Suprisingly enough a buynch of US juniors, Dent, Gooch and an unnamed French man. Why oh why oh why can't we get Wimbledon to offer an exchnge seeing as we give a WC to an American every year
Second on court after Federer vs. Ferrer, so probably on around 1900 UK time. Murray and Stepanek have met twice before, with Murray winning both matches and has never dropped a set to him. Would expect that to continue today with a similar kind of score to the Almagro match.
Once again, Murray is in Federer's half, but once again should have a reasonably easy path, at least until the quarter finals. Begins against either Dudi Sela or Nicolas Almagro, and then in round three one of Safin/Ginepri/Troicki/Stepanek, so you can't really see him not making the last eight. Pr...
Here, belatedly, is news of a third British title last week, to go with the two in Portugal. Sophie Morrill, a former hitting partner of Laura Robson, has won her first ITF title, and also reached the doubles final. R1 Sophie Morrill (GBR) defeated Siara Sibblies-Goodluck (VIN) 6-0 6-0 2nd Round Sop...
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Almagro beat Sela 6-4 1-0 retired! He & Andy have met only once before, with Almagro emerging as the victor in four sets in the last 32 at Roland-Garros last year. Time for revenge, methinks, especially on what is arguably Andy's favourite surface... -- Edited by Stircrazy on Monday 17th of Aug...
Tournament Key : M-FU-ESP-29A-2009 Dates : 17 Aug to 23 Aug 2009 Venue : Santander, Spain Surface : Clay No-one in the QD but Phillips, Cox, Milton and Feaver are in the MD.
Tournament Key : M-FU-ROU-14A-2009 Dates : 17 Aug to 23 Aug 2009 Venue : Arad, Romania Surface : Clay Neil Pauffley scrapes into the MD. No-one in the QD.
Tom Allen plays his first tournament since losing to Jack Carpenter in a Grade 2 final in Egypt, and needs a semi here at least to improve his points tally and move towards the top 100. R1 (L32) (4) Filip Strnad (CZE) v Christopher Helliar (GBR) Tomas Pitra (CZE) v (3) Tom Allen (GBR)
After last week's successful tournament Natalie Beazant and Elisha Gabb have a slightly stronger field to test them in the second Portugese Grade 4. Natalie has the same opener as last week. R1 (L64) (1) Natalie Beazant (GBR) v Ekaterina Tour (ISR) (11) Sian Bayliss (GBR) v Laura Pigossi (ITA) (Q) So...
Huss and Hutchins re-unite having just managed to make the cut and will start against Lopez and Verdasco. If they can win that match, they will face 4th seed Bhupathi and Knowles in round two.
H-H is 3:1 to Andy, with JMDP winning their most recent encounter on clay in Madrid this year. Andy has saved a lot of break points in this tournament so far, and he's needed to because his 1st serve %age has not been great, as exemplified in his match against Tsonga where it was in the low 40's. Unless he ca...
Tournament Key : M-FU-EGY-13A-2009 Dates : 17 Aug to 23 Aug 2009 Venue : Cairo, Egypt Surface : Clay QR2 : WATT, Alex (GBR) v KAFKA, Philip (USA) both UNR
QR1: John Rambotas UNR v Nikolaos Kontakis (GRE) UNR John might have a chance here. This is Kontakis' first foray outside Greece where his record in Futures/Challenger qualifying is played 4 matches, W sets, lost 8, of which 5 were breadsticks. Meatball may be seeded here, Dan Smethurst is also a DA...
Tournament Key : M-FU-AUT-07A-2009 Dates : 17 Aug to 23 Aug 2009 Venue : St. Polten, Austria Surface : Clay One lone Brit in the QD... QR1 : BUKSH, Ameer (GBR) v WEINHANDL, Lukas (AUT) Winner meets top seed in QR2
A bit of a turn-up for the books, this! They've met only twice before & the honours are even: 1-1! Andy beat Jo-Wilfried in Metz in 2007, but JWT had his revenge big time at the Oz Open the following year, when he beat Andy in five (or was it four?) sets in the first round & went on to reach the final...
Emily on a winning streak is top seed here again, and once again she has a nice draw. R1: WEBLEY-SMITH, Emily (GBR) 1 310 v NAIK, Adnya (IND) Q UNR Plays against a Q or WC in round 2. R1: KOLESNICHENKO (UZB) / WEBLEY-SMITH (GBR) 1 vs AMIRAGHYAN (ARM) / SUNDARAM (USA) R1: PATEL (IND) / SUNKARA (IND) WC vs KANV...
