Sport, the free weekly magazine distributed in Central London & the City every Friday, sometimes serves up some unexpected little gems. Today it's chosen to highlight "title wins for two other British tennis players" (i.e. players other than Andy) last week: Jamie's in Brown...
Watched Jag Sagoo win impressively today against Laurence Head. Have to make him favourite to defend his title. Really can't believe he hasn't picked up more than 1 ranking point in the 12 months since last year's event, Michael Hayes up next for him in the quarters. Number 2 seed Matt Bright had to fig...
Ross Hutchins and James Auckland in the doubles here, with different partners. R1 Ross Hutchins / Rik De Voest (Rsa) v Ivan Dodig (Cro) / Franko Skugor (Cro) (WC) James Auckland / Denis Gremelmayr (Ger) v Yves Allegro (Sui) / Alexander Peya (Aut) (4) Peya was part of the team that beat Aucks and Delgad...
Tournament Key : M-FU-THA-03A-2008 Dates : 25 Feb to 02 Mar 2008 Venue : Nonthaburi, Thailand Surface : Hard Alts Entry : Brewer, Howe, Irwin and Flanagan again try to qualify. Bains & Barlow both withdrew. Bains to Nigeria F2.
Welcome to The Show! On Thursday, ATP pro Jamie Murray will stop by to chat about tennis.
Murray has four career doubles titles, including one this season at Delray Beach with partner Max Mirnyi. His grandest feat came last year at Wimbledon winning the mixed doubles championship with Jelena Janko...
(a) Dan Evans: Quarters of the Aussie Open juniors and the big warm-up event in Nottinghill the week before, where he also won doubles (b) Dan Smethurst: Won first G1 title in Czech Republic and made the doubles final to rocket up the rankings to verge of top 50 (c) Lewis Barnes: First G3 title in India...
Scott Sears lost to belgium 8th seed 4 6 60 62 james turboville lost to pablo busta from spain 3rd seed 62 64 lewis barnes beat mike belude from germany 61 63 aimee gibson beat german girl 64 61 jack carpenter beat belgium in 3 sets -- Edited by RobC at 09:56, 2008-02-20
Jamie Murray and Max Mirnyi are seeded 2 here. Let's hope it kick-starts their season. Ross is also there with Victor Hanescu as his partner. Sod's law, both pairs are in the same half of the draw, nay, the same quarter. Typical Brit Luck.
Edward Seator and Maniel Bains in MD. The top 3 seeds in qualifying have all got byes into the main draw, but the 4th seed, our own Andrew Fitzpatrick, plays Fabio Lavazza from Italy for a place in the main draw. Lavazza is 27 years old, and has lost all five of his pro matches, the last one being in Nov 2005...
Just a note that Marcus has a tennis tournament this weekend. It is our first road trip for tennis and we are all going out to Billings, Montana. Billings is about two hours east of Bozeman and is the biggest town in Montana. Marcus will be playing in under 12s & under 10s singles. He is not playin...
The New Table is posted here (on britishtennis.net) Jamie starts the week by climbing one place to 267, as Saretta defends points from '07. Kuznetsov, Peya, Chen and Marrero also drop places. There's 18 points on offer at the US F4 Futures. If Jamie wins the tournament, he could climb as high as 239. No...
Anna F continues her American venture. The other seed in qualifying, Nicole Thyssen, is a tough prospect, being a 19 year old Dutch Fed Cup player who is rapidly improving. (7)Nicole Thyssen (NED) v (wc)Alexandra Cercone (USA) (15)Anna Fitzpatrick (GBR) v Kimberly Couts (USA)
The New Table is posted here (on britishtennis.net) Andy's defending his Memphis semi- final points, so having just climbed back into the top 10, he now drops behind Berdych and Nalbandian to 12 He needs to reach the semis to have a chance of regaining the top 10. Winning the title could get him as hi...
Anne is in the main draw here along with Mel, providing she gets the all-clear from her doctor. Sarah is in qualifying: (4)Sarah Borwell (GBR) v (wc)Annalisa Bona (ITA) (10)Claire Feuerstein (FRA) v Irina Buryachok (UKR) The surface is indoor carpet
