Emily Webley-Smith has been given a tough draw for this week's 10K in Mazatlan (Mexico). She faces 17 year old Mexican 8th seed Valeria Pulido-Velasco in rd1 who has a women's ranking of 631 and is inside the world's top 30 in the juniors. Like Emily, she made the semis of Obregon two weeks ago before los...
THE wild cards are interesting here!!!! some of the wc last week didnt make the best use of them. main draw julia bone olivia scarfi lucy warburton liz thomas WC naomi broady WC deb armstrong WC sophie proctor qualifying mel berry maddie brooks(official name on itf now) jade curtis tasha hillyer mel p...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/tennis/6650567.stm Not sure how much to read into this given it comes after Fed loses again but perhaps an attempt to blame something for that lose?
Hey Guys, it's that time again! Timetable of events: 11am (BST) Saturday 5th May draw made. Sometime that afternoon draw sheet will be available for download. (Stephen will post when and where this is as usual). Sunday afternoon, qualifiers will be added to the draw. 9pm Sunday 6th May entries must...
Live rankings now updated here (at Britishtennis.net) Jamie starts the week no change at WR42, but biggest threats Friedl and Pala drop further behind as a result of defending points from last year. Aucks starts the week up 1 place to WR59 as Oli Rochus loses points.
Despite SF place last week, no SE for Bally, so she is in qualies Q1 (10)Elena Baltacha (GBR) v Jae-Hee Lyoo (KOR) 62 60 Q2 Elena BALTACHA (GBR) (10) defeated In-Young HWANG (KOR) 61 61 QR vs Jin-A LEE (KOR) (5) Sarah B is in MD, providing her back is better I guess. -- Edited by Drew at 21:42, 2007-05-07
The New Table is posted here (on britishtennis.net) Gonzalez and Ancic drop behind Robredo and Ferrer respectively, defending quarter- final places from last year. Everyone on the table except Ancic is in action this week.
The New table is posted here (on britishtennis.net) Alex starts the week by climbing one place to 116 as Greul defends 50 points from 2006. Martin, Galvani, Giraldo and Vicente also drop places.
The New table is posted here (on britishtennis.net) Richard starts the week by climbing two places as Mertinak and Vik defend points from week 19 2006. Gremelmayr, Labadze and Bastl also drop places.
The New table is posted here (on britishtennis.net) Josh kicks off the week up 3 places. Despite defending 4 points himself: he drops behind Zeballos, but Dorsch, Fognini, Tourte and Vik drop behind him. Jamie climbs one place as Vemic defends points from 2006. Jonny goes up three. Vagnozzi, Niema...
(1) FEDERER, Roger SUI v BYE ALMAGRO, Nicolas ESP v HENMAN, Tim GBR (WC) VOLANDRI, Filippo ITA v QUALIFIER VERDASCO, Fernando ESP v (13) GASQUET, Richard FRA(12) BERDYCH, Tomas CZE v NIEMINEN, Jarkko FIN WAWRINKA, Stanislas SUI v QUALIFIER ACASUSO, Jose ARG v VERKERK, Martin NED BYE v (8) LJUBICIC,...
Brits in qualies Satoshi Suzuki (JPN) vs Zander Woodford-Smith (GBR) Xiao-Xi Song (CHN) vs Antoni Gomez (GBR) Alexander Ward (GBR) Bye Oscar Podlewski (GBR) vs Dmitri Marfinsky (RUS) Benjamin George Levi (GBR) vs Goran Jukopila (CRO)
1 Federer, Roger SUI 1 2 Nadal, Rafael ESP 2 3 Roddick, Andy USA 3 OUT 4 Davydenko, Nikolay RUS 4 5 Gonzalez, Fernando CHI 5 6 Robredo, Tommy ESP 6 7 Djokovic, Novak SRB 8 8 Ljubicic, Ivan CRO 8 9 Blake, James USA 9 10 Haas, Tommy GER 10 OUT 11 Murray, Andy GBR 1112 Nalbandian, David ARG 12 OUT 13 Ancic, Mario CRO...
It got crowded in heaven, so, for one day, it was decided only to accept people who had really had a bad day on the day they died. St. Peter was standing at the pearly gates and said to the first man, "Tell me about the day you died." The man said, "Oh, it was awful. I was sure my wife was having...
qualifying anna fitzpatrick v BYE 2ND ROUND Anna fitzpatrick def. vladlena petushkova 61 60 last round qualies anna fitzpatrick v sonal phadke she is seeded 3 in qualifying here so she should qualify -- Edited by Drew at 21:40, 2007-05-07
A couple of Brits taking time off from their hols to take part in 128 player qualifying. QR1: Connor Schelling-Tisza (Gbr) UNR vs Brock Sakey (USA) UNR David Sutton (Gbr) UNR vs (7)Timothy Neilly (USA) WR1092
Main Draw: (1)FEDERER, Roger SUI/BYE QUALIFIER v HRBATY, Dominik SVK QUALIFIER v SAFIN, Marat RUS WAWRINKA, Stanislas SUI v (15) FERRERO, Juan Carlos ESP(12) FERRER, David ESP v BJORKMAN, Jonas SWE SODERLING, Robin SWE v GINEPRI, Robby USA QUALIFIER v QUALIFIER BYE/(7) LJUBICIC, Ivan CRO(4) DJO...
Apart from the odd match at Wimbledon I haven't seen many of our girls play so would be very grateful if anyone could enlighten me on how some of our girls play.
I had hoped to go to Edinburgh this week since it's only an hour away by train, so I could see some for myself, but alas I have an exam on saturday...
1. Only in America.......can a pizza get to your house faster than an ambulance. 2. Only in America.......are there handicap parking places in front of a skating rink. 3. Only in America.......do drugstores make the sick walk all the way to the back of the store to get their prescriptions while healt...
An English doctor is being shown around a Scottish hospital. He is shown into a ward with a number of patients who show no obvious signs of injury. He goes to examine the first patient he sees, and the man proclaims: "Fair fa' yer honest, sonsie face, Great chieftain o' the puddin' race!" The...
The New Table is posted here (on britishtennis.net) Tim is defending a R3 place from 2006 (75 points, and so drops four places to 54 as the week begins He'll need to get past Federer to regain those points Also dropping places are: Ginepri, Almagro, Santoro, Simon, Ramirez- Hidalgo and Starace
