British Tennis Forum - Celebrating 20 Years!

The New Table is posted here (on britishtennis.net) Andy's playing Kooyong this week, which does not count for rankings. Ferrer and Blake are defending titles from last year and Robredo's defending a finals place. Ferrer doesn't drop any places, but Robredo drops behind Haas and Blake drops behi...

Played on: clay Ward in MD. Illingworth and Rice in alt list.

Played on: Carpet Bloomfield seeded 2nd. Kasiri, Eaton and Skupski in alt list. -- Edited by wolf at 19:05, 2008-01-04

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From today's Times: Scots steady progress to world summit proves Mark Petchey right Neil Harman, Tennis Correspondent Just before the 2005 Wimbledon Championships, Mark Petchey said he believed that Andy Murray could one day become as big as Wayne Rooney, and several in his audience wondered whe...

Qualifying: (2) VASSALLO ARGUELLO, Martin ARG/BYE CAKL, Tomas CZE v FRIEDL, Leos CZE JUN, Woong-Sun KOR v STATHAM, Mikal (oliver) NZL SA, Andre BRA v (7) BAKER, Jamie GBR

Jamie and Max face Bob and Mike in R1

The New Table is posted here (on britishtennis.net) No points to defend for Alex, nor for any of his close competitors. They've all kept out of tournaments as well, in preparation for the Aussie Open qualies. Ledoviskikh Is the only exception. He's entered Sydney qualies.

Great quality highlights of Murray-Nadal from the Aussie Open http://www.megaupload.com/?d=GYWTI1UB

What a match to follow ! Will it be 'Revenge is Sweet' type of match ? Phew!

Massive qualifying draw, have to win four rounds to get through. QR1 Philip Stephens [unr] v Tinotenda Chanakira (Zim) [1479]

As many must have realised, Dan Evans isn't too far behind cracking the ITF top 10. Even though it'll not be easy, if he gets to the top 10 by the end of 2007, it'll be great achievement as he'll - 1) Become only the third Brit to get there since the combined ranking system was launched. 2) Get gifts from L...

After mentioning it on the vote for Player of the Year, here your opportunity to vote for your fellow forum members in the following categories: 1. Funniest Poster of the Year 2. Most optomistic poster of the year 3. Reporter of the Year 4. Best avatar 5. Signature of the Year 6. Most knowledgabe on Tenn...

The New Table is posted here (on britishtennis.net) Andy reached the final in Doha last year, so he's defending 175 points. As his 19th result is only a 25, this means he loses 150 points and drops back three places, past Haas, Berdych and Blake to 14 . Canas, Moya and Ljubicic are the other players drop...

The New Table is posted here (on britishtennis.net) Alex kicks off the season by jumping a massive nine places to 181 as players drop behind him . The (Illustrious) fallers are: Kim, Bachinger, Mirnyi, Phau, Goldstein, Malisse, Meffert and Guez. Boggo's playingthe Noumea Challenger this week, a...

Well, look who's popped up in singles qualifying here - one of just three unseeded non-Brazilians in the draw. QR1: Jamie Delgado WR 1208 v (q5) Diego Cristin (ARG) WR 482 OoP says 4th on Center after 10 am (noon GMT) on Monday 29th - I assume they mean Saturday 29th. It's virtually unheard of for a Brit...

QR1 Ashley WATLING (GBR) (1) defeated Josef KURKA (CZE) 6-2 6-0 James ALLEMBY (GBR) defeated Juan MUNOZ (ECU) (7) 6-1 6-3 QR2 Ashley WATLING (GBR) (1) defeated Joao BOSCO COSTA (BRA) 6-3 6-1 David HOLINER (USA) defeated James ALLEMBY (GBR) 6-1 6-1 R1 Ashley WATLING (GBR) Vs Julen URIGUEN (GUA) (16) M...

http://www.tennislifedvd.org enjoy :) *-- Edited by Drew at 17:38, 2008-01-01*

http://www.tennislifedvd.org enjoy :) -- Edited by Drew at 17:38, 2008-01-01

Friday *-- Edited by RobC at 19:00, 2008-01-03*

Friday -- Edited by RobC at 19:00, 2008-01-03

This is the missed chance of the year for any Brits who were thinking of heading down to the southern hemisphere anyway - there are just four unranked wild cards in qualifying for this Challenger and nobody else - so they all qualify by default. I'm not sure why this is though - just a year ago, there were 2...

Anne is the only Brit to make the cut in a strong event with 6 qualifiers coming from a field of 48. Anne's section is: [3] Knapp vs. Keothavong Benesova vs. Ditty Petkovic vs. Georges [WC] Musgrave vs. [12] Kanepi Karin Knapp is a fast-rising 20 year-old Italian ranked 50 in the world. She did however lo...

As you might have guessed (or seen the email if you're a previous player) we're up and running again for the Australian Open! Once again I've set up a mini-league for those who want to join in. Once you've registered at the link below, go into the My Group settings and enter the following password (copy a...

The New Table is posted here (on britishtennis.net) Jamie starts the week by climbing two places to 212 as Guez and Delgado drop behind him. Mertl, Soeda, Rochus, Bohli and Klec also drop places. Jamie's not playing this week. The nearest threats are Dorsch, Guez and Anderson. Players who can overta...

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ATP Australian Open Qualifying (Hard) - Alex Bogdanovic, Jamie Baker CHALLENGERS None this week FUTURES Germany F1 $15K+H (Indoor Carpet) - Richard Bloomfield, Miles Kasiri (Skupski) Spain F1 $10K (Clay) - James Ward El Salvador F1 $10K (Clay) - Ed Seator WTA Australian Open Qualifying (Har...