I often see people refer to "The LTA" as an organisation and want to know actually who it is at the LTA responsible for certain decisions. When board members post things like "The LTA scrapped most of the futures events" or "The LTA scrapped the bonus scheme" etc it must be a decision from either the Chie...
Sad to hear of the passing at just 59 years old of Peter Lundgren. Former coach of Federer, worked at the LTA for a good while and did a great job before being let go. I cant recall exactly, was there some issue with drinking and id heard it may have blighted his career and life. by all accounts, a well liked...
I give up! Apparently, the IOC threatened us with the loss of the right to host qualifying events for new Olympic sports unless we gave in. As Matthew Syed puts it in the article, "That's right: for the sake of hosting a breakdancing event in Stratford"!!! ...
As CD is being distracted by Marilyns and Munros (see Chat section) here is a round-up of other junior ITFs. The first 7 events still have British involvement.J100 Johannesburg (South Africa)15 year old Sophie Bekker has reached the final beating the top seed today (ranked 159) . Ophelia Korpanec...
Doubles Draw 64 draw. Rankings are at 26/08/2024 (released a day early !) Whilst all winners could face seeds in the second round, only one pair could face a pair seeded in the top 8. R1:- Harriet Dart (GBR) / Diane Parry (FRA) CR222 (68+154) v Linda Noskova (CZE) / Diana Shnaider (***) CR118 (60+58) Pos...
QR1: Jamie Forrest UNR vs Sparsh Rathi Rathi (IND) UNR QR1: BYE vs (q12) Felix Mischker WR 1993 (CH = 1747 last December) Max Basing should be in the main draw.
In 2023 Mimi Xu beat Hannah Klugman in a rare all British final at this level. Mimi therefore joined Andy Murray and Marcus Willis as the only British winners here in the tournament's 38 years. The pair are back hoping to repeat their success. Boys R1 (L48) (10) Oliver Bonding bye (16) Viktor Frydryc...
Ok, it's a quiet day before mega US Open kick-off tomorrow So.... I've lived on this planet for quite a few (!) decades now Born and bred in the UK BUT I'VE NEVER BEEN TO SCOTLAND (I'm a true southerner - Oxford is the Midlands, as far as I'm concerned, and Birmingham is practically on the S...
QR1: Aryan Lakshmanan (IND) UNR vs (q13) Stefan Cooper UNR QR1: (q7) Joe Leather UNR vs Pavel Kelo (SVK) UNR QR1: (q8) Joe Tyler UNR (CH = 1339 in August 2022) vs Eyal Shyovits (ISR) UNR (CH = 1231 in January last year) Hamish Stewart, Ali Gray, Emile Hudd & Harry W should be in the main draw. A dece...
QR1: (q2) Patrick Foley WR 1928 (CH = 1271 in September 2019) vs James Pikkaart (NED) UNR QR1: (q5) Filippo Giovannini (ITA) UNR vs Dominic West UNR QR1: Léo Gazagnaire (FRA) UNR vs (q9) Ying Hou UNR Marcus Walters should be in the main draw.
QR1: George Gregoriou (GRE) UNR vs William McLennaghan UNR QR1: (q3) Tommaso Schold (ITA) WR 1752 (CH = 1745 last month) vs Leonardo Santoro-Fergusson UNR QR1: Valeriy Martishev (***) UNR vs Charles Dossetter UNR QR1: (q4) Nicolas Philibert WR 2039 (CH = 1586 in January) vs Anthony Popyrin (AU...
Niall is the 2023 U14 British Champion, winning it despite being one of the youngest players (born September 2010, so was only age 12 when he won it) The year before he won the U12 British Championships He's Welsh but has an interesting heritage. In his words: "My dad is from India and my mum is from Germ...
Eliz Maloney and Danielle Daley should be seeded in the main draw (if they have recovered from playing at Sutton this week), and Abigail Amos should have crept in.QR1:- Georgina Hays (GBR) UNR/769 [Q5] v Daria Maria Grigore (ROU) UNR/UNR/15yo (Played 2 matches last year and one this year - all losses...
(I'm a true southerner - Oxford is the Midlands, as far as I'm concerned, and Birmingham is practically on the S...