My campign for Andy to be BBC Sports Personality of the Year starts here At the moment I am guessing that maybe an Olympic champiion or Lewis Hamilton, if he wins the Drivers Championship, may still be favourite. Some may question the "personality" bit of it, but hey look at some of the past...
Has anyone else here completed the LTA survey? (can't find it on their site, but I got emailed about it with a link that looks like it might be unique to the email address it's sent to so I probably can't post it here) The reason I ask is that one question asks you "Which of these benefits pof British Te...
By Peter Too.. Most Improved Players in 200814 year old Laura Robson won the junior title at Wimbledon and entered some $10K events before reaching the SF of the $75K at Shrewsbury. She entered the senior ranking lists on 13th October at 550, already half way up the list, and reached a career high of 507...
http://www.atpworldtour.com This must have appeared in the last 24 hours. Looks pretty awful, with the new turquoise theme clashing horribly with the background (though the background itself might look ok as a pic on its own if it wasn't on a tennis site!) and their attempt to squash the rankings/...
Thanks to Johnnylad for preparing this section : Best Male Player of the Year 2008 Andy Murray became one of the big 4 this year. Back to back Masters Series titles, a maiden Grand Slam final and some fantastic wins over Nadal, Federer and Djokovic. He has added extra bulk to his physique, zip to his serv...
How close will we come with our ranking predictions ? Andy Murray: 5 Boggo: 100-150 Baker: 100-150 Bloomfield and Goodall: 200-250 Slabba: 250-300 Kasiri and Marray: 350-400 Ward: 300-350 Skupski: 350-400 Seator, Morgan Phillips and Matt Smith: 500-550 Blake: 550-600 Cox and Evans: 600-700 Rus...
Hope everyone has a nice and safe Holiday. We(TBarM) just finished our pre-qualifier wild card doubles tourney this weekend and it was a huge success. 28 very high quality teams with a great tournout of fans. We have upgraded our coverage for this years Challenger and we tested new things out this...
The major event for under 14s and under 12s has plenty of British interest. The Qualifying draws were a massive 256 (including some byes). Apart from any qualifiers or LLs in the main draws: U12 R128 Estelle Cascino France v. Lauryn John-Baptiste United Kingdom Mirabelle Njoze United Kingdom v. G...
Following on from last week's Under 14 and Under 12 events there is an ITF under 18 tournament here (alongside an under 16 tournament), involving many of the boys who took part in the Orange Bowl under 16s. In the girls event Steph Cornish is seeded 2, looking to make further inroads into the top 100. Boy...
George Morgan's victory in the Under 14 section here last year will be a hard act to follow. In the main draws, apart from any qualifiers, are: U12 R128 Charley Force United States v Jack Gibbens United Kingdom Yossef Dahan Israel v Joshua Sapwell United Kingdom Q v Peter Ashley United Kin...
The last time a 25K was held in Sorrento Melanie South came away with both titles. Aiming to emulate Mel are Jade Curtis in the main draw and in qualifying: Jocelyn RAE (GBR) (4) BYE Kat BAILEY (AUS) Vs Brie WHITEHEAD (USA) Storm SANDERS (AUS) Vs Veronika MAKOVEY (AUS) Julia MORIARTY (AUS) (10) BYE Jade...
No this is not some new boardgame from Mattel this christmas to give to the weans...its the continuing saga of Alex Bogdanovic getting his ass-whipped by the media...shame on you OEM !!! Alex is the top of the 'losers' section of Neils piece. He does say its a bit harsh...a bit !!! cmon Neil at least you c...
The entry lists have been announced, and the British involvement will be limited to: Boys: Main Draw Alastair Barnes Qualy James Chaudry Ahmed El Menshawy Girls: Main Draw Laura Robson Heather Watson Hannah James Qualy None Some of the other top juniors may play the Grade 1 events in Latin America an...
While some of our top 14 year-olds are taking part in the Junior Orange Bowl, most of our top 13 year old boys are in France, at St Genevieve des Bois, for a top Grade 1 event. Our 3 top ranked players (Luke Bambridge, Christopher Pearce and Evan Hoyt) were all knocked out before the semis, but 4th ranked K...
http://www.lta.org.uk/Global/Downloads/Results/2008%20British%20Tour/Masters%20-%20Nottingham/Womens%20Singles.pdfYas withdrew from Dubai to play this. QF Line Up Clarke v Walker Farley v Ince Jessica Ren v Whybourn Ankutse v Jennifer Ren
The masters of the British Tour are on (good to see Fitzy there). Its not the strongest line up though, only one or two ranked players ever compete in most events during the year. Yet that is how the LTA describe it, "an important stepping stone between juniors and senior ranking events". ...
Nominations : 1) Jamie Murray - current GB No 1 made a career high of WR28 this year with a decent start to the season but fell away in the second half. 1 ATP title. 2) Ross Hutchins - Breakthrough year for Ross with both ATP and challenger titles. Ended the year on a career high of WR44. 3) Jamie Delgado - end...
By Peter Too... This has been the year of breakthroughs as far as the British girls are concerned. The player who started it all off was Elena Baltacha. She got into the mood by winning the 25K in Jersey in week 13, then restarted the record books by winning the $75K in Tourhout the following week, the hig...
By David C Top GirlStephanie Cornish Steph has moved rapidly this year from outside 500 to the cusp of the top 100, thanks to a late season spurt, which saw her capture a Grade 2 title in China, before beating a top 50 player in the Eddie Herr Trophy Tara Moore Tara played the top singles in the GB 16 & un...
By David C Most Improved BoyLuke Bambridge Luke has made rapid progress in the Tennis Europe Under 14 rankings reaching the semi and winning the doubles in a top tournament in Moscow last month. As a result Luke is now ranked 2 in Europe. Liam Broady Liam started the year ranked outside the top 100 in Ten...
Most Improved Male Player...by Johnnylad / Drew James Ward has navigated one of the difficult barriers of men's professional tennis. Moving from 500 to 275 in one year has been a hard slog with tournament appearances nearly every week, but where in the past he may go deep one week and straight out the n...
