Last year a strong British presence saw Thomas Knights and Dan Smethurst qualify to join Marcus Willis, Dan Cox and Dan Evans in the main draw. This year Dave Thomson and Ahmed El Menshawy are our only hopes of representation in the main draw. Dave has a fairly tough opener, but Ahmed has a reasonable dr...
With Mel, Katie, Anne and Bally all now over 23 (i.e. middle-aged in tennis terms - sorry Sarah!), and arguably all on the verge of realising their potential, which players do we think are genuine prospects for the next set of top-150/100 GB girls? Looking at our rankings, there are 6 girls age 19-20 in...
At present 3 of our under 14s are in qualifying positions for the end of season Masters. On the girls side Katy Dunne, who has been playing ITF events recently, is currently in the final 8th position. On the boys side Evan Hoyt in second position is virtually assured of his place, after a semi-final in th...
Honours are even in the head-to-head: 2-2, though none on clay (3 times on hard courts & once on grass), with Andy winning the most recent, the St Petersburg QF last year. I feared for his chances of beating Starace today. I'm even more apprehensive about this one...! I'm going to stick out my n...
Chris Simpson is top seed here, hoping to build on his maiden Grade 4 title in Turkey. R1 (L64) (1) Christopher Simpson (GBR) Bye Ivan Sablic (CRO) v Ashwin Kuppusamy (GBR) (14) Marc Westgate (GBR) Bye Girls Singles R1 (L32) Marieta Vagnerova (CZE) v (2) Nicola George (GBR)
H&H are the 13th seeds! I hope it's not going to prove unlucky for them! They've drawn José Acasuso & Gonzo (ARG/CHI) in the first round. Jamie M's here with Pavel Vizner. They play two of Vizner's compatriots, Leos Friedl & David Skoch, in Round 1 &, if they get past them, the top...
Tournament Key : M-FU-ITA-12A-2009 Dates : 25 May to 31 May 2009 Venue : Cesena, Italy Surface : Clay No one in the QD but Morgan gets in as a DA using his PR...which he didnt have to do as he would have got an SE due to his run this week. I suppose he doesnt have a crystal ball !
Tournament Key : M-FU-ROU-04A-2009 Dates : 25 May to 31 May 2009 Venue : Bucharest, Romania Surface : Clay No one in the QD... Josh Milton, James Feaver, Burnham Arlidge all in as DA's for sure. Marcus Willis may have sneaked in as a DA but would get in with an SE along with Daniel Smethurst.
Jamie Murray, our mixed doubles specialist, is sitting this one out - former partner Liezel Huber is top seed, playing with Bob Bryan. Our friend the Hutch, meanwhile, has a tricky first round encounter: RAYMOND (USA) / MATKOWSKI (POL) (3) v STUBBS (AUS) / HUTCHINS (GBR) -- Edited by The Hoose on Tues...
Tournament Key : M-FU-KUW-02A-2009 Dates : 25 May to 31 May 2009 Venue : Meshref, Kuwait Surface : Hard Will should have Sean Thornley and David Rice in the MD. QD.... QR1: ABBAS, Saad (GBR) v AL SHATTI, Mohammad (KUW) Both UNR.
The acceptance lists are out, and include the expected British quartet: Girls MD 1 Laura Robson 12 Heather Watson 34 Hannah James 40 Stephanie Cornish The only top tenner missing is Simona Halep, who won the event last year. Girls QD None Boys MD None The only top tenners missing are Grigor Dimitrov a...
Second round for Andy, who is likely to play on Wednesday. Starace won his opening match by retirement after losing a set. He is currently ranked 104 and has never played Andy. Its pretty hard to see past a straight sets victory for Andy ehre.
L32: (Q) BISHOP, Paul WR 1543 v FARRON-MAHON, Tristan (Irl) WR 1239 -- Edited by alex03maccy on Monday 25th of May 2009 04:33:48 PM-- Edited by steven on Monday 25th of May 2009 05:07:57 PM
This event is as strong as many Grade As coming just before the French Open, and there has been a terrific result today for Oliver Golding, who has come through qualifying and claimed a first win at this level over a top 100 player. His reward is a crack at the world number 6 Sadly Hannah James has again wit...
QR1: Matthew Short UNR beat Adam Staub (NZL) UNR 6-2 3-1 ret QR2: Matthew Short UNR beat Gonzalo Estrada (MEX) 6-2, 6-0 FQR: Matthew Short UNR v Fernando Guillen (MEX) UNR
Tournament Key : M-FU-VEN-03A-2009 Dates : 25 May to 31 May 2009 Venue : Maracaibo, Venezuela Surface : Hard We should see David Baxedine and Joe Cooper in the QD.
