The final week of the Bangladesh trilogy includes Amy Askew, hopefully recovered from whatever caused her withdrawal last week. Eden Silva again was granted a wildcard, which I would have thought she would have been better off refusing to gain useful experience of battling to qualify. Boys R1 (L64...
No sign of Golding (see the Knight's question on the Terrasa thread) or Inglot, though in Dom's case hopefully that means he scraped into the main draw. Four rounds of qualifying in both Spain and Portugal this week. QR1: Tom Farquharson UNR v Ruan Roelofse (RSA) WR 1174 QR1: Matthew Kinsler UNR v Adam...
Another huge qualifying draw. We have no DAs here. QR1: David Christopher White UNR v (wc) Christian Mohs (GER) UNR QR1: Ashley Hewitt WR 1419 v Marcos Esparcia Omedas (ESP) UNR QR1: (q5) James Feaver WR 709 v Eric Garcia Crespo (ESP) UNR QR1: (wc) Paul Brown UNR v(q9) Emilio Rodriguez-Navarro (ESP) W...
Next up Tipsy, a player who Andy has never actually found that easy. Score is 3-2 to Andy, last match being in the French Open last year when Andy won 7-6 6-3 RET. Tipsy has beaten Andy in Moscow on hard in 2 tight sets in 2008 and at Queens in 3 sets in 2006. Andy's other 2 wins being in St Petersburg on ha...
Now that the ITF has finally ended its 3 days without junior updates, we find that Damian Gryzelko has won his maiden ITF title in partnership with Kai-Wen LaiBoys R1(Q) Max Peara (GBR) d. (Q) Jose Javier Ramos (GUA) 7-5 6-3(13) Damian Gryzelko (GBR) BYER2(11) Sebastian Moreno (ESA) d. (Q) Max Peara (...
Maia Lumsden won this tournament over the weekend. Questions for David. How does this performance rank in the grand scheme of things ? Is it comparable with the Eddie Herr on a European level ?
Laura Deigman is progressing well again in another weak Grade 5 tournament (only 21 entries with around half unranked), reaching the semis in singles and doubles so far R1 (L32) (1) Laura Deigman (GBR) BYE R2 (1) Laura Deigman (GBR) d. Yesmine Kharrat (TUN) 6-1 6-0 QF (1) Laura Deigman (GBR) d. (7) Nin...
Our top 1993 boys (minus Oliver Golding, who has opted to play Futures events) are joining the later stages of the COSAT circuit, with this event followed by Grade 1s in Paraguay and Brazil and the Grade A Copa Gerdau. Robert Carter will have to take out the top seed to win any points. R1 (L64) Ivan Coneje...
Over the next few weeks the junior grand prix circuit culminates in Masters events at under 18 down to under 8 level, starting this weekend with the under 18s Top seed Fran Stephenson was upset in the first round. Here are the draws (boys first): http://lta.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/draw.as...
A step up in grade from last week means a stronger field for the second Bangladesh tournament. Eden Silva has snaffled another wildcard. Boys R1 (L64) James Ireland (GBR) v Wen-Yao Liang (TPE) Ashwin Kuppusamy (GBR) v Wei--Sheng Kao (TPE) Girls R1 (L64) (7) Amy Askew (GBR) BYE (WC) Eden Silva (GBR) v S...
Jennifer Ren plays her last tournament in South America. Unfortunately the first seed she is scheduled to meet is a very strong local player who recently reached a $25K final. R1 (L64) (11) Jennifer Ren (GBR) BYE
Christopher Helliar has joined the duo playing in Moldova last week for another Grade 3 event. I guess that the w/o given by Dan and James in the doubles semi last week was to enable James to play qualifying here - something he has successfully negotiated. R1 (L32) Egor Gerasimov (BLR) v Christopher He...
Anne K has opted out of this event, leaving Naomi Cavaday the task of knocking out Kristina Barrois this week R1: BARROIS, Kristina (GER) 1 71 v CAVADAY, Naomi (GBR) 193 Doubles R1: Feuerstein/Foretz (FRA) v Cavaday/Larsson (GBR/SWE) Naomi plays doubles only on Tuesday
Monday, last on the main court, probably about 4.30-5pm if Nole doesn't make a real meal out of the match before him. . . The two have never met. Year to date - Andy won 6 lost 1, Igor won 1 lost 3, but that was before he won through qualifying here. Andy says on an interview on the BBC site that he had done very l...
Boggo is in Belgrade and begins his campaign against German Julien Reister. The winner likely to face 8th seed Somdev Devvarman Good draw for Boggo, although Reister is ranked 154, he was ranked below Boggo before last week as Reister managed to reach the final as 2nd seed in the weak challenger of Kaz...
