Tournament Key : M-FU-GBR-02A-2008 Dates : 21 Jan to 27 Jan 2008 Venue : Sheffield, Great Britain Surface : Hard Mannarino looks set to be the top seed at WR322 ! Kasiri, Eaton, Skupski, Flanagan, Bamford and possibly Irwin in the MD direct. Brewer, Feaver, Bains, Allinson, Illingworth, Rice and Tho...
Surface: hard (Decoturf), indoor Can't believe this hasn't been spotted yet: Hutch is back in Europe! He & Travis Parrott are the third seeds in the doubles at this event. Nowt much happening today - qualies for the singles still on the go...
Wild cards here for Jade Windley, Steph Cornish and Jennifer Ren - I assume Broady will get the last if she loses today (otherwise she will get the SE spot). They join Anna Smith, Natasha Khan, Liz Thomas, Emily Webley-Smith and Amanda Elliott in the Main Draw. In qualifying wild cards go to Aimee Gibso...
Rafa trails Tsonga 6-3 6-2 *2-1 and Tsonga is serving to go up 3-1 -- Edited by Drew at 10:32, 2008-01-24-- Edited by Drew at 10:49, 2008-01-24-- Edited by RobC at 11:00, 2008-01-24
David Sherwood makes a comeback to pro tennis this week when he plays in the mens doubles with Joshua Gledden as a WC entry. They play a french pair. GLEDDEN, Joshua / SHERWOOD, David v FRA BURQUIER, Gregoire / REIX, Clement Gledden is a 16 year old junior who only seems to have played once last year. Davi...
Niall Angus (Gbr) v Cesar Remirez (Mex) (1)
Daniel Evans (Gbr) (3) v Cheng Peng Hsieh (Tpe)
Neil Pauffley (Gbr) v Zalan Klempa (Svk)
Marcus Willis (Gbr) (16) v Andrew Gregory (Aus)
Daniel Cox (Gbr) v Jared Easton (Aus) (7)
11:00pm GMT start on Saturday night.
Pauffley 2nd on Court 5
Willis 4th...
Either I'm even more tired than I think (and visually challenged!) or there really wasn't a thread for this Challenger before. Tough draw for the Bogster: Alex Bogdanovic WR 180 v (7) Denis Gremelmayr (GER) WR 119 Gremelmayr qualified and then took Spadea to 9-7 in the 5th in R2 of the AO (having beaten...
Tournament Key : M-FU-ESP-03A-2008 Dates : 21 Jan to 27 Jan 2008 Venue : Mallorca 2, Spain Surface : Clay - Outdoor The second week in Mallorca. James Ward in the MD again. Feaver, Barlow and Rice in Qualies. (Feaver & Rice also down for GB F2) -- Edited by Drew at 17:24, 2008-01-17
Our old pal, Rob Dee, has re-appeared with a Wild Card on the clay at Manizales. Unfortunately, he's drawn the number 2 seed, up-and-coming young Andreas Haider-Maurer of Austria, the world number 250 - ouch!
It's time to start thinking about who you expect to win the AO ... and remembering the 'standard' pick 'em names of all our favourite players: Fed Riff-Raff Nole the Undertaker Pics Duckboy Gonzo Dammit Numpty Rock On Muzza Bunny (new for this year, his German nick is Hasi, which is usually translat...
~Apologies if this topic has already been raised, but I could find no reference to it with the "search" tool. France 29 Britain 0 was a headline in one of the papers referring to the number of players left in Aus Open draw after the elimination of Murray and Baker. It is a very poor indictmen...
1st on court 7 on Monday starting at midnight GMT Big Ivo has only played 1 match this year, losing 7-6, 6-2 to C Rochus -- Edited by Drew at 09:40, 2008-01-12-- Edited by Drew at 09:41, 2008-01-12
The New Table is posted here (on britishtennis.net) On to Miami, 60 points up for grabs for the winner. If that's Alex, he could advance to 144. What If for Round 1: Alex has 227 points and is sitting at 183 If Alex wins his R1 match in Miami, he'll have 233 points He will overtake Saretta, Peya, Petzschner...
1st Round Laura Robson bt Paula Kania (POL) 7-6 (3), 6-2 Amanda Cunningham vs. Viktoria Yemialyanova (BLR) (4) 2nd Round Laura Robson vs. Anna Arina Marenko (RUS) (3)
Matthew James makes his 2008 Junior debut. He is the 9th seed, and defeated Patrik Brydolf of Sweden 6-7, 6-4, 6-4 to reach the Last 16. Now he plays the 8th seed, Czech Richard Hampel, who is ranked 132.
Lewis Barnes fresh from his great title run last week competes here with James Richardson & Faris Akhazzan. If Lewis & James have good runs here they can make the top 100. The draw is being done now so will update when possible.
The draw is only 32 strong & they're not among the eight seeds, which I find a trifle puzzling, as the pairs who are seeded, though not necessarily established, have at least one partner with a lot of doubles experience under his/her (usually his!) belt & Liezel Huber has as much as any, sh...
