First up on Centre Court at 1pm. They have never played each other before; JCF was certainly playing very well today, but I can't see what he will have to bother Andy too much. . .
Ross Hutchins & Stephen Huss are the 8th seeds and have been given a bye into R2 where they will face either Julien Benneteau & Michael Llodra (FRA) or Ivan Ljubicic & Marin Cilic (CRO). Jamie Murray begins his new grass court partnership with Jonathan Erlich (ISR) and they have a first ro...
The Brit men haven't exactly covered themselves in glory so far this Grass season. Who can be awarded WC's into the main draw? Many will be playing Wimbledon qualies. Goodall & Ward will not only have Wimbledon WC's already(?), but have had them for Queens as well and not exactly put them to the b...
Yet again, Andy is second on the Centre Court. The two have met 3 times, with Mardy winning the first back in 2005, and Andy winning twice in 2006. All of them were on hard court. Should be a harder match than the first two, albeit likely to be very different as Mardy usually plays aggressively and is good...
Just starting this thread in case anyone else is planning on going to the qualifying event over the weekend and wants to join me there? Play starts at 10.30 tomorrow and 11.30 on Sunday (contrary to what the local newspaper says, but given half of the facts in it's preview are wrong, you can't really tru...
Tomorrow, once again second match on Centre. with play due to start at 12.30. Maybe 2pm if it doesn't rain again? The Spaniard is 26 years old and ranked #52. Year to date, won 12 lost 11, won Kitzbuhel but otherwise never got past a QF. Primarily a clay-courter, though he has won 2 matches here so far, bea...
Jamie Baker was the 3rd Alt here. He's not in qualifying and the 4th Alt is the top seed there, so hopefully that means Jamie scraped into the main draw. QR1: David O'Leary UNR v Marko Lazic (SLO) UNR - winner to play Bye (*) QR1: Orion Modebe UNR v Timofey Skripkin (RUS) UNR - winner to play (q5) Ricardo Urz...
The match is second on Centre Court tomorrow, play starting at 12.30 so probably somewhere around 1.30 to 2pm. The H2H is 1 all. Andy won the last match at Rotterdam this year, on indoor hard - but it was close, 7-6(4) 7-5. Seppi won their first match back in 2006, on grass at Nottingham - 7-6(4) 4-6 6-1....
Matt Illingworth is a DA for this hard court Future. QR1: Richard Brooks UNR v Jaime Pulgar-Garcia (ESP) UNR QR1: Josh Girling UNR v Gerard Gallego-Bertran (ESP) UNR QR2: Brooks or Pulgar-Garcia v Francesc Aulina (ESP) UNR QR2: Myles Cryan UNR v Pablo Martin-Velez (ESP) UNR QR2: Girling or Gallego-...
So is Andy good enough on grass to win Wimbledon this year? And where does he need to improve if he is to be competitive? I would be surprised if he won it this year as his game doesn't appear to be at the necessary level.Gets broken too often due to careless service games and a vulnerable 2nd deliveryAlarm...
The Rens are in harness here, with Jennifer having won two qualifying matches today to join Jessica in the main draw. Both are favoured with draws against wildcards, with Jess's opponent on paper the stronger one, having reached the final of both of the tournaments she has played this year. R1 (L64) (...
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(1) DANCEVIC, Frank CAN v BOGDANOVIC, Alex GBR MALISSE, Xavier BEL v KLEIN, Brydan AUS FALLA, Alejandro COL v (WC) EVANS, Daniel GBR JENKINS, Scoville USA v (6) DEVVARMAN, Somdev IND(2) STAKHOVSKY, Sergiy UKR v (WC) EATON, Chris GBR KUBOT, Lukasz POL v MATOSEVIC, Marinko AUS BECK, Karol SVK v SWEETI...
Interesting bit in TennisLife UK magazine this month by Mike Dickson - ......... ranking points are now distributed too heavily in favour of main tour events, making it difficult for likes of James Ward to gain in the rankings - There is talk that the ATP may tweak things to redress the balance. (Wond...
ATP Eastbourne EUR 450K (Grass) - Colin Fleming Wimbledon Qualifying (Grass) - Richard Bloomfield, Dan Cox, Chris Eaton, Alex Slabinsky, Marcus Willis, Dan Smethurst CHALLENGERSNo British Entries FUTURESSpain F21 $15K (Carpet) - (Bishop, Barlow, Girling, Olbrich, Wayne, De Monte) Norway...
Just thought I would gather people's views on this subject. Using current form I would rank them as follows: 1. Anne 2. Mel 3. Bally 4. Cav 5. Katie 6. Laura 7. Stoopy 8. Naomi B 9. Jade 10. Jocelyn/Tara -- Edited by philwrig on Friday 5th of June 2009 03:38:42 PM
London/Queen's Club 1 Nadal, Rafael ESP 1 OUT 2 Murray, Andy GBR 4 3 Roddick, Andy USA 6 4 Simon, Gilles FRA 7 5 Monfils, Gael FRA 9 6 Davydenko, Nikolay RUS 11 OUT 7 Cilic, Marin CRO 15 8 Blake, James USA 16 9 Nalbandian, David ARG 18 OUT 10 Safin, Marat RUS 20 11 Gasquet, Richard FRA 23 OUT 12 Karlovic, Ivo CRO...
