A step up in grade from last week means a stronger field for the second Bangladesh tournament. Eden Silva has snaffled another wildcard. Boys R1 (L64) James Ireland (GBR) v Wen-Yao Liang (TPE) Ashwin Kuppusamy (GBR) v Wei--Sheng Kao (TPE) Girls R1 (L64) (7) Amy Askew (GBR) BYE (WC) Eden Silva (GBR) v S...
Jennifer Ren plays her last tournament in South America. Unfortunately the first seed she is scheduled to meet is a very strong local player who recently reached a $25K final. R1 (L64) (11) Jennifer Ren (GBR) BYE
Christopher Helliar has joined the duo playing in Moldova last week for another Grade 3 event. I guess that the w/o given by Dan and James in the doubles semi last week was to enable James to play qualifying here - something he has successfully negotiated. R1 (L32) Egor Gerasimov (BLR) v Christopher He...
Anne K has opted out of this event, leaving Naomi Cavaday the task of knocking out Kristina Barrois this week R1: BARROIS, Kristina (GER) 1 71 v CAVADAY, Naomi (GBR) 193 Doubles R1: Feuerstein/Foretz (FRA) v Cavaday/Larsson (GBR/SWE) Naomi plays doubles only on Tuesday
Monday, last on the main court, probably about 4.30-5pm if Nole doesn't make a real meal out of the match before him. . . The two have never met. Year to date - Andy won 6 lost 1, Igor won 1 lost 3, but that was before he won through qualifying here. Andy says on an interview on the BBC site that he had done very l...
Boggo is in Belgrade and begins his campaign against German Julien Reister. The winner likely to face 8th seed Somdev Devvarman Good draw for Boggo, although Reister is ranked 154, he was ranked below Boggo before last week as Reister managed to reach the final as 2nd seed in the weak challenger of Kaz...
Smethurst and Milton should be in the main draw here and there are only two rounds of qualifying: QR1: (q1) Alex Ward WR 654 v Marco Bortolloti (ITA) WR 1744 QR1: (wc) Charlie Goode UNR v (q12) Marco Sattanino (ITA) WR 1013 QR1: (q4) Neil Pauffley WR 714 v Fede Valsangiacomo (SUI) WR 1591
Last year we won the Tennis Europe Winter Cup under 14s for only the third time, and this year's team doesn't appear to have quite the same strength. Nevertheless they should qualify for the finals in Italy a fortnights time. The team of Shakeel Manji, Peter Ashley and Joshua Sapwell are seeded 2 in the...
Qualifying takes place from Friday to Sunday for the finals of the Tennis Europe Winter Cup, which take place in the Czech Republic in a fortnight's time. In both categories the format is a team competition with 2 singles and 1 doubles, and 2 consecutive wins are required to make the finals. The under 1...
I thought it may be of interest if I blogged a bit from the U18's County Cup group one event which is taking place this weekend at the University of Bath. I was there both today and yesterday so thought I'd give a bit of an incite into the up and coming Briitish tennis stars of tomorrow. To be honest this will...
QR1: (q3) Dominic Inglot WR 706 v Marin Draganja (CRO) WR 1461 Only two rounds of qualifying here and Dominic won't have to beat a top 1000 player to make it to the main draw.
Andy seeded three and has drawn a qualifier in R1 here. Will face the winner of Tipsy and Seppi in R2. Seeded to meet Youzhny in the quarters and Federer in the semis. Cilic the other seed in his half. Djokovic, Davydenko, Tsonga and Simon are the seeds in the bottom half. http://www.atpworldtour.com...
Laura Deigman has won her first ITF singles title, taking advantage of a weak field with only two other players ranked inside 1000. Boys R1 Christian Throm-Jones (GBR) BYE Tommy Bennett (GBR) d. Romain Barbosa (BEL) 6-4 6-2 Kevin Albonetti (ITA) d. Steven Billington (GBR) 6-4 7-5 R2 Guillaume Rause...
Connor Glennon looks for his second successive title as the group who did well in Finland are joined by some other 1993 (and one 1992) boys. Connor starts against one of the Danish boys who beat GBR in the Tennis Europe Winter Cup on Sunday. R1 (L32) Oystein Steiro (NOR) v Lloyd Glasspool (GBR) (WC) Hans...
