This surely is the weakest tournament in the history of tennis.
Alastair Morris is the top seed with a ranking of 1201 and there are no other seeds - meaning that he was the only ranked player to turn up!
1st Round
Alastair MORRIS (GBR) (1) BYE
Aymen MASMOUDI (ALG) defeated Rami DAIB...
Tournament Key : M-FU-GEO-01A-2007 Dates : 23 Jul to 29 Jul 2007 Venue : Tbilisi, Georgia Surface : Hard MD entry list... 13 - Connolly, Ross 1034 Gregory Howe is in the alts list. Also down for Senegal F1.
Nominees: (1) Alex Bogdanovic: Boggo reached a new career high ranking after a superb run to the 3rd round of Queens, beating world no 40 Hyung-Taik Lee before coming within 2 pts of beating Andy Roddick. Also made the mixed doubles quarters with Mel South at Wimbledon (2) Richard Bloomfield: Made th...
Player of the month is back after several months !!! It'll be the July one next weekend but first we need the one for June Nominees: (1) Katie O'Brien: It was quite a month for the 21 year old from Yorkshire who became British no 1 and reached a new career high. She made the quarters of Surbiton and then b...
G Hutson and J Allen entered qualifying and made it through to the main draw to join Maddie Brooks. However mixed results for them in main draw: G Hutson bt H Okusaki (JPN) 4-6 7-6 6-4 (must have saved some match points there) J Allen lost to A Aksdal (NOR) 3-6 0-6
earlier this year we did several player interviews: Graeme Dyce, Morgan Phillips and Jessica Ren which were pretty interesting...think it's about time we did another who would you like us to interview ? Please post whom here and if possible, why. Ideas: Tara Moore, Miles Kasiri, Dan Evans, Sarah Bo...
There's now a guestbook on britishtennis.net (http://www.britishtennis.net/guestbook.htm) so you can post your feedback/improvement ideas on the site and forum Also, the entry list and rankings section has been reduced to just "rankings" due to many requests as it was becoming t...
Just to let you guys know - I intend to attend the Manchester Challenger this week. I will be there on Sunday Qualifying, Tuesday's session and the Saturday and Sunday finals. If anyone would like updates, PM me and I will give you my mobile and get yours and keep people up-to-date -- Edited by Drew at 08:...
4 Brits make the attempt to qualify here, and it is the usual suspects making another attempt to make the main draw (16) Phillip Barlow vs. Ivan Arenas-Guilda (SPA) Oliver White vs. Miguel-Angel Solbes-Llorenes (SPA) John Rambotas vs. Javier Peris-Inigo (SPA) (9) Richard Brooks vs. Diego Puerto-...
Tom Knights is 2nd seed here & will be looking to build on last weeks efforts. Only guys I see troubling tom will be the top seed & also Bart Brons of Holland, he could go deep in the draw!!
She has a stress fracture in her foot at the moment, hoping to return in time for the grass season. However, it'll be touch and go, she was only supposed to have her cast on for a week but she's had it on for 2 weeks. She got the scan back the day before she was due to fly to Japan which was lucky as otherwise she c...
The New Table is posted here (on britishtennis.net) Lapentti, Eschauer and Acasuso all tumble ahead of Tim, but none by quite enough to boost his rankings Vliegen can overtake if he wins his round 1 match in Amersfoort; Berlocq can do the same if he wins his first match in Stuttgart.
The New Table is posted here ( on britishtennis.net)Josh was defending 35 points from reaching the final in Manchester last year, plus 18 points from winning the 2006 Felixstowe Challenger. As a result he plunges out of the top 300 and off the bottom of my table. He might reappear with a semi- final...
Jamie and I arrived in LA ready to start our US Hard Court Season or our "Road Trip," as the US Open promotional campaign states it. We first formed our partnership here a year ago and made a run to the finals. Obviously we were hoping to do the sa...
The New Table is posted here (on britishtennis.net) Blake and Ferrer lose places, defending their titles at LA and Stuttgart respectively. No- one can overtake Andy this week: there's 258 points between him and 15th- placed Canas, and the highest points available are the 250 for winning Stuttgart...
