Apologies if this was already posted but I couldn't see it and have only just spotted this disconcerting news from The Times online last month. Now we see why GBR Challenger events were reduced and some futures were cut from £15k to £10k - "It is believed that the bonuses paid to Maes and others am...
It was a great shame that Jamie B was unable to reach the final to give himself a chance of taking his first title for a good few months in Santo Domingo earlier today, but it looks as though he's staying in the Dominican Republic for another week: he's on the entry list for next week's tournament, though...
A sprinkling of Brits have turned up in this event which leads onto the much more prestigous event Eddie Herr and Orange Bowl which take place later in the year. The primary aim for most of the participants will be to try and book a place in the Australian Open for 2009.
Some of you who use the main stats page at http://www.britishtennis.net/stats.html to access the GB Top 25 tables will have noticed that all the links at the bottom of that page haven't been updated for a long time. Now that we are properly in the off-season, I am going to update most of these pages and...
Fear we are rather hoping against hope here but in qualifying QR1: Matthew Short UNR v Joseph Squillacioti (AUS) UNR QR1: Alexander Hutchings UNR v Liang-Chi Huang (TPE) UNR Huang will be joining the rankings next week.
Wardy & Eaton are likely to be seeded in the main draw here and I think Jonny Kinsella has probably scraped a DA too - he was 1st Alt at the freeze deadline, which would usually end up meaning a main draw place and the 4th Alt is the top seed in qualifying of those who were on the Alt list in the first place....
Well look which unranked Brit has popped up in qualifying here ... QR1: Jamie Delgado UNR v (8) Stefan Wauters (BEL) WR 590 QR1: (q7) Jonny Marray WR 550 v Mario Dierckx (BEL) WR 1803 The other seed in Jonny's section is (q4) Vladimir Obradovic (SRB) WR 403. Boggo has a DA here, but Josh was 8th Alt and two...
Mel South is the no. 1 seed here and has drawn a qualifier in R1. Unfortunately the other seed in her section is 38-year-old former world no. 4 (albeit over 13 years ago!) Kimiko Date.
Doha 1 Nadal, Rafael ESP 1 2 Federer, Roger SUI 2 3 Murray, Andy GBR 4 4 Roddick, Andy USA 8 5 Andreev, Igor RUS 19 6 Tursunov, Dmitry RUS 22 7 Kohlschreiber, Philipp GER 28 8 Youzhny, Mikhail RUS 32 9 Seppi, Andreas ITA 35 10 Montanes, Albert ESP 45 11 Hanescu, Victor ROU 50 12 Santoro, Fabrice FRA 52 13 Troic...
Melanie South reached the final of the last 3 25K events in Australia. Trying to emulate Mel are Jade Curtis (the only direct acceptance) along with Jade Windley, Natasha Khan and Jocelyn Rae, who have to qualify. Q1: Brittany SHEED (AUS) (2) BYE Katarina BARCLAY (AUS) Vs Monika WEJNERT (AUS) Kat BAI...
Katie O'Brien and Amanda Elliott move over from Mauritius for the main draw here, whilst in qualifying: (3)Ekaterina Dranets (RUS) v BYE Kesy Moison (REU) v Jodie Williams (GBR) (6)Katharina Brown (GBR) v BYE (11)Tegan Edwards (RSA) v (wc)Diane Trebalag (REU) (8)Yasmin Clarke (GBR) v BYE (12)Ste...
Some Brit interest in a 64-man ( ) qualy draw here, too: Joe Cooper UNR vs WC C. Távarez Rodríguez (DOM) UNR Alex Ward (q10) WR 988 vs Raúl-Isaias Rosas Zarur (MEX) WR 1908. -- Edited by steven at 22:08, 2008-11-23-- Edited by Stircrazy at 12:05, 2008-11-28
Jamie Feaver is in the main draw of another Brazilian Future. The main draw was supposed to start on Monday but hasn't come out yet, It must have been raining in Sao Paulo because they still have QR1 matches to finish on Monday, with QR2 and some of the FQR matches also scheduled to be played then. I assum...
The youngsters have remained in the same place QR1: (q1) Joshua Milton WR 751 v Soren Goritzka (GER) WR 1923 QR1: (q4) Daniel Cox WR 820 v Guy Michelevitz (ISR) UNR QR1: (q9) Daniel Smethurst WR 986 v Ilia Shatskiy (RUS) UNR QR1: (q10) Marcus Willis WR 999 v Olaf De Weerdt (BEL) UNR QR1: (q7) David Rice W...
Normally this event is covered minimally by the Beeb from the Friday onwards, but ITV are broadcasting several hours most days this year on ITV4 and ITV.com. The 2 groups of 4 are: Pat Cash Stefan Edberg Guy Forget Greg Rusedski Jeremy Bates John McEnroe Cedric Pioline Pete Sampras Plenty to look forw...
