I was wondering why we seemed to have regained a 51st player on the rankings when I hadn't expected anyone to join and finally worked out the addition was Andrew Gregory. He was clearly born in AUS and used to play for them - indeed the last times he played outside AUS and the Far East were at the London Cum...
I'm heading to the station to get a train to London. I'll be in the queue tomorrow morning. Exciting times. Can someone alleviate my random memory loss - there's no particular dress code for a ground pass is there? i.e. I'm ok to wear shorts? (Will they let you in to CC in shorts?) Gutted Andy and Jamie are...
These matches are scheduled for Tuesday Anne Keothavong WR157 v Anastasia Rodionova (AUS) WR761st on court 12 Grass is Rodionova's favourite surface, and she warmed up for Wimbledon by beating the defending champion (Tamarine Tanasugarn) in s'Hertogenbosch. Anne rarely plays well at Wimbled...
These are the sections with British interest [5] Shuai Zhang (CHN) vs. Anna Tatishvili (GEO) Julia Cohen (USA) vs. Severine Beltrame (FRA) (WC) Emily Webley-Smith (GBR) vs. (WC) Marina Erakovic (NZL) (WC) Lucy Brown (GBR) vs. [17] Shenay Perry (USA) [8] Patricia Mayr (AUT) vs. Eva Birnerova (CZE...
A bit early possibly to look at this but anyway the draw is out on Friday and I thought it would be interesting to analyse the main draw entry list and work out what would be the best draws for our contingent. Of the potential seeds I reckon the following are good draws: 005 SAFINA, DINARA RUS 007 KUZNETS...
The new rankings are out early this week showing new career highs for Elenor 52, Laura 234, Heather 249, Johanna 255, Jocelyn 455 and Nicola 934. We also have another top hundred player with Laura moving up to 99 in the doubles.
It's an "exho" so not necessarily considered a 'serious' topic for discussion. However, this year has thrown up some surprises - not least Dustin Brown who played a corker of a match against Verdasco and is most unusual to watch! Davydenko and Tsonga seem to be fit again. And today saw the r...
A table of the british men form over the past 6 weeks, based on Steven's emotions used for that week of the player will be a rolling table of the last 6 weeks. Wk 24 Wk 23 Wk 22 Wk 21 Wk 20 Wk 19 Alex Bogdanovic ...
The Rens have opted to come to Morocco to try to take advantage of one of the weakest Grade 1s in the calendar, even though it's not the best preparation for Roehampton/Wimbledon. Boys R1 (L64) Kamil Khalil (LIB) v (Q) James Hignett (GBR) Girls R1 (L64) (8) Jessica Ren (GBR) Bye (4) Jennifer Ren (GBR) By...
Anyone know who they will give the wildcards to? Supposedly Gasquet got rejected for a wildcard in favour of giving to Brits, but most of the brits will be unavailable due to Wimby Qualifying? If they were going to give to non-brits surely Gasquet would be top of the list? Or are the LTA going to make them...
From ACE: The Wimbledon wild cards have been awarded to: Temuiraz Gabashvili, Andrey Kuznetsov, Nicolas Kiefer and Jamie Baker, with three still to be announced. James Ward, Alex Ward, Josh Goodall, Dan Smethurst and Dan Evans have wild cards into qualifying. So where will Boggo go? Perhaps they'...
With Lucy Brown otherwise engaged in Roehampton and Laura Deigman a late withdrawal Daneika Borthwick is left as the only Brit in the main draw in Halle's grass court event. It's a much stronger event than the Grade 1 in Morocco on clay, with all the seeds here being top 40 (none in Morocco at this level)...
Qualifying:
Aleksandra Wozniak [1] vs. Alicia Molik
Ayumi Morita vs. Arina Rodionova
Irina Begu vs. Monica Niculescu
Jill Craybas vs. Akgul Amanmuradova [7]
Renata Voracova [2] vs. Abigail Spears
Karolina Sprem vs. Edina Gallovits
Anna Lapushchenkova vs. Anna Chakvetadze
Naomi Br...
Hello all Like the last four years, I will be covering the Wimbledon qualifying tournament this week at Roehampton, interviewing players for the Radio Wimbledon daily podcast that is available for free download from the official Wimbledon website. I would like to make the podcast more interactiv...
Tim Bradshaw and Ben Pritchard will be DAs here in what could be the weakest Spanish Future ever on La Palma, the small island in the Canaries that is basically just one big volcano, part of which is projected by some (generally those with a financial interest in scaring people!) to be likely one day to...
QR1: James Allemby UNR v Mehdi Benhammou (MAR) UNR QR2: Gary Chamberlain UNR v (q3) Francois-Arthur Vibert (FRA) WR 900 QR2: Allemby or Benhammou v (q11) Marc Auradou (FRA) WR 1168
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Hello all Like the last four years, I will be covering the Wimbledon qualifying tournament this week at Roehampton, interviewing players for the Radio Wimbledon daily podcast that is available for free download from the official Wimbledon website. I would like to make the podcast more interactiv...
