But thats months and months away you cry. First set of tickets go on sale on the 9th October. Thats 2 weeks away. This time last year I thought I would have a go at getting tickets for this important event. It took me about 30 mins to get through from 9:00 am (AEST) and I got tickets for every session in Rod Lav...
Main draw includes Katie O'Brien, Elena Baltacha, wild cards have gone to Amanda Elliot, Anna Smith, Jade Curtis. Qualifying includes Sarah Borwell, Yasmin Clarke, Jade Windley, Amy Sargeant as well as wild cards Lisa Whybourn and Elizabeth Ullathorne. A whole host of unranked Brits are nea...
We could have a few DA's here James Ward (2nd seed) Dan Evans Daniel Cox And in Qualifying QR1: Alexander Hutchings v BYE QR1: Robert Lee UNR v Borja Rodriguez Manzano UNR (ESP) QR1: Alexander Ward (3) WR 983 v BYE QR1: Gary Chamberlain UNR v Roberto Ortega-Olmedo UNR (ESP) QR1: David Sutton UNR v BYE QR...
i've been looking back for the past couple of months and i can't find any mention of rob dee in qualifying draws. does anybody know what happened to him since his infamous victory? Edited title for the obvious reason-- Edited by steven at 12:11, 2008-09-29
The Junior Davis Cup for under 16s starts today in Mexico, with 16 nations divided into 4 round robin groups. The British team of Ashley Hewitt, James Marsalek and George Morgan (under the captaincy of Greg Ruedski) is seeded 8th and finds itself in Group D: India [2] Brazil Mexico Great Britain [8] Th...
Another US Future with a huge qualifying draw that is starting a day early: QR1: Dan Cottier UNR v Michael Beron (USA) UNR QR1: Matthew Short UNR v Darren Bregman (USA) UNR QR1: Rogan Egerton v (q14) Stefan Hardy (USA) WR 1636 Jonny Kinsella was 10th Alt here but two of the seeds in qualifying were above h...
China are holding a couple of ITF tournaments with a G3 next week. The Ren sisters are also going on to compete in a Hong Kong G4 the week after. According to the acceptance list, this event is being attended by a good number of British players including Hannah James, Stephanie Cornish, Jen Ren and Laur...
I'm out all tomorrow so will miss the big final in Sweden. Would be cool if someone could record it !!! There are several programs which can record windows media player streams: The free demos at http://www.wmrecorder.com can do this..... or the free software "GetASFStream&q...
Tournament Key : M-FU-SWE-02B-2008 Dates : 22 Sep to 28 Sep 2008 Venue : Falun, Sweden Surface : Hard 1 Brit in Qualies.... WC WOODFORD-SMITH, Zander (GBR) v ULRIK, Anders (DEN) Alex Slabinsky should be the no 1 seed.
This was another great event & special mention must go to James Marsalek who made his England senior debut & he did so without dropping a rubber to help England retain the senior title as well as help England take the overall title form the defending champions Scotland. It was a great event pla...
It seems quite unusual to have six Brits (4 men and 2 women) still in action on Friday of a week that hasn't been rain-affected. They are, all times in UK time: 10 am - Greece 10K SF: (Q) Colin Fleming WR 1078 v (4) Mathieu Guenat (SUI) WR 753 11 am - Spain 15K QF: (3) James Ward WR 393 v (6) Cesar Ferrer-Victori...
Tournament Key : M-FU-MEX-09A-2008 Dates : 22 Sep to 28 Sep 2008 Venue : Metepec, Estado de Mexico, Mexico Surface : Hard Kyle is a DA here...if he shows. No QD yet. BRASSINGTON, Kyle GBR 1280
Saw the adverts on MTF so downloaded the 335mb game !!!!! (20mins DL). Bloody hard game...but very addictive....its free to play....you seem to get 50 games...dont know what happens when you run out...??? Anyone heard of this or played it....I have played 6 matches (best of 3 games) and only won 2 gam...
This is the first of two events in China. On the acceptance list are Alistair Barnes and David Thomson. QR1: Michael Thomson (1) beat CAI, Zhao (CHN) 7-6(6) 6-7(2) 6-3 Jordan McCullogh (2) lost to WANG, Chuhan (CHN) 6-3 6-2 Ben David (7) beat TAO, Jun Nan (CHN) 6-3 3-6 6-2 QR2: Michael Thomson (1) beat L...
Olivia and Emily remain in France.
R1: Olivia SCARFI (GBR) 876= vs Giulia GATTO-MONTICONE (ITA) 420 (1)
R1: Emily WEBLEY-SMITH (GBR) 686 (7) vs Q
Q1: Nicola MOONEY (GBR) 978= (2) vs BYE
Q2: Nicola MOONEY (GBR) 978= (2) vs Alina BARONOVA (UZB) UNR
Tough draw for Olivia which threatens to end he...
Natasha Khan tries to build on her successful week in Madrid with another qualification for a Spanish 25K, and is joined by 3 other Brits here, with 2 matches to qualify: (6)Sofia Kvatsabaia (GEO) v Helen Parish (GBR) (10)Ana Salas-Lozano (ESP) v Elliesa Ball (GBR) (8)Natasha Khan (GBR) v Lucia Mart...
Tournament Key : M-FU-GRE-05B-2008 Dates : 22 Sep to 28 Sep 2008 Venue : Paros, Greece Surface : Carpet Two Brits in Qualies...and they play each other !!! KOUVATSOS, Mihalis (GBR) v FLEMING, Colin (GBR) Main should feature Rice, Thornley, Milton....perhaps Bains.
I half caught an item on BBC Breakfast this morning about a scheme to get sponsorship for sports people - future Olympians perhaps. I think it has been set up by the 2 Sarah's of gold medal sailing fame and is about buying pixels on a website set up for the person requiring sponsorship. I wasn't paying m...
