After going two years without anyone breaking into the top 500 in the world Slabba finally broke the curse in the last tournament of 2007. In 2008 Ward, Eaton, Evans and briefly Seator as well as Marray re-entering all broke through the barrier and we had players such as Kasiri, Skupski, Blake and B...
QR1: Joe Cooper UNR v Phillip Mohr (GER) UNR QR1: Richard Brooks UNR v (WC) Roberto Ortega-Olmedo (ESP) UNR QR1: Robert Dee UNR v Lorenzo Frigerio (ITA) UNR QR1: George Finch UNR v Alex Witmeur (BEL) QR2: Cooper or Mohr v Axel Tabarot Devert (FRA) UNR QR2: Philip Barlow UNR v Finch or Witmeur
Andy is likely to play on Monday. OOP is not out yet. Murray currently holds a 2-0 head to head over Paul-Henri, with both wins on hard including a 2 2 defeat in the semis of Marseille last year. Looking further ahead, all seeds won in his quarter accept Ancic who retired against Ljubicic.
first of all well done to yasmin clarke who won the britishtour without dropping a set last week in bilesley. its in bolton this week and some people to watch out for are yasmin clarke lucy warburton jenn rabot carly homewood ammie jarret sophie proctor. as well as some up coming juniors final will be de...
Hannah James is seeded for the first of a series of Asian Grade 1s, and was joined in the main draw by qualifier Francesca Stephenson. 16 & Under Grand Prix winner Hannah Martin-Merchant was also here in qualifying, but unfortunately retired against Francesca's opponent. However she is down fo...
In Qualifying this week QR1: (q5) Alexander Ward WR 892 v Angel Alonso-Campos (ESP) WR 1561 QR1: Pierre Clad UNR v Lofo Ramiaramanan (MAD) WR 1796 They are both in the same section with other seed being WR 1172
Don't know if I missed this somewhere else but I hadn't realised that Jamie and Dusan had decided not to carry on their partnership. From Jamie's website blog today - 'After Delray I decided to split with Dusan and explore other avenues. I didn't think it was working particularly well, and although...
I am sure most of you will remember DJ, a keen and unfailingly positive forum member (and fellow stathead) who joined the board in late 2007 and was instrumental in setting up the GB successes threads last year. DJ contacted me a few months ago to say that he was ill and unable to keep up those lists of...
Stephanie Cornish is just a few points away from the top 50, but will find it difficult to get them here, as she is likely to have to get past the Venezuelan girl who beat her easily last week, in order to boost her points tally. R1 Andrea Gamiz (VEN) v Catalina Pella (ARG) (7) Stephanie Cornish (GBR) v BYE
This is the last tournament of the South American series for our quintet. Being a Grade 1 the field is stronger than before, and only James Marsalek was a direct entry. However 3 of the other 4 came through qualifying, with Nick Jones coming back from a first-set bagel to defeat one of the Argentina Cup s...
George Morgan appears to be the main hope within a British quintet in Kramfors (1) Tobias Blomgren (SWE) v Adam Thornton-Brown (GBR) (Q) Ted Nilsson (SWE) v Christopher Helliar (GBR) Tom Allan (GBR) v Morgan Johansson (SWE) George Morgan (GBR) v (Q) Gustav Kallen (SWE) Christopher Simpson (GBR) v (...
A large contingent of our top Boys have entered a series of Grade 1s in Asia. Ben Davis lost in qualifying, but there are six in the main draw. R1 (L64) Jordan McCulloch (GBR) d. (Q) Jeroen Benard (NED) 6-3 6-4 (7) David Thomson (GBR) BYE (15) Ahmed El Menshawy (GBR) BYE (9) Alastair Barnes (GBR) BYE (Q) Nu...
The second week of tournaments in Kramfors has brought a surprise (to me anyway) British finalist, after Jessica Ren's success last week. This week's event is played on indoor clay, rather than the indoor hard courts used for the High Coast Challenge and Christopher Helliar has reached his first fi...
British interest in qualification - and sadly mainly in the top section. QR1: (q1) Sean Thornley WR 799 v BYE QR1: Max Jones WR 1550 v Kamil Pajkowski (CAN) UNR QR1: (q13) Timothy Bradshaw WR 1169 v BYE QR1: David Baxendine (UNR) v Alexandre-Michel Rioux (CAN) UNR QR1: Benjamin George Levi (UN...
I sat through this 48 minute long briefing along with the main press and took 7 pages of notes. suffice to say I dont have time today to transcibe them but I will leave you with a couple of questions ? Which 36 GB men and women would you give central 'Team Aegon' contracts to ? That includes some juniors as we...
Someone on MTF said he was working again with Xavier Malisse - is this true? P.S. I didn't know which thread to put this in so i just started a new one -- Edited by The Knight at 16:33, 2009-03-10
