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A poor loss for James this week. He has had no regular partner this year, has fallen a lot in the rankings, am I the only one who thinks he may be the next to pack it in?

Aucks has turned up here, seeded 3 with Igor Zelenay (SVK) as his partner. Their first match will be against Beck and Levinsky (SVK/CZE)

Should be on Sunday.......first time they will have met. Serving well will be the key ! -- Edited by Drew at 00:25, 2008-03-16

R1 results so far 1st Round Alexandre FOLIE (BEL) (1) Vs Jason ZAFIROS (USA) Aaron DUJOVNE (CHI) defeated Christopher DIAZ-FIGUEROA (GUA) 6-4 6-3 Jose Gerardo MEZA PANIAGUA (MEX) Vs Jose PEREIRA (BRA) Tristan-Samuel WEISSBORN (AUT) defeated Robert COMAN (ROU) (14) 6-7(3) 6-2 6-1 Juan-Carlos SP...

The New Table is posted here (on britishtennis.net) With weeks 10 and 11 of last year dropping off, it's all change atthe start of the week: Jamie climbs 3 places, despite defending 3 points from GB F5 last year. His points total drops to 179. Villagran, Goldstein, Delgado and Dustov fall behind him,...

The New Table is posted here (on britishtennis.net) Loads of movement around Alex this week as the two weeks of Indian Wells 2007 drop off the rankings Alex is defending 3 points from Indian Wells qualies last year, so he starts the week with 234 points. However, he still manages to climb three places...

QR1 Marlot Meddens (Ned) (9) d. Jade Windley 6-3, 6-0 Danielle Brown (16) d. Camille Cheli (Fra) 6-1, 6-2 QR2 (last one) Danielle Brown (16) v Sarah Gronert (Ger) R1 Sarah Borwell (1) v Nathalie Mohn (Fra) Natasha Khan v qualifier -- Edited by RobC at 22:09, 2008-03-08

Having just watched Andy today beat Meltzer, Im starting to think that Federer has a point in his criticism of the Murray game. At the start he was stood so far behind the baseline that he almost invites opponents to dominate points. I thought he played pretty poorly and Im starting to think that Andy's...

1st Round Ricards OPMANIS (LAT) (1) defeated Kacper MULARCZYK (POL) 6-3 7-5 Gianni MINA (FRA) defeated Peter RAMSTROMMER (SWE) 6-1 6-1 Nima MADANI (SWE) defeated Niklas SKATTUM (NOR) 4-6 6-3 6-3 Jordan MCCULLOCH (GBR) (6) defeated Romain MONNEY (SUI) 6-3 6-2 James MARSALEK (GBR) (3) defeated And...

http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/38103/Surly-murray-hires-Kate-Moss-image-Expert-- Edited by Sheddie at 16:50, 2008-03-16

Mel has arrived down under for a couple of 25Ks and is seeded 2 for the first of these. Her first round opponent is Aussie Nicole Kriz who won her last 25K, so will be no pushover.

Not exactly a huge surprise, but confirmation courtesy of the Beeb: Murray joins strong Queen's field British number one, Andy Murray, will join a strong field at the Artois Championships in June. As well as Murray, world number two, Rafael Nadal, and Australian Open champion, Novak Djokovic, hav...

This is the first of 3 25K events in Spain which Georgie and Anna Smith have entered. Georgie appears to have moved into the main draw with her protected ranking whilst Anna and Nicola Slater are in qualifying: (4)Kirsten Flipkens (BEL) v BYE Karolyn Grymel (GER) v BYE Nicola Slater (GBR) v BYE (12)Pau...

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Tomorrow, at 7pm local time. I make that 3pm here. Get ready with the tranquillisers, defibrillators, cushions etc.

Andy is seeded 11th, has a bye first round, Melzer or Safin in R2, Karlovic probably awaits in R3, with Roddick possibly in R4, and he is in Federer's quarter.

Jamie Delgado continues his South American tour, this week in Ecuador. He's reverted to a previous partner, Luxembourgois Gilles Muller. Their first round opponents are the number 2 seeds, Argentines Eduardo Schwank and Horacio Zaballos.

R1 Naomi Cavaday (8) v Sandy Gumulya (Ina)

Tournament Key : M-FU-USA-06A-2008 Dates : 03 Mar to 09 Mar 2008 Venue : McAllen, TX, USA Surface : Hard Jamie Baker No 1 seed again....no other Brits ! They like their tennis in Texas !

Matt Smith is 1st Alt here and Maniel Bains 7th Alt. Given that the 6th Alt. is no. 1 seed in qualifying, it looks like Matt has made it into the main draw but Maniel's not there. QR1: Orion Modebe UNR v Albert Mare (BUR) UNR QR1: Nikki Roenn UNR v (q7) Denis Bejtulahi (SRB) WR 1359

ATP Indian Wells Masters Week 2 (Hard) - Andy Murray CHALLENGERS No Brits Entered FUTURES Bath GBF4 $10K (Indoor Hard) - Richard Bloomfield, Miles Kasiri, Edward Seator, Chris Eaton, Ken Skupski (Flanagan, Brewer, Smith, Hewitt, Bains, Allinson, Thornley, Miotto, Coupland, Sagoo, Fitzpatr...

I see what CourtCrazy meant about Candna F2 being much stronger than F1 - Ross, Kyle, Timothy & Jonathan were seeded 1, 4, 6 & 9 in qualifying last week. I can only assume it's because there is no Future in the US next week now that the set of three in Texas has ended, though having said that, out of t...

A couple of Brits have turned up in qualifying in Western Australia: QR1: (q2) Tom Rushby WR 692 v Marvin Barker (AUS) UNR QR1: Dan Cottier UNR v (q15) Sun-Yong Kim (KOR) WR 1495 (CH 660 in 2006) The really weird thing about this is that Tom withdrew from this Future on 26 Feb - if he hadn't, he'd be 1st Alt on...

L32: Alex Slabinsky WR 396 v Evgeny Kirillov (RUS) WR 362 Not a bad R1 draw for Slabba given that it's quite a strong Future, but (2) Adrian Mannarino (FRA) WR 225 is likely to await the winner in R2. Lugassy, back from Japan after losing to Bloomers in Kyoto, is the top seed here.