So the tie will be in Liverpool...great.....only ever driven by. This thread is for chat about who intends to go, places to stay, local info etc. I would like to arrange somewhere to go out on the Fri/Sat night for a drink/meal. If that means just 2 or 3 then fine but more the merrier.
Robredo leads the head-to-head 2-1 (he beat Andy in the last 32 in Las Vegas in 2006 & in the Metz final in 2007), but Andy has the last laugh so far, having beaten Tommy in the last 32 at Indian Wells on his way to the final earlier this year. Ain't gonna be easy on clay, though...
In an email from the AELTC today, more details about the warm-up event on 17 May:
"Star line-up of Andre Agassi, Stefanie Graf, Kim Clijsters and Tim Henman to play under the new Centre Court roof on Sunday 17 May 2009."
"Tickets go on general sale 10.00am on Thursday 12 March 2009 th...
Heather Watson returns to Junior action for the first time since the Australian Open as top seed. The tournament is a very good one to win, as it offers a wildcard to a 50K event for the winner. Last year Johanna Konta defeated Laura Robson in the final, and went on to win a match in the 50K as well. Accordin...
It's last chance saloon for any direct acceptances for Wimbledon, with Dave Thomson and Ahmed El Menshawy requiring semi-finals here probably, which is a big ask. However Ahmed's first opponent, though highly ranked, does not have much of a track record on clay. R1 (L64) David Thomson (GBR) Vs (6) N...
Tomorrow, 5th match on the second court (Arantxa Sanchez Vicario), with the third not before 1.15 local time. Best guess - late afternoon sometime! Andy has played Superbol once before, oddly enough in Madrid when it was on hard and Andy ended up winning the tournament. Bolelli retired when being th...
Another huge 128 qualifying draw in Spain with 5 wins needed for a rankings point if you start out in QR1. The Wardinator was 6th Alt here, but one advantage of qualifying starting on Friday here is that he should get an SE since he's still in the Balaguer Future. More good news too - the 'dream team' are i...
George Morgan looks to follow up his Nottingham title here, as the second seed: R1 (L64) (1) Omar Elkheshen (EGY) Vs Jordan Bull (GBR) Alem Tleshov (KAZ) Vs (?) Michael Watkins (GBR) (?) Eamon Soulsby (GBR) Vs Levan Mamtadzhi (RUS) Tom Gutteridge (GBR) Vs (?) Ahmed Triki (TUN) (?) James Ireland (GBR...
Reading about Miss Williams on the BBC after she pulled out of her match at the Madrid open when trailing by a set... The world number two - second seed in Madrid - said she was currently remodelling a house and said: "I don't know about anyone else but $75,000 is a lot of money to me. "That's lik...
Eastbourne 1 Monfils, Gael FRA 10 2 Stepanek, Radek CZE 17 3 Tursunov, Dmitry RUS 22 4 Gasquet, Richard FRA 23 5 Melzer, Jurgen AUT 27 6 Andreev, Igor RUS 32 7 Seppi, Andreas ITA 36 8 Mathieu, Paul-Henri FRA 39 9 Santoro, Fabrice FRA 44 10 Benneteau, Julien FRA 46 11 Bolelli, Simone ITA 50 12 Ljubicic, Iva...
Masters 1000 Madrid, Spain - Original Cut-off: 45 1 Nadal, Rafael ESP 1 2 Federer, Roger SUI 2 3 Djokovic, Novak SRB 3 4 Murray, Andy GBR 4 5 Davydenko, Nikolay RUS 5 6 Roddick, Andy USA 6 7 Del Potro, Juan Martin ARG 7 8 Simon, Gilles FRA 8 9 Verdasco, Fernando ESP 9 10 Monfils, Gael FRA 10 OUT 11 Tsonga, Jo-Wi...
Nottingham semifinalists Katy Dunne and Caitlin Hindmarsh look to make further progress up the junior rankings here. R1 (L64) Jazzamay Drew (GBR) Vs Sultan Gonen (TUR) Nazil Ander (TUR) Vs Katy Dunne (GBR) Mina Saygi (TUR) Vs (?) Francesca Stephenson (GBR) Mariliis Pilve (EST) Vs Abbi Melrose (GB...
QR1: Faris Akhazzan UNR v Hui Zhang (CHN) UNR There are only 4 ranked players in this draw. The top seed is ranked 1159 and Faris is in his section. -- Edited by steven on Friday 8th of May 2009 02:13:19 PM
From BBC Former Wimbledon semi-finalist Richard Gasquet has admitted testing positive for cocaine, but insists he will clear his name. "The test of the B sample submitted at the end of March 2009, confirmed the positive result of the A sample taken on the same day," said the Frenchman. &q...
This is the second of four tournaments in Italy, culminating in a Grade A event. This week sees Ahmed El Menshawy and Dave Thomson looking to progress towards direct acceptance for Wimbledon. The two players who accounted for them last week (Picco and Shyla) are seeded in Ahmed's quarter R1 (L64) (3...
another huge qualie draw of 128 with the wardinator just missing out on a main draw spot. Q1: Ward (3) v Bye Chamberlain v Bye Sohal v Gimferrer (UNR) Tennant v Lima-Perez (UNR) Armstrong v Bye -- Edited by alex03maccy on Friday 1st of May 2009 11:32:46 AM-- Edited by alex03maccy on Friday 1st of May 2...
another mammoth qualie draw, we've got 4 guys trying their luck. QR1: Eimon Heywood UNR v Andrew Dottino (USA) UNR QR1: James Whike UNR v Edmund Sanford (USA) UNR QR1: Tristan Kaye UNR v Justin Lunn (BAH) UNR QR1: Matthew Short UNR v Angel Diaz-Mendez (PUR) UNR
