Katie O'Brien returns to competition in a strong $100K event. First match is against a player who was in the top 50 a couple of years ago, but has not had a good year, falling to 160 currently. Katie's quarter: (8) Monica Niculescu (ROU) vs Estelle Guisard (FRA) Kristina Kucova (SVK) vs Pauline Parment...
Jamie Baker should be seeded here as he looks to build on his recent return to form and looks for a fourth successive final. Listen to an interview with him on BBC Radio Scotland here (interview starts at 31 minutes 13 seconds) - http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/b00n3lx4
QR2: James Allemby UNR v Mark Fynn (ZIM) UNR or Shadrack Nkosana Masumbuka (RSA) UNR It'll be Fynn, I'm almost certain - he's the guy who took 8 games off Sean Thornley in R1 this week. Sean is a DA again.
I went to an LTA forum held by my local county office recently. The forum was held under the pretense that we would be discussing new coach education initiatives and we would be informed about improving coach-club relationships. In fact, it seemed to be held as an information gathering exercise and t...
Stefan Sterland-Markovic is having a good week here so far. I notice that his most recent victim claims grass as his favourite surface, despite the lack of such courts in Russia and never having played on it in an ITF event - perhaps a tongue-in-cheek comment. Singles R1 (L32) (4) Stefan Sterland-Mar...
http://www.lta.org.uk/Global/Downloads/Results/2009/AEGON%20Pro%20Series/Glasgow%20OCT/Men's%20singles%20qualifying.pdf-- Edited by alex03maccy on Saturday 17th of October 2009 07:18:10 PM
This tournament was disastrous in singles, with no-one winning a main draw match, but provides us with the first junior title of the week thanks to Alex Wilton partnering Jorge, who I imagine is his younger brother. Boys R1 (4) Sebastian Richter (GER) d. Jordan Bull (GBR) 6-4 6-2 Constantin Christ (G...
The LTA have organised have a big squad trip to Spain for the 1992 and 1993 borns for the next few weeks. Of course knowing the LTA they have to be 128 qualifying draws on clay. QR1: Lewis Burton UNR v Enric Guaita-Pais (ESP) UNR QR1: Alex Watt UNR v Ashot Khacharyan (RUS) UNR QR1: Sam King UNR v Kevin Garci...
ATP No Brits EnteredCHALLENGERSNo Brits EnteredFUTURESCardiff GBF16 $15K (Indoor Hard) - Richard Bloomfield, Dan Cox, Chris Eaton, Josh Milton, David Rice, Marcus Willis, Alex Slabinsky (Illingworth, Pauffley, Brassington, Arlidge, Bains, Bradshaw, Fitzpatrick, Inglot, Cavaday...
The penultimate top tier junior event of the year sees a relatively weak field, especially in the Boys event, where players outside the top 100 are seeded. With the majority of our top boys playing Spanish Futures it falls to 4th ranked 1993 boy Robert Carter to maintain interest, and he is fortunate t...
