L32: (3) Andy Murray WR 4 v Pablo Cuevas (URU) WR 57 or Qualifier Andy has a 1-0 H2H v Cuevas, having thrashed him 2, 3 & at the 2007 US Open. The other seeds in this quarter are (14) Querrey, (9) Ferrer & (8) Cilic and he is in the same half as Fed, avoiding Rafa who is the no, 2 seed now that Nole has wit...
Any ideas folks? The full entry list is now out for Queens, but no word on the WC's yet... or the qualies! (*shakes fist* gah, info hasn't been the same since they subsumed the Queens website into the LTA website!). And Wimbly?
Kyle Edmund plays his first junior tournament since his success in Nottingham, but has a tricky draw against another talented 1995 boy, who lost narrowly to Luke Bambridge in Nottingham. R1 (L64) (Q) Benjamin Davies (GBR) v (8) Diogo Rocha (POR) (Q) Christopher Heyman (BEL) v (6) Sam Hutt (GBR) (5) J...
Is it just me, or did Romania F1 only appear in this weeks list of Futures very recently? I'm sure I checked last week and it wasn't listed - I thought it had been cancelled! Anyhoo, I noted a lone Brit amongst the stream of Romanians in the qualifying draw! Max Gregor entered here, and played his first mat...
With Oliver Golding, George Morgan and Tom Allen as direct entrants for the main European clay court tournament outside Roland Garros, Richard Gabb, James Marsalek and Lewis Burton have been attempting to join them via qualifying. Lewis lost in the final qualifying round, but Richard and James ma...
ATP French Open Week 1 (Clay) - Andy Murray CHALLENGERSTBA FUTURESSpain F18 $10K (Hard) - Richard Bloomfield, Sean Thornley, Burnham Arlidge, Chris Priddle (Barlow, Pritchard, Short, Whiteford, Chamberlain, Brown) South Africa F2 $15K (Hard) - David Rice, Josh Milton, Neil Pauffley (Even...
Chris Simpson joins Robert Carter for the second Austrian Grade 2. With most of the strongest juniors in Milan the draw here looks wide open. R1 (L32) Robert Carter (GBR) v Claude Benz (SUI) (7) Christopher Simpson (GBR) v Morgan Mays (USA)
Jamie Baker will be in the MD here In qualifying we have Chris Eaton and the return of Richard Bloomfield! Sadly both men are in the same quarter as each other. Bloomfield will play against Brazillian Rodrigo Grill (WR 868) with the winner to play 4th seed Juan Sebastian Cabal (WR 342) from Columbia. Ea...
R1: Q AOYAMA, Shuko (JPN) WR 500 v 5 BROADY, Naomi (GBR) WR 271 At last Naomi receives a decent draw. Lets hope she can take advantage of it. Just noticed that this is Carpet rather than Hard. -- Edited by SMC1809 on Monday 17th of May 2010 11:31:19 AM-- Edited by steven on Monday 17th of May 2010 02:15:2...
Tough draws in the doubles: L16: BHUPATHI, Mahesh (IND) & MIRNYI, Max (BLR) 1 v HUTCHINS, Ross (GBR) & KERR, Jordan (AUS) L16: FLEMING, Colin (GBR) & SKUPSKI, Ken (GBR) v LINDSTEDT, Robert (SWE) & TECAU, Horia (ROU) 2
QR1: Naomi Cavaday WR 174 v Beatriz Garcia Vidagany (ESP) WR 183 The Spaniard lost 4 & 2 to Georgie Stoop in Vigo last year but stunned Kim Clijsters in Marbella last month on her WTA tour debut and the Belgian's first match on clay since her return. Probably a better than average draw though.
It's a Grand Slam, it's Dreamteam time again! Usual rules, £50m for ten men and £50m for ten women. Same scoring etc etc. Deadline is 10.00am BST on Sunday. Mini-league code is 34070a9faf7039cfc9dd9e455ed30a49. There'll be delays in scores on Sunday afternoons as I'm working at one of the TFF coach...
I just happened to be looking at the junior rankings and noticed some real bias in the GB boys to dates of birth early in the year. In the top 25, we have 6 - January, 8 - February, 2 - March, 5 - April, 2 - May, 1 - July and 1 - September. That is 23 out of 25 first half of year, 14 out of 25 ( actually 14 of firs...
ATP French Open Qualifying (Clay) - Alex Bogdanovic (Ward) CHALLENGERSCremona EUR 30K+H (Hard) - Jamie Baker, Josh Goodall (Eaton) FUTURESSouth Africa F1 $15K (Hard) - David Rice, Josh Milton, Neil Pauffley (Evenden) Italy F9 $15K (Clay) - Dan Evans Poland F1 $15K (Clay) - Dan Smethurst, Alex...
Q1: COLLINS, Laura (GBR) UNR v ByeQ2: COLLINS, Laura (GBR) UNR v ByeQ3: COLLINS, Laura (GBR) UNR v CHIDRAWI, Bianca (AUS) UNR or LAING, Melissa (RSA) UNR Bye Bye!
Entries are now open for the third 'Battle of the Boards' pick 'em of 2010 at at http://www.freewebs.com/britishtennis/competitions.htmlEntries will close at 11.00 GMT (noon UK / 13.00 CET / 7 am US EDT) tomorrow, Sunday 25 April, so there are less than 24 hours to enter. Because Rome is copying the...