Thought I'd head over here and see whats happening. A certain other site seems to have forgotten that there's more than one british player! Anyway enough bithching. The names Grant, professional musician (allegedly) with North Sea Gas. Been following tennis for years, but really got into th...
Hi guys and merry christmas to everyone ! As some of you know I was working at the ATP World Finals last month and had the chance to do interviews with Nadal, Federer and Roddick. Some of you wanted to know what it was like so here goes ! Nadal is just the nicest guy though he didn't take too kindly to my sugges...
Peter Ashley aims to go one better than Luke Bambridge last year, who won the Eddie Herr followed by the American tournament bridging the gap to the Orange Bowl but was unable to complete the hattrick. Joshua Sapwell's fine year in Europe culminating in the Masters title earns him the number 1 seeding...
A number of our top 1996 - 1998 girls have given the tournament a miss, including Auray champion Maia Lumsden who is currently in the final of a Tennis Europe Under 14 event. However Jazzi Plews has strengthened the under 12 entry. Under 14 R1 (L128) Lana Rush (GBR) v Margret Atlason (ISL) (9=) Maria Shi...
I see Andy has missed out on the 10 person shortlist for this year's BBC Sports Personality of the Year ( I believe it is mainly or all newspaper sports editors that do the nominations, I presume 30 in all ) : Tony McCoy 30 nominations Graeme McDowell 29 ( maybe one person is anti-golf ? ) Lee Westwood 27...
A bit of variation to the other threads where they believe the players will end the year, this thread is your prediction on the highest rank our players will achieve throughout the year aswell as the lowest rank they will achieve. I will list the 2010 highs and lows for the selected below, bearing in min...
(thanks to Grant on AM.com for bringing this up) The British Tour is undergoing a bit of a revamp, with the number of tournaments increased from 21 to 29, but split into 14 Tier 1 tournaments and 15 Tier 2tournaments and what looks like a substantial increase in the prize money, Tier 1s being £6Ks (vir...
This is the only Futures event with British interest next week. Richard Gabb and Miles Bugby are DAs, while Daniel Cochrane is the 1st alternate. Top seed Victor Estrella (DOM) WR 219 is the only player in the ATP top 500 on the entry list.
Katy Dunne aims for a double in Southern Africa. Her next scheduled tournament is a Grade 1 event in Costa Rica, and I hope she sticks to the higher grades after that. R1 (L64) (1) Katy Dunne (GBR) Bye R2 (1) Katy Dunne (GBR) v Nelise Verster (RSA)
News of another title won here, in an international under 16 tournament featuring six nations. There should have been 5 winners from Regional tournaments in North America, Europe, Asia, Australasia and South America along with the European runners-up (us), but Brazil could not travel for financ...
ATP No eventsCHALLENGERSNo eventsFUTURESNo EntrantsWTA India $25K (Hard) - Emily Webley-Smith Points Defences This Week Doubles 14 - Slabinsky -- Edited by seagull on Friday 17th of December 2010 10:36:11 AM
Just our top trio in the main draw here, as Luke has opted for pot hunting in the under 16s. Sid Hazarika lost in the first round of qualifying. U18 R1 (L64) (10) Liam Broady (GBR) v Q/LL Thiago Monteiro (BRA) v (6) Oliver Golding (GBR) Karim Hossam (EGY) v (9) George Morgan (GBR) U16 R1 (WC) Roy Lederman (U...
QR1 (1)Aleksandra Krunic (SRB) v Tara Moore (GBR) Vanessa Henke (GER) v Viktoria Yemialyanava (BLR) (2)Naomi Broady (GBR) v (wc)Linda Prenkovic (GER) Anna Fitzpatrick (GBR) v Liga Dekmeijere (LAT) Emily Webley-Smith (GBR) v (wc)Jara Ghadri (GER)(5)Emma Laine (FIN) v (wc)Vladimira Uhlirova (...
After 2009 "Who's The Daddy" I'd like to run a prediction league again if you guys are okay with that? Altering the last format, I have mixed up some of our leading doubles and women with a few of the higher placed men. Their positions should not fluctuate as widely as last years. (NB: For...
Surprisingly Katy Dunne pulled out of the tough American tournaments to play a couple of low grade events in Botswana, where she is comfortably the highest ranked player. R2 (L32) (1) Katy Dunne (GBR) d. Kimberley Botha (RSA) 6-0 6-1 R3 (1) Katy Dunne (GBR) v (15/ALT) Adriana Lavoretti (ITA)
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The East African circuit ratches up from Grade 5 to 4 this week, and we are ensured a finalist again Boys R2 (L32) (9) Aaron Banasik Banasik (GBR) d. Enock Godi (GHA) 6-0 6-1 (13) Isaac Stoute (GBR) d. (Q) Hakim Ntwali (RWA) 6-3 6-0 (10) Robbie Ridout (GBR) d. (Alt) Felix Hasselberg (SWE) 6-1 6-4 (14) Myle...
