This is one of the most prestigious Under 14 events in the international calendar. Boys 14 Singles 1st Round Luke Bambridge bt Stefan Vinti (ROU) 6-3, 6-7, 7-5 Conor Bunting bt Filip Veger (CRO) 6-3, 3-6, 6-3 Liam Broady (5) bt Maximilian Waeters (FRA) 6-2, 6-2 2nd Round Kevin Kaczynski (8) (GER) bt B...
The New Table is posted here (on britishtennis.net) Jamie kicks off week 5, by climbing four places to 235 Middelkoop, Mello, Peya and Malisse drop behind him. Jamie's out of Vina Del Mar qualies, as are Mazarakis, Aldi and Junquera. Nishikori has reached the final qualifying round in Dallas. N...
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Great news ! It's a lot earlier this year, 30th Jan - 2nd Feb on indoor hard courts in Budapest which means a surface which is a lot more favourable to the Brit girls and surely a lot of the top players (Jankovic, Ivanovic etc) wont play as its so soon after the Aussie Open Surely our squad has to be Anne, Na...
The ATP Challengers & Futures page says this is a 15K, but the drawsheet and the ITF factshet say 15K+h, so I've gone with that. Tough draw for James, nice draw for Ed: L32: James Ward WR 551 v (4) Nicholas Monroe (USA) WR 348 L32: Edward Seator WR 507 v Luis Pablo Pechir (MEX) UNR (with the no. 8 seed lik...
The New Table is posted here (on britishtennis.net) Blake drops behind Andy, who climbs back to 11 The nearest player in action this week is Monaco, who's too far behind Andy to catch up this week. So Andy's safe at 11!
The New Table is posted here (on britishtennis.net) Boggo Starts the week by climbing 2 places to 185: Peya and Malisse fall behind him. Players Who Can Overtake: Rochus, who plays Fleishman in Dallas. Best case, he stays at 185. Worst case, he drops to 186
QR1: Jamie Murray UNR v (q1) Marcel Granollers-Pujol (ESP) WR 131 - 1st on Court 2 at 10.00 CHI / 13.00 GMT QR1: (q7) Jamie Baker WR 217 v Borja Malo (CHI) WR 890 - 3rd on Court 1 at about 14.00 CHI / 17.00 GMT Should be on live scores on the ATP site. QR2 to be played on Saturday as well after 14.00 CHI / 17.00 GMT....
(1) Andy Murray: Won ATP Doha, dropping just 2 sets (2) Jamie Baker: Qualified for a grand slam for the first time in Melbourne and pushed Karlovic to 4 sets in rd1 (3) Richard Bloomfield: Won 10K title in Sunderland and then made semis the following week in Sheffield to move back towards top 300 (4) K...
Tournament Key : M-FU-POR-03A-2008 Dates : 28 Jan to 03 Feb 2008 Venue : Albufeira 3, Portugal Surface : Hard MD1 : 31 Q CZE BLECHA, Jan v 32 372 GBR GOODALL, Joshua [2] 23 643 SUI GUENAT, Mathieu v 24 406 GBR SLABINSKY, Alexander [3] Same half as Josh... (Alexander Hutchings got a wc but lost in QR1)
(1) Anne Keothavong: Made final qualies round on the Gold Coast and then won 3/3 matches in the Fed Cup (2) Katie O'Brien: Made final round qualies in Aussie Open, pushed world no 14 Schynder all the way in Fed Cup (3) Elena Baltacha: Qualified for WTA Auckland (4) Naomi Broady: Got off to a great start...
Tournament Key : M-FU-GBR-03A-2008 Dates : 28 Jan to 03 Feb 2008 Venue : Tipton, Great Britain Surface : Hard Top Seed: Nicolas Tourte [FRA] [Rank:408] British main draw entrants are Skupski and Flanagan. Possible alternates are Bamford and Irwin. Other alternates that are likely to have to quali...
Has Rob Dee been handing over his cash to the Colombian drug barons (again?) in order to stake his claim for a late DC call-up by playing on clay in South America? (yes, yes, I making this up just for fun ...) He has a WC into the main draw of the wonderfully named Bucaramanga Future and he has been drawn ag...
Some to start: Katie - 107 Will enter top 100 and get DA for Wimbledon, but will fall out again after Grass. Anne - 118 Another mix of good runs, injuries and disappointing losses. Elena - 132 Some big results, but still inconsistent. Naomi C - 78 If she can recover quickly and stay healthy. Melanie - 166 B...
I have copied an extract from a post I put on the Sheffield thread, but seeing as the event is over it may well not get seen. However a discussion was taking place about whether our players were 'good enough for the top 100/ 200 but failing to live up to their potential (most people's opinion) or actually p...
I have to laugh, but that is what my brother-in-law told me at Thanksgiving when we were talking about Marcus' tennis. My nephew is 14 and plays American Football for his Middle School. He hopes to play High School Football one day. Marcus does not have the size or the attitude for American Football....
The New Table is posted here (on britishtennis.net) Jamie's not defending his Waikoloa final from '07, and is out of action this week. As of Saturday am, all Jamie's threats are playing Futures this week: expect some Challenger wildcards and qualifiers to emerge later. Jamie has 167 points and is si...
