Stretch & the Beast swing into action in the fourth match on Court 9 tomorrow. Let's see how they cope together on the green stuff. Hope I'm not jinxing their chances by starting this thread...
its the regular debate but who should get them this year ? bit more competitive on the womens side especially for the birmingham and eastbourne ones - are there only 3 for both those tournaments ? My choices would be: Birmingham: Keothavong, O'Brien, South Eastbourne: Keothavong, O'Brien, Ba...
ATP Nottingham (Grass) - James Ward, Alex Slabinsky FUTURESNetherlands F2 $15K (Clay) - (Rice, Milton)Ireland F1 $15K (Synthetic Grass) - Miles Kasiri, David Brewer, Sean Thornley, Ed Allinson, Maniel Bains (Corrie, Miotto, Kinsella, Bradshaw) Norway F2 $10K (Hard) - Matt Illingworth (...
The match, if it happens, will again be the second on the centre court tomorrow. Andy leads Rodders 4-2 in the head-to-head, their last encounter being in the QFs of the Miami Masters event last year which Andy won. The last time they met on grass, however, was that memorable L32 match at Wimbledon th...
Entry list (copied and then formatted from Labamba's post on MTF) - Zverev, Mischa GER 73 Young, Donald USA 80 Clement, Arnaud FRA 88 Ginepri, Robby USA 96 Nishikori, Kei JPN 99 Anderson, Kevin RSA 100 Becker, Benjamin GER 103 Kunitsyn, Igor RUS 111 Petzschner, Philipp GER 117 Muller, Gilles LUX 122 R...
The DFS Classic provides Katie O'Brien with her last opportunity to reach the top 100 before she has to defend the 110 points accumulated at Eastbourne and Wimbledon last year. Late withdrawals mean that she has made the main draw here on ranking, the first Brit to do so since Sam Smith in 1999. A couple...
Hello - have been a guest on this site for ages but thought I should do the right thing and sign up - particularly with all the recent visitors knocking around With Wimbledon around the corner and the grass (*coughs* acrylic) season officially now underway, it won't be too long before tennis is on the ba...
Second match on the centre court tomorrow, after Rodders vs Fish. No previous meetings between the two, but Gulbis seems to be having a good run of form at the moment, having reached his first Grand Slam QF in Paris a week or so ago, which is more than Andy has so far managed, & so can't simply be writt...
Q1: MOONEY, Nicola (GBR) (5) 1037= v BYE
Q2: MOONEY, Nicola (GBR) (5) 1037= lost to ALEKSANDROVA, Alla (RUS) UNR 6-0 6-1
Bad loss for Nicola against a player Tara Wigan beat in straight sets recently. Tara is listed as having a WC entry to the Main Draw, though whether she plays depends upon if she has...
Very weak draw, sadly the two British entrants (Lucy Warburton and Ines Janbaksh) have received some of the toughest opponents available:
R1: Lucy WARBURTON (GBR) 1037 v Sophie CORNEROTTE (BEL) (6) 766
R1: Ines JANBAKHSH (GBR) 1059 v Natalia RYZHONKOVA (RUS) (7) 793
Only four Brits in qualifying - it doesn't say Slabba is a WC but he must be because the last QDA is WR 268. That makes the fourth WC a monumental waste and he's got by far the best draw too. Having said that, Surbiton Q draw looked almost as hard as this! QR1: (WC) Alex Slabinsky WR 334 v (q2) Gilles Muller (L...
Yay! Strange as it may seem, Andy & his hitherto unknown Venezuelan partner, Daniel Vallverdu, have achieved the almost unthinkable by beating the arguably more established pairing of Richard Gasquet & Nicolas Mahut 4-6 7-5 [10-4]. Should've helped him get his eye for the match against...
Tournament Key : M-FU-UKR-02A-2008 Dates : 09 Jun to 15 Jun 2008 Venue : Cherkassy, Ukraine Surface : Clay Little travelling to do for James Feaver as he makes the MD again. Perhaps Priddle will turn up here again. Not on the alts.
Is it me, or has anyone else noticed that all our Brits players on TV this week dont seem to have much meat on them? I was watching Andy's game (blinked and missed most of it) and then before Rich's game they showed Rafa warming up and doing that sit down thing by the net. Then they showed Novak Djokovic and t...
as steven mentioned the lta have relacunded their website. one feature that caught the eye is the map of where the players are!! i wonder if they had microchipped them, but alas now it's just a google map link to the where events are beign held. http://www.lta.org.uk/News/This-Week-Map/ would be ni...
Started yesterday in Morocco and it's on clay. The group from last week should be here, too. Unfortunately, we'll have to wait for a few days for the results (when the ITF wake up). It's a disgrace that such high profile tourneys (they even have a G1 on this tour) don't even have a site.
Will start on the 10th, it's on clay and this is in Germany. Main draw - Johanna Konta Qualies draw - James Allemby (three places off a direct entry) All information can be found here - http://www.itfoffenbach.com Looks like the soon to be ATP world number 2's brother is using his surname t...
barring any major turn arounds over notts/wimby Jamie, Josh and Alex will all head into the summer with rankings around 250-280. there isnt a huge selection of suitable challengers for them to pick from, most of the hard court events are in the US/Can with a few others in South America and a couple of...
Picked up by the Daily Mail. Murray: There is something wrong with the work ethic of British players. When I turn up at our multi-million pound HQ no-one is there By Alan Fraser Last updated at 11:00 AM on 04th June 2008 Andy Murray has launched a searing attack on British tennis players, branding them l...
