By David C Top GirlStephanie Cornish Steph has moved rapidly this year from outside 500 to the cusp of the top 100, thanks to a late season spurt, which saw her capture a Grade 2 title in China, before beating a top 50 player in the Eddie Herr Trophy Tara Moore Tara played the top singles in the GB 16 & un...
By David C Most Improved BoyLuke Bambridge Luke has made rapid progress in the Tennis Europe Under 14 rankings reaching the semi and winning the doubles in a top tournament in Moscow last month. As a result Luke is now ranked 2 in Europe. Liam Broady Liam started the year ranked outside the top 100 in Ten...
Most Improved Male Player...by Johnnylad / Drew James Ward has navigated one of the difficult barriers of men's professional tennis. Moving from 500 to 275 in one year has been a hard slog with tournament appearances nearly every week, but where in the past he may go deep one week and straight out the n...
By Peter too I have collected the following list of all the players who have won at least one $25K this year. Sarah Bowell and Anna Hawkins are now both doubles specialists.Jocelyn Rae is the best of the newcomers. Several other players have a higher ranking than these but haven't won a doubles title...
It looks like the Wardninator hasn't turned up here either (Jamie Baker having pulled out a few days ago) because he's not in qualifying and the top seed in qualifying was one place above him on the Alt list. QR1: Joe Cooper UNR v Andrew Ochotta (CAN) UNR - a 15-year-old who lists one of his hobbies as Poke...
U16 1st Round Qualifying Chrissie HOOLAHAN (GBR) vs (13) Liana TODOROVA (BUL) Sara MARACHESANI (GBR) vs (3) Rocio PORTELA-BERRIOS (PUR) (4) Ruth SEABORNE (GBR) vs Belinda NIU (USA) Direct Entrants 28 Natalie BEAZANT 34 Sabrina STEWART -- Edited by Akhenaten at 10:45, 2008-12-05
Judging by the entry list on the ITF site (no sign of even a qualies draw!), Jonny Marray will be in the main draw & Colin Fleming, Josh Milton & David Rice in the qualies.
Would be good to have this thread through November and December and please post as many good or not so good articles on Andy. Try and give an active link and if you copy and paste a part of the article please give source credit. Dont post full articles. I have made this a sticky.
U16 We've got loads of entrants in the U16s. Let's hope they're as successful as at the Eddie Herr! 1st Round Qualifying Sizya KIVANDA (GBR) vs Hunter CALLAHAN (USA) (2) Andrew BETTLES (GBR) BYE Eimon HEYWOOD (GBR) vs Joseph DORSEY (USA) (9) Tom FARQUHASON (GBR) vs Vlad-Victor CORNEA (ROU) Jordan B...
Currently taking place at Patricio Apey's academy in Miami. Nationalities are not listed in all cases so I may have missed some players. Boys 14 Singles Qualifying Round 1 Jathan Malik (GBR) bt Lucas Gomez (USA) (q14) 7-5, 6-7, 1-0 (5) Round 2 Jathan Malik (GBR) vs. Taichi Nakajima (JAP) Girls 14 Sing...
Some of you may already be aware, but Ross is taking the off-season very seriously - he's following much the same training schedule as Muzza in Miami, see e.g. http://www.andymurray.com/news/article/466 http://www.andymurray.com/news/article/467 http://www.andymurray.com/news/arti...
Jamie Baker would appear to be sticking to his guns here. No main draw on the ATP site yet, but going by the ITF entry list (last modified yesterday), he could be the 7th seed. Qualies draw is on the ATP site & there are currently four Brits in it: Q1: Joe Cooper UNR vs John Valente (USA) UNR Q1: (q4...
From Sporting Life:
The Lawn Tennis Association's new chief executive Roger Draper is keen to ring the changes in British tennis.
Draper, talking today at the Surbiton Trophy, is determined to improve the fortunes of the game in this country.
He said: "I knew it was going to be a big job a...
The subject of who might get into AO qualifying has been brought up on three different threads so far, so I think it makes sense to create a dedicated thread for it so that posts on the subject can more easily be found. First a recap, with some of the numbers updated ... As far as I can tell, the qualifying c...
Emily Webley-Smith is in qualies here. She is also in qualies for 75K Dubai and 50K Dehli - great to see her still going for the bigger events -- Edited by Sally at 17:30, 2008-12-06
Like the Girls there are 4 events: U12/U14/U16/U18 but our strongest contingent here is in the under 16s, including George Morgan, last year's Orange Bowl U14 winner. Qualifying has started for the U14/U16/U18. Tom Hill, Jonathan Cornish, Clay Crawford, Brooks Allen, Jathan Malik and Joshua W...
These prestigious championships have 4 categories: U12/U14/U16/U18 with Laura Robson the winner of the under 14s last year. This year we have a strong contingent in the under 18s headed by Laura, joined by Heather Watson, Hannah James, Steph Cornish and Tara Moore The Under 12s start their main dra...
It is now open knowledge that Jamie & Max have split, I am just wondering who Jamie will play with next!!!??? I have a few ideas below - Paes Dlouhy Ullyett (Favourite) Other than those 3 I have no other ideas except British players, which for Davis Cup would be a massive benefit but I think Jamie woul...
