ATP AUSTRALIAN OPEN WEEK 2 (HARD) - ANDY MURRAY CHALLENGERSSINGAPORE $50K+H (HARD) - JAMES WARD (COX, MILTON) FUTURESGERMANY F3 $15K (CARPET) - RICHARD BLOOMFIELD, ALEX SLABINSKY (EATON, BURTON) USA F3 $10K (CLAY) - ALEX BOGDANOVIC, ALEX WARD, DAN SMETHURST (CARPENTER, HEWITT, THOMPSON...
George Morgan and Kyle Edmund are down to warm up for the Australian Open here, but I cannot find the drawsheet for the Boys event. Laura Deigman is our sole representative in the Girls, and she literally has a monumental task to beat a 14 year old opponent whose height is recorded as 4 metres on the ITF wo...
A tough but not unwinnable first round: Sarah Borwell & Marie-Eve Pelletier (GBR/CAN) v Sonia Cirstea & Lucie Safarova (ROU/CZE) Tamira Paszek & Tsvetana Pironkova (AUT/BEL) v (5) Cara Black & Anastasia Rodionova (ZIM/AUS)
thought it would be interesting to create this poll to see what you think about our curren tcrop of juniors, and who has the brightest future. Without putting any expectancy on them, im not asking how high they will go, simply who will have the better career. Oliver golding - british junior number 1, a...
1st Round1 WCWITTEN, J (USA) 12ROSENSTEEL, C (USA)3GONZALEZ, J (VEN)4CHAPPELL, N (USA)5KWIATKOWSKI, T (USA)6CELESTINE, T (USA)7CORINTELI, L (USA)8GROOMS, B (USA)9 WCVODICKA, L (USA)10SANTIAGO, M (USA)11RIVAS, M (ARG)12VESCOVO, P (ITA)13SEOL, J (KOR)14 WCHARRISON, C (USA)15DMITRIEV, O...
Oliver Golding has surprisingly opted to give the Australian tournaments a miss, though he is down to play the Casablanca Grade A after Christmas. Kyle Edmund is set to make his Australian Open debut, having sneaked into the top 100 this week thanks to other players losing points. Boys MD 4 George Mo...
QR1: (q2) Anne Keothavong WR 118 v Darya Kustova (BLR) WR 163 (CH 117 in Jan 2010) H2H 1-0: 2&2, Gold coast qual. 2008 QR1: Katie O'Brien WR 173 v (q16) Mandy Minella (LUX) WR 137 (CH 128 in Sep 2010) H2H 2-1: Katie won 3&2 at Nottingham in 2003, Minella won 3&4 at Fuerteventura in 2006 and Kat...
Coxeh is the second seed here and plays the unranked 17 year old He Feng (or is that Feng He?) in the first round. Milton plays Yao-Lun Chang of Taipei (ranked 1159 and 25 yo) in the first round. The top seed is Ze Zhang (or is that Zhang Ze?), who took a set off Ljubo last year and has won rounds at Challenger...
India hosts a couple of relatively weak Grade 3 and Grade 2 tournaments. Joshua Ward-Hibbert is the advance party trying to take advantage, but hasn't been favoured in the draw. R1 (L32) Joshua Ward-Hibbert (GBR) v (6) Vinod Gowda (IND)
For the second week running Georgina Sellyn gets a first round draw against a low-ranked local player. This year these two Grade 1s have been extraordinarily weak in depth, with no first-round matches involving two players ranked in the top 1000. R1 (L64) (WC) Viviana Onorato (VEN) v Georgina Selly...
R1: Jamie Murray & Santiago Gonzalez (GBR/MEX) v Scott Lipsky & Igor Zelenay (USA/SVK) Ross Hutchins was the first alternate in the advanced list with Lipsky, and they would have got in on site but Lipsky playing with Zelenay.
Robert Carter, Luke Bambridge and Toby Martin will try to go one better than Tom Farquharson, who was a finalist here last year. Toby's opening match as a qualifier is against the player who finished one place above Peter Ashley in the Tennis Europe Under 14 rankings last year. R1 (L64) (6) Robert Cart...
ATP AUSTRALIAN OPEN WEEK 1 (HARD) - ANDY MURRAYCHALLENGERSNONE THIS WEEKFUTURESGB F2 SHEFFIELD $15K (HARD) - RICHARD BLOOMFIELD, DAN EVANS, JOSH GOODALL, ALEX SLABINSKY, CHRIS EATON, SEAN THORNLEY (PRIDDLE, FITZPATRICK, BROADY, PRITCHARD, EL-MENSHAWY, GABB, TUTU, BURTON, STERLAND-M...
L32: Elena Baltacha WR 55 v Tamarine Tanasugarn (THA) WR 62 (CH 19 in 2002) There are very few easy draws at this level, but I imagine Elena would happily have taken this one before the draw was made, though I don't know who the winner would meet in R2 yet. They have played twice before, both times in the UK o...
Eddie Herr Under 14 champion Peter Ashley made his ITF debut here, but failed to qualify, unluckily running into the German (Johannes Haerteis) who beat him in the Tennis Europe Masters event. Girls R1 (L64) Kyra Akinnibi (GBR) d. (WC) Alina Novacek (AUT) 6-0 6-0 Rosalie Willig (GER) d. Alannah Grif...
L32: (WC) James Ward WR 201 v Florian Mayer (GER) WR 37 Not the worst possible draw - Dan Cox & the Bogster both managed to take sets off Mayer in 2009. The winner of this match with play the winner of (6) F-Loppy v (WC) del Potro in R2. I'm sure Wardy would like the chance to finish Feliciano off properly...
Wardy is the sole participant in the Oz open qualies and has been drawn against Chilean Paul Capdeville. James Ward GBR WR 201 v. Paul Capdeville CHI WR 167 Not sure if James will win, but in terms of seeds in his section, Wardy's got a favourable section
