Wild Cards in main draw so far are: Jennifer Ren, Alexandra Walker and Elisha Gabb. I wonder if Laura Robson will get one? Qualifying Wild Cards for Parish, Chowdhury, Farley, Gater & Fox
QR1: (WC) Faris Akhazzan UNR v (q8) Rohan Bopanna (IND) WR 317 QR1: Alex Slabinsky WR 338 v Raven Klaasen (RSA) WR 320 Surprise WC for Akhazzan here. The Brits are in the best two qualifying sections.
I wish Shorty would pick some weaker tournaments because he is more than capable of getting a point on the board: QR1: Matthew Short UNR bye QR2: (q6) Dayne Kelly (AUS) WR 922 beat Matthew Short UNR 6-4, 7-6(2)
Excuse the dreadful pun in the title but at least it got your attention. I haven't been including Johanna in the GB top 25 table or in the GB successes table this year because I haven't known whether to count her as British while she waits for citizenship to come through or not, particularly when it seem...
QR1: James Allemby UNR v BYE QR1: (q11) Morgan Phillips WR 1351 v BYE QR2: James Allemby v Gozdur/Dorman (UNR/UNR) QR2: (q11) Morgan Phillips WR 1351 v Esat Tanik (TUR) UNR Allemby is in top section headed by WR 969 Other seed in Morgans section WR 1032
The draw is out & both the Murray boys are down to play, Andy in theory (i.e. if he's fit!) with Ross Hutchins (he obviously has the Murray seal of approval! ) & Jamie, as already reported elsewhere, with Simon Aspelin of Sweden. Neither pair is seeded & the top seeds, surprise, surpris...
Tournament Key : M-FU-GBR-03A-2009 Dates : 09 Mar to 15 Mar 2009 Venue : Tipton, Great Britain Surface : Hard Jonny Marray, Dan Evans, Colin Fleming, Ken Skupski will all be DAs into the MD. Illingworth, Milton and Cox could make it also depending on SE spots being cleared. 1 spot in the MD has been taken...
I thought I was looking at last week's Q draw for a moment but no, Sean & Tim have been drawn in the same qualifying section together with aother Brit again - let's just hope they don't make as much of a pig's ear of it as last week! Fortunately they've all avoided Edlefsen (who went on to lose to an unsee...
Ivan made it past Andreev in 3 sets 6-4 6-7(5) 7-6(4) in a tiring match lasting over 3 hours (Andys match was 50 minutes). Ivan saved a few match points as well. Andy currently has a 2-2 record (2-1 on hard) with unranked Ljubicic (WR 74) , although the last time Andy lost was the 2007 Doha final. He beat Lj...
Redding is always a strong 25K tournament as it attracts some players entering Indian Wells who lose early - hence the cut is around 200. Qualifying Draw (6)Christina McHale (USA) v BYE (9)Johanna Konta (AUS) v (wc)Monica Wiesener (USA) Laura Robson beat McHale (last year's Orange Bowl finalist) i...
Anna is making a low key comeback this week in the doubles at Bath where she and Stefania Boffa are 2nd seeds. Anyone know what happened to her, she hadn't played since August.....injury or did she quit the game ?
Robredo finally overcomes Cilic 7-5 7-6, although it would seem to be a bit of a scrappy game, there were 9 breaks of serve and 20 break points. Andy has doubles tomorrow with Ross, although he is on first so should get plenty of rest before playing Wednesday against Robredo. Robredo is one of the only to...
Bollettieri student Natalie Beazant is our only girl here for the Banana Bowl and the Grade A Copa Gerdau. Paul Brown was on the entry list for the Boys, but wasn't in the qualifying tournament. Unfortunately Natalie has a very tough draw against the world number 30. R1 (L64) (4,Q) Valeria Solovieva (...
After going two years without anyone breaking into the top 500 in the world Slabba finally broke the curse in the last tournament of 2007. In 2008 Ward, Eaton, Evans and briefly Seator as well as Marray re-entering all broke through the barrier and we had players such as Kasiri, Skupski, Blake and B...
QR1: Joe Cooper UNR v Phillip Mohr (GER) UNR QR1: Richard Brooks UNR v (WC) Roberto Ortega-Olmedo (ESP) UNR QR1: Robert Dee UNR v Lorenzo Frigerio (ITA) UNR QR1: George Finch UNR v Alex Witmeur (BEL) QR2: Cooper or Mohr v Axel Tabarot Devert (FRA) UNR QR2: Philip Barlow UNR v Finch or Witmeur
Andy is likely to play on Monday. OOP is not out yet. Murray currently holds a 2-0 head to head over Paul-Henri, with both wins on hard including a 2 2 defeat in the semis of Marseille last year. Looking further ahead, all seeds won in his quarter accept Ancic who retired against Ljubicic.
first of all well done to yasmin clarke who won the britishtour without dropping a set last week in bilesley. its in bolton this week and some people to watch out for are yasmin clarke lucy warburton jenn rabot carly homewood ammie jarret sophie proctor. as well as some up coming juniors final will be de...
Hannah James is seeded for the first of a series of Asian Grade 1s, and was joined in the main draw by qualifier Francesca Stephenson. 16 & Under Grand Prix winner Hannah Martin-Merchant was also here in qualifying, but unfortunately retired against Francesca's opponent. However she is down fo...
