK, as discussed in another thread, I thought it worth having a little competitioin, predicting the rankings of our currently top ranked teenagers. The competition will be based on the following, which may sound familiar. I hope you don't mind me stealing your rules, RBBOT 1. Predict the senior wo...
QR1: Heather Watson WR 92 v (wc) Bojana Bobusic (AUS) WR 241 (q3) Alberta Brianti (ITA) WR 70 and (q8) Kristina Barrois (GER) WR 91 are the seeds in Heather's section - which means she missed out on a seeding by 1. Even more unlucky is Naomi Broady, who missed out on a place in qualifying by 2 places last wee...
http://lta.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/draw.aspx?id=664220F7-D4D7-4DAC-B4A2-FECD8EBD6722&draw=3-- Edited by seagull on Thursday 5th of January 2012 11:28:30 AM
Our quintet should be looking for an improvement on last week's showing as the Latin American Circuit moves from clay to hard for a couple of weeks. It was fairly inevitable that Artur Completo would be drawn against a Brit - he played 13 different ones last year. R1 (L64) Tom Hill (GBR) v Artur Completo...
ATP Australian Open Qualifying (Hard) - James Ward (Bogdanovic)CHALLENGERSNo Events This WeekFUTURESGlasgow GBF1 $15K (Hard) - Dan Evans, Alex Ward, Chris Eaton, David Rice (Thornley, Burton, Morgan, Martin, Gabb, Hewitt, Hudson, Jones J, Thornton-Brown, Oakley, Nott, Tutu, Hatchett,...
In 2009 Jennifer Ren was a winner, and Oliver Golding a finalist, here. We have 5 this year trying to emulate those performances Boys R1 (L32) (3) Callum Poland-Smith (GBR) v Vincent Thierry Schneider (GER) Julian Cash (GBR) v Serdar Bojadjieva (SWE) Girls R1 (L32) Emilia Granstrom (SWE) v Rebeccas...
A stronger British presence in the girls event than last week, though Pippa Horn and Georgina Sellyn will have to tackle the top 2 seeds if they win their openers. Pippa will do well to win her match, against an opponent who has won a minimum of 2 matches in every ITF main draw she has been in. R1 (L64) (WC)...
QR1: (q11) Anne Keothavong WR 72 v Michaëlla Krajicek (NED) WR 93 (CH 30 in 2008) The other seed in Anne's section is (q5) Tamira Paszek (AUT) WR 42 -- Edited by steven on Thursday 5th of January 2012 10:30:11 AM
Unusually Spain hosts a couple of junior ITFs in January and Scott Clayton could make the top 100 by reaching the final here. Boys R1 (L32) (3) Scott Clayton (GBR) v Jaume Pla Malfeito (ESP) Samm Butler (GBR) v (Q) Jose Anton Salazar Martin (ESP) Carlos Bautista Enrique (ESP) v David Fox (GBR) Girls R1 (...
http://www.atpworldtour.com/posting/2012/891/qs.pdf(edit was just for the thread title)-- Edited by steven on Friday 30th of December 2011 07:07:12 PM
Elena Baltacha will be in the main draw here but Anne is likely to be the first Brit to play a match in a 2012 event: QR1: (q1) Anne Keothavong WR 72 v (wc) Emily Fanning (NZL) UNR 4th on Centre after 20.30 GMT (NZ is GMT +13 at the moment) Fanning is 16 years old and is world junior no. 55. She is listed as ambid...
No draw on ITF yet but Emily has tweeted: "1st draw of 2012 out+i play a romanian first up 2mro.tummy healed,prep's been gd+i can't wait to compete healthy again.let battle commence!" so unless the entry list is incomplete, that must mean: L32: Emily Webley-Smith WR 258 v Madalina Gojnea...
Indiana remarked in another thread about the depth of talent on the boys' side amongst 94-96 born. Since the last event of 2011 has been added (the first of 2012, the Casablanca Grade A, starts on Boxing Day) it's possible to work out the rankings for the start of 2012 (give or take a position, for the odd...
QR1: James Ward WR 162 v (wc) Mousa Zayed (QAT) UNR If James can get past the 17-year-old Qatari, he could face 5th seed Martin Klizan in QR2. Klizan is the Slovakian no. 3 and played two singles rubbers in each of Slovakia's DC ties last year so is more than likely to be one of Wardy's opponents in the Febru...
I know there are a few prediction threads about, but there don't appear to be any proper competition ones like Shhh has organised so well over the last couple of years, but will not be doing for next year. So I thought I'd do one for 2011, this time based on 6 GB men and 6 women singles players, and once again...
It's come to that time of year when we get out our crystal balls out and have a stab at predicting the year end rankings of our top girls. Learning from last year when as a group we tended to be overoptomistic ,my predictions for 2011 I would like to think are maybe more realistic. 1. Elena Baltacha: I thin...
The 2012 season has started inauspiciously at the new Mexican venue (clay in Mexico City replacing the hard courts of Casablanca). We had 3 seeds here but all failed to progress past the first round - only Mexican wildcards preventing a wipeout. Boys R1 (L64) Jordi Arconada (ARG) d. (15) Jordan Angus...
Following tennis is far easier now than a decade or so ago when I first became interested. Then it was as though tournaments were to be held in secret and various obstacles were put in the way and whoa betide anyone who wanted to know results or where and when players might be playing. Though things have...
