British Tennis Forum - Celebrating 20 Years!

First big money tournament of the year in China (half expected Mel to go for this one too): MD: 21 Naomi Broady GBR 309 Priority 1 QD: 25 Danielle Brown GBR 548 Priority 1 Yonemura, Fujiwara and Doi will be amongst the top seeds if things remain as they are bef...

Only entrant is James Ward James Ward v. Karan Rastogi WC Rastogi is ranked 1050 in the world and only has 6 ranking points Winner will likely play 4th seed Marsel Ilhan 8th seed Ito is also in Ward's quarter

1:30 am GMT. Robson v Martinez Sanchez, followed by Murray v Robredo and then the mixed doubles.

A GB win and we progress. A loss and who knows... Laura opens up against Elena Dementieva at 2am GMT tonight and Andy follows against Igor Andreev.

Q1 : Alex SLABINSKY WR 659 vs Ricardo SIGGIA ( BRA ) WR 629 Q1 : Jonathan MARRAY WR 729 vs Joao WIESINGER ( BRA ) WR 1220 Q1 should be taking place today, haven't seen any results yet. Jonny should be teaming up with Jamie M in the doubles here. -- Edited by indiana on Saturday 2nd of Janua...

This article appeared in the Daily Mail on Boxing Day (too old for LTA funding at 25!). Was at my mother's for the Ch...

http://www.atpworldtour.com/posting/2010/451/qs.pdf

With just 13 ranked players on the entry list, one player in the top 500 ( ranked 301 ) and not enough players to fully make up a 32 women MD, this will probably not quite end up as the strongest $10K of the year R1 : Jennifer ALLAN UNR vs (8) Samantha POWERS ( USA ) WR 1004 -- Edited by indiana...

Laura's match against Sabine Lisicki starts at 2am GMT tonight, with Andy against Philipp Kohlschreiber and then the mixed doubles to follow. Laura against Lisicki should be a fascinating match with two players who go all out for their shots, there should be plenty of winners/unforced errors. And...

Its that time of year again where we reflect on the memories and achievements of the past 12 months, and following the success of 2 year's Forum Awards, here is your chance to get your voice in recognising the many members who visit this board. This year's categories are: 1. Funniest Poster of the Year...

The Casablanca sextet have moved, with the exception of Oliver Golding, to Costa Rica. Lucy Brown's couple of wins in Mexico have taken her just inside the top 100, and she has a good opening draw here (that's as far as I can see as the host website has mangled the drawsheets), but Jennifer Ren has drawn a...

Ok, its a little bit early for a thread, but the teams have been drawn for the Hopman Cup. Interesting that we are seeded 3 - wonder what formula they used on the rankings to arrive at that result? GROUP A (1) Australia - Samantha Stosur & Lleyton Hewitt (4) Spain - Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez & To...

http://www.asbclassic.co.nz/17/qualifying_singles Both Bally and KOB seeded here -- Edited by wolf on Sunday 3rd of January 2010 10:16:26 PM

1 Murray, Andy GBR 4 2 Del Potro, Juan Martin ARG 5 3 Soderling, Robin SWE 8 4 Tsonga, Jo-Wilfried FRA 10 5 Monfils, Gael FRA 13 6 Simon, Gilles FRA 15 7 Robredo, Tommy ESP 16 8 Youzhny, Mikhail RUS 19 9 Beck, Andreas GER 39 10 Baghdatis, Marcos CYP 42 11 Benneteau, Julien FRA 46 12 Seppi, Andreas ITA 49 13 Roch...

http://www.atpworldtour.com/posting/2010/339/mdd.pdf

After celebrating Christmas Brazilian-style, I assume, Slabba is our lone representative in ITF/Futures events again this week. L32: Alex Slabinsky WR 662 v Qualifier Winner likely to play (6) Rogelio Dutra da Silva (BRA) WR 319. Btw, if you're wondering what happened to Brazil F33, it was due to b...

Yes, everyone, pick yourselves up off the floor, it's true. Such shock news - NOT - and as we have discussed on the forum previously we seem to generally feel absolutely right for various reasons. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/tennis/8438187.stm

Q1: CAVADAY, Naomi (GBR) 204 v CHAN, Yung-Jan (TPE) 2 86 -- Edited by wolf on Sunday 3rd of January 2010 10:46:55 PM

Stefan Sterland-Markovic opens his 2010 campaign later today in the familiar position of being number 1 seed in a low grade tournament, and will hope to go one better than Oliver Golding's final last year. R1 (1) Stefan Sterland-Markovic (GBR) v Oskar Wikberg (SWE) Nima Madani (SWE) v Joe Rogers (G...

Shame about Britain losing to Poland and slipping down to the third tier in the Davis Cup. Although Murray even admitted that it's where we "deserve" to be at the moment. It sounds like he's not very willing to continue to play in the competition, saying that he will only play if the coach or c...

For the first event of the 2010 season Oliver Golding is seeded to reach the quarters in a Grade A event, but has a potential banana skin in round 1 playing against an American who qualified for the orange Bowl, beating Andrew Bettles en route. Andrew and George Morgan have opted out leaving Robert Cart...

(16) Lucy Brown (GBR) vs. (LL) Maria Jose Cardona (COL) Maria Elise Casares (ECU) vs. Jennifer Ren (GBR) (10) Jessica Ren (GBR) vs. Ana Sofia Sanchez (MEX) Joanna Henderson (GBR) vs. Kerrie Cartwright (BAH) And we're away again Jo could run into the highly rated Sachia Vickery if she wins. -- Edited b...

Meant to post this interview last week. Couldn't see an appropriate thread, so starting a new one - from last Wednesday's London Evenin...

Q1: ALLAN, Jennifer (GBR) UNR v Bye Q1: STEWART, Catriona (GBR) UNR v DIAZ-HERNANDEZ, Lumay (CUB) UNR Q1: LEWIS, Makayla (GBR) UNR v Bye Q2: ALLAN, Jennifer (GBR) UNR v MARTIN GARCIA, Marian (CUB) UNR Q2: LEWIS, Makayla (GBR) UNR v MEIR, Or (ISR) UNR

2009 STATS SUMMARY - GB MEN Career highs Because of the one-off change to the ATP ranking system (which meant that away from the very top of the rankings, the points needed for any given ranking position at the end of 2009 were only about 55-60% of the points needed at the end of 2008 - see http://www.brit...