Andy reaches the semi-final of the first masters event of the year. Despite not playing at his best in most of the rounds he had enough to see off his opponents in a draw that was pretty kind to him. He now faces Roger Federer, the number 2 seed and a player Andy has seemed to get the better of in recent matche...
In the second Asian Grade 1 for the boys Ahmed El Menshawy is up against the player who beat Dave Thomson last week, whilst Dave himself may well have to play last week's beaten finalist John Morrissey (Ireland) in round 2. (9) David Thomson (GBR) BYE Sudanwa Sitaram (IND) Vs Ahmed El Menshawy (GBR) Chr...
Hannah James has been joined in the main draw by another Hannah, 16&under Grand Prix champion Hannah Martin-Merchant, but Francesca Stephenson lost in qualifying. Hannah M-M has been rewarded with a draw against a fellow qualifier, whilst Hannah J is likely to face familiar opposition - Mai G...
Don't know alts yet: Main Draw Bachinger, Matthias GER 220 Niland, Conor IRL 278 Bogdanovic, Alex GBR 198 Pavlovs, Deniss LAT 287 Bubka, Sergei UKR 269 Poch-Gradin, Carlos ESP 261 De Chaunac, Sebastien FRA 203 # Robert, Stephane FRA 281 Fischer, Martin AUT 205 Smeets, Robert AUS 216 Galvani, Stefan...
QR1: (WC) Matthew Short UNR beat Michael Pigou (NZL) UNR by 4-6 6-4 6-3 QR2: (WC) Matthew Short UNR lost to (q6) Joshua Crowe (AUS) WR 893 by 7-5 7-6(5) Another short outing for Matthew, but at least he won a match this week and pushed Crowe to two close sets.
Indian Wells Main Draw 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...
Wild Cards in main draw so far are: Jennifer Ren, Alexandra Walker and Elisha Gabb. I wonder if Laura Robson will get one? Qualifying Wild Cards for Parish, Chowdhury, Farley, Gater & Fox
QR1: (WC) Faris Akhazzan UNR v (q8) Rohan Bopanna (IND) WR 317 QR1: Alex Slabinsky WR 338 v Raven Klaasen (RSA) WR 320 Surprise WC for Akhazzan here. The Brits are in the best two qualifying sections.
I wish Shorty would pick some weaker tournaments because he is more than capable of getting a point on the board: QR1: Matthew Short UNR bye QR2: (q6) Dayne Kelly (AUS) WR 922 beat Matthew Short UNR 6-4, 7-6(2)
Excuse the dreadful pun in the title but at least it got your attention. I haven't been including Johanna in the GB top 25 table or in the GB successes table this year because I haven't known whether to count her as British while she waits for citizenship to come through or not, particularly when it seem...
QR1: James Allemby UNR v BYE QR1: (q11) Morgan Phillips WR 1351 v BYE QR2: James Allemby v Gozdur/Dorman (UNR/UNR) QR2: (q11) Morgan Phillips WR 1351 v Esat Tanik (TUR) UNR Allemby is in top section headed by WR 969 Other seed in Morgans section WR 1032
The draw is out & both the Murray boys are down to play, Andy in theory (i.e. if he's fit!) with Ross Hutchins (he obviously has the Murray seal of approval! ) & Jamie, as already reported elsewhere, with Simon Aspelin of Sweden. Neither pair is seeded & the top seeds, surprise, surpris...
Tournament Key : M-FU-GBR-03A-2009 Dates : 09 Mar to 15 Mar 2009 Venue : Tipton, Great Britain Surface : Hard Jonny Marray, Dan Evans, Colin Fleming, Ken Skupski will all be DAs into the MD. Illingworth, Milton and Cox could make it also depending on SE spots being cleared. 1 spot in the MD has been taken...
I thought I was looking at last week's Q draw for a moment but no, Sean & Tim have been drawn in the same qualifying section together with aother Brit again - let's just hope they don't make as much of a pig's ear of it as last week! Fortunately they've all avoided Edlefsen (who went on to lose to an unsee...
Ivan made it past Andreev in 3 sets 6-4 6-7(5) 7-6(4) in a tiring match lasting over 3 hours (Andys match was 50 minutes). Ivan saved a few match points as well. Andy currently has a 2-2 record (2-1 on hard) with unranked Ljubicic (WR 74) , although the last time Andy lost was the 2007 Doha final. He beat Lj...
Redding is always a strong 25K tournament as it attracts some players entering Indian Wells who lose early - hence the cut is around 200. Qualifying Draw (6)Christina McHale (USA) v BYE (9)Johanna Konta (AUS) v (wc)Monica Wiesener (USA) Laura Robson beat McHale (last year's Orange Bowl finalist) i...
Anna is making a low key comeback this week in the doubles at Bath where she and Stefania Boffa are 2nd seeds. Anyone know what happened to her, she hadn't played since August.....injury or did she quit the game ?
Robredo finally overcomes Cilic 7-5 7-6, although it would seem to be a bit of a scrappy game, there were 9 breaks of serve and 20 break points. Andy has doubles tomorrow with Ross, although he is on first so should get plenty of rest before playing Wednesday against Robredo. Robredo is one of the only to...
Bollettieri student Natalie Beazant is our only girl here for the Banana Bowl and the Grade A Copa Gerdau. Paul Brown was on the entry list for the Boys, but wasn't in the qualifying tournament. Unfortunately Natalie has a very tough draw against the world number 30. R1 (L64) (4,Q) Valeria Solovieva (...
