Unless I'm much mistaken, Chris Eaton & quite a few of the other players involved in the tournament in Busan this week will be packing their bags & heading a little nearer home (in Chris's case at least! ) to play in this hard-court tournament.
Tournament Key : M-FU-VEN-02A-2009 Dates : 18 May to 24 May 2009 Venue : Merida, Venezuela Surface : Hard 2 lone Brits in the QD... QR1: COOPER, Joe (GBR) v OLIVARES, Sergio (VEN) QR1: BAXENDINE, David (GBR)v ZORNOSA, Steffen (COL) WR1527 (13) The winners play each other in QR2
George Morgan tries for further Turkish delight here: R1 (L64) (1) George Morgan (GBR) BYE Robert Carter (GBR) defeated Akhmadzhon Mukhamad (TJK) 3-6 6-3 7-6(5) (15) Callum Lloyd (GBR) BYE (2) Christopher Simpson (GBR) BYE R2 (1) George Morgan (GBR) v Barkin Yalcinkale (TUR) (4) Tugay Koylu (TUR)...
Most of the girls playing last week's tournament have remained, but there was a disappointing defeat for Katy Dunne in qualifying: R1 (L64) (11) Caitlin Paige Hindmarsh (GBR) BYE Andreea Ursachi (ROU) defeated Verena Jane Scott (GBR) 7-5 6-0 (8) Elliesa Ball (GBR) BYE Jazzamay Drew (GBR) defeate...
Does anyone know when Jamie Baker is likely to return to the circuit? I'm hoping he can get a run of 18 - 24 months with no serious injuries/illness...would be good to see him back to his form of 18 months ago!
Best of luck to Ed and Matt who are still involved in the Division 1 NCAA team tournament for Texas and UCLA respectively. Ed hasn't done brilliantly so far (losing his last 2 matches with others being Suspended due to the match outcome already being decided) In today's Semi's Texas play Southern Cali...
I can understand why many do not like him, but he's one of the few clay courters whom I found interesting. It's a sad day.... http://www.tennis-x.com/story/2009-04-29/h.php And whenever I think of Coria, I think of what could have happened had he suffered from cramps in his previous match in RG 2...
Evo isn't in qualifying this week (we may yet find that he got a main draw WC, of course) but I'm sure lots of people here will be glad to see a certain MP in the qualifying draw ... all to be revealed in the next post in a few minutes.
Amanda in the MD In qualifying can Makayla win her first game and as her opponent hasn't played before then perhaps as good a chance as any. QR1: Makayla Lewis UNR v Tatiana Guskova (RUS) UNR
Is he on holiday or something? After his ankle injury he played two rounds of qualifying in Ostrava before qualifying and reaching the 2nd round of Edinburgh and now he isn't entered into anything for the next few weeks. Where is he?
Jamie M & Pavel Vizner are the top seeds here & play Peter Luczak & Sandro Motti (AUS/ITA) in the first round. Here's hoping Jamie can get 2-3 more wins under his belt...
L32: WEBLEY-SMITH, Emily (1) v YANG, Yi UNR L32: CAVADAY, Naomi (5) v Tedjakusuma, Romana WR 413 Doubles L16: WEBLEY-SMITH/CAVADAY (3) v ARIYANA/MAHAJAROENKUL
Loads of Brits here - even Auckland is playing qualies! No sign of Skuppers though QR1: (q1) Joshua Goodall WR 231 has a BYE - plays Kirillov or Sitak QR1: (q7) Ivan Sergeyev WR 337 (UKR) vs James Auckland UNR QR1: Colin Fleming WR 508 vs. Laurynas Grigelis (LTU) WR 1357 - seeds are Kedryuk (8) and B...
ATP French Open Qualifying (Clay) - Alex Bogdanovic, Josh Goodall (Ward) Kitzbuhel EUR 450K (Clay) - Doubles - Ross Hutchins CHALLENGERSCremona EUR30K+H (Hard) - (Bloomfield, Marray, Fleming) Fergana $35K+H (Hard) - Chris Eaton FUTURESKuwait F1 $15K (Hard) - James Ward, Alex Slabinsky, Sea...
L32: Chris Eaton WR 374 v Qualifier This looks promising, since qualifying is weak, with the top 4 seeds ranked in the range 417-635. The winner of this match is likely to face (8) Blaz Kavcic (SLO) WR 267, since he is playing Korean WC Yong-Bun Seo WR 1027. Kavcic's only previous match against a Brit was...
Andy takes on Potty who he leads 3 - in head to head. Most recent win was in Miami in the Semis. Potty is at his highest ranking of 5. They have only ever played once on clay, Andy won, but Potty did have to retire last year in Rome. Will be close, but hopefully Andy can do it, Potty will be tired after 3 hours of...
H & H have made it into the MD! They've avoided a seeded pair in the first round, but they still face a tough test: they've drawn the Spanish WCs, Pablo Andújar & Guillermo García López... P.S. The Bryans are the top seeds, but they demonstrated in Belgrade this week that they're anything bu...
In one of the weakest events you will see Lottie Fox seems to have rather drawn the short straw as she tries to join Thomas, Mooney and Brown (an UNR player as a DA!) in the MD FQR: (qWC) Lottie Fox UNR v Georgina Garcia-Perez (ESP) UNR Harsh draw tho as she does have two counters under her belt
