Under 18 Winter Grand Prix Champion Toby Martin has made a disappointing start to his 2010 ITF campaign, but Manisha Foster is showing signs of regaining the form that saw her become one of the highest ranked 1993 girls in 2008. She missed most of the first half of 2009, and struggled for the rest of the y...
Josh Goodall is likely to be the top seed here, while Dr No is also in the main draw and Meatball was the 1st Alt so has probably got in too. QR1: (q2) Matt Illingworth WR 733 v (WC) Dor Belfer (ISR) UNR QR1: (q4) Sean Thornley WR 776 v Daniel Geib (AUT) WR 1279
Thursday early - 8.30 GMT on Rod Laver court Pundits favour Andy and on BBC TV (hope I've got that right) -- Edited by timmoore46 on Wednesday 27th of January 2010 03:39:19 PM
The under 12s begin today featuring National champion Lana Rush. Katy Dunne leads the British challenge in the under 14s, whilst our only under 16 entrant Georgina Sellyn has reached final qualifying. U12 R1 Ifeoma Kuchler (GBR) v Madison Prelle (CAN) Mia Smith (GBR) v Kirsten Prelle (CAN) Varvara...
Can Andy at least equal his best performances so far in the AO last year & in 2007? His fourth-round opponent is the big Yank, John Isner (33/WR 28), who dumped out the 12th seed, Gaël Monfils, in four sets (6-1 4-6 7-6(4) 7-6(5)/2'48") earlier. Quote from Andy used in the report on the matc...
Boggo has been drawn against Frenchman Thierry Ascione WR 152 in the first round. Ascione is unseeded and the winner could face 8th seed Dologpolov Jr. in the next round. This year Ascione has lost to Bubka (wr 264 at the time) and Segreyev (wr 209) in straight sets in ATP qualifying In Australia he beat...
The Latin American circuit enters a month of Grade 2s, with correspondingly weaker fields. Natalie Beazant has entered this one and Peru, and should be a top 4 seed in both. If she can reach her seeded position both weeks that would be enough to propel her into the top 100. Further progress here is unlik...
Gonna be some line up this year. Nadal and Del Potro are entered, while Djokovic and Verdasco are playing here instead of Halle (and I'm pretty sure Murray and Roddick will enter as well!)
As well as Sarah Borwell, Elena Baltacha has opted to play and Laura Robson has been granted a wildcard alongside an Australian she played at last year's junior Wimbledon. All have avoided seeds. R1 Baltacha/Dekmeijere (GBR/LAT) v Safarova/Wozniak (CZE/CAN) (WC) Peers/Robson (AUS/GBR) v Cra...
All three of our entrants have to start against low seeds, which makes for a tough start, but may be the best time to play them in order to progress deeper in the draw. Oliver Golding came out on top in 3 sets against his Japanese opponent on clay last June, so should be confident of a rankings upset. Jack sh...
This sounds like a cool idea - the USTA are running sixteen (up to) 256-player pre-pre-qualifying events for the USO in an attempt to make it seem completely 'Open' - the ultimate prize for one of the c. 4000 entrants will be a wild card into qualifying for the US Open itself. http://www.usopen.org/US...
Slabba seems to have decided to play on clay this week ... he's just scraped in as a DA here. The entry list also includes the mysterious "IPIN PLAYER 1, Test Case GBR" as the last qualifying alternate -- Edited by steven on Friday 22nd of January 2010 09:53:48 PM
Liezel Huber must have a fondness for playing with British partners in the mixed: Ross Hutchins has now stepped into Jamie M's shoes! They face Chia-Jung Chuang & Filip Polasek (TPE/SVK) in the first round. A winnable match, I'd have thought...
Natalie Beazant begins a series of events on her favourite clay surface, after a disappointing run on hardcourts at the back end of 2009. Should she reach the quarter-finals here she will probably meet An-Sophie Mestach, a highly-rated Belgian who may well challenge for the junior number 1 spot by t...
Q1: Danielle BROWN 550 vs Dia EVTIMOVA (2) 271Q1: Johanna KONTA (13) 363 vs Chichi SCHOLL 666 (same quarter as Dani)Q1: Jade CURTIS (9) 332 vs Olivia JANOWICZ unr
O'Brien v Particia Mayr - winner to play (8) Jankovic or Niculescu Baltacha v Pauline Parmentier - winner to play (30) K. Bodarenko or Olaru -- Edited by wolf on Friday 15th of January 2010 01:16:00 AM
Another massive qualifying draw here including 7 Brits (Milton did not make main draw this time). http://www.atpworldtour.com/posting/2010/579/qs.pdfSmethurst,
