Bad news to report I'm afraid. Sarah has lost her title of keepy-upy champion, with Sara Errani reclaiming the lead with a mammoth 208. Oh and: Borwell/Kops-Jones (GBR/USA) v Ivanovic/Petkovic (SRB/GER)
Evo & Smethurst should be in the main draw here. QR2: (q6) Alex Ward WR 604 v Thomas Kromann (DEN) WR 1129 or (wc) Nicola Remedi (ITA) UNR Kromann was ranked 855 in June 2009 but has since fallen back, possibly because he has succumbed to a rare shrinking disease. ITF says his height is 0.00 m - that's e...
Perhaps Darryl couldn't face going all the way to Florida just to play another Brit! QR1: Alex Hackett UNR beat Darryl Hale UNR by w/o QR2: Alex Hackett UNR v (q13) Rodrigo Sanchez (PER) WR 1796
ATP No British EntriesCHALLENGERSSavannah $50K (Clay) - James Ward, Jamie Baker Ramat Hasharon $100K (Hard) - Alex Bogdanovic FUTURESGB F6 Edinburgh $10K (Clay) - Josh Goodall, David Rice, Dan Cox, Marcus Willis, Alex Ward, Neil Pauffley (Slabinsky, Illingworth, Thornley, Arlidge, Pridd...
Jamie must've made the Main Draw here. The No.1 seed in qualifying is Roman Valent who was 31st Alt. I'm guessing this event has been affected by the travelling problems, as the qualifying draw includes only 6 world ranked players, and 2 of these are ranked 1200+. Also 12 players have been given QWCs!...
Both Anne and Katie have reasonable first round draws here, though they missed the plum Moroccan wildcards. Anne crushed Julie Coin on their previous meeting in Stanford two years ago, and the Frenchwoman has been in poor form this year, winning just 3 matches in 9 tournaments - her one outdoor clay c...
Qualifying Draw (1) James Feaver [GBR] 701 vs. Bye Matthew Short [GBR] vs. George Morgan [GBR] 1576 Nikki Roenn [GBR] vs. wc Aaron Banasik [GBR] (11) Nick Cavaday [GBR] 1296 vs. Bye (2) Clément Reix [FRA] 750 vs. Bye Dan Cottier [GBR] vs. Tom Farquharson [GBR] Nicolas Grammare [FRA] 1481 vs. David O...
A quiet couple of weeks on the junior front but Liam Broady appears to have made it to Italy, after missing out on being top seed in Bulgaria last week presumably because of travel problems. Unfortunately the first seed he is down to meet is the in-form Alessandro Colella, winner in Cap D'Ail (the only...
Eddie Herr winner Luke Bambridge returns to Florida courtesy of a wildcard and starts intriguingly against an ambidextrous opponent who claims to have started playing tennis at 15 (he is 16 now). Boys R1 (L64) Damian Gryzelko (GBR) v Balaji Jothishankar (USA) Henry Moore (GBR) v (6) Trey Strobel (U...
See some of you, hopefully, the weekend after Wimbledon as we try to avoid a drop to the very bottom division of DC ... I'm sure there will be more detailed previews to follow, but in short, Turkey have just one decent player, Marsel Ilhan (born in Uzbekistan) ranked 121, whose record against Brits is: 0...
QR1: Morgan Phillips WR 411 v Mohammed Affes (TUN) UNR Winner to play (q5) Boris Pashanski (SRB) WR 323, who has fallen a long way since getting beaten by Eaton at Wimby but is on his favoured surface here. The other seed in this section is another one who has been beaten by a Brit well outside the top 250, B...
I was playing last night and something bizarre happened: my partner span his racket "rough or smooth?" only for it to land edge on! Has anyone else had that happen or heard of it it happening? I just wish it was on video, we'd make a fortune on Utube.... Steve
QR1: (q2) James Ward WR 257 v Sadik Kadir (AUS) WR 355 QR1: Josh Milton WR 535 v Mait Kunnap (EST) WR 995 Winners to play each other in QR2. The other seed in this section is (q8) Luka Gregorc (SLO) WR 324. QR1: (q7) Josh Goodall WR 312 v Ti Chen (TPE) WR 458 The other seed in this section is (q3) John Millman (AU...
QR2: (q2) Laura Robson WR 315 v Jacqueline Cako (USA) WR 493 or Megan Falcon (USA) UNR The other seed in Laura's section is (q8) Chin-Wei Chan (TPE) WR 481. -- Edited by steven on Sunday 18th of April 2010 12:03:12 AM
