The match is at 6.30pm UK time on Tuesday, according to am.com. Head to head 2-1 in Andy's favour, but Ivan won the last one, the Final of Doha 2007. Andy should win, I would have thought. Ivan is not the player he was then.
Another 128 qualifying draw and hopefully the rain has stopped. QR1: Nikki Prosser UNR v Jessica Ginier (FRA) UNR QR1: Nicola Mooney WR 1070 bye QR1: Danielle Brown UNR v Gabriela Eufrasio (BRA) UNR QR1: Edita Raca UNR v Yaroslava Zhishchenko (RUS) UNR QR1: Emila Banos-Gregorians UNR v Claudia Lore...
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 Tsonga, Jo-Wilfried FRA 7 8 Simon, Gilles FRA 8 9 Roddick, Andy USA 9 10 Blake, James USA 10 11 Nalbandian, David ARG 11 12 Ferrer, David ESP 12 13 Monfils, Gael FRA...
Tournament Key : M-FU-GBR-01A-2009 Dates : 12 Jan to 18 Jan 2009 Venue : Glasgow, Great Britain Surface : Hard The first GB futures is in Glasgow and should be full of Brits. I will be going on the final Saturday and perhaps during the week. On the entry list are... Bloomers, Baker, Dan Evans, Chris Eaton...
Aucks and Andy have a wild card and they have drawn Julian Knowle & Andy Ram, the 4th seeds. Jamie and Vemic are here as well and they face Igor Andreev & Marcin Matkowski (only half of the Polish duo there thank god!)
I noticed that Ross Hutchins, after his South African qualifying performance, had stormed from being unranked to GB's no 28 ( and world no. 1097 ). GB has in total 26 players in the top 1000. In comparison : France : 73 players in the top 1000, 28th ranked is world no. 281. Germany : 57 players in the t...
Wild cards here for Anne Smith, Tash Khan, Jade Curtis and Johanna Konta (Broady overlooked!). They join Katie O'Brien, Naomi Cavaday and Amanda Elliott in the main draw.
ATP Rotterdam EUR 1,445,000 (Indoor Hard) - Singles - Andy Murray Doubles - Jamie Murray, James Auckland, Andy Murray San Jose $500K (Indoor Hard) - Doubles - Ross...
The return of the Thomson twins here, and also Jordan Mculloch. All of which have won their 1st rounds respectively, these could well be our wimbledon hopefuls -- Edited by Drew at 13:14, 2009-02-05
Laura Slater has been taking advantage of a weak field here. Laura is currently ranked around 250, the top seed (a local girl) inside 100, and everyone else outside 500. The two have combined in the doubles, and unsurprisingly have hardly lost a game. R1 Laura DEIGMAN (GBR) defeated Ann-Christin NIL...
QR1: Benjamin George Levi UNR v Nikoloz Basilashvili (GEO) WR 1220 Ben first up at 4pm GMT today. Might be worth checking MTF for the result at TBARM is updating results there. If by a minor miracle Ben makes the main draw there will be live streaming.
L32: Alex Bogdanovic WR 185 v (4) Karol Beck (SVK) WR 140 H2H is 2-2 with Alex winning in Shrewsbury in 2007 and Cherbourg in 2008 while Beck won their matches in Surbiton 2004 and Kolding in 2008. All to play for then...
There is a strong British presence in Tunisia for a Grade 3 followed by a Grade 2 event, including three of our top 8 ranked girls. Boys Singles R1 James Turbervill (GBR) Vs Levente Godry (HUN) Girls Singles R1 (6) Elisha Gabb (GBR) Bye (4) Nicola George (GBR) Bye (7) Alena Gerasimova (BLR) Vs (Q) Ellies...
I'm going to be on 'Going for Gold' on Tuesday C5 12:45 if anyone fancies watching and doesn't have a busy lunchtime. i might even be on wednesday too if I win.
The ATP calendar has been updated. We have 2 x 15k events in Januray, the same again in March followed by a 50k challenger in Jersey. The problem with using Jersey is that, because you need to fly there, it may as well be a foreign event for those just hoping to qualify. http://www.atptennis.com/en/c...
Flembo & the Skupster are in the same quarter of the draw in the Ivory Coast and have decent first round draws. L32: Colin Fleming WR 648 v (Q) Stephan Fransen (NED) WR 1075 L32: Ken Skupski WR 635 v (Q) Korneel Sanders (BEL) WR 1818 The pair are seeded 2nd in the doubles and have drawn Evgeny Donskoy &a...