DAs for: - Boggo, who may be seeded - Josh - Bloomers - Marray was 2nd Alt at the last update (using his PR so may well be in if this was before the SEs were cleared and they do get cleared) WCs for: - Slabba, who would have got a DA had he bothered to enter (possibly he was intending to stay in the US, but is well o...
I thought I would post an alert about the forthcoming major junior events, along with links to websites where you can find the latest acceptances for any event you are interested in. GBR did particularly well last year with George Morgan winning the U14 Junior Orange Bowl and Laura Robson winning the...
Melanie South should be the top seed in a fairly weak main draw, as she starts the first of 3 tournaments in India and Japan to try and achieve the points she needs to gain direct entry to the Australian Open main draw. Jocelyn Rae withdrew from qualifying yesterday, but there is still a strong British c...
I am afraid that I am not personally too optimistic about this. Davydenko seems to be finding a bit of form, and has had a day off while Andy has been playing for 3 hours against Federer. Overall head to head is 3 - 3 and they are usually fairly tight matches. I see Davydenko winning in straight sets, but wou...
6 months ago, I did a post about the uncanny similarities between Andy's progress and Fed's at the same age - the one that Petch read out when he got a bit bored commentating on a non-Andy match that fortunately one person on here was watching! It went: Quote:"Which player, having already been in t...
Ok, then, here we go. Andy has qualified whether or not he wins this match, but if he wins he will lead the group and play Davydenko in the semis, if he loses he will play Djokovic in the semis. (Actually, the way those two are playing, Djoker might be the safer bet!) Head to head is currently 3-2 in Andy's fa...
I see Del Potro and Simon won again today and are into their respective semi finals in Basel and Lyon. They have both now overtaken Ferrer in the ATP race, to lie 7th and 8th. Given they are also form players, I think the now current top 8 would be the best field for Shanghai : Nadal, Federer, Djokovic, Mur...
Georgie Stoop is scheduled to make her return to action in the Belarussian capital, needing a win or two to return to the top 200, but Elena Baltacha was a late withdrawal. British interest in qualifying centres on Anna Smith, who starts off against the reigning French Open Junior champion: (3)Kris...
Hutch & Booty are the 2nd seeds, they play Hanescu & Tecau. Murray & Delgado have drawn fellow unseeded pair Bubka & Stakhovsky. There are live streams for Centre Court and Court 1 on the official website. http://peoplenetcup.com/en/ There is a quote from Bubka on the website (bad...
James Feaver is a DA here and Maniel Bains probably will be too if he has travelled there - it's his priority 1 event and he was 4th alternate at the last update, higher than any of the players in qualifying.
Wednesday, at 6pm local time - 10.00am GMT. Andy says the match will be a tough one - he beat Simon in the Madrid Masters final, but Gilles was very tired from a lot of tough matches then. However, Andy does lead the H2H 2-1, with both wins coming this year - both in Masters Series, Madrid and Hamburg.
Someone on the GR board asked who Anne K's next 'target' in the GB all-time list was and the only players I could think of were Wade, Barker and Durie, all of whom peaked in the top 5. Turns out someone on tennisforum.com has tried to list all players who have ever appeared in the top 100 by country in the op...
Anne plays the winner of the 50k+H in Nantes last week (6)Anne Keothavong (GBR) vs. (SE)Vesna Manasieva (RUS) Maret Ani (EST) vs. Evgeniya Rodina (RUS) Julia Schruff (GER) vs. Renata Voracova (CZE) Q/LL vs. (4)Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (RUS) Sarah Borwell is also in the doubles draw with Courtney...
Paul Hutchins is to leave his role as the head of men's tennis in Britain at the end of this year, the Lawn Tennis Association announced on Tuesday. The former Davis Cup captain, who has been in the job for two years, will continue to work for the LTA on a number of projects including reviewing and enhanci...
No idea why they split the name of the town on the drawsheet, it's Maspalomas (unless they've changed the name in the 15 years since I was there LOL) - best known for its sand dunes. The Wardinator doesn't seem to have made the trip out to the Canaries for the Futures here (or may be injured, not sure), but M...
Bloomers (probably top seed again), Skups, Bam-Bam and Illingworth are DAs here, while Cox, Flan, Milton and Fleming are all higher on the Alt list than the no 2 qualifying seed (the top seed in qualifing, Insausti, wasn't on the original entry list) so I imagine that some of them have got in as DAs or go...
