Obviously in order to differentiate between Alex/James Ward/Alex Bogdanovic and for the sake of quickness when typing messages a decided upon nickname for Alex would be quite useful. Evidently there are many suggestions and many people have their own opinions so they only democratic way to decid...
QR1: (q3) James Feaver WR 1017 v (WC) Patrick Grigoriu (ROU) UNR QR1: Chris Priddle UNR v Vlad-Cristian Smighelschi (ROU) UNR -- Edited by steven at 22:14, 2008-05-16
by Bert Mitchell Glasgow Evening Times JAMIE BAKER has been given the green light to target a Wimbledon comeback. The 21-year-old Glaswegian, the Great Britain No.2, was struck down in March by a potentially life-threatening virus which reduced the platelet level within his blood. Recovered, he...
This is in an old mining town (best known for its football team Gornik (=miner) Zabrze, but not even very well known for that), so I'm imagining, possibly unfairly, that it's a little grim! QR1: Orion Modebe UNR v Michal Wlodarczyk (POL) UNR - winner to play (q11) Marek Pokrywka (POL) WR 1764 QR1: Adam O...
QR1: (q4) Chris Eaton WR 648 v Filipp Grishutkin (UZB) UNR The other seed in Chris's section is (q6) Alexander Yarmola (UKR) WR 680 Slabba is a DA here.
(extracted from data on the stevegtennis.com site) Most played David Diaz-Ventura played far more matches than anyone else in the first 20 weeks of the year with 64, then come a few more Spaniards with around 50 matches played. The most active Brits in the first 20 weeks of the year were as follows, in...
Greetings, Great site you have here. Wish I had found you a while ago but I never really looked. First saw the site when I had a look at Stevens' top 25 list of British men from a link in his sig at MTF. Great page it is too. Been living in Melbourne for 8 years now and get to the AO every year for the last 3. Seen An...
Does anyone have any insightful input as to who the LTA are likely to award Junior Wimbledon wildcards to this year, both in the boys and girls? I understand that Junior Wimbledon is an ITF event but will they be guided by ITF ranking to choose or ATP/WTA points? Any views would be greatly appreciated.
QR1 Balray Sohail UNR v Carlos Calderon-Rodriguez ESP WR1333 Alexander Ward UNR v Abel Hernandez-Aguila ESP WR1473 No Ricey this week? -- Edited by steven at 20:48, 2008-05-16
Amanda Elliott continues to tackle high-powered clay court tournaments, but has a tough qualifying first round draw against the world number 91, who once reached the 4th round at Roland Garros. Her match is first on court 3 at 9am BST (4) DE LOS RIOS, Rossana PAR vs ELLIOTT, Amanda GBR
ATP French Open Week 2 (Clay) - Andy Murray CHALLENGERSSurbiton $50K (Grass) - (Bogdanovic) FUTURESSlovenia F2 $10K (Clay) - (Feaver, Rice, Milton) WTA Surbiton $50K (Grass) - Katie O'Brien, Anne Keothavong, Elena Baltacha, Mel South (Cavaday, Borwell, Fitzpatrick, Elliott, Stoop,...
QR1: Thomas Deighton UNR v Artem Strunnikov (RUS) WR 1719 Theee are just two qualifying rounds here, but the player seeded to qualify in this section only having one ranking point. I wonder where Morgan Phillips has got to - he hasn't used a PR the last two weeks or turned up in qualifying.
ATP French Open Qualifiers (Clay) - Josh Goodall, Alex Bogdanovic CHALLENGERSFergana $35K+H (Hard) - Alex Slabinsky FUTURESKuwait F1 $15K (Hard) - Richard Bloomfield, Miles Kasiri, Ken Skupski (Miotto) Mexico F8 $10K (Hard) - (Brassington, Kinsella) Greece F3 $10K (Hard) - Neil Bamford...
He may not have added any points to his total since the end of March (when we had a bit of a false alarm that he might have made it), but thanks to Pierrick Ysern, Christian Magg, Andrei Mlendea, Pedro Clar, Vladimir Obradovic, Hun-Woo Nam and Dusan Lojda (down 361 to 734!) all failing to defend points an...
Haven't seen a thread for this in the mens bit. What do people think is going to happen? Aparantly the guys know they have to be top 250 and with Jamie out no one else currently qualifies. What will the LTA/AELTC do? Surely there has to be more than just Andy in the singles MD? Or do they teach the guys a lesso...
Number 1 seed in qualies is Ken Skupski, who I imagine forgot to enter/ chose to enter late, and is ranked 500 places above anyone else in the draw. Also in Qualies is Jonny Marray currently playing without a ranking but you would think pretty certain to reach the main draw of thise fairly weak event. So g...
Hutch and Huss are contesting the doubles here. They are unseeded and as luck would have it they will play the second seeds, Calleri and Cuevas (ARG/URU) in round 1. -- Edited by helki at 20:43, 2008-05-17
L32: Chris Eaton WR 647 v Sarvar Ikramov (UZB) WR 710 L32: (4) Alex Slabinsky WR 371 v Weerapat Doakmaiklee (THA) WR 783 Both Brits are in the same quarter of the draw. Slabba myay live to regret not taking full advantage of the much weaker draw last week, but he has a reasonably good draw as far as the semis...
Hopefully it'll be a happy birthday against Rafa! Those who don't frequent AM.com might like to try the birthday quiz question I put there ... it's quite revealing. Which player can all this be said of (E&OE!) - he is 21 today - he is ranked 14 on his 21st birthday - he has already been in the top 10 -...
L32: Alex Bogdanovic WR 255 v Qualifier Not a bad draw, the winner will probably face no. 5 seed Alun Jones (AUS) WR 139. However, the other seed in that quarter is no. 3 seed Kristian Pless (DEN) WR 129. -- Edited by steven at 12:59, 2008-05-11
