OK, so here are the 6 nominations for that coveted title of britishtennis.net player of the year ! (1) Dan Evans: Evans started the year in stunning form, making two G1 finals (taking the Asuncion Bowl title in Paraguay) and beating a string of the world's best juniors - Stephane Piro, Andrei Karatch...
Qualifying begins tonight on the Gold Coast !!! (2) Alla Kudryavtseva (RUS) v. Darya Kustova (BLR) Margit Ruutel (EST) v. Anne Keothavong (GBR) Jessica Moore (AUS) v. Galina Voskoboeva (RUS) (WC) Monika Wejnert (AUS) v. (5) Olga Savchuk (UKR) Keothavong v Ruutel starts at midnight GMT
Looks like the Scud is retiring too so who was the greater, Tim or Scud Philippoussis led 4-3 on head-to-heads, including wins in the 98 US Open and Wimbledon 2000 but Tim won the last two, in the final of Adelaide 2002 and at Wimbledon 04 Both won 11 career titles, Henman won 1 masters series as did Philip...
Great opportunity for some of the lower ranked juniors to rack up some points, this field is always really weak as its during Christmas....GAs are the same level pts wise as slams and so the likes of Akhezzan, Thomson twins etc would not normally make the main draw cut. Results (rankings in brackets):...
Jess Ren took the U12s title last year to join Andy Murray and Jamie Delgado among British winners of this.....Jamie Murray was runner up in U14 singles back in 98 too Will there be a British winner this year ? Laura Robson must surely be huge favourite in the U14s -- Edited by Sheddie at 22:02, 2007-1...
1 Davydenko, Nikolay RUS 4 2 Robredo, Tommy ESP 10 3 Murray, Andy GBR 11 4 Ljubicic, Ivan CRO 18 5 Karlovic, Ivo CRO 22 6 Starace, Potito ITA 31 OUT 7 Kohlschreiber, Philipp GER 32 8 Andreev, Igor RUS 33 9 Tursunov, Dmitry RUS 34 10 Wawrinka, Stanislas SUI 36 11 Santoro, Fabrice FRA 37 12 Volandri, Filippo I...
R1: Victoria Brook GBR d. Krista Damico USA 7-5, 2-6, 6-2 (4) Jade Curtis GBR d. LL Sofia Espana MEX 6-1, 6-1 Lereesa Easterbrook GBR d. Thais Romero MEX 6-2, 6-3 Heather Watson GBR d. Olivia Bennet TRI 2-6, 6-2, 6-4
of letting someone know their fly is unzipped: The cucumber has left the salad. Robin has left the hood. I can see the gun of Navarone. Someone tore down the wall, and your Pink Floyd is hanging out. You've got Windows on your laptop. Your soldier ain't so unknown anymore. Quasimodo needs to go b...
Tournament Key : M-FU-NGR-04A-2007 Dates : 17 Dec to 23 Dec 2007 Venue : Lagos, Nigeria Surface : Hard Slabba continues his quest to the top 350....no other Brits me thinks !!!
Was in this month's issue of British tennis....all about his injury...here's a brief synopsis: It happened as we know in rd2 of a futures in Italy back in March. Having beaten the top seed (who was ranked about 210) in 3 sets in rd1, Morgan was leading a Cypriot qualifer 6-2, 4-0 and was running out wid...
Mark, a loving husband, was in trouble. He forgot his wedding anniversary and his wife was really ticked off at him. She told him, "tomorrow morning, I expect to find a gift in the driveway that goes from to 200 in under 6 seconds, AND IT BETTER BE THERE." The next morning, Mark got up really e...
Merry Christmas and Happy new year guys ! Hope you all have a good one and drink/eat as much as you want ! Hopefully there'll be plenty more to cheer about in British tennis come 2008
Mayweather, are you listening? In the gym, sweat is glistening I'll eat you alive - and take you in five Walking in a Hatton Wonderland Cheerio to the pasties See ya beers, no more Astis I'll rip off yer 'ead - and put you to bed Walking in a Hatton Wonderland When I get home I'm gonna build a snowman Then pre...
Simple question about Radek Stepanek which is all on our lips ! How can an ugly sod pull Martina & an 18 year old when Fitz can't even get a date with Ivanovic ?
Doug wrote:
"I have never introduced myself and really should.
I am in Bozeman, Montana which is just lovely. It is a beautiful place year round. We get a lot of snow, but it is often sunny and very dry, which means that although it does get cold it does not feel cold. Before moving to Bozeman last...
The arcade was pretty popular last year, how about a festive challenge on this game: http://www.ebaumsworld.com/games/play/1092/ I got 723 1st run -- Edited by RobC at 13:06, 2007-12-23
R1: H Skinner (Middlesex) beat A Fitzpatrick (Warwickshire) 7-6(0) 7-5 A Farquharson (Middlesex) beat M Leahy (Surrey) 7-6(4) 6-4 B Bant (Sussex) beat L Bruce-Burgess (Hampshire & IOW) 6-3 6-0 C Priddle (Staffordshire) beat B Dunbar (Nottinghamshire) 6-3 6-4 C Llewellyn (Lancashire) beat...
