There is a large British presence here, including European 14&under Junior Masters champion Liam Broady. The top seed in the girls event is another 14 year old star - local girl An-Sophie Mestach Boys R1: Constantin Le Goff (FRA) v Liam Broady (GBR) Tom Farquharson (GBR) v Ivan Vereschaga (RUS...
Match to be played on Court 1 no earlier than 15.00 GMT tomorrow. Head-to-head: 4-0, the most recent encounter, of course, being in the semi-final in St Petersburg last week. No reason to doubt a change in a winning formula...
I suppose you have take notice when the current world number 1 makes these sort of statements...nice to read. Andy must be pleased. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/tennis/7697303.stm
An overview of the pivotal role of parents in the development of juniors and their transition into the professional game.Friday 7th November at 6.45pm.6.45pm - Arrival 7.00pm - Introduction. 7.10pm - Guest speaker, Tony Henman, will share his knowledge and experiences as a parent of Britain's m...
So Sam won by retirement leading *3-2 in the third against Baghdatis. The winner of this match will play Verdasco or Robredo in R3. Andy leads the H2H 2-0 both without dropping a set. The first was on grass in Newport in 06 and the other enroute to winning his first Masters title. Andy in two for me please t...
Jamie Murray teams up with the veteran Pavel Vizner, and he has a bit of a reunion as they have drawn his former partner Max Mirnyi (who is through to the final in St Petersburg with Rohan Bopanna) and Marin Cilic. -- Edited by wolf at 19:45, 2008-10-25
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/tennis/7694923.stm so looks like we will have a new home absed ATP in the calendar? The island will host a £32,000 men's and £16,000 women's event in March and again in November next year.
Jamie Delgado and James Auckland are here in the doubles draw with seperate partners, in what is quite a strong field for a 50k+H. Jamie Delgado / Tomasz Bednarek (POL) v Alessandro Motti (ITA) / Lukas Rosol (CZE) James Auckland / Dick Norman (BEL) v Rohan Bopanna (IND) / Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK)
R1 Bally plays KUTUZOVA, Viktoria (UKR), who beat Anne a couple of weeks back, and has been in strong form at this level for two months. Katie O'B plays PERVAK, Ksenia (RUS) SE, a 17 year old who has also been on very good form fot the last couple of months. Tough draws for both. -- Edited by Drew at 10:42, 20...
singles draw: http://www.fft.fr/bnpparibasmasters/2008/tab.htm Andy has a bye in R1 then meets Baggy or Sam Querrey. He's in Nadal's half and has Verdasco, Del Potro and Nalbandian in his quarter. -- Edited by goldfish at 21:49, 2008-10-24
Unranked Jodie Williams sneaks in here as a DA. L32: Jodie Williams UNR v (Q) Stacey Grant (RSA) UNR -- Edited by wolf at 20:15, 2008-10-26-- Edited by Drew at 18:40, 2008-10-27
Fitzy & Bains here on the last leg of their Pakistan tour, draw hasn't showed up yet so maybe Fitzy can fill us in (although he hasn't been around for a few days)?
The last open event on the 2008 WTA Tour sees Sarah Borwell in qualifying, though her main interest will be in the doubles, where she needs a very good week to close on the top 100. Singles qualifying: [2] Mara Santangelo (ITA) vs. Alexandra Stevenson (USA) Alexa Glatch (USA) vs. Maria Mokh (RUS) Sar...
I saw this news on the home page of the ATP site yesterday, but cringed at the coyness of the American text. OEM in today's Net Post on the Times site puts it rather better, though I still have a problem with the use of "passed away" instead of "died": The tennis world was in mournin...
Daisy has already made separate references to the appearance here of Hutch & "Hussy" & Jamie Murray in partnership with the Swede, Robert Lindstedt. I thought I'd make sure that their progress, if any, in the competition could be flagged up without being lost among the posts on...
With Anne Keothavong, Sarah Borwell & Anna Fitzpatrick all blogging for tennis head at the moment, I might thought I might as well create a thread where we can discuss their blogs. http://www.tennishead.net/prozone/interviews/ Today, Sarah gives her thoughts on Barnstaple and Anna gives u...
Andy plays the qualifier 'from' Kazakhstan in what should be a straightforward final. I put from in quotation marks as, lets face it, he's Russian! Match starts at 1pm UK time tommorow (remember those clocks go back). -- Edited by wolf at 19:51, 2008-10-25-- Edited by wolf at 20:42, 2008-10-25
The British sextet (Melanie South, Naomi Broady, Elizabeth Thomas, Emily Webley-Smith, Jocelyn Rae and Sophie Proctor) head to Port Pirie for the final leg of the Australian 25Ks. This time Liz, Jos, Emily and Sophie are in different qualifying sections, with most players having byes in QR1. The o...
Jonathan Marray and Richard Bloomfield are aiming high this week and are are here in qualifying. Jonny has drawn (8)Lukas Dloughy (CZE) in Rd 1 with (3)Jiri Vanek possibly in final round. Richard has drawn Ivan Dodig (CRO) for Rd 1 but in his group are (6)Benedikt Dorsch and (4)Benjamin Becker Top s...
Tournament Key : M-FU-FRA-20A-2008 Dates : 20 Oct to 26 Oct 2008 Venue : Rodez, France Surface : Hard No Brits in qualies but James Ward will be seeded again in the MD. -- Edited by Drew at 11:34, 2008-10-18
