1 Murray, Andy GBR 4 2 Del Potro, Juan Martin ARG 5 3 Soderling, Robin SWE 8 4 Tsonga, Jo-Wilfried FRA 10 5 Monfils, Gael FRA 13 6 Simon, Gilles FRA 15 7 Robredo, Tommy ESP 16 8 Youzhny, Mikhail RUS 19 9 Beck, Andreas GER 39 10 Baghdatis, Marcos CYP 42 11 Benneteau, Julien FRA 46 12 Seppi, Andreas ITA 49 13 Roch...
After celebrating Christmas Brazilian-style, I assume, Slabba is our lone representative in ITF/Futures events again this week. L32: Alex Slabinsky WR 662 v Qualifier Winner likely to play (6) Rogelio Dutra da Silva (BRA) WR 319. Btw, if you're wondering what happened to Brazil F33, it was due to b...
Yes, everyone, pick yourselves up off the floor, it's true. Such shock news - NOT - and as we have discussed on the forum previously we seem to generally feel absolutely right for various reasons. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/tennis/8438187.stm
Stefan Sterland-Markovic opens his 2010 campaign later today in the familiar position of being number 1 seed in a low grade tournament, and will hope to go one better than Oliver Golding's final last year. R1 (1) Stefan Sterland-Markovic (GBR) v Oskar Wikberg (SWE) Nima Madani (SWE) v Joe Rogers (G...
Shame about Britain losing to Poland and slipping down to the third tier in the Davis Cup. Although Murray even admitted that it's where we "deserve" to be at the moment. It sounds like he's not very willing to continue to play in the competition, saying that he will only play if the coach or c...
For the first event of the 2010 season Oliver Golding is seeded to reach the quarters in a Grade A event, but has a potential banana skin in round 1 playing against an American who qualified for the orange Bowl, beating Andrew Bettles en route. Andrew and George Morgan have opted out leaving Robert Cart...
(16) Lucy Brown (GBR) vs. (LL) Maria Jose Cardona (COL) Maria Elise Casares (ECU) vs. Jennifer Ren (GBR) (10) Jessica Ren (GBR) vs. Ana Sofia Sanchez (MEX) Joanna Henderson (GBR) vs. Kerrie Cartwright (BAH) And we're away again Jo could run into the highly rated Sachia Vickery if she wins.-- Edited b...
Q1: ALLAN, Jennifer (GBR) UNR v ByeQ1: STEWART, Catriona (GBR) UNR v DIAZ-HERNANDEZ, Lumay (CUB) UNRQ1: LEWIS, Makayla (GBR) UNR v ByeQ2: ALLAN, Jennifer (GBR) UNR v MARTIN GARCIA, Marian (CUB) UNRQ2: LEWIS, Makayla (GBR) UNR v MEIR, Or (ISR) UNR
2009 STATS SUMMARY - GB MEN Career highs Because of the one-off change to the ATP ranking system (which meant that away from the very top of the rankings, the points needed for any given ranking position at the end of 2009 were only about 55-60% of the points needed at the end of 2008 - see http://www.brit...
Just did a little research (I daresay I could've found all this some very easy way, but please don't tell me as I'll feel very stupid!). Here are some of the major tennis nations ranked in order of total 'spend' (prize money) on tournaments: USA: 10 x 10k, 13 x 25k, 13 x 50k, 3 x 75k, 1 x 100k = $1,400k (40 tou...
ATP Doha $1.1 Million (Hard) - (Bogdanovic 20th Alt) Chennai $400K (Hard) - (Fleming) Doubles Fleming/Skupski Brisbane $400K (Hard) - Doubles HutchinsTEAM EVENTHopman Cup (Hard) - Andy Murray, Laura Robson CHALLENGERSSao Paulo $125K+H (Ha...
Just noticed this from the MCTA website, following a litany of Dave Sammel's successes: "Roxanne and I were with the most successful player in Mexico and Cuba yet we were also with Natasha Khan who came to the decision that tennis was no longer for her and even though her training and work ethic o...
L32: Alex Slabinsky WR 665 v (Q) Charles Costa (BRA) WR 1046 - Tuesday A nice draw for Slabba, (6) Haithem Abid (TUN) WR 392 or another qualifier will await the winner in R2. The top seed in this event is ranked 4 places below Slabba's career high of 266.
http://www.tennishead.net/locker-room/ross-hutchins-blog/2009-12-22/rosco-blog-the-09-review-and-the-10-preview/Im really pleased to tell you that Im going to be playing the next twelve months with Jordan Kerr. Jordans the world No.30, and win or lose, however we do, well be togeth...
Someone on GBTG has suggested a predictions league for British women and their rankings this time next year; for those of us like myself who cannot post on that site, I thought I'd start one here! This is clearly going to be rather hit and miss, but it should provide some fun in er, 12 months time... My l...
Katy Dunne is aiming to go one step further than at the Eddie Herr and become the first British winner of the under 14s here (Jessica Ren was a winner in the under 12s in 2006). The main draw starts on Thursday U14 R1 (L128) (17) Katie Boulter v Skye Hopper (AUS) (17) Alice Keddie v Sitilia Rencheli (MDA) Ha...
Luke Bambridge leads the British hopefuls trying to emulate George Morgan and Jamie Delgado (winners in 2007 and 1991 respectively). The main draw starts tomorrow, and we also have one or two players left in qualifying, though Alex Sendegeya was an early casualty in the 256 (!) strong qualifying dr...
We all like to predict how well a player will do in the coming year, I thought for fun, you may allow me to run this even though I am not one of the main bods on here?I could post updates through the year as to how everyones predictions are working out.Below are three divisions of 6 players, simply guess the...
It is with great sadness that i am to leave BTN, in light of my 'robert smith suicide like' personal and relationship problems. would to like to thank everyone on here. goodbye. xx
As most of our top players have hung up their tennis trainers for the season I thought I would look at the prospects for our up and coming players for 2010. It is probably fair to say that the six players listed below are the most talented crop of younger players we have had for a generation. I feel a realist...
