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...
ATP Australian Open Qualifying (Hard) - Alex Bogdanovic, Jamie Baker CHALLENGERSNone this weekFUTURESGermany 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...
Who's your female player of the year for 2007 ? Nominees: (1) Anne Keothavong: Climbed from outside top 200 to a new career high of 118 and became the first British woman to make a WTA semis since 1992, in Kolkata. Also made two 50K finals in the States, winning the big Vancouver title and reached the fina...
Time to decide who is your player of the year for 2007: Nominees: (1) Andy Murray: Despite missing 3 months of the year with a wrist injury, Andy still managed to reach a career high of no 8, reach 4 atp finals (2 titles), make 2 masters series semis and finish at no 11 (2) Jamie Murray: The elder Murray won h...
Nominees: (1) Anna Fitzpatrick: Anna ended the year at a new career high inside the top 400. Started the year well with a 10K final in Sunderland and then made the latter stages of further futures in Canada and Nottingham later in the year. She's started to trouble challenger level players on a regular...
OK, so here are the 6 nominations for that coveted title of britishtennis.net player of the year ! (1) Dan Evans: Evans started the year in stunning form, making two G1 finals (taking the Asuncion Bowl title in Paraguay) and beating a string of the world's best juniors - Stephane Piro, Andrei Karatch...
Qualifying begins tonight on the Gold Coast !!! (2) Alla Kudryavtseva (RUS) v. Darya Kustova (BLR) Margit Ruutel (EST) v. Anne Keothavong (GBR) Jessica Moore (AUS) v. Galina Voskoboeva (RUS) (WC) Monika Wejnert (AUS) v. (5) Olga Savchuk (UKR) Keothavong v Ruutel starts at midnight GMT
Looks like the Scud is retiring too so who was the greater, Tim or Scud Philippoussis led 4-3 on head-to-heads, including wins in the 98 US Open and Wimbledon 2000 but Tim won the last two, in the final of Adelaide 2002 and at Wimbledon 04 Both won 11 career titles, Henman won 1 masters series as did Philip...
Great opportunity for some of the lower ranked juniors to rack up some points, this field is always really weak as its during Christmas....GAs are the same level pts wise as slams and so the likes of Akhezzan, Thomson twins etc would not normally make the main draw cut. Results (rankings in brackets):...
Jess Ren took the U12s title last year to join Andy Murray and Jamie Delgado among British winners of this.....Jamie Murray was runner up in U14 singles back in 98 too Will there be a British winner this year ? Laura Robson must surely be huge favourite in the U14s -- Edited by Sheddie at 22:02, 2007-1...
