With so many Brits exiting singles today here at least is a tournament where interest is maintained. Moldova's major junior tournament intriguingly promises semi-live scores, but in spirit with life in the country (well described in Playing the Moldovans at Tennis by Tony Hawks - where he takes on...
ATP Dubai $1.7 Million (Hard) - Andy Murray CHALLENGERSNo British Entrants FUTURESUSA F6 $15K (Indoor Hard) - Richard Bloomfield (Bishop) Boznia F2 $15K (Carpet) - Chris Eaton (Inglot) WTA Germany $50K+H (Hard) - Anne Keothavong, Naomi Cavaday Portugal $10K (Hard) - Joss Rae (George, Konot...
Last year Steph Cornish reached the final of a weak tournament here. This year's field is considerably stronger, with Jennifer Ren only just grabbing a low seeding. The first seed she is scheduled to meet is top 50 player Katarina Paliivets, though there is a useful Ukrainian blocking her path to tha...
AEGON Winter Grand Prix champion Abbi Melrose will be looking to build on her impressive showing in Finland, and is joined by Caitlin Hindmarsh playing her first ITF tournament of the year. R1 (L32) Taro Keens (GBR) v (Q) Donika Bashota (SWE) Sophie Nelson (GBR) v Cecilie Lundgaard Melsted (DEN) (7)...
There's a stunning result here for Scottish qualifier Emma Devine. Emma was based last year at Justine Henin's Sixth Sense Academy in Belgium, along with some input from Judy Murray, but I don't know if she is still there as there was a story about financial problems affecting Emma's family's abilit...
Amy and Beth Askew benefit from wildcards in the first of 3 tournaments in Bangladesh with substantial British interest. 1996 girls Eden Silva makes her second appearance in an ITF event. Boys R1 (L64) (6) James Ireland (GBR) BYE (LL) William Aherne (GBR) v Mufazzal Hossain (BAN) (16) Ashwin Kuppus...
The Latin American circuit baton has passed from Natalie Beazant (who unfortunately had to pull out of the Peruvian leg, after retiring in the previous week) to Jennifer Ren. The first of her three tournaments is the weakest in the 12 week cycle, and Jen was close to being the top seed here. She is also...
Alex Wilton has the chance of a second successive singles title in the Gulf, and shouldn't be unduly troubled in his opener, but our other boys have all drawn seeds. Boys R1 (L32) (1) Seif Eldin El Sherbini (EGY) v (Q) Tom Gutteridge (GBR) (4) Marc Wakim (EGY) v Joshua Page (GBR) (5) Alexander Wilton (...
James Ward and Dan Evans are attempting to qualify here and are both in the same quarter. Evo kicks off his campaign against 5th seed WR 142 Stephane Bohli whilst Ward starts off against WR 192 Yuri Schukin with 3rd seed Josellin Ouanna likely to meet in the next round. Pretty hard draws for our guys in a...
When I saw Morgan wasn't playing Cartagena, I wondered if he might turn up in qualifying here, and he has: QR1: Morgan Phillips WR 412 v (q5) David Goffin (BEL) WR 313 -- Edited by steven on Saturday 13th of February 2010 09:46:43 AM
Sarah and Raquel have taken the ambitious option of trying their luck with the stellar cast in Dubai, rather than the much weaker Memphis tournament. Their opponents have won a lot of doubles titles between them. R1 (3) Raymond/Stubbs (USA/AUS) vs Bye Borwell/Kops-Jones (GBR/USA) vs Peschke/S...
AUS OPEN 2010 'BATTLE OF THE BOARDS' PICK 'EM"Be there or risk retaining your sanity for the next two weeks"The entry form for the Australian Open pick 'em is now available via http://www.britishtennis.net/competitions.html (at 05.35 GMT on Friday) You have just over 66 hours left to e...
The same 3 boys as last week continue on here. Round 1 BROADY, Liam (GBR) (GBR) V RUMLER, Robert (CZE) 5 FARQUHARSON, Tom (GBR) 8 V SHYLA, Yaraslau (BLR) SIMPSON, Christopher (GBR) V GIACALONE, Omar (ITA) Q Ooh, pretty tough draw for Liam. -- Edited by Maza1987 on Monday 8th of February 2010 09:32:29 PM...
Evo is likely to be the top seed here. QR1: (q9) Alex Slabinsky WR 762 v Hugo Nys (FRA) UNR Our old friend Rudy Coco WR 640 is the top seed in Slabba's section.
Apologies if this has been posted before (I can't find anything on here about it), but James now has a website at http://jameswardtennis.com/ Also from Twitter: "good hit this morning,just off to club for second practice! getting ready for qs tmrw. greg here this week....pumped!!" + lo...
