This is the second of four tournaments in Italy, culminating in a Grade A event. This week sees Ahmed El Menshawy and Dave Thomson looking to progress towards direct acceptance for Wimbledon. The two players who accounted for them last week (Picco and Shyla) are seeded in Ahmed's quarter R1 (L64) (3...
another huge qualie draw of 128 with the wardinator just missing out on a main draw spot. Q1: Ward (3) v Bye Chamberlain v Bye Sohal v Gimferrer (UNR) Tennant v Lima-Perez (UNR) Armstrong v Bye -- Edited by alex03maccy on Friday 1st of May 2009 11:32:46 AM-- Edited by alex03maccy on Friday 1st of May 2...
another mammoth qualie draw, we've got 4 guys trying their luck. QR1: Eimon Heywood UNR v Andrew Dottino (USA) UNR QR1: James Whike UNR v Edmund Sanford (USA) UNR QR1: Tristan Kaye UNR v Justin Lunn (BAH) UNR QR1: Matthew Short UNR v Angel Diaz-Mendez (PUR) UNR
Wardy is a DA for this Challenger on green clay and the Bishop has popped up in qualifying: QR1: Paul Bishop WR 1545 v Kaes van't Hof (USA) WR 654 QR2: Bishop or van't Hof v (q8) Ricardas Berankis (LTU) WR 491
QR1: (q4) Chris Eaton WR 380 v Artem Sitak (RUS) WR 592 QR1: (q7) Jonny Marray WR 417 v Gilad Ben Zvi (ISR) WR 1871 Unfortunately, both Brits are in the same qualifying section, though perhaps that is quite fortunate in a super-Challenger like this, especially when the other four players in the secti...
Hutch & Huss are trying their luck here. They are seeded 3 and in the 1st round their opponents will be Levinsky & Scherrer (CZE/SUI). They are due to meet Nestor & Zimonjic (CAN/SRB), the top seeds, at the semi-final stage. Fingers crossed they get that far.
ATP Madrid Masters - Andy Murray CHALLENGERSIzmir EUR64K+H (Hard) - Alex Bogdanovic (Goodall, Bloomfield, Marray) Busan $75K (Hard) - Chris Eaton FUTURESNewcastle GBF7 $10K (Clay) - Alex Slabinsky, Dan Cox, Matthew Illingworth, Josh Milton, Burnham Arlidge (Rice, Willis, Smethurst, Bai...
Having no idea how wild cards, junior exempt status works can anyone shed a light on the following questions. 1. Does a junior exempt entry count as a wild card? 2. If so how many wild cards can a 15 y/o use in a year? 3. If not how many junior exempts plus wild cards are you allowed in a year? -- Edited by philw...
Half-expected Aucks to turn up here: he has teamed up with the Brazilian, Marcio Torres, & they are the fourth seeds. They play the Italian WCs, Fabio Colangelo & Vico Uros, in the first round. Should be OK for the QFs... Unfortunately, Delgo, with the Dutchman, Jesse Huta Galung, in...
Jamie M has turned up here with Pavel Vizner in tow. I think they have partnered up once (?) before, without too much success. First-round match is against this week's conquerors of Aucks & Goody, Petzschner & Peya, who are the 3rd seeds. That'll be a good 'un to win.
Not all the Brits have 'escaped' Mexico yet, and there have been so many w/ds that there are only two qualifying rounds. QR1: Richard Brooks UNR v Graco Morlan (MEX) UNR QR1: Philip Barlow UNR v Adolfo Guerrero Contreras (MEX) WR 32-year-old Morlan played his first Futures qualifying match since 19...
Matt Thomson is again the top seed in an Eastern European Grade 3 event: R1 (L32) (1) Mathew Thomson (GBR) v (Q) Lucas Szewczyk (FRA) (8) Adam Thornton-Brown (GBR) v Sergiu Rogoveanu (ROU)
L32: Webley-Smith (1) v Yang WR 632 L32: Fitzpatrick v Sema WR 527 Doubles L16: Fitzpatrick/Boffa (1) v Jani/Lu L16: Webley-Smith/Segnini (4) v Gumulya/Rompies
With Georgie Stoop pulling out Katie O'Brien is our sole DA here but will be the top seed. Nicola Mooney and Laura Collins are both in qualifying, with a point for every round won: QR1: Nicola Mooney WR 1049 v (WC) Monhlanhla Modisakeng (RSA) UNR QR1: Laura Collins UNR v (WC) Christine Masite (RSA) UNR...
So after playing till Wednesday for nothing Shorty once again goes in search of that elusive first point in another massive draw QR1: Matthew Short UNR v (q12) Jonathan David (CAN) WR 1708 Other seed in section WR 1162 (Ty Trombetta)
Anne Keothavong is in a strong main draw here and faces further Spanish opposition in the form of last year's French Open quarter-finalist Carla Suarez Navarro. Anne did beat Carla earlier in the year on a hardcourt, but the Spaniard is considerably stronger on clay than Anne's Fes opponents, havin...
R32 : James Ireland def. Anton Rabinov 1-6 7-5 6-2 R16 : James Ireland v Daniel Tyntaryov (3) -- Edited by DavidC on Wednesday 29th of April 2009 10:18:48 PM
The ROME MASTERS 1000 'BATTLE OF THE BOARDS' PICK 'EM contest is now open for entries at http://www.britishtennis.net/Competitions.html Qualifiers will be placed by Sunday evening UIK time, but you are welcome to enter before that if you need to, as long as you don't mind picking matches involvin...
I didn't expect there to be any Brits for this week's red clay Challenger, but I'm glad I checked: QR2: Ashwin Kuppusamy v (q7) Boy Westerhof (NED) WR 343 (both had byes in QR1) 17-year-old Ashwin is just outside the top 1000 juniors and lost to Lewis Burton 2 & 2 in R1 of the Nottingham Junior G4 tourn...
This tournament was originally scheduled as a 75K event, and therefore attracted a strong field, before financial problems threatened a cancellation, and it has ended up as a 50K event. Katie O'Brien should be seeded, but may struggle coming from South African hard courts. Meanwhile in qualifyin...
