British Tennis Forum - Celebrating 20 Years!

Just when you thought it was safe to watch the French Open, TFF Dreamteam is open once again! Usual £50m to select ten men and the same for the women's draw. And, as always, it's free to enter, but donations are most welcome. A donation of £3+ will get you in the prize draw for a top of the range Dunlop tennis...

James Ward enters qualies as top seed. A bye in the first round and 8th seeded Filip Krajinovic #514 the highest ranked player in his section. 3pts for qualifying in a challenger who's main draw cut fell to almost 400. James is still entered for Kuwait the next two weeks. As he'd unlikely to make the F...

I just noticed that Joss hasn't played all year, and Kat has only played one event, and was wondering if anyone knew why this was? Are they focusing on school work? Are they taking time away from tennis? Are they injured?

Hoping to join Amanda and Jade in the main draw is Tara. Here's hoping she can improve on the last 2 weeks.Q1: Tara MOORE (3) 507 vs Sayaka UMEDA (JPN) UNR

Since Mel got into Top 100 she hasn't played - where has she been?

Unless I'm much mistaken, Chris Eaton & quite a few of the other players involved in the tournament in Busan this week will be packing their bags & heading a little nearer home (in Chris's case at least! ) to play in this hard-court tournament.

In light of our recent 2 challanger succeses, id like to open the above question.

Tournament Key : M-FU-VEN-02A-2009 Dates : 18 May to 24 May 2009 Venue : Merida, Venezuela Surface : Hard 2 lone Brits in the QD... QR1: COOPER, Joe (GBR) v OLIVARES, Sergio (VEN) QR1: BAXENDINE, David (GBR)v ZORNOSA, Steffen (COL) WR1527 (13) The winners play each other in QR2

http://www.andymurray.com/forum/showthread.php?t=2631

George Morgan tries for further Turkish delight here: R1 (L64) (1) George Morgan (GBR) BYE Robert Carter (GBR) defeated Akhmadzhon Mukhamad (TJK) 3-6 6-3 7-6(5) (15) Callum Lloyd (GBR) BYE (2) Christopher Simpson (GBR) BYE R2 (1) George Morgan (GBR) v Barkin Yalcinkale (TUR) (4) Tugay Koylu (TUR)...

Most of the girls playing last week's tournament have remained, but there was a disappointing defeat for Katy Dunne in qualifying: R1 (L64) (11) Caitlin Paige Hindmarsh (GBR) BYE Andreea Ursachi (ROU) defeated Verena Jane Scott (GBR) 7-5 6-0 (8) Elliesa Ball (GBR) BYE Jazzamay Drew (GBR) defeate...

Does anyone know when Jamie Baker is likely to return to the circuit? I'm hoping he can get a run of 18 - 24 months with no serious injuries/illness...would be good to see him back to his form of 18 months ago!

anyone else think this is the best british comedy in years? very refreshing.

Best of luck to Ed and Matt who are still involved in the Division 1 NCAA team tournament for Texas and UCLA respectively. Ed hasn't done brilliantly so far (losing his last 2 matches with others being Suspended due to the match outcome already being decided) In today's Semi's Texas play Southern Cali...

I can understand why many do not like him, but he's one of the few clay courters whom I found interesting. It's a sad day.... http://www.tennis-x.com/story/2009-04-29/h.php And whenever I think of Coria, I think of what could have happened had he suffered from cramps in his previous match in RG 2...

Evo isn't in qualifying this week (we may yet find that he got a main draw WC, of course) but I'm sure lots of people here will be glad to see a certain MP in the qualifying draw ... all to be revealed in the next post in a few minutes.

How do you think our new "King of Clay" James Ward would fare against the British No. 1 on his least favoured service? Would Ward take a set off Andy?

Amanda in the MD In qualifying can Makayla win her first game and as her opponent hasn't played before then perhaps as good a chance as any. QR1: Makayla Lewis UNR v Tatiana Guskova (RUS) UNR

So Fed is back...looks like a simple 6-4 6-4 win for Fed in todays Madrid final. Never watched it so dont know how it played out.

Is he on holiday or something? After his ankle injury he played two rounds of qualifying in Ostrava before qualifying and reaching the 2nd round of Edinburgh and now he isn't entered into anything for the next few weeks. Where is he?

Jamie M & Pavel Vizner are the top seeds here & play Peter Luczak & Sandro Motti (AUS/ITA) in the first round. Here's hoping Jamie can get 2-3 more wins under his belt...

Q1: MOORE, Tara (GBR) 575 v HSU, Wen-Hsin (TPE) 2 417 Q1: CURTIS, Jade (GBR) 4 451 v HASEGAWA, Mami (JPN) UNR

L32: WEBLEY-SMITH, Emily (1) v YANG, Yi UNR L32: CAVADAY, Naomi (5) v Tedjakusuma, Romana WR 413 Doubles L16: WEBLEY-SMITH/CAVADAY (3) v ARIYANA/MAHAJAROENKUL

Loads of Brits here - even Auckland is playing qualies! No sign of Skuppers though QR1: (q1) Joshua Goodall WR 231 has a BYE - plays Kirillov or Sitak QR1: (q7) Ivan Sergeyev WR 337 (UKR) vs James Auckland UNR QR1: Colin Fleming WR 508 vs. Laurynas Grigelis (LTU) WR 1357 - seeds are Kedryuk (8) and B...

ATP French Open Qualifying (Clay) - Alex Bogdanovic, Josh Goodall (Ward) Kitzbuhel EUR 450K (Clay) - Doubles - Ross Hutchins CHALLENGERS Cremona EUR30K+H (Hard) - (Bloomfield, Marray, Fleming) Fergana $35K+H (Hard) - Chris Eaton FUTURES Kuwait F1 $15K (Hard) - James Ward, Alex Slabinsky, Sea...