The second Serbian Grade 2 is slightly stronger than the first, and George Morgan is unlucky to miss out on a Special Exempt. At the time the qualifying draw was made he was on the alternates list here, and though some below him eventually got in as alternates, that was too late for George to be offered an...
Jamie's back with Delgo this week. They're the second seeds here, only just behind the N° 1s, Amir Hadad & Philipp Marx (ISR/GER) (combined ranking of 263, compared with 262!). They play the Monegasque pair, Benjamin Balleret & Jean-René Lisnard, in the first round. I hope Jamie M can ca...
There are three British players in the main draw starting Sunday, following the late withdrawal of Hannah James. Heather Watson will be seeded but has had no competitive match since July. She had to pull out of her one warm-up event (25K Belgium qualifying) because of delays to her passport/visa r...
Doubles L16: (2) MARRAY/MURRAY v KARANUSIC/RUSSELL (CRO/USA) -- Edited by alex03maccy on Monday 7th of September 2009 01:07:58 PM-- Edited by alex03maccy on Monday 7th of September 2009 01:18:10 PM-- Edited by Stircrazy on Monday 7th of September 2009 01:44:13 PM
A strong British presence here, with several seeds (though the Czech website does not indicate information about exact seedings) and a return to Junior action for Liam Broady after a spell playing French money tournaments. R1 (L64) () Tom Allen (GBR) BYE () Jack Carpenter (GBR) BYE George Morgan (G...
Lucy Brown won her maiden Grade 5 title a few weeks ago, and she is just one win away now from her first Grade 4 success. Round 1 (L32) (7) Nicole Peterson (GBR) defeated Sara Boevska (BUL) 6-2 6-1 Margarita-Greta Skripnik (ISR) defeated Yasmin Doost (GBR) 6-1 3-6 6-2 Ekaterina Tour (ISR) defeated Kat...
Bloomfield, Rice, Illingworth, Thornley, Pauffley, Arlidge, Bains and possibly Bradshaw are in the main draw here in another weak looking GB future (just one top 500 player, seeds around 830, and the cut of outside the top 1000) No news on WC's, but Jones, Fitzy, Burn are not in qualies but on the alte...
Stefan Sterland-Markovic has made his reputation as a doubles specialist, but has made his first Grade 4 singles final here, stopping Joe Rogers from winning two consecutive ITF events in the process. R1 (L32) Joe Rogers (GBR) defeated (1) Renier Moolman (RSA) 7-5 6-2 Pedja Krstin (SRB) defeated...
Andy marches on with a solid performance against Dent. Andy currently has a H2H of 3-0 against Cillic, with a straight set win at RG earlier this year and another straight set win at the Madrid Masters (hard) last year.
The start of a new partnership for Hutchins, perhaps? 1R: (1) Ross Hutchins/Jean-Julien Rojer AHO vs Marco Chiudinelli SUI/Yuri Schukin KAZ Rojer is ranked at 46 in the world -- Edited by wolf on Wednesday 9th of September 2009 05:48:46 PM
Morgan Phillips looks to join James Ward in the main draw but has a tough draw to qualify. Faces Fernando Thomasa Trigueros in the round one, who has no ITF profile, but likely to be 4th seed Gabriel Trujillo Soler in round two, and then 6th seed Ignacio Coll-Riudavets in round three. Can't see Morgan qu...
Colin Fleming looks to join Alex Bogdanovic, Josh Goodall and Dan Evans in the main draw after managing to get to France in time to sign in. He's top seed in qualies and has a bye in the first of two qualifying rounds. Will have to beat either Romain Mathieu or more likely Oliver Charroin, ranked 1391 to qu...
