This is Georgie Stoop's final event in the US for the time being, and it will be hard for her after Troy, in combination with all the matches she has played in the last 3 weeks. Georgie should be in the main draw, while doubles specialist Margot Carter is in qualifying: Lindsay LEE-WATERS (USA) (1) BYE Ma...
Elena Baltacha and Katie O'Brien should be seeded here, and Amanda Elliot is also a DA. Wild cards have gone to Anna Smith, Jade Curtis and Tara Moore, leaving one left to someone who is not on the entry list, more than probably Laura Robson, I can't see the organisers turning her down if she asked for one...
QR1: Matthew Short UNR v Young Thomas (AUS) UNR (*) Winner to play (q4) Jared Easton (AUS) WR 1363 (*) Both the ATP and ITF drawsheets have Young as the first name and Thomas as the surname, but no doubt it's really the other way round!
The quartet who played in the September 25Ks down under (Naomi Broady, Elizabeth Thomas, Jocelyn Rae and Sophie Proctor) have been joined by Melanie South and Emily Webley-Smith for the October series. Em will be looking to replace the distressing experience she had here earlier in the year with so...
Jamie Murray & Jordan Kerr are the top seeds here. They have an awful draw though, Mikhail Youzhny & Mischa Zverev, who have just won ATP Tokyo, as well as winning Halle earlier in the year. Ross Hutchins & Stephen Huss are in the same quarter, and they have drawn Teimuraz Gabashvili &...
Following last minute withdrawals and 2x SE cleared - Slabba and Bloomers will join Boggo and Josh as direct entries into main draw. In one respect this is good but as top seeds in quallies they stod a good chance of 2 points. Tournament Website Singles DrawOrder Of Play (When available)
The Draw has been done & it is as follows - Boys - Mathew Thomson Vs Grant Ive (RSA)10 Alistair Barnes Vs LL / Q Ben Davis Vs Pierre Hugues Herbert (FRA)16 David Thomson Vs Suk-Young Jeong (KOR)WC Jordan McCulloch Vs Ben McLachlan (NZL) Girls - Hannah James Vs Malou Ejdesgaard (DEN) Stephanie Corni...
A quite incredible story from Neil Harman in todays Times. Excellent news about Liams victory but, the fact that his funding, and that of his sisters is coming from their parents alone.....after selling the family home, is almost unbelievable. I accept there must be another side to this story, fac...
QR2: Chris Priddle UNR v (q3) Christopher Racz (USA) WR 1565 QR2: (q8) Timothy Bradshaw WR 1885 v Rodrigo Rappaccioli (NCA) UNR NCA = Nicaragua, in case you're wondering - it's rare to see a player from there and Rappaccioli has just turned 18. Kyle Brassington is a DA here.
QR2: (q1) Burnham Aldridge WR 996 v Finlay Renwick UNR QR2: Zander Woodford-Smith UNR v (q4) Eddy Chala WR 1370 (ALG) Finlay playing in his first tournament and all 3 have byes in R1 -- Edited by Smidster at 12:18, 2008-10-04
QR1: Alex Watt UNR bye QR1: Joshua Jones UNR bye QR1: David Baxendine UNR v Sebastian Chylinski (POL) UNR QR2: Alex Watt UNR v (q5) Daniele Piludu (ITA) WR 1547 QR2: Joshua Jones UNR v Maciej Rajski (POL) UNR QR2: David Baxendine UNR or Sebastian Chylinski (POL) UNR v Antonio Maiorano (ITA) UNR
QR2: Matthew Short UNR v Jordan Szabo (AUS) or David Spierings (AUS) UNR Matthew, who joins Broady, Wobbly and co in Traralgon this week, is in a qualifying section with no ranked player in it. -- Edited by steven at 16:37, 2008-10-03
L32: Matthew Illingworth WR 747 v (8) Robert Varga (HUN) WR 621 Varga has played Brits no less than 63 times in recent years, with a somewhat erratic (e.g. he lost 2 & 3 to Kyle Brassington in January then stuffed him 1 & 0 a week later) 39-24 winning record against them. I'm pretty sure he was t...
Johanna Konta's application for British citizenship has dragged on interminably (or has she backtracked?). She is currently playing challengers in Mexico (lost in the first qualifying round last week) still under the Australian banner, and is in the following qualifying section this week: Oks...
