Channel 4 are showing a documentary called "Trophy Kids" this Thursday at 9pm. One of the four youngsters featured is 12-year old Eden Silva, one of our top juniors in that age range. However the previews I have read make it clear where the emphasis of the programme will be: "This Cutt...
Hannah James has moved up to 45 in the rankings and has avoided a third potential quarter-final with Timea Babos, but unfortunately lands up in the same quarter as her doubles partner, and Thailand G1 winner, Maryna Zanevska instead. Hannah Martin-Merchant and Francesca Stephenson lost in qualif...
Going on the first day (Sunday Nov 22nd) Andy v Rafa would be nice Got presale code - might work for more tickets if anyone want's to PM me -- Edited by seagull on Tuesday 24th of March 2009 01:00:28 PM
QR1: (q23) Mel South WR 103 v Stéphanie Dubois (CAN) WR 116 - (q3) Paszek WR 68 is the other seed in this section QR1: Elena Baltacha WR 110 v (q8) Patricia Mayr (AUT) WR 78 - (q21) Domachowska WR 101 is the other seed in this section
After falling in the first round of the main draw last week Niall Angus continues his search for his first ranking point: QR1: Niall Angus UNR beat Saurav Sakul (IND) UNR 6-3, 7-5 FQR: Niall Angus UNR v (q2) Yannick Nelord (IND) WR 1444
Natalie Beazant is the only British player in this Grade A event, and has better luck with her first-round draw than last week, having been paired with the lowest ranked direct entrant. If successful a tough task awaits in round 2 against the second seed or a girl who defeated Steph a few weeks ago. R1 (L...
Ben Davis has returned after physio to join the group out here for the third Asian Grade 1 and has successfully negotiated qualifying to make the main draw. Ahmed El Menshawy has the misfortune to be paired with the Sarawak winner. R1 (L64) Laurent-Olivier Daxhelet (BEL) vs Ahmed El Menshawy (GBR) A...
QR1: James Allemby UNR v Radim Urbanek (CZE) UNR QR1: Rogan Egerton UNR v Roman Kislyanskiy (RUS) WR 1878 QR2: (q5) David Rice WR 876 v Vladislav Khudziy (RUS) UNR or Ouassel Hared (ALG) UNR Morgan Phillips is using his PR (protected ranking) to get a place in the main draw here.
Slabba seems to have stayed in Thailand instead of coming back for Jersey: QR1: (WC) Faris Akhazzan UNR v (WC) Pongsatorn Benjamas (THA) UNR QR2: Akhazzan or Banjamas v (q1) Izak van der Merwe (RSA) WR 282 QR2: (q3) Alex Slabinsky WR 338 v Dmitri Sitak (RUS) WR 624 or (WC) Prach Mahathvorn (THA) WR 1562 L...
So Rafa brings Roddicks run to an end in straights and will face Andy on Sunday in the final. Rafa leads Andy 5-2 (5-3 If you include the exhibition win) but the important stat is that Andys 3 wins have come from their last 3 meetings ! So Andy is on a 3 match winning streak against Nadal...that sounds bette...
As you may know my son has been playing in mini red events (8 and under) for the last year and really enjoying it. There are usually around 40 events around the county and for each one you attend and play at you gain points which go onto a leaderboard (Matthew is currently 6th for the Winter). LTA just relea...
A 128 qualifying draw and Tom Farquharson is our sole Brit: QR1: Tom Farquharson UNR beat Maximillian Mayer (AUT) UNR 6-0, 6-1 QR2: Tom Farquharson UNR v Marko Mijacevic (CRO) WR 1444
Andy reaches the semi-final of the first masters event of the year. Despite not playing at his best in most of the rounds he had enough to see off his opponents in a draw that was pretty kind to him. He now faces Roger Federer, the number 2 seed and a player Andy has seemed to get the better of in recent matche...
In the second Asian Grade 1 for the boys Ahmed El Menshawy is up against the player who beat Dave Thomson last week, whilst Dave himself may well have to play last week's beaten finalist John Morrissey (Ireland) in round 2. (9) David Thomson (GBR) BYE Sudanwa Sitaram (IND) Vs Ahmed El Menshawy (GBR) Chr...
Hannah James has been joined in the main draw by another Hannah, 16&under Grand Prix champion Hannah Martin-Merchant, but Francesca Stephenson lost in qualifying. Hannah M-M has been rewarded with a draw against a fellow qualifier, whilst Hannah J is likely to face familiar opposition - Mai G...
Don't know alts yet: Main Draw Bachinger, Matthias GER 220 Niland, Conor IRL 278 Bogdanovic, Alex GBR 198 Pavlovs, Deniss LAT 287 Bubka, Sergei UKR 269 Poch-Gradin, Carlos ESP 261 De Chaunac, Sebastien FRA 203 # Robert, Stephane FRA 281 Fischer, Martin AUT 205 Smeets, Robert AUS 216 Galvani, Stefan...
QR1: (WC) Matthew Short UNR beat Michael Pigou (NZL) UNR by 4-6 6-4 6-3 QR2: (WC) Matthew Short UNR lost to (q6) Joshua Crowe (AUS) WR 893 by 7-5 7-6(5) Another short outing for Matthew, but at least he won a match this week and pushed Crowe to two close sets.
Indian Wells Main Draw 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 Del Potro, Juan Martin ARG 6 7 Tsonga, Jo-Wilfried FRA 7 8 Simon, Gilles FRA 8 9 Roddick, Andy USA 9 10 Blake, James USA 10 11 Nalbandian, David ARG 11 12 Ferrer, David ESP...
