For those wondering where James Auckland is: he's here, partnering Qureshi in the doubles. First opponents are the top seeds, Cerretani & Tricky Dicky Norman. -- Edited by helki at 19:25, 2009-01-25
QR1: Philip Barlow WR 1660 v Spencer Wolf (USA) UNR QR1: Matthew Short UNR v (q3) Goran Tosic (MNE) WR 717 Philip's first opponent does not even have an ITF record, but the winner is likely to face the top seed (ranked in the 600s) in QR2.
Wildcards are out; Qualifying: Nicola Slater Francesca Lewis Chloe Murphy Sabrina Bamburac Main Draw: Amy Sargeant Holly Richards Katie Gater Few names I don't know there but lets see what they can do!
Tom Farquarson plays here after last week's tournament victory. And 4 others including Geroge Morgan. Kevin KACZYNSKI (GER) Vs Tom FARQUHARSON (GBR) Stefan STERLAND-MARKOVIC (GBR) (12) BYE Elliot BARNWELL (GBR) BYE George MORGAN (GBR) (9) BYE Yannis BALTOGIANNIS (BEL) Vs David WATSON (GBR)
L32: Andy Murray [4] vs Jurgen Melzer [31] - CH 28 The difficulty finally starts to increase for Andy as he plays someone ranked inside the top 50 for the first time. They played three times last year, with Andy leading the head to head 3 - 0. With the most memorable probably being the come back from two set...
ATP Australian Open Week 2 (Outdoor Hard) - Andy Murray CHALLENGERSNo Brits as Direct EntriesFUTURESGermany F4 $15K+H (Indoor Carpet) - Josh Goodall, James Ward, Jonny Marray, Chris Eaton (Pauffley, Knights, Golding) Mexico F1 $15K+H (Hard) - (Thornley, Bradshaw, Jones, Baxendine, Johnsto...
Most of our top 95 and 96ers are playing in this event, which has attracted a strong entry list, as it comes a week before the prestigious Les Petits As tournament in Tarbes. We currently have 3 boys ranked in the top 10 in Europe in this age bracket, and one of these, Evan Hoyt, has reached the semi-final...
Alaistar Barnes attempts to keep the title in British hands after Dan Smethurst won here last year. R1 Alaistar Barnes (6) bye R2 Alaistar Barnes (6) v Robert Rumler (CZE) or Tobias Blomgren (SWE) In the girls event, Jessica Ren has qualified to join Elisha Gabb in the main draw, but Lucy Brown lost in t...
Anne plays with Mervana Jugic-Salkic, and they play the Australian wild cards Sophie Ferguson & Jessica Moore. Sarah & Courntey have probably signed-in as alternates, and are sticking their legs out at passers by who are in the doubles draw I expect.
All our contingent for the Australian Open Juniors event are here for the second Grade 1 warm-up. Hopefully this means that Laura Robson has made a full recovery from her stomach muscle injury. Hannah James has drawn the short straw, having been paired with the Traralgon winner (who beat world numbe...
Bally plays the former champion here with a top 100 place at stake (I think?). Here's a random one for you stat freaks. Bally hasn't lost a match when winning the first set since July 2007!
An opponent from Spain whose surname Chris Bailey, surprise, surprise, hasn't a bloody clue how to pronounce! There's a head-to-head of sorts, though as both encounters took place in Spain on clay (a Futures qualifier in Vigo in 2004 which Andy won 7-6(11) 6-3 & first-round clash in Barcelon...
First up on Rod Laver, Tuesday. Yuk - a morning start for Andy. Hopefully even a half-awake Andy can see off Pavel, who hasn't played for nearly a year, without too much trouble. The upside is that it is on at midnight UK time, on BBC 2. They have only played each other once, in the US Open in 2005 which Andy w...
Just for the Count After Djokovic's defeat in Sydney ( apparently he didn't want to be ranked 2nd in the world, however temporarily ! ) : Points on Monday will be : Djokovic 10650 ( defending 2000 ) Murray 7190 ( defending 10 ) Andy will rise to 3rd after the Aussie Open if he wins the tournamen...
