With Oliver Golding and George Morgan winning a title in Moscow, the third member of our team aiming to qualify for the junior Davis Cup, Andrew Bettles, has also been in good form in Prague, accounting for two of the French boys who dominated in Edinburgh en route to the final. Boys R1 (L32) (5) Andrew B...
Jamie D & Jamie M are having another go together, at this event! They are unseeded and their first-round opponents are the Argentine pair of Brian Dabul & Sergio Roitman. Will they get a win?
QR1: (q3) Dan Cox WR 478 v (WC) Sergey Sukhov (RUS) UNR A seeding in qualifying was the best Dan could realistically hope for when he entered, and he's got a very reasonable draw here, with (5) Artur Chernov (RUS) WR 599 the highest-ranked player standing in the way of a place in the main draw. Good luck!...
H&H are seeded 4th here with the field being stronger than the one last week in Indianapolis. In the first round they face Yen-Hsun Lu & Dusan Vemic (TPE/SRB).
Goodall will turn up here on his own of course after James pulled out. He turns out seeded 5th at the event but is in the same quarter as the 2nd seed Zeballos (an argentine clay courter). In the first round Goody faces Rogerio Dutra Da Silva (pauses for breath), a brazilian ranked 231. The brazilian has...
We were having a small discussion in the Lexy thread, so I thought we'd have a thread to track the progress (till the end of 2009) of all players born in 1989 and later. I want this thread here and not in the General section just because it involves Evans in a major way. Do players actually care about being t...
Sarah has turned up in the doubles with another different partner. L16: BORWELL/ANDERSEN, Kelly (RSA) v DOMACHOWSKA/GRANDIN (POL/RSA) they could meet the czech 3rd seeds of hradecka/voracova in the quarters.
Lots of tennis around the country this week - Many top players past and present put their regular schedules on hold to represent their county with some of Britains highest ranked doubles players, Jamie Murray, Colin Fleming and Ken Skupski, all nominated to play for their respective counties in Eas...
After a successful first week in Egypt the competition is only slightly stiffer for this Grade 2 event: R1 (L64) Tom Allen (GBR) d. Mina Albert (EGY) 6-1 6-0 (10) James Marsalek (GBR) BYE (WC) Ibrahem Shams (EGY) d. (Q) David McKenzie-James (GBR) 6-4 6-1 (12) Jack Carpenter (GBR) BYE (14) Christopher...
Hey guys, Got an interview with Heather up on the blog this week. She is so delightful to talk to, so grounded and so brilliantly ambitious. Watched her in Frinton and she should do some damage with that serve. interview is at http://alexkayblog.dailymail.co.uk hope u like it
The draws are out for the under 18s who are in Villach (Austria), whilst the under 16s are in Moscow and the under 14s in Pilzen (Czech Republic) U18 R1 (L128) Piotr Gadomski (POL) v Richard Gabb (GBR) Peter Heller (GER) v Ashley Hewitt (GBR) Both play on Monday
What do you do? its like something of champ man when you cheat on the data editor! I mean how can you keep, santa cruz, abedeyor, tevez, robinho, bellamy,benjani,bojinov happy?
We are assured of at least two titles in this event, thanks to a strong contingent of British boys relative to a Grade 5, accounting for 14 of the 16 first round winners. All the Boys doubles semi-finalists include at least one Brit. Boys QF Joe Rogers (GBR) defeated Michael Ajibade (GBR) 6-2 6-7(2) 6-2...
Jonny Marray has given further evidence he is looking to specialise in doubles (we are getting a lot of these type of players, aren't we Steven? )* as he turns up here with Riccardo Ghedin (ITA) and they face Enrico Iannuzzi & Jean-Noel Insausti (ITA/FRA) in the first round. * In Jonny's defence th...
This was the scene of James Ward's triumph last year. QR1: (q14) Philip Barlow WR 1828 v Amador Romero-Torres (ESP) WR 1869 QR1: James Allemby UNR v Jean-Marc Werner (GER) UNR
L32: James Feaver WR 897 v Lazare Kukhalashvili (GEO) WR 870 Kuku has had mixed results against Brits - he beat Seator 4 & 3 and Fitzy 1 & last year but Thomas Knights took a set off him this year, while Feaver & Bains beat Kuku & partner in doubles in Pakistan last year.
