Male Player of the Year: Andy Murray Jamie Murray Tim Henman Female Player of the Year: Anne Keothavong Naomi Cavaday Katie O'Brien Team of the Year: GB Davis Cup Team GB Invacare World Team Cup Team GB Special Olympics Team GB 14 & Under Girls' Team Disabled Player of the Year: Gordon Reid David Ph...
A woman came home, screeching her car into the driveway, and ran into the house. She slammed the door and shouted at the top of her lungs, 'Honey, pack your bags. I won the lottery!' The husband said, 'Oh my God! What should I pack, beach stuff or mountain stuff?' 'Doesn't matter,' she said. 'Just get out...
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Ross Hutchins plays doubles in this 100K challenger this week and he's doing a daily blog for us Ross is currently ranked 88 in doubles, made his first ATP final at Nottingham this summer with Josh Goodall. They beat Bhupathi/Gimelstob and Erlich/Ram along the way. Also made 2 challenger finals this...
Anne has withdrawn Katie will be top seed, Mel seeded 6th and Sarah seeded 7th Georgie also makes the main draw cut Natasha Khan, Olivia Scarfi, Jade Curtis and Amanda Elliott are in qualies
Naomi's entered and will be 4th seed. Lisicki and Larcher de Brito look like the main dangerous floaters. On form I'd say she'd have a good chance of winning this but she's really struggled in her past few events.....hopefully she can make latter stages, semis would be good
The New Table is posted here (on britishtennis.net) Jamie's not defending points this week, so starts by climbing five places from 231 to 226. Villagran, Healey, Waske, Soeda and Mertinak are the players who drop behind. Greul, Kubot, Ram and Przysiezny also drop places. Tim's not defending any p...
The New Table is posted here (on britishtennis.net) Boggo's only defending one point this week, so climbs two places to 161 as the week begins. Udomchoke and Sluiter are the players who drop behind him. Dlouhy, Warburg, Jones, Goldstein, Peya and Schwank also drop. Players who can overtake Alex th...
First round of qualies: Ciaran Moore (RSA) beat Joe Cooper by and 0. James Feaver beat Lefa Sibanda of Botswana by 1 and 0. Second round of qualies: Richie Ruckelshausen of Austria beat Feaver by 5 and 2. Main draw: Edward Seator vs. Jurgens Strydom of Namibia. Strydom is in good form as he made the f...
Main draw: Liz Thomas, Emily Webley-Smith (first tourney for a while...though may be doubtful after retiring in British tour semis this week) Naomi Broady Katharina Brown Lucy Warburton Jade Windley Natasha Marks (made final in National U18s) should also make the cut WCs go to Olivia Smith, Jenny...
Bloomers is the third seed in qualies and has a moderately tough draw as he's in the same section as Wolmarans. (3)Richard Bloomfield (GBR) vs Luka Gregorc (SLO) Vlademyros Mavroupoulos-Stoliarenko (USA) vs Daniel Lustig (CZE) David Martin (USA) vs (WC)Vijay Paul (USA) (7)Fritz Wolmarans (RSA)...
(1)Amadeus Fulford Jones (GBR) bye Ross Sugiyama (USA) bye Mitchell Gelina (USA) bye Jon Todd Greisser (USA) bye (4)Sascha Heinemann (GER) bye Matthew Short (GBR) vs Brad Lum-Tucker (USA) Michael Marano (USA) bye Laurent Colombo (FRA) bye -- Edited by Drew at 18:55, 2007-11-05
Anna Fitzpatrick's latest blog for the BBC website: I stayed at the new National Tennis Centre in Roehampton during the grass-court season and the facilities are great I certainly appreciated the privilege of being able to train where everything you need as a player is available for you to improve....
Qualifying: Evgeniy Kirillov RUS [1] vs. Denis Blömke GER [WC] Philipp Oswald AUT vs. Frank Wintermantel GER [WC] Till Guttenberger GER [WC] vs. Dustin Brown JAM Philipp Marx GER vs. Lars Uebel GER [5]Julian Reister GER [2] vs. Juho Paukku FIN Andre Wiesler GER vs. Tom Rushby GBR Timo Nieminen FIN vs...
Annacone signs new deal with LTA http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/tennis/7080753.stm Good praise from Annacone about Paul Hutchins which is very good to read....one comment though which is hard to see... "I believe that there has been real progress in British tennis over the past 12 mont...
