http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/tennis/7331593.stm Two-time French Open finalist Alex Corretja will coach Andy Murray during the clay-court season. The 33-year-old Spaniard, a former world number two, will work with Murray at events in Valencia, Monte Carlo, Rome, Hamburg a...
Interesting interview with Barry Flatman in The Sunday Times. Very welcome evidence of contrition on the lad's part. The LTA's "tough love" policy seems to have claimed another victim!
Jamie Murray teams up with Kevin Ullyett here (Max taking a rest after Davis Cup duty?) and they are the second seeds. Tough first round match in Julian Knowle and Jurgen Melzer.
The New Table is posted here (on britishtennis.net) Alex drops 38 places to 255 , defending his Cardiff final from last year. Jamie climbs 5 to 242 as Boggo, Greul, Niemayer, Mirnyi and Zabaleta drop behind him. Which means that for now, JAMIE IS THE BRITISH NUMBER 2. Others dropping places are Dolgop...
L32: (4) James Ward WR 483 v Lance Vodicka (USA) WR 728 - the other seed in this quarter is (8) Luigi Dagord (ITA) WR 544 L32: (6) Miles Kasiri WR 504 v Adam Fass (USA) WR 740 - the other seed in this quarter is (2) Pierre-Ludovic Duclos (CAN) WR 413 Reasonable draws for both of them.
Poor Chris, he goes all the way to western Siberia just to draw the top seed - nice-looking quarter for Slabba though ... L32: Chris Eaton WR 682 v (1) Jan Mertl (CZE) WR 268 L32: (3) Alex Slabinsky WR 375 v Dmitri Sitak (RUS) WR 722 Mertl the Turtle has been on the slide since reaching a career high of 16...
1 Federer, Roger (SUI) 1 2 Nadal, Rafael (ESP) 2 3 Djokovic, Novak (SRB) 3 4 Davydenko, Nikolay (RUS) 4 5 Ferrer, David (ESP) 5 6 Roddick, Andy (USA) 6 OUT 7 Nalbandian, David (ARG) 7 8 Gasquet, Richard (FRA) 8 9 Blake, James (USA) 9 OUT 10 Berdych, Tomas (CZE) 10 OUT 11 Murray, Andy (GBR) 11 12 Gonzalez, Fer...
Florida-based Ross Connolly, WR 1347, is our sole representative in the qualifiers. Seeded 10, his first opponent is 18 year-old Chinese, Beng Ho-Beng, who has yet to make it through a set of qualifiers, with three wins from a dozen attempts; if he gets past Beng, and then his semi-final opponent, Ro...
So guys, it's that time again. The Pickem returns. This competition marks the one year anniversary since we started playing in a team competition against the AMmers. There are more teams now, but the target is still the same...we need to defend our title!! So, the details. 1)As always, anyone can pla...
ATP Monte Carlo Masters (Clay) - Andy Murray CHALLENGERSBaton Rouge $50K (Hard) - Alex Bogdanovic FUTURESMexico F4 $15K(Hard) - Josh Goodall (Bamford, Barlow, Brassington) Spain F16 $10K (Clay) - Morgan Phillips (Feaver, Rice) China F4 $15K (Hard) - (Connolly, Kinsella) WTA Korea Republic $...
He was on the Alt list for the Florianopolis Challenger this week, but in fact, making another inspired choice, Edward has returned to Africa to play a Future on the Spanish enclave of Melilla, where he is the top seed in qualifying. Probably because of its location, this is one Spanish Future that Mo...
L32: (4) Alex Bogdanovic WR 181 v Thiago Alves (BRA) WR 252 The winner will face Vacek or Berankis, with a possible rematch with no. 2 seed Bobby Reynolds to follow if he gets to the QFs. Alves is on a 4-match winning streak against Brits (Smith, Carver, Marray, Delgado) since losing to Barry Cowan in 200...
R1 Dusan LAJOVIC (SRB) Vs Daniel COX (GBR) (6) Constantin BELOT (FRA) Vs Neil PAUFFLEY (GBR) Daniel SMETHURST (GBR) (8) Vs Federico GAIO (ITA) R1 Laura ROBSON (GBR) Vs Kristina MLADENOVIC (FRA) (3) Irina RAMIALISON (FRA) Vs Heather WATSON (GBR) (qualified) Marcus Willis has seemingly pulled out,...
Becomes only the tenth 15 year old to win a Tour main draw match in the history of tennis. The last person to do this was Nadal when he beat Ramon Delgado in Mallorca in 2002.
And a hell of a win this is, too. He has beaten Pablo Cuevas in straight sets, who's a fine player on slow surfaces.
He happen...
Results from the BBC. A decnt event here with 8 men with world rankings plus the returning Mr Marray. Jack Carpenter, on his school holidays, defeated Tim Bradshaw WR1598 6-3, 6-1 before falling to Jonny Marray in the 2nd round. British Tour Tournament, Tipton, West Midlands: Mens Singles Quarte...
Winning %s up to 7 April, extracted from steveg's stats. At least 5 matches played. Obviously it doesn't take into account the tournament levels played, but I think it is still interesting. Players in the GB top 25 in bold. 1 Rui Machado W:33 L:2 = 94.3% - non-Brit, for comparison only 85 Richar...
Myles Blake has turned up in qualifying for this clay court Future on the Cote d'Azur: QR1: (q4) Myles Blake WR 689 v Fabien Robert (FRA) WR 1486 - winner likely to play (q14) Nicolas Grammare (FRA) WR 1176 in the FQR
