QR2: (q5) Dan Cox WR 815 v Laurynas Grigelis (LTU) WR 1548 or Tin Horvatinovic (CRO) UNR I knew they bred them tall in Croatia, but this is ridiculous! It appears that Tin may put even Big Ivo into the shade - according to ITF, he has only just turned 18 and is already 4.00 m tall! The Lithuanian is 17. http...
The return of Amanda Carreras in the main draw and Tara Wigan in qualifying. QR1: Edita Raca UNR bye QR1: Eleanor Mooney UNR bye QR1: Nicola Mooney WR 1070 v Edmee Morin Kougoucheff (FRA) UNR QR1: (q11) Tara Wigan WR 886 bye
Joanna Henderson plays her first tournament of the year here: R1 (L32) (WC) Tessa Breve (NED) v Joanna Henderson (GBR) (5) Paula De Man (NED) v Nicole Peterson (GBR)
A number of Brits attempt to qualify for a tournament won last year by Jamie Baker. Three rounds to qualify. QR1: Alex Johnston UNR v Yu Chang (CHN) UNR QR1: Chris Priddle UNR v (q10) Adil Shamasdin (CAN) WR 936 QR1: (q16) Timothy Bradshaw WR 1123 v Manuel-Ivan Avila (MEX) UNR QR1: David Baxendine UNR v C...
This is the second of the three tournaments in Bangladesh for the British quintet, with the higher grade attracting slightly stronger fields than last week Boys Singles R1 (L64) (6) Jordan MCCULLOCH (GBR) Bye Sen LI (CHN) defeated Adam THORNTON-BROWN (GBR) 6-2 7-5 (13) Mathew THOMSON (GBR) Bye (...
European Grade 4s have been a happy hunting ground so far this year, and there is a strong British contingent here, including 4 seeds plus Liam Broady playing his first ITF event of the year. (1) Rune Winkler (DEN) v David Watson (GBR) Gustav Kallen (SWE) v (7) Christopher Simpson (GBR) (3) Tom Farquha...
Ahmed El Menshawy is an early casualty here. The girls who played in the Sfax tournament last week should also be here, but I haven't spotted their draw anywhere yet. Boys Singles R1 (Last 32) John MORRISSEY (IRL) defeated (6) Ahmed EL MENSHAWY (GBR) 6-1 6-2 James TURBERVILL (GBR) defeated (4) Pave...
Remarkably Laura Slater is the third Brit so far to secure a doubles title this week (*) and still be in with a chance of a singles title. In the absence of the Omani girl she partnered last week, Laura heavily outranks the whole field, and teamed up with the other British Laura here (Deigman) to win the do...
The head-to-head is heavily weighted in Rafa's favour at the moment (1-5), but the most recent official encounter between them was at the 2008 US Open, when Andy finally turned the corner & beat Rafa in four. Hope the dodgy ankle ain't gonna restrict Andy's movement so much that the title is ha...
The Hutch is back with Stephen Huss; they are the 4th seeds and have drawn Ernests Gulblis & Igor Kunitsyn in the first round. They look to be in a good quarter of the draw but are in the same half of the Bryan brothers.
L32: Colin Fleming WR 590 v (6) Ilya Belyaev (RUS) WR 397 L32: Ken Skupski WR 618 v (SE) Patrick Telawetz (AUT) WR 1158 Fleming & Skupski are the top seeds in the doubles and they have a bye in the first round. They are both first on court in the singles tomorrow.
2pm local time, 1pm UK time. Tricky one, this. SuperMario leads the H2H 3-1 and won the last two meetings. If Andy was at his best I would be backing him wholeheartedly, but he seems down this week for some reason. Even Team Murray have looked glum when I have caught sight of them. I have my fingers firmly c...
Paul Brown has been ploughing a lone furrow for 2 weeks in South America, before 5 of our leading 1992 boys (and Steph Cornish) join him for next week's tournament. Last week was unproductive, but he has had a good run here. R1 (7) Paul Brown (GBR) BYE R2 (7) Paul Brown (GBR) defeated Dario Leiva (CHI) 6-2...
R1 (Last 32) Daneika Borthwick [GBR] vs. [Q] Laura Eline Faure [FRA] Chrissie Hoolahan [GBR] vs. Cathrine Arnholdt Pedersen [DEN] [6] Amy Bowtell [IRL] vs. [Q] Abbi Melrose [GBR] Leia Kaukonen [FIN] vs. Taro Keens [GBR] [2] Mai Grage [DEN] vs. [LL] Hannah Moran [GBR] Mai Grage played Fed Cup for Denm...
ATP Dubai $2.2 Million (Hard) - Andy Murray Delray Beach $500K (Hard) - Doubles - Jamie Murray, Ross Hutchins Davis Cup Play-Offs Roehampton - Josh Goodall, James Ward, Dan Evans, Chris Eaton, Alex Slabinsky, Colin Fleming CHALLENGERSWolfsburg EUR 30K +H (Indoor Synthetic) - Alex Bogdanovic FU...
Andy and the 31 year-old Frenchman have never played each other before. Match scheduled at the same time as today's, "not before" 2.30pm local time so 1.30 here if the earlier matches don't overrun. Gicquel doesn't have a great deal to show for his career, a bit of a journeyman really, but h...
Rotterdam, The Netherlands - Original Cut-off: 44 1 Nadal, Rafael ESP 1 2 Murray, Andy GBR 4 3 Davydenko, Nikolay RUS 5 4 Tsonga, Jo-Wilfried FRA 6 5 Simon, Gilles FRA 7 6 Ferrer, David ESP 12 7 Monfils, Gael FRA 14 8 Soderling, Robin SWE 17 9 Andreev, Igor RUS 19 10 Berdych, Tomas CZE 20 11 Tursunov, Dmitry...
Match presumably to be played on Thursday. They've met only once before, in the QF at Nottingham in 2006, so on grass, when Seppi ran out the winner 7-6(4) 4-6 6-1. A dangerous opponent, so not to be underestimated, which I'm sure Andy will not do, but surely one now well within his undoubted talent...
