Sad news that Bill Threlfall has died at the age of 81. I was as guilty as most for taking the mick out of his crazy comments, but he was a good guy who clearly loved the game. Didn't realise he was in his 80s, good on him for working on so late. The following is from the LTA site: BBC and Sky Sports tennis co...
Count and I have just noticed that there's a new video up of Boggo on You-Tube. It's of his match against Ivo Klec in Wroclaw. However, unfortunately it doesn't really show the match at all. You can see Boggo's service action but it's mainly focused on the guys watching the match...
Just been checking, out of interest. When you type in "British tennis" : britishtennis.net is top on msn search (above BTZ and britishtennis.com !!), 8th on google search and nowhere on yahoo search (just realised that it needs adding !) and 7th on aol search (most hits from this so far, f...
i was just thinking about this, remembering when the 2 of them stormed off in a huff saying the atp have runied their careers, but i think they should have actually tried to stick it out, look at where jamie m and james a are now, hitting the top 50 in the world! i dont really follow doubles too much, but i...
QR1: Kyle Brassington UNR v Jens Heyndrickx (BEL) UNR QR2: (q2) Ross Connolly WR 1051 v Michal Tyml (CZE) UNR QR1 and QR2 are due to be played on Saturday.
Rosanna Hatch does not yet have a WR, but still was a DA here (methinks in the days of no qualie ranking points, these futures may get a little more attractive). And.... R1 Rosanna HATCH (GBR, UR) defeated Sophie CORNEROTTE (BEL, UR) 62 62 This is her first MD win, and second ranking tournament....
Anne Keothavong has gone for the qualies and made the cut by one place ! Hopefully she's full recovered from whatever injury afflicted her in Las Vegas. Anne opens against French 15th seed Youlia Fedossova. The 18 year old Frenchwoman (who originates from Russia) is currently ranked at a caree...
Just wondered if anyone has some advice on how to make a really, really thick pancake ? I'm entering the local "largest pancake" competition and want/need to make a real whopper -- Edited by ultimateshedman at 11:49, 2007-03-06
Any official news on Sherwood? He is down to 4 ranking points which were won this week and next week (but last year) Will he bother to start again with no ranking?
This guy has to be one of the unluckiest players on the tour From Eurosport website: "Joachim Johansson is expected to be sidelined for at least three months following shoulder surgery. The 24-year-old Swede also missed seven months in July 2005 following a shoulder operation. Johansson, wh...
Give the names of the eight players you think will make it to the year ending Masters Cup. It'll be interesting to see how accurate (or how inaccurate) our predictions are at the end of the season.
Heather Watson plays for the first time in ages! [url=http://www.itftennis.com/juniors/tournaments/drawsheetbyRound.asp?Event=1100083372&Tournament=1100014659]http://www.itftennis.com/juniors/tournaments/drawsheetbyRound.asp?Event=110008...
As we know, Henman has the WC. 1 Blake, James USA 5 2 Hewitt, Lleyton AUS 19 3 Safin, Marat RUS 27 4 Malisse, Xavier BEL 30 OUT 5 Melzer, Jurgen AUT 32 6 Verdasco, Fernando ESP 35 7 Benneteau, Julien FRA 36 8 Kiefer, Nicolas GER 46 OUT 9 Mathieu, Paul-Henri FRA 47 10 Ginepri, Robby USA 52 11 Mirnyi, Max BLR 53 12...
The table is posted here (On BritishTennis.net) Alex regains the top 150, going up 2 at 149, as Vik and Gildefend points from last year. Kiefer, Andreev and Luzzialso drop places. As he's in qualies for an ATP, Alex could climb all the way into the top 9...
The new table is posted here (On BritishTennis.net) Greg drops 3 places to 243, defending points from Dubai. Jamie drops 12 to 248, defending points from Australia F2. ......As a result, Jonny Marray rises 5 places to WR236, overtakes them both and becomes the new British number 6!Da...
Lee Childs is in qualifying here- QR1: (6) Jesse Huta Galung (Ned) WR 345 vs Lee Childs (Gbr) WR 429 The other seed in Childs' quarter is (2) Tobias Summerer (Ger) WR 270.
Round Robin Petition If you are as disgusted as many fans are with the farcical situations that have developed in Round Robin play recently, please sign the petition. It will be forwarded to the ATP prior to a meeting in Miami in 3 weeks time to review the Round Robin format. This situation with James Bl...
A huge British contingent here as expected: Flanagan and Rushby should have made the main draw. Qualifying has 4 rounds. QR1: Benjamin George-Levi (Gbr) UNR vs (WC) Tiago Godinho (Por) UNR Ed Allinson (Gbr) WR1534 vs Piotr Polkosnik (Pol) UNR Ben Pritchard (Gbr) UNR vs Joao Ferreira (Por) WR1534 (5...
This is her first MD win, and second ranking tournament....
......As a result, Jonny Marray rises 5 places to WR236, overtakes them both and becomes the new British number 6!