Tournament Key : M-FU-ROU-14A-2009 Dates : 17 Aug to 23 Aug 2009 Venue : Arad, Romania Surface : Clay Neil Pauffley scrapes into the MD. No-one in the QD.
Tom Allen plays his first tournament since losing to Jack Carpenter in a Grade 2 final in Egypt, and needs a semi here at least to improve his points tally and move towards the top 100. R1 (L32) (4) Filip Strnad (CZE) v Christopher Helliar (GBR) Tomas Pitra (CZE) v (3) Tom Allen (GBR)
After last week's successful tournament Natalie Beazant and Elisha Gabb have a slightly stronger field to test them in the second Portugese Grade 4. Natalie has the same opener as last week. R1 (L64) (1) Natalie Beazant (GBR) v Ekaterina Tour (ISR) (11) Sian Bayliss (GBR) v Laura Pigossi (ITA) (Q) So...
Huss and Hutchins re-unite having just managed to make the cut and will start against Lopez and Verdasco. If they can win that match, they will face 4th seed Bhupathi and Knowles in round two.
H-H is 3:1 to Andy, with JMDP winning their most recent encounter on clay in Madrid this year. Andy has saved a lot of break points in this tournament so far, and he's needed to because his 1st serve %age has not been great, as exemplified in his match against Tsonga where it was in the low 40's. Unless he ca...
Tournament Key : M-FU-EGY-13A-2009 Dates : 17 Aug to 23 Aug 2009 Venue : Cairo, Egypt Surface : Clay QR2 : WATT, Alex (GBR) v KAFKA, Philip (USA) both UNR
QR1: John Rambotas UNR v Nikolaos Kontakis (GRE) UNR John might have a chance here. This is Kontakis' first foray outside Greece where his record in Futures/Challenger qualifying is played 4 matches, W sets, lost 8, of which 5 were breadsticks. Meatball may be seeded here, Dan Smethurst is also a DA...
Tournament Key : M-FU-AUT-07A-2009 Dates : 17 Aug to 23 Aug 2009 Venue : St. Polten, Austria Surface : Clay One lone Brit in the QD... QR1 : BUKSH, Ameer (GBR) v WEINHANDL, Lukas (AUT) Winner meets top seed in QR2
A bit of a turn-up for the books, this! They've met only twice before & the honours are even: 1-1! Andy beat Jo-Wilfried in Metz in 2007, but JWT had his revenge big time at the Oz Open the following year, when he beat Andy in five (or was it four?) sets in the first round & went on to reach the final...
Emily on a winning streak is top seed here again, and once again she has a nice draw. R1: WEBLEY-SMITH, Emily (GBR) 1 310 v NAIK, Adnya (IND) Q UNR Plays against a Q or WC in round 2. R1: KOLESNICHENKO (UZB) / WEBLEY-SMITH (GBR) 1 vs AMIRAGHYAN (ARM) / SUNDARAM (USA) R1: PATEL (IND) / SUNKARA (IND) WC vs KANV...
A chance to redeem last week's disappointing showing R1 (L64) (10) Robert Carter (GBR) v (WC) Joao Monteiro (POR) (6) Francisco Dias (POR) v Paul Brown (GBR) James Ireland v (WC) Mensurado Vasco (POR)
6pm UK time again. Are Sky bribing the tournament directors? H2H is 4 all, with Andy winning the last one on clay but Davydenko was just coming back from injury at the time. Of the 3 times they met in 2008, all on hard, Donkey won the last 2. . . Fingers and everything else firmly crossed.
The quest to follow Tara Moore as national champion starts at the NTC on Saturday with qualifying. There is less strength in depth than in the boys event, so no-one in the top 500 ITF has to qualify. The seeds in the main draw are Jocelyn Rae, Samantha Vickers, Hannah James, Stephanie Cornish, Nicola Ge...
Qualifying starts on Saturday for the under 18 Nationals, held at the National Tennis Centre, with a reasonably strong field forcing Lewis Burton and Ben Davis amongst others to qualify. The seeds in the main draw are Ahmed El Menshawy, Jack Carpenter, Alastair Barnes, Oliver Golding, James Marsa...
So JCF the Qualifier it is....H2H is 2-0 to Murray both this year on grass and both in straights. (Queens then Wimby) Same again for me IMO. Presume its on Thursday.
Lucy Brown won her maiden Grade 5 title a week ago, and moves up a grade here Boys Singles R1 (L32) (7) Christophjer Helliar (GBR) v Till Guttenberger (GER) Girls Singles R1 (L32) Sabrina Stewart (GBR) v (6) Deborah Danz (GER) Dide Beijer (NED) v (2) Lucy Brown (GBR)
