The waiting press pack could not wait to get stuck into the team. For the first 5-6 mins all the questions were point to JL who did his best to defend the team selection. As it turns out Andy wanted to play even though he does have a very slight groin issue. He gets this when he switches surfaces apparently....
Main draw will contain Goodall, Skupski, Evans, Illingworth, Flanagan, Thornley, Brewer, Milton and possibly Arlidge. Possible wild cards Rice...and now I'm struggling. QR1: (q1) Tim Hewitt WR 954 bye QR1: Scott Dickson UNR bye QR1: Sundeep Ubhi UNR v David O'Leary UNR QR1: Mark Beckles UNR b by...
The quartet of Naomi Broady, Liz Thomas, Jocelyn Rae and Sophie Proctor take part in the second 25K down under. Naomi and Liz should be in the main draw, whilst in qualification: Jocelyn Rae (GBR) 4 v bye Renee Lampret (AUS) v Elizabeth James (AUS) Mary-Ann Balint (AUS) v Oriana Nowicki (AUS) Lucia Gon...
Anne Keothavong just missed out on the opportunity to play in Beijing during the Olympics, but is in the Chinese capital for a strong Tier 2 event. She will have to play qualifying as in Tokyo, but at least will be spared the prospect of a rematch with Katarina Srebotnik in qualifying, who has waltzed in...
Well folks i must say this media centre is just great. There must be over 100 press desks with everything you need to pretend you know something about tennis ! Almost never got in this morning. Typically you might say the LTA sent me a letter with the wrong gate number on it. So after speaking to about a doz...
Davis Cup Day 2 Doubles Preview So the tie hangs delicately at 1-1 with both coaches satisfied on a good first day.It was always odds-on that Melzer and Murray would win. If you want to look for a thread of British dominance then Britain lead the Austrians by 4 sets to 3.John Lloyd answered the very first...
Georgie Stoop had a very successful summer in the States, and has returned for a series of strong challengers, just missing the main draw cut here: Qualifying draw: (1)Georgie Stoop (GBR) bye Theresa Logar (USA) vs Zoe Gwen Scandalis (USA) Mami Inoue (USA) vs Kim-Anh Nguyen (USA) Lena Litvak (USA) v...
To read the Q&A put to Boggo please go to the web site : http://www.britishtennis.net/Davis%20Cup.html A big thanks to Count for his help. Questions written by me.
Jonny Kinsella missed out on a spot in the main draw by one place, and now has to try and battle his way through four rounds of qualifying. Gutted! QR1: (q1) Jonathan Kinsella WR 1000 v Trevor Dobson (USA) UNR
Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/tennis/7623313.stm Jamie Murray splits with Mirnyi Britain's Jamie Murray has revealed he and Belarussian Max Mirnyi have ended their doubles partnership.Murray, 22, teamed up with 31-year-old Mirn...
Well we may as well start the thread for this tie now. So what do we know about this tie ? Well it will take place at the All-England Club, Court 1 from 19th to 21st September 2008. We will have 2 singles matches on the Friday. The usual one doubles rubber Saturday and hopefully 2 dead rubbers on the Sunday.....
First Andy ended del Potro's 23-match winning streak. Now he's ended Rafa's 19-match grand slam winning streak. 'Only' Federer's 33-match winning streak at the US Open to go ... (he had a W/O against Pavel in 2004 in case you're wondering why it's not 34) And now we can add to that birthday quiz I did abo...
Q1: LAWTON, Maria (GBR) UNR v SANTIAGO, Esther (ESP) UNR Q1: KHAN, Natasha (GBR) 14 789 v APAOLAZA-MIRADEVILLA, Laura (ESP) UNR Q1: BALL, Elliesa (GBR) UNR v BOROVNICA, Bojana (SCG) UNR -- Edited by Peter too at 20:45, 2008-09-12
Paris Main Draw 1 Nadal, Rafael ESP 1 2 Federer, Roger SUI 2 3 Djokovic, Novak SRB 3 4 Murray, Andy GBR 4 5 Ferrer, David ESP 5 6 Davydenko, Nikolay RUS 6 7 Nalbandian, David ARG 7 8 Roddick, Andy USA 8 9 Wawrinka, Stanislas SUI 9 10 Blake, James USA 10 11 Gonzalez, Fernando CHI 11 12 Gasquet, Richard FRA 12 13 D...
Ok , 2008 year of tennis is hitting a succesful end and predictions have to start here and also the masters aswell for Andy. Hope someone can make this more of a pro thread as my lack of info and time atm will make this thread not as good as it should but ill chip in with few edits. Also little weekly predictio...
Our Texas 'expert', Jamie Baker, has unfortunately withdrawn from this event for reasons explained by TBarM7 in the Jamie Baker thread. Jonny Marray has a tough R1 draw and neither of the Brits mentioned on the Tulsa thread has got a main draw WC, not that I could quite see why they were ever likely to - I...
