R1: BROADY. Naomi (GBR) 6 396 v QualR1: CLARKE, Yasmin (GBR) 538 v LERTCHEEWAKARN, Noppawan (THA) 4 319 This is a tough draw for Yasmin, Noppawan was Laura Robson's opponent in the Wimbledon final and beat Mel South in the $50K in Kolkata in November. -- Edited by Peter too on Tuesday 14th of April 2009...
The seeds are having a pretty torrid time of it down on the Mediterranean coast this week: Fognini's just seen off Marin Cilic (14) by 2 & 0, so he's Andy's opponent in the third round! Andy had better watch out, too:he & Fognini have met only once before, in the last 32 of the Canadian Master...
Main draw starts tomorrow with the ranked players in the mens draw being Sean Thornley, Maniel Bains, Kyle Brassington and Andrew Fitzpatrick as well as players such as Chris Priddle, a returning Lewis Barnes, Matt James, Tom Knights plus George Morgan who is in the final round of qualifying. In th...
Hanescu had a comfortable 6-2 6-3 win over Alberto Martin in the opening round. He's very tall (6'6) and is currently ranked 35 which is a career high for him. His one title was won on the clay at Gstaad and he also made the final at Bucharest. He typically get a very high first serve percentage (average 70...
With Courtney still missing Sarah continues her partnership with Natalie Gradin but they have drawn the 3rd seeds who beat Sarah and Anne in the Fed Cup (but who Sarah and Courtney beat last summer): (3)Jans/Rosolska (POL) v Borwell/Grandin (GBR/RSA) Kondratieva/Lefevre (RUS/FRA) v Schiavone/...
Aucks plays with Travis Rettemairer (USA), who has won titles in Wolfsburg (w/Skupski) and Jersey (w/Booty) already this year. They are the 3rd seeds and face the wild card pairing of Andrea Arnaboldi & Messimo Dell'acqua (ITA) in the first round. -- Edited by Madeline on Sunday 5th of April 2...
Now that the ITF have got round to updating results from last week we discover two titles here, making 5 for the week. Boys Singles SF Alexander Wilton (GBR) defeated (7) Juraj Masar (SVK) 6-1 6-1 Final Alexander Wilton (GBR) defeated Kimmer Coppejans (BEL) 7-6(4) 6-4 Alex also reached the final of a G...
Casablanca hosts the last of the junior tournaments to start this week, seeing the return to junior action of Jessica Ren after her title in Sweden. Lucy Brown and Laura Deigman took advantage of friendly draws against local players. Jess is similarly favoured, but Joanna Horne has drawn one of the s...
It's a return to action for most of the 1992 boys who were on the recent trip to South America. Richard Gabb was also in qualifying, but lost his third match. Nick Jones has to take on last month's Banana Bowl finalist. R1 (L32) Benjamin Cselenko (FRA) v James Marsalek (GBR) (WC) Cedrick Commin (FRA) v (Q...
Monte-Carlo Main Draw 1 Nadal, Rafael ESP 1 2 Djokovic, Novak SRB 3 3 Murray, Andy GBR 4 4 Davydenko, Nikolay RUS 5 5 Del Potro, Juan Martin ARG 6 6 Simon, Gilles FRA 8 7 Monfils, Gael FRA 9 8 Verdasco, Fernando ESP 10 9 Ferrer, David ESP 12 10 Nalbandian, David ARG 14 11 Robredo, Tommy ESP 15 12 Wawrinka, Stan...
Emily, Natasha and Fitzy should be in the main draw. Qualifying is a lot tougher this week for those trying to join them: Q1: Danielle BROWN UNR (GBR) vs Yelyzaveta RYBAKOVA 1032 (UKR)Q1: Nicola MOONEY 1058 (GBR) vs Dessislava MLADENOVA 807 (BUL)Q1: Amy SARGEANT 1058 (GBR) vs Zuzana LINHOVA 977 (CZE...
The second week of Spanish Grade 4s hasn't been fruitful for Liam Broady, but Tom Allen will try to continue his impressive run. Boys R1 Maciej Smola (POL) defeated (LL) Liam Broady (GBR) 6-2 6-4 Marc Giner (ESP) Vs (8) Christopher Helliar (GBR) (Q) Taro Daniel (JPN) Vs Tom Allen (GBR) (6) Alexander Va...
Easter holidays sees a rash of tournaments, and this one has the greatest concentration of Brits: R1 (L64) (1) Lewis Burton (GBR) BYE (WC) Eamon Soulsby (GBR) d. Fares Ghasya (LBA) 6-0 6-2 Mate Delic (CRO) d. Sizya Kivanda (GBR) 6-3 6-4 (3) Daniel Cochrane (GBR) BYE Jonas Merckx (BEL) d. Myles David Go...
Daneika Borthwick plays her first tournament since her successful 10K debut, as part of a large British contingent R1 (L64) Hannah Morrill (GBR) d. (WC) Klara Sitarova (CZE) 6-0 6-1 (Q) Daria Afanasyeva (RUS) d. (Q) Emelia Box (GBR) 6-1 6-2 (Q) Safiyan Azeel (GBR) d. Gesa Focke (GER) 6-0 6-0 (8) Joann...
Wardy should be in the main draw for this clay court Challenger, .but there's an unexpected Brit in qualifying too! He could hardly have asked for a better QR1 draw, against an unranked 15-year-old who has only played one match at senior level and lost it 3 & 2 to WR 357 (he was won 3 matches in junior m...
In light of the recent issues regarding offensive posts and personal attacks I have suggested to Sheddie that we need a very simple but clear code of conduct. I hope to PM all the mods for feedback and then we will post something here. We want to give people as much freedom to debate, object and express b...
