A chance to redeem last week's disappointing showing R1 (L64) (10) Robert Carter (GBR) v (WC) Joao Monteiro (POR) (6) Francisco Dias (POR) v Paul Brown (GBR) James Ireland v (WC) Mensurado Vasco (POR)
6pm UK time again. Are Sky bribing the tournament directors? H2H is 4 all, with Andy winning the last one on clay but Davydenko was just coming back from injury at the time. Of the 3 times they met in 2008, all on hard, Donkey won the last 2. . . Fingers and everything else firmly crossed.
The quest to follow Tara Moore as national champion starts at the NTC on Saturday with qualifying. There is less strength in depth than in the boys event, so no-one in the top 500 ITF has to qualify. The seeds in the main draw are Jocelyn Rae, Samantha Vickers, Hannah James, Stephanie Cornish, Nicola Ge...
Qualifying starts on Saturday for the under 18 Nationals, held at the National Tennis Centre, with a reasonably strong field forcing Lewis Burton and Ben Davis amongst others to qualify. The seeds in the main draw are Ahmed El Menshawy, Jack Carpenter, Alastair Barnes, Oliver Golding, James Marsa...
So JCF the Qualifier it is....H2H is 2-0 to Murray both this year on grass and both in straights. (Queens then Wimby) Same again for me IMO. Presume its on Thursday.
Lucy Brown won her maiden Grade 5 title a week ago, and moves up a grade here Boys Singles R1 (L32) (7) Christophjer Helliar (GBR) v Till Guttenberger (GER) Girls Singles R1 (L32) Sabrina Stewart (GBR) v (6) Deborah Danz (GER) Dide Beijer (NED) v (2) Lucy Brown (GBR)
QR1: (q6) Colin Fleming WR 443 v Adam el Mihdawy (USA) WR 784 QR1: Ken Skupski WR 829 v William Mendler (USA) UNR Unfortunately, el Mihdawy is in a bit of form at the moment, having reached the semis of USA F19 last week. However, the highest-ranked player he beat to get there was ranked outside the top 800...
ATP Cincinnati $3 Mil (Hard) - Andy MurrayCHALLENGERSKarshi $35K+H (Hard) - (Slabinsky)FUTURESSpain F29 $15K (Clay) - Dan Cox, Josh Milton, Morgan Phillips, James Feaver Thailand F1 $10K (Hard) - David Rice, Jamie Baker (Akhazzan) India F7 $10K (Hard) - Chris Eaton, Sean Thornley, Kyle Brass...
The name of the competition in Cordenons is something of a challenge in itself: Zucchetti Kos Tennis Cup Internazionali del Friuli Venezia Giulia, the last three word being the name of an autonomous region in NE Italy whose capital is Trieste)! The two Jamies must be gluttons for punishment, as t...
The impact of the global recession has been particularly strong in the USA, leading to a dearth of tournaments this month, and consequently high cut-offs for those still in the calendar. As a result Elena Baltacha just scraped in to qualifying here at the last minute. (8) Ayumi Morita (JPN) v Elena Ba...
A handful of players are in the hunt to be the first Brit to break into the top 500 since October 2005, currently they need 50 points. The order of columns in the tables below is: - effective points - name - running points (includes points from last week's Futures and this week's Challengers) + points fro...
L32: (7) Josh Goodall WR 189 v Marcel Felder (URU) WR 268 L32: James Ward WR 206 v (5) Eduardo Schwank (ARG) WR 161 Given the surface, Josh couldn't have asked for much nicer draw, with a qualifier or the Dominican Republic's finest (Estrella) awaiting the winner in R2 and if Wardy had to get a seed in R1 h...
Andy starts off on his quest to become world number 2 against Jeremy Chardy, who is currently ranked 36. This will be their first game on the senior circuit, Chardy is having a decent season, having won in Stuttgart and reaching the final in Johannesburg earlier this year. But he has not beaten anyone i...
Aucks and Marray are plying their trade here this week. They are seeded 2 and will take on the French pair, Robert and Sidorenko in the first round. I hope they have another good week and make it to the final this time.
The ATP website has updated, after the 3 x 10k's in Septmber we have 2 x 15k's in October (inodoors) followed by a blank week and then a 50k on carpet in Jersey starting 9th November. Thats it for the year. I had hoped for another run of 10k's and, the challenger not be to be on the Channel Islands which wil...
The return of Andy Murray to action after Wimbledon and he's ended up in what on first glance looks to be the toughest quarter of all, but the good news is that most of the dangerous floaters are in the other half of the quarter, so he'll only face one of them. Has a bye in round one, then either Yen-Tsun Lu or...
Wardy and Josh are down to play here next week and with Josh's first lot of New Delhi points due to come off on 10 August, James will be the new GB no. 2 on that date unless Josh gets further than him here. I noticed that teniscampos, which turns out to be tournament twitter, has started following the botb tw...
L32: Alex Bogdanovic WR 213 v (Q) Qualifier Let's hope Alex being in the draw here means that the week off has enabled Boggo to sort out the injury problem. The winner of this match will play (1) Rajeev Ram (USA) WR 105 or Scoville Jenkins (USA) WR 269. Ram's ranking rocketed after he won Newport ATP last m...
