So, it's Rafa time again ! Folk will probably be largely aware of the history, but anyway it's 8 - 3 to Rafa, and it's like this... Andy's 3 wins are the 2008 US open semi final, a memorable win spread over 2 days, and his first against Rafa after 5 defeats. The other two were in the 2009 Rotterdam final and...
Eleanor Dean just misses joining Katy Dunne as a seed here, so has a testing opener against the 6th seed. Boys R1 (L32) Thomas Weigel (GER) v Jack Busby (GBR) Girls R1 (L32) Eleanor Dean (GBR) v (6) Maria Limanskaya (RUS) (WC) Yana Morderger (GER) v (4) Katy Dunne (GBR) Kyria Dunford (GBR) v (2) Katharin...
Last year Daneika Borthwick won the singles title here. Amy Bowtell, the tall Irish girl who reached the Chiswick 10K final, is the second seed. R1 (L64) Flavia Sousa (POR) v (13) Sophie Watts (GBR) Alice Hopkins (GBR) v Maria Joao Santos (POR) (4) Candelaria Sedano-Acosta (ITA) v Anneka Watts (GBR)...
Not going to type all the matches up but there are a lot of british interest here, Carter is top seed in boys, Edmund is also in the draw, but has been very unlucky to be in the same 16th as portugese star silva. Still beatable thou -- Edited by DavidC on Monday 9th of August 2010 05:38:42 PM
Andy has only met Nalby twice before and the first time hardly as equals. The first was at the L32 stage of Andy's very first Wimbledon in 2005 when Nalby won 6 - 7 1 - 6 6 - 0 6 - 4 6 - 1. As I mentioned in another thread, poor young Andy basically ran out of puff after gving Nalby quite a fright. The othe...
Qualifying starts early here: QR1: (q5) Elena Baltacha WR 56 v Ayumi Morita (JPN) WR 89 H2H 0-1, 5&2 at Cincy 2009 when I assume Mortia was the higher-ranked player. The other seed in this section is Alizé Cornet. QR1: Katie O'Brien WR 128 v (q7) Kimiko Date Krumm (JPN) WR 59 This is an evil section, w...
Don't worry, this is NOT intended to be a political thread - I'm sure politics (unless it is tennis-related!) is something best kept well away from this forum ... ... but I just have to say congrats to a former regular here who is now an MP after making one of the biggest against-the-national-swing gai...
Qualifying has finished for the Nationals, taking place at the National Tennis Centre. With Oliver Golding heading for the Youth Olympics in Singapore George Morgan is top seed, scheduled to meet sometimes doubles partner Lewis Burton in the quarters, if matches go according to seeding. Second s...
ATP US Open Week 1 (Hard) - Andy Murray (Bogdanovic, Baker) CHALLENGERSNo British EntrantsFUTURESSpain F31 $15K (Clay) - James Ward Mexico F6 $10K (Hard) - David Rice, Sean Thornley Holland F6 $15K (Clay) - Dan Smethurst, Alex Ward, Alex Slabinsky (Richards) Poland F7 $10K (Clay) - Andrew Greg...
Murray's playing again and is the 4th seed. Here's his quarter, in Nadal's half Murray vs. BYE Malisse vs. Berrer Lopez vs. de Bakker Gonzalez vs. Monfils Ferrer vs. Nalbandian Robredo vs. Q Gulbis vs. Bellucci Soderling vs. BYE Looks pretty tricky but you'd expect Murray, to come through that hope...
I see on the latest ATP calender they have a challenger listed in Welwyn Garden City in November. I imagine this will be in Gosling where Tara Moore (and Timoa Babos) are based?
QR1: Max Gregor UNR v Ruben Ruiz Pastor (ESP) UNR Pastor has a 2-8 record in futures qualifying but with the WR 397 in the section I don't see much hope for Max Morgan should be seeded when the MD is released
Chris Eaton turns up in qualifying here and plays Andreas Siljeström in the 1st round. If he wins that he will play 1st seed Filip Prpic WR 311. Other seed in his section is 5th seed Juun Mitsuhashi WR 440. Will do exceedingly well to qualify from that Edited to reflect the fact that the tournament will be...
(6) Joshua Milton (GBR) WR 745 vs. Daniel Geib (AUT) WR 1162 (7) James Feaver (GBR) WR 765 vs. (Q) Gibril Diarra (AUT) UNR Milton has either the WR 1090 or an unranked player in R2; in fact, the only players in his quarter in the top 1000 are him and the other seed. Unfortunately, that's Ervin Eleskovic (SW...
R32: Jamie Baker WR 249 v (2) Frederico Del Bonis (ARG) WR 122 We are not having much luck with our draws at Challenger level this week. In my opinion this is arguably the worst draw possible. Del Bonis is a very fast rising 19 year old who has won a Challenger (Rome-2) and has made two other Challenger...
Liam Broady plays his first Futures event outside the UK and is seeded to qualify. The other 3 players in his section are unranked, but one (Nick Van Der Meer) was inside 500 for a number of years QR1: James Chaudry UNR v Kristof Lybeer (BEL) UNR QR1: (q4) Liam Broady WR 1424 v Michel Kapteijns (NED) UNR
I'm going to keep a table showing Boggo's ranking which i'll try to update at least every other day. It's not perfect, I haven't gone as far as splitting players level on points, and anyone rising about 30 places during the week could come in and spoil everything. I might do some more for Evo, Wardy etc l...
Wardy turns up as a WC in qualies and is second seed with a relatively comfortable draw. Dom Inglot also arrives here and is eight seed. QR1: (2) James Ward v BYE(8) Dominic Inglot v BYE QR2: (2) James Ward v (WC) Henry Choi(8) Dominic Inglot v John Paul Fruttero OR Treat Conrad Huey -- Edited by Guid00...
Our under12s have been battling it out in qualifying groups to try to make the finals of their equivalent to the European Summer Cups in 2 weeks time. The format for both boys and girls is 4 qualifying venues with 2 round robin groups of 4 - the top 2 in each group playing off against the top two in the other g...
Unlike last year our under 14 boys team qualified for the World Junior Tennis Finals in Prostejov. The format here is that 16 nations are divided into 4 groups of 4 for round robin matches, before 2 knock-out matches We are in a group as follows (2) USA (7) GBR Korea Venezuela Our opening match tomorrow i...
(3) Murray/Coetzee (GBR/RSA) v (WC) Melzer/Weissborn (AUT/AUT) It seems Murray has split with Jonny Marray, who is playing Segovia this week. They were winning challengers for fun at the start of their partnership, but the last six months had not been good, especially when they stepped up to tour l...
