Apologies if there's already a thread for this one, but I couldn't see one! Faris Akhazzan is on parade in the qualies. Plays the Uzbek, Uygun Bekmurodov, in the first round...
QR1: Matthew Collins UNR beat Sameer Basil KSA UNR by 3 & 1 QR1: (q8) Gregory Howe WR 1783 bye QR2: Matthew Collins UNR v Ahmed Ismail USA UNR QR2: (q8) Gregory Howe WR 1783 v Yasser Adel Sayed EGY UNR Howe plays a man over two months his senior, both men 36 years of age!
Tournament Key : M-FU-GBR-13A-2008 Dates : 11 Aug to 17 Aug 2008 Venue : London (Cumberland), Great Britain Surface : Hard So a host of Brits here. DA's are : Bammy (Hope he is fit), Illingworth, Feaver, Hewitt, Bains, Milton... Flanagan and Evo should get SE's but they could get in direct still I think...
Unless I'm much mistaken, there's no dedicated thread for this event. Andy may have disgraced himself in the singles earlier, but, with brother Jamie's assistance, redeemed himself later in the day with a 4-6 6-3 6-4 win against the Canadian pair, Daniel Nestor & Freddie Niemeyer. Arnaud Cl...
The doubles draw isn't online yet, but the order of play is, and we do have British representation in the doubles. Hutchins and Thomas continue their partnership, but have a nice opening match against Auckland and Delgado! It's last on court, starting at around 1700 local time.
Totally forgot to see the calendar in the last few days, so couldn't get a thread up for the Tiger on the 12th. John's birthday is today. Good fortune in the next year to both of you!
Main draw begins on the 9th. It's played at the NTC and the surface is hard courts.
It's not possible to directly link to the entry lists. If you want to see them, follow the steps -
1) Go to this link - http://www2.lta.org.uk/Search/FindACompetition/
2) Click on "Junior Natio...
The only men's tournament that's played in Wales this year. Also one of the very few outdoor hard tournaments that we have. Neil Bamford James Feaver Daniel Cox Matthew Illingworth David Brewer Alexander Ward Tim Hewitt Joshua Milton British Alternates - 1. Maniel Bains 2. Ian Flanagan 3. Jonathan...
ATP US Open Qualifying (Hard) - Alex Bogdanovic, Joshua Goodall, Richard Bloomfield, Alex Slabinsky CHALLENGERSNoneFUTURESBelgium F1 $10K (Clay) - Matt Illingworth, James Feaver Italy F27 $15K+H (Clay) - James Ward Ecuador F2 $10K (Clay) - Sean Thornley WTA New Haven (Hard) - (Keothavong) US...
The LTA should have a look at the success of the British cycling squad and see if there are any training techniques that can make the crossover into tennis. I watched quite a bit of the cycling over the weekend and was really impressed by the positive attitudes and fantastic support the coaches gave to t...
Anne Keothavong should return to competition here, having secured a place in the main draw. Katie O'Brien's exit from Monterrey allows her to take part in a very tough qualifying tournament. To improve her ranking she will have to win 3 matches (1 in the main draw) and the first 2 are against players ra...
QR2: (q8) Edward Seator WR 524 v Clar (ESP) / Araujo (POR) L32: (WC) Alex Ward WR 998 v Rainer Eitzinger (AUT) WR 265 The Wardinator will need to play the match of his life to even get close here, but 2005 Roland Garros finalist (and serial doper) Mariano Puerta could await the winner in R2.
So the calendar has been updated till the end of the year. as suspected the only remaining brit challnger is in jersey and clashes with the super ukraine indoor ch. the week after (17th nov) there is a large indoor ch in helskini, could be a great place for boggo to pick up points depending on how much he ha...
Tournament Key : M-FU-IRI-04A-2008 Dates : 11 Aug to 17 Aug 2008 Venue : Tehran, Iran Surface : Clay Myles Blake (seed) and Mr Howe should both be DA's here.
Olympics Main Draw 1 Federer Roger SUI 1 2 Nadal Rafael ESP 2 3 Djokovic Novak SRB 3 4 Davydenko Nikolay RUS 4 5 Ferrer David ESP 5 6 Blake James USA 7 7 Nalbandian David ARG 8 8 Wawrinka Stanislas SUI 9 9 Murray Andy GBR 11 10 Berdych Tomas CZE 12 11 Almagro Nicolas ESP 13 12 Tsonga Jo-Wilfried FRA 14 OUT 13 Gonz...
Amanda Elliott continues her European clay court education in a weak 50K event. With the US Open coming up nearly everyone in the qualies there is preparing on hard courts, so there is no-one ranked inside the top 200 here. Amanda opens against a Slovakian of similar ranking who is in reasonable form....
The match is live on BBC interactive stream 5, and on the website at the moment... they are showing tennis on BBC1 provisionally at 1055, so I guess it would be the Murray match Murray to serve - 0-0 15-0 - unreturned serve 30-0 - fh from L goes long 30-15 - bh dtl winner from Lu... lovely shot 40-15 - unretur...
