L32: Anne Keothavong WR 54 v Maret Ani (EST) WR 111 Not a bad draw. These two have played once before, in Tipton in 2007, when Anne lost 6-1 3-0 ret. but since then, Ani has lost to Jocelyn Rae 6-3 2-1 ret. and both Laura Robson and Anna Smith have taken a set off her. No. 5 seed Cirstea is likely to await the win...
The 2009 Mutua Madrilena Madrid Open is being played on indoor clay this year. For the past eight years it has been played on hard court. Murray won this last year (on hard). Does this mean he is going to have to defend his hard court title on clay? If so hes going to lose a bunch of points -- Edited by Andymon...
Posted this in the Times thread but thought this needed its own place... The net post has a good piece on Patricio Apey's new signing...our very own Daniel Evans. From the net post... 'Evans, the highest ranked 18-year-old on the ATP Tour has signed "a long term management contract" with A...
Jamie M & Paul Hanley are trying their luck here this week. They are, once again, the top seeds and play Marcos Daniel (BRA) and Diego Junqueira (ARG) in the first round. Looks a tougher draw than last week so here's hoping they've made some adjustments to their game which will lead to a more succes...
QR1: (q7) Anna Smith WR 382 v Tanya Germanlieva (BUL) WR 830 Hope Anna can find some singles form from somewhere this week. -- Edited by DavidC on Saturday 25th of April 2009 04:02:16 PM
QR1: Nicola Slater UNR v Mariana Charalambous (ARG) UNR The seed in Nicola's section is the player she beat 7-5 in the 3rd to qualify last week. -- Edited by DavidC on Saturday 25th of April 2009 04:00:21 PM
Pulling out of Indianapolis has proved costly for Murray on the ranking point front. The ATP seem to have ruled that he must count zero points from Indianapolis as one of his 'other 5' tournaments.
Extract from times online piece today... 'As something out of the ordinary, Murray visited 10 Downing Street last week with David Beckham, on behalf of Malaria No More, a charity of which they are patrons. One wondered if he had had the temerity to ask Gordon Brown, his fellow Scot, about the new 50 per...
QR1: (q10) Max Jones WR 1384 bye QR1: Richard Brooks UNR beat Marco Antonio Lopez (MEX) UNR 6-2, 6-1 QR1: Philip Barlow UNR beat Eduardo Lozano (MEX) 6-1, 6-1 QR2: (q10) Max Jones WR 1384 v Richard Brooks UNR QR2: Philip Barlow UNR v (q13) Nicolas Edlefsen (USA) WR 1535
Tournament Key : M-FU-IND-04A-2009 Dates : 27 Apr to 03 May 2009 Venue : New Delhi, India Surface : Hard Sean Thornley will be in the MD with Niall Angus in the QD hopefully. Mr Klaasen is here again so looking forward to another installment Edit: location in title (was Dehli), last two player names -- E...
As expected Andy is partnering Hutch in the doubles. Not an easy first-round match against the French pair of Benneteau & Tsonga. Court time for Andy and a favour for a friend?
Rome Main Draw 1 Nadal, Rafael ESP 1 2 Federer, Roger SUI 2 3 Djokovic, Novak SRB 3 4 Murray, Andy GBR 4 5 Davydenko, Nikolay RUS 5 6 Del Potro, Juan Martin ARG 6 7 Roddick, Andy USA 7 OUT 8 Simon, Gilles FRA 8 9 Monfils, Gael FRA 9 OUT 10 Verdasco, Fernando ESP 10 11 Tsonga, Jo-Wilfried FRA 11 12 Ferrer, David ES...
Jamie Murray plays with Paul Hanley (AUS) and they are the top seeds. In the first round they face Ricardo Hocevar & Rui Machado (BRA/POR). The winner of that match will face the winner of the other match with British interest as James Auckland partners Peter Luczak (AUS) and they have drawn Mathi...
The second week of Grade 4s sees George Morgan go for back-to-back titles, and the first seed he is scheduled to meet is the Irish boy (Ciaran Fitzgerald) who he beat so convincingly last week. Fitzgerald's first match is against ITF debutant Luke Bambridge, one of our leading 1995s, who came through...
The second Nottingham tournament sees our leading 1995 girl, Katy Dunne, make her ITF debut. Alex Walker is the third seed, playing her first tournament for 2 months. Unfortunately 2 of our best hopes for a good run here, Daneika Borthwick and Joanna Henderson, are scheduled to meet in round 3. Here i...
QR1: Alex Slabinsky WR 354 v Jean-Noel Insausti (FRA) WR 467 QR1: (q5) James Ward WR 291 v Juan Sebastian Cabal (COL) WR 420 QR1: Colin Fleming WR 519 v (q4) Carlos Salamanca (COL) WR 288 Not a great draw at all, I'd say, particularly since the winners of Slabba and Wardy's matches will play each other...
Boggo and Josh are DAs here. QR1: (q6) Alex Slabinsky WR 352 v Ricardas Berankis (LTU) WR 476 QR1: (q3) James Ward WR 289 v Scott Oudsema (USA) WR 564 QR1: Colin Fleming WR 522 v (WC) Greg Ouellette (USA) WR 635 The winners of the last two matches play each other in QR2.
There's a strong British presence here, but Ben Davis has really drawn the short straw. Top seed David Souto is ranked in the top 10, having won two Grade 1s, a Grade 2 and last week's Spanish Grade 3 this year, for a 24-1 W-L record R1 (L32) (1) David Souto (VEN) v Ben Davis (GBR) (3) Alastair Barnes (GBR) v...
Jennifer Ren was scheduled to make her comeback here, but unfortunately is a late withdrawal, but Jessica Ren has joined three of the girls who played the Spanish Grade 3 last week. Elisha Gabb needs a big week to avoid a big drop in ranking, as she was a semi-finalist here last year. R1 (L32) Joanna Horn...
