An opponent from Spain whose surname Chris Bailey, surprise, surprise, hasn't a bloody clue how to pronounce! There's a head-to-head of sorts, though as both encounters took place in Spain on clay (a Futures qualifier in Vigo in 2004 which Andy won 7-6(11) 6-3 & first-round clash in Barcelon...
First up on Rod Laver, Tuesday. Yuk - a morning start for Andy. Hopefully even a half-awake Andy can see off Pavel, who hasn't played for nearly a year, without too much trouble. The upside is that it is on at midnight UK time, on BBC 2. They have only played each other once, in the US Open in 2005 which Andy w...
Just for the Count After Djokovic's defeat in Sydney ( apparently he didn't want to be ranked 2nd in the world, however temporarily ! ) : Points on Monday will be : Djokovic 10650 ( defending 2000 ) Murray 7190 ( defending 10 ) Andy will rise to 3rd after the Aussie Open if he wins the tournamen...
I thought i'd put them all in here considering 3 brits are in action on the first day. OOP: Show Court 3 11:00 Start Men's Singles - 1st Round Robby Ginepri(USA) vs. Tomas Berdych(CZE)[20] Women's Singles - 1st Round Melanie South(GBR) vs. Marion Bartoli(FRA)[16] Men's Singl...
There are a couple of Grade 4 events in Europe this week, and though British interest evaporated early in Austria, Tom Farquharson has reached the semis in Poland in impressive style. Round 1 (last 32) Wojciech LUTKOWSKI (POL) defeated (4) Stefan STERLAND-MARKOVIC (GBR) 6-4 6-0 Tom FARQUHARSON (G...
Another 128 round draw so 4 rounds to qualify. QR1: Philip Barlow WR 1659 beat Victor Teboul (FRA) UNR 6-2, 6-4 QR1: Matthew Short UNR beat Pavel Panis (CZE) UNR 6-3, 6-4 QR2: Philip Barlow WR 1659 v Marvin Rolle (BAH) WR 1749 QR2: Matthew Short UNR v (q10) Mattia Livraghi (ITA) WR 815 Rolle partnered Mar...
Okay 'you lot' as Steven puts it...lets not have the BBC 606 board have more entrants than us...LOL Can we use this thread to confirm who has entered for here/bt.net... From the main thread I have listed those who say they have entrered... BT Abc BT Akhenaten BT Christian BT Co...
Great micro site from the AO this year. Didnt spot it last year if it was there ! mobile.australianopen.com Has live scores...not just game updates but pt by pt. Also OOP and all the draws. If I cant watch due to work then my opera-mini will come to my aid. Most phone html browers in WAP mode will be fine but...
Australian Open, Australia - Original Cut Off: 100 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 - OUT 6 Tsonga, Jo-Wilfried FRA 6 7 Simon, Gilles FRA 7 8 Roddick, Andy USA 8 9 Del Potro, Juan Martin ARG 9 10 Blake, James USA 10 11 Nalbandia...
Australian Open Early Entry Lists: (All In TOP 100 IN) Entry Deadline: December 8th 2008 Main Draw Entry List: 1 (1) JANKOVIC, JELENA SRB 2 (2) WILLIAMS, SERENA USA 3 (3) SAFINA, DINARA RUS 4 (4) DEMENTIEVA, ELENA RUS 5 (5) IVANOVIC, ANA SRB 6 (6) WILLIAMS, VENUS USA 7 (7) ZVONAREVA, VERA RUS 8 (8) KUZNET...
3 rounds to qualify (with the first round mostly byes). QR1: Joe Cooper UNR bye QR2: Joe Cooper UNR v Guillermo Nicol (CHI) UNR -- Edited by wolf at 17:20, 2009-01-17
ENTRY LIST - QUALIFYING - AUSTRALIAN OPEN Ranking as of December 22, 2008 Cut-off: 273 (Lugassy) - includes 5 players with protected ranking at the bottom of thelist 101 Andujar, Pablo ESP -MOVED TO MAIN DRAW (Davydenko w/d)104 Anderson, Kevin RSA - MOVED TO MAIN DRAW (Chela w/d)105 Istomin, Denis U...
Wild cards here have gone to Liz Thomas, Jennifer Ren, Nicola Slater and Katie Gater (?), who join Naomi Broady, Jade Curtis, and Tasha Khan in the Main Draw. Qualifying wild cards for - Smith O, Brown L, Parish, Zaniewski and Murphy -- Edited by Drew at 23:31, 2009-01-08
L32: Anne Keothavong WR 60 v (5) Agnes Szavay (HUN) WR 25 A much tougher R1 draw for Anne this time, against a player who was ranked as high as 13 last April soon after she reached the Paris Final (beating Hantochova and Dementieva on the way) and who reached three consecutive QFs last spring, beating Saf...
This is the third leg of the Latin American circuit, and the last opportunity for Ahmed, Alex and Nicola to make an impact. The next two legs (Colombia and Ecuador) have no British entries. The second leg girls singles in Costa Rica was won by 13 year-old Madison Keys (USA), who is threatening to match L...
Alastair Barnes opted out of the Australian tournaments for Eastern Europe (there is a Grade 1 event next week in the Czech Republic as well) and came through qualifying (I assume he changed his plans too late to be accepted directly into the main draw, even though the acceptance list showed him as a DA...
ATP Australian Open Week 1 (Outdoor Hard) - Andy Murray CHALLENGERSNo Brits EnteredFUTURESSheffield GBF2 $15K (Indoor Hard) - Richard Bloomfield, Chris Eaton, Jamie Baker, Daniel Evans, Ken Skupski, Colin Fleming (Illingworth, Milton, Thornley, Cox, Arlidge, Willis, Smethurst, Bradsha...
Really good piece by two of the Beebs tennis correspondents. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/tennis/7815655.stm Nice insight....I liked the bit where the remind us that then last time we had a slam winner....'sliced bread had only been in the shops by 6 days...' LOL !
Global tennis authorities have been trying to stamp out betting and the leaking of information from in and around tennis circles but Annabel Croft seems oblivious to this in her article in the Guardian today discussing Andy being favourite for the Australian Open. She opened her piece with..........
Thanks to the post about Neil Harmans article about Liam winning in Italy I know now that he won it. How did we (or I) miss this ? This event had live scoring, live video....and we missed it all here. And a young Brit won the whole thing without dropping a set !!! http://www.tenniseurope.org/JuniorTenn...
