Wild Cards into Main Draw for Jennifer Ren, Amanda Cunningham, Michelle Farley, & Lisa Whybourn joining, Liz Thomas, Naomi Broady, Yasmin Clarke & Jocelyn Rae. Wild Cards in qualifying to Amy Askew, Margot Carter and Nicole Peterson. May go down for a day if the predicted heatwave ever hap...
It looks like Josh might have got into the main draw here after all if he had wanted to, because qualifying is half-empty and the no. 1 Q seed is ranked 382, with the top 4 Q seeds going down to 582 and the 8th seed ranked just 1572. A golden opportunity missed for a a few of 300-500 range Brits here, I feel QR2:...
All players are GBR and/or unranked unless stated: QR1: Alistair Felton v (WC) Marc Beckles (BAR) QR1: David O'Leary v Jonathan Brooklyn QR1: Edward Jones v Thomas Gill QR1: (WC) Dominic Ross-Hurst v Oliver Evans QR1: Chris Priddle v Ben Dunbar QR1: Burnham Arlidge v Harri Heliovaara (FIN) QR1: Ale...
A drop from 15K to 10K in Mexico this week and Bammy gets a DA to the main draw. QR1: (q3) Kyle Brassington WR 1233 has a bye - will play an unranked Mexican in QR2 QR1: Christopher Harfield UNR v Juan Manuel Marucco (ARG) UNR QR1: (q9) Jonathan Kinsella WR 1477 v B Rodriguez Rosales (MEX) UNR
From the Herald : Simon Cambers Jamie Murray believes he and his doubles partner Max Mirnyi must start adding consistency to their game in order to compete for major titles on a regular basis. The pair, who teamed up at the beginning of the year, it ninth in the race to reach the season-ending Masters Cu...
In 1999 Lucie Ahl won a 25K title here on the French Riviera. Since then it has been upgraded to a 100K + H event so Anna Smith will be hard pressed to qualify for the main draw let alone emulate Lucie. Her section is: (2)Teliana Pereira (BRA) v (wc)Joanna Bougon (FRA) Julia Landauer (GER) v (wc)Fanny Frac...
Ancic, a WC, thrashed Mischa Zverev 1 & in their R1 encounter this morning! The head-to-head is 1-2, with one win apiece this year, Ancic being the more recent winner, having avenged his straight-sets defeat by Andy in Marseille with 6-2 2-6 7-6(7) victory in Miami...
Jamie D has turned up here and is seeded 4th with Gil (POR). Their 1st round opponents are a wildcard pair from Tunisia. Jamie and Fred should be able to win that, I hope! -- Edited by helki at 15:30, 2008-04-27
The second leg of the trio of Korean 25Ks for Natasha Khan and Georgie Stoop is in Gimcheon. Tash is again in qualifying with her section being:
(7) Natasha Khan (GBR) v Se Won Lee (KOR)
Wen-Hsin Hsu (TPE) v Na-Lae Han (KOR)
Bit-Na Lee(KOR) v Seo-Kyung Kang (KOR)
Joohyoung Kim (KOR) v (12) Da-Jung H...
Naomi Cavaday has opted for the American Green Clay circuit, and will be in the main draw here. Tara Moore just scraped in to qualifying. Her section is: (4)Leanne Baker (NZL) v Mashona Washington (USA) Angelina Gabueva (RUS) v (wc)Lauren Herring (USA) Tara Moore (GBR) v Christina McHale (USA) (6)A...
Anne Keothavong has a potentially tricky opener here against a former World junior number 1, whose career has been blighted by injury - and is using her Special Ranking. Anne needs to go deep this week and/or next to have any chance of making the Wimbledon main draw on ranking. The bottom quarter of the...
Stretch & the Beast are seeded eighth & so have a bye in the first round. Andy is paired with Hutch. They are unseeded (opposite half of the draw) & play ToJo & Lindstedt in Round 1! -- Edited by Stircrazy at 13:08, 2008-04-28
Next week, on clay. Main draws should feature - Jade Curtis (what a waste of time... she'll be beyond AER from 2nd May)
Mathew James
Qualies should have Chaudry and Marsalek.
For the first time since the demise of the Cardiff tournament in 1997 two British players appear on the Main Draw list for a WTA clay court event. The Grand Prix de SAR La Princesse Lalla Meryem (their headed paper must be a metre wide!) includes both Katie O'Brien, who scraped in on ranking, and Elena Ba...
The New Table is posted here (on britishtennis.net) Alex is defending another 14 points this week, so drops 18 places to go behind Josh to 273 Josh climbs 5 places to 261, and is THE NEW BRITISH NUMBER THREE. Jamie climbs six places to 236. Players dropping places are: Aranguren, Decoud, Prpic, Vace...
Tournament Key : M-FU-MEX-04A-2008 Dates : 21 Apr to 27 Apr 2008 Venue : Cordoba, Veracruz, Mexico Surface : Hard Onto Cordoba... Josh could well be the no 2 seed here....Neil Bamford may just make the MD. QD : Kinsella, Brassington, Barlow....
Link to the BBC article that reports on Djokovic's comments on the BBC's 'Inside Sport' programme: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/tennis/7369812.stm A stinging attack. He does have a point though, we have all of the right cogs to produce Top 100 players in this country however the chemistr...
Another 10K in Spain with a 12layer qualifying draw starting on a Friday. Sadly, despite there being free spaces in the draw, it seems that Robert's media commitments have stopped him from being there. At least, I hope it's that and not because he feels like he needs to lie low for a bit after things go...
Andy has a wild card here! 1 Nadal, Rafael ESP 2 OUT Davydenko, Nikolay RUS 4 3 Ferrer, David ESP 5 4 Nalbandian, David ARG 7 5 Robredo, Tommy ESP 15 6 Canas, Guillermo ARG 16 OUT Baghdatis, Marcos CYP 18 8 Moya, Carlos ESP 19 9 Karlovic, Ivo CRO 20 10 Almagro, Nicolas ESP 25 11 Niemin...
Hi guys, it's that time again. The entry form is up and running at: http://www.britishtennis.net/competitions.html The entry deadline...well it's a bit complicated. It's explained on the entry form and I'll explain again here. Entry deadline is 09:00 GMT. That's 10am UK time. 11am CET on Sunday...
