Jamie Murray aims to turn around his form partnering Simon Aspelin and they have as kinder draw as they could have hoped; they face Rik De Voest & Bobby Reynolds (RSA/USA). Reynolds though is fresh off from winning the Sunrise challenger with Booty last week. Ross Hutchins has chosen Jordan Ker...
Not before 7pm local, midnight here, again. H2H is 2-0 in Andy's favour, but Delpo looks in good form, though I only saw the very end of the match where he beat Rafa and Rafa looked on his last legs. I think Andy will have to serve better than he did last night. I haven't seen the match stats but it seemed to me...
Amanda stays on for the third tournament but has to come through qualies this time: Q1: Amanda CARRERAS 1, 552 vs BYE Q2: Amanda CARRERAS 1, 552 vs Carolina ZEBALLOS (ARG) UNR
QR1: David Baxendine UNR v Norman Love (USA) UNR - winner to play winner of the match below QR1: Jack Baker UNR v (q13) Luis Diaz-Barriga (MEX) WR 1219 QR1: (q11) Timothy Bradshaw WR 1165 v Kiril Tcherveniachki (NZL) UNR QR1: Max Gregor UNR v (q5) Yohny Romero (VEN) WR 748 QR1: (q16) Max Jones WR 1536 v Mic...
Prior to this year's AO, the head-to-head between these two was 5-0, but we all know what happened in the last 16 at Melbourne Park... Still, a chance now to avenge that defeat in five sets - but he's going to have to buck up his ideas: his win over Troicki today was no more than adequate. As a friend of m...
QR1: Nikki Roenn UNR v Ruslan Chomaev (RUS) UNR Hopefully James Feaver not appearing in the qualifying draw and having been Alt-3 to the no. 1 qualifying seed's Alt-5 means he got a main draw DA here in the end.
Fitzy, Jade C and Tara M should be in the main draw, but there is also British interest in qualies: Q1: Alexandra ZANIEWSKI UNR vs Olga KISHCHUN (UKR) UNRQ1: Nicola MOONEY 1058 vs Giannina MINIERI (CHI) UNRQ1: Laura COLLINS UNR vs Khristina KAZIMOVA (UKR) 1000Q1: Abi CLAYDON UNR vs Carly PETIT (FRA) U...
I hear that the entry procedure for ATP Challengers has changed? What are the changes? Do you have to enter via an entry form beforehand, if so where can these be obtained from? Can you still sign in for qualies to see if you get in? Cheers guys...
Yet another encounter without much history: Andy's played - & beaten - Troicki once before in his career, last year in the first round at St Petersburg (4 & 4) on his way to the title... Should at least repeat that feat, provided he raises his game. He certainly can't afford a repeat of the sl...
"Colin Fleming, an old friend of the Murrays leading North of Scotland's attempt to preserve their Group One status, swears by its value to the extent that he and his partner, Jonathon Pankhurst, have won all nine rubbers so far and he intends to take it with him when he re-embarks next week on his...
Match presumably to be played on Monday. They've met once before, at Wimbledon in 2006, when Andy won in straight sets, 1, 4 & 4. Here's hoping he keeps that run going, which I expect him to do on the assumption that he's got the loose match out of his system...
Hey guys, Got interview with Chris Eaton up. He says some controversial stuff about most players not making the top 100 til they are past 20 years old. Not sure about that. Anyway, interivew is at alexkayblog.dailymail.co.uk if you fancy a read... and well done mr evans!
Who do you see as making a big jump or a big drop in 2009 James Ward - Improvement (Top 200) Has the weapons to push through Alex Bogdanovic - Drop (Top 300) Don't see how he can get back towards the top 100 sadly Josh Goodall - Improvement (Top 120) This is his chance, he has to build on a solid 2008 sooner rath...
QR1: Morgan Phillips WR 1344 v Willian Franco (BRA) UNR QR1: James Allemby UNR v Guillaume Brochard (BEL) UNR QR2: (q5) David Rice v Ruslan Nurmatov (RUS) UNR
Katie O'Brien is our only DA here and the wild cards have gone to Amanda Elliot, Sarah Borwell, Naomi Broady and Heather Watson. In the qualifying there is Jade Curtis, Yasmin Clarke, Tara Moore and WCQ's have gone to Lucy Warburton, Olivia Smith, Helen Parish. Jessica Ren, Katie Gater and Lottie Fox...
QR1: Tom Farquharson UNR v Gil Sala-Bordallo (ESP) UNR QR1: (q16) Nick Cavaday WR 1182 v Bart Brons (NED) UNR The winners will play each other in QR2, with four wins needed to make the main draw - the top seed in the section is outside the top 1000 though.
Hoping to join Georgie Stoop in the MD. As an aside Gerogie was RU here in 07 QR1: Natasha Khan WR 546 v Sarah-Rebecca Sekulic (GER) WR 1087 QR1: Elizabeth Thomas WR 662 v Jessica Cohen (FRA) UNR QR1: (q6) Emily Webley-Smith WR 347 v BYE QR2: Khan/Sekuic v Katarzyna Piter (POL) WR 413 QR2: Thomas/Cohen...
New thread needed now for the next tie. Venue T.B.C BBC reports that Lloyd is looking to see what surface would best suit our guys. Also becuse it is during the hard court season Glasgow or Birmingham would be best suited. To my despair Crufts is at the Birmingham NEC 5-9th March 2009. They have several '...
Well, we now know who Andy is playing, but not when. (Tomorrow sometime) They have never played each other before. Juan is now ranked 59 but was as high as 14 last year, before injury problems. He bageled Marc Gicquel in the first set of the first round, eventually winning 6-0 6-4; so Andy will have to be c...
I said I thought Aucks might have retired a little too early I think because he has turned up here with Rogier Wassen (NED) and they are the top seeds and the favourites to take the title. In the first round they face Marius Copil & Ivo Klec (ROU/SVK).
