Our next DC tie Following our loss to the Ukraine, Belgium have just taken a similarly unassailable 3-0 lead against Poland, so one bit of good DC news today is that we will have a home tie in September. What this tie means We will be trying to avoid relegation to Euro-Africa zone 2, a fate which we have onl...
with everyone getting excited about the Romania trip no one has started a thread about the birtish tour that was happening this week where it saw Chris Priddle claim the title, beating George Coupland n the final 76 46 64 good week chris well done
QR1: LEVI, Benjamin George v KING, Phillip (USA) WR 850 (CH 286 in '00) Edited to add reference to King's nationality.-- Edited by Stircrazy on Saturday 23rd of May 2009 09:48:52 AM
Tournament Key : M-FU-ROU-03A-2009 Dates : 18 May to 24 May 2009 Venue : Pitesti, Romania Surface : Clay QD out and no Brits. I presume that joining Milton and Feaver in the MD are Willis and Smethurst (SE) ? (The No 1 seed in the QD was one place below Marcus and Smethurst was unable to play Qualies here due...
Tomorrow's draw is out & Andy's will be the fourth & final match on Court Lenglen, after two women's matches & one men's singles. The head-to-head stands at 3-1 to Andy, the one win for Chela being in the 2006 AO, but none of the matches was played on the dirt. Quite a demanding opener fo...
Flembo And Marray both have byes in QR1 here QR2: Colin Fleming WR 506 v (8) Claudio Grassi WR 445-Other seed is (1) Stefano Galvani QR2: (6) Jonny Marray WR 406 v Davide Ghisolfi/David Martin- Other seed is (2) Noam Okun
Amanda will be full of confidence after winning her first title at the same venue the previous week. R1: Amanda CARRERAS (GBR) (5) 510 vs Marina NOWAK (LIE) (WC) UNR
Ok, not started a thread before so I hope this works out right... Laura Robson makes her much-anticipated comeback here in preparation for Junior Roland Garros alongside Heather Watson. Both girls are on the opposite side of the draw with the top (Robson's half) looking the weakest with (2) Babos, (...
I've been putting together some stats to try and see if there is actually any evidence that holding more home events actually helps - most of us think it does, but without any proper stats to back it up until now. Have a look at ...
One Brit in a very sparse qualifying draw - a good chance for Morgan to build on his recent good form: QR1: (q6) Morgan Phillips WR 1271 v Joan Benaiges Blasco (ESP) UNR Winner to play (10) Cristian Rodriguez (COL) WR 1447 or Massimiliano Costa (ITA) UNR in the FQR.-- Edited by Drew on Saturday 16th of May...
Tournament Key : M-FU-POL-02A-2009 Dates : 25 May to 31 May 2009 Venue : Krakow, Poland Surface : Clay 1 lone Brit in Qualies... QR1:PLACEK, Jiri (CZE) v OLBRICH, Adam (GBR) Both UNR.
R1: Natasha KHAN (3) 553 vs Margarida MOURA (POR) WC UNR R1: Elizabeth THOMAS (5) 651 vs Sarah MOUNDIR (SUI) 913R1: Jade WINDLEY (6) 746 vs Sandra GONZALEZ-SALAS (ESP) (Q) UNRR1: Danielle BROWN 1079 vs Lara RAFFUL (BRA) (7) 747
R1 Edina Gallovits (ROU) v Jill Craybas (USA) Anne Keothavong (GBR) v (7) Bethanie Mattek-Sands (USA) A reasonable draw for Anne, but her opponent can play on clay, having qualified for the French Open last year and beaten Marion Bartoli this year (on green clay) -- Edited by DavidC on Saturday 16th o...
Marcos Daniel BRA [3] vs. Prakash Amritraj IND Ivan Dodig CRO vs. Caio Zampieri BRA Ryler DeHeart USA vs. Alex Bogdanovic GBR João Souza BRA vs. Somdev Devvarman IND [26] Michael Berrer GER [12] vs. Filippo Volandri ITA Joshua Goodall GBR vs. Amer Delic USA Simon Stadler GER vs. Franco Ferreiro BRA Yu...
Yaroslava Shvedova KAZ (1) v Shenay Perry USA Zuzana Kucova SVK v Angela Haynes USA Aurelie Vedy FRA v Stephanie Vongsouthi FRA Anna Gerasimou GRE v Elena Baltacha GBR (15) Katie O'brien GBR (8) v Karla Mraz FRA Anne Schaefer GER v Rika Fujiwara JPN Katalin Marosi HUN v Julia Schruff GER Arantxa Rus NED...
FQR: (q2) David Rice WR 897 v Abdullah Bloshi (KUW) UNR or Mansour Bohamad (KUW) UNR Did I say qualifying in Spain and Italy was weak this week? Not as weak as it is here! Our most in-form player (Wardy) and most out of form player (Slabba) could be the top two seeds here and Sean Thornley is also a main draw D...
Tournament Key : M-FU-ESP-17A-2009 Dates : 18 May to 24 May 2009 Venue : Valldoreix, Spain Surface : Clay Alex Ward is no 1 seed Qualies.... Will play winner of ESPARCIA OMEDAS, Marcos (ESP) v DEEN HESHAAM, Ariez Elyaas (MAS)in QR2
G'Day,
My elderly mum is going back to 'the old country' (UK) to visit her sister in June & July. She'd like to go & watch some good tennis while she is there. Not Wimbledon nor Queens. But smaller Championships that perhaps have a smattering of class players due to the approaching Wimbledon...
Andy taking part in this exhibition, Rafa, Roger and a few other top names there too for a some extra practice. Andy is currently playing Mathieu on Eurosport 2. -- Edited by The Shedman on Wednesday 20th of May 2009 12:48:54 PM
Oliver Golding returns to Junior events after his successful foray in British Futures and has a good opening draw R1 (L32) (WC) Dennis Novak (AUT) v Oliver Golding (GBR)
After a spell of playing in Futures events James Marsalek, Jack Carpenter and Tom Farquharson are in Milan, trying to qualify for one of the top junior events outside of Grand Slams. Jack was an early casualty, but James and Tom have reached final qualifying for an event which has never seen a British w...
