The debate has been going on since the germany game, and everyone is talking and blaming different people, players manager the media the clubs etc but i think its far simpler, and something we can relate to tennis to. in a recent survey it was revealed that england is the least patriotic nation in europ...
Qualifying starts tomorrow, comprising two rounds, and I can deduce the following pairings from the Roehampton oop Daniel Cochrane v (14) Yaraslau Shyla (BLR) (2) Matthias Wunner (GER) v Lewis Burton (1) Alexis Carlos (MEX) v Richard Gabb Christopher Simpson v (15) Libor Salaba (CZE) Robert Cart...
Not sure if this has been covered, but was watching the bbc coverage yesterday and after the Lopez-Dimitrov game, there was an interview with Jamaican Dustin Brown. In the interview it was discovered that he has a british passport as one of his parents is british. He got asked about playing Davis Cup a...
Since it's beginning to look like Boggo may not actually be coming home (for DC) for quite a while, I was thinking on the way home from Wimbledon yesterday that it might be time for a rewrite of my infamous version of a certain football song, so here it is. I've replaced another section of the original (th...
Qualifying starts tomorrow at Roehampton. I haven't found a drawsheet but I can deduce the following first round matches from the oop. There are two rounds, one on Thursday and final qualifying on Friday Sabrina Bamburac v (13) Demi Schuurs (NED) Marie Ba v (14) Santa Shumilina (RUS) Daneika Borthw...
James Ward and Josh Goodall are at the top of the entry list here, though Evo will outrank Josh for the no. 2 seeding place if he qualifies and the draw is made after qualifying ends. Other potential GB seeds are Rice, Milton and Slabba, with Willis, Inglot, Thornley and Arlidge other GB DAs. Brassingto...
Hey people, sorry I've not posted in a while, I'll try to contribute a bit more over the coming months. Anyway, I wasn't going to come down to Wimbledon this year as I knew I was going to be busy this weekend, but yesterday afternoon I got an impulse and booked myself some overnight travel for last night so...
ATP Newport $440K (Grass) - (Bogdanovic) Davis Cup v Turkey (Grass) - Jamie Baker, James Ward, Colin Fleming, Ken Skupski CHALLENGERSNo British entriesFUTURESIlkley GB F9 $10K (Grass) - Dan Evans, Josh Goodall, David Rice, Chris Eaton, Josh Milton, Dan Cox, Marcus Willis, Dominic Inglot, S...
L32: Alex Ward WR 532 v (Q) Matthias Wolf (ITA) WR 1258 L32: Dan Cox WR 545 v (Q) Pierre Bonfre (SWE) UNR Pretty good R1 draws (if odd that they're both playing opponents whose names make them sound like they come from a different country!), but top seed Igor Sijsling WR 154 is likely to await the winner of A...
Richard Bloomfield's non-appearance in Manchester is explained by him turning up in the qualifying draw in Winnetka. He plays Josh Graves in the first round, and if he wins that, he will face 2nd seed Milos Raonic, who is ranked 295 in the world. Should win round one, but wouldn't expect anything afte...
Morgan Phillips turns up here as the 5th seed and has got a reasonably good draw. Faces Marco Sattanino, ranked 969 in the first round, and if he gets through that, will face Antonio Comporto in round two, who is ranked 511.
2nd match on Centre Court after Federer vs Berdych, which kicks off proceedings at 1pm. Match score at ATP level is 2 - 1 to Andy, Andy's wins being in Metz in 2007 and Canada in 2009 with of course the first round Aussie Open win to Tsonga in 2008, all on hard courts. Tsonga also beat Andy on grass on t...
Conor Niland beat former world No.1 Thomas Muster in Round 1 of the Braunschweig challenger in Germany, 6-2 6-1.It was Muster's first professional match since the 1999 French Open. I did a Google translate on the website, and it quotes Muster as saying... "Critics are a wonderful thing, but th...
Plenty of British interest in the Mixed Doubles draw that was out today, although maybe not as much as in previous years with two of the WC's going to Bob Bryan/Lindsay Davenport and Xavier Malisse and Kim Clijsters. Colin Fleming/Sarah Borwell vs. Christopher Kas/Vania King - winner to play (1) Nem...
Lots of Brits/Englishmen in contention, unlike the singles ( ), but some tough draws, though, with one obvious exception, seeds have actually been avoided: R1: Daniel Nestor & Nenad Zimonjic (CAN/SRB) (1) vs Jonny Marray & Jamie Murray R1: Fabio Fognini & Kevin Ullyett (ITA/RSA) v...
Just wondering if anyone here knows what's up with Stephanie Cornish - she always tended to be quite impressive when she played but didn't play that much and now she hasn't played since March apart from a R1 exit to Emily at the Wimbledon QWC POs. One of the guys doing Radio Wimbledon has asked me if I know...
