...provided he can reach the top 10 before he turns 20. can prove anything with stats: From ATP site Since the inception of the ATP Rankings on Aug. 23, 1973, there have been 18 teenagers to rank in the Top 10. Half of them went on to rank No. 1. Djokovic is the latest addition to this impressive lis...
Main draw [1] FEDERER, Roger SUI vs BYE QUALIFIER vs QUALIFIER LEE, Hyung-Taik KOR vs BJORKMAN, Jonas SWE MOYA, Carlos ESP vs [13] YOUZHNY, Mikhail RUS[12] FERRER, David ESP vs SIMON, Gilles FRA [WC] BALLERET, Benjamin MON vs BENNETEAU, Julien FRA TURSUNOV, Dmitry RUS vs GAUDIO, Gaston ARG BYE vs [6...
Matt Smith is top seed here. Hopefully he can get some wins under his belt to build confidence. He beat qualifier D O'leary 6-3 6-2 to make round 2. Also: Rob Searle (2) bt J Miles 7-6(6) 3-0 ret. Konstanitos Kalaitzis (3) bt M Pierce 7-6(5) 6-3 Ed Allinson (4) bt J Wood 6-2 6-1 So all top 4 seeds through to r...
Tournament Key : M-FU-USA-07A-2007 Dates : 09 Apr to 15 Apr 2007 Venue : Mobile, AL, USA Surface : Hard Myles Blake should make the MD with Amadeus Fulford-Jones in qualies ! -- Edited by Drew at 10:45, 2007-04-06
Semi finals. Two tough matches today, anyone fancy their luck: 1900 I Karlovic 1.66 v A Montanes 2.10 1900 J Blake 1.44 v M Zabaleta 2.62 Bets accepted up until displayed times
Alex Bogdanovic (GB) WR 147 v Harel Levy (ISR) WR 287 They have never played each other before and on paper alex should walk this. Levy is approaching his 30's and his highest ever ATP ranking was 30 so is no mug. He has won future title this year (Israel F3) and made the semi of Croatia F2. He also got the SF o...
Not sure if this is even in the rules but I think I'm going to be running this from now on, so I'm happy for people to take these bets up to 1800 tonight: ATP Houston outright betting: J Blake Evs I Karlovic 3/1 M Zabaleta 4/1 A Montanes ...
This starts on 16th April. 1 Federer, Roger SUI 1 2 Nadal, Rafael ESP 2 3 Roddick, Andy USA 3 OUT 4 Davydenko, Nikolay RUS 4 5 Gonzalez, Fernando CHI 5 6 Blake, James USA 6 OUT 7 Robredo, Tommy ESP 7 8 Ljubicic, Ivan CRO 8 9 Haas, Tommy GER 9 OUT 10 Nalbandian, David ARG 10 11 Ancic, Mario CRO 11 OUT 12 Berdych, To...
A sweet grandmother telephoned Wigan Infirmary. She timidly asked, "Is it possible to speak to someone who can tell me how a patient is doing?" The operator said "I'll be glad to help, Dear. What's the name and room number?" The grandmother in her weak tremulous voice said, &qu...
So after a number of weeks of Master's series events and Challengers we are finally back to a 'normal' week for the rankings. Players on the table are playing at ATP Houston, ATP Valencia, Valencia Challenger and Casablanca Challanger this week. Following on from Aucks's lead these past few weeks, J...
If you get melted chocolate all over your hands, you're eating it too slowly. Chocolate covered raisins, cherries, orange slices and strawberries all count as fruit, so eat as many as you want. The problem: How to get two pounds of chocolate home from the store in a hot car. The solution: Eat it in the pa...
We haven't done this for a couple of months, time for one for March and there's plenty of possible winners...this will be really tough ! a) Georgie Stoop - Georgie reached her 2nd 25K final, coming through a very strong field. She obliterated the 6th seed (ranked 229) 2 and 2 along the way and in defeatin...
qualies First Round Alan Wright (GBR) d. Matthias Neubert (GER) 6-0 6-1 Adrian Vodislav (ROU) d. Ben Pritchard (GBR) 3-6 6-0 7-6(5) Richard Stera (GBR) d. Nai-Zheng Yu (CHN) 4-6 6-4 7-6(5) James Feaver (GBR) d. Julian Mei (GER) 6-1 6-0 Christian Ramos-Abad (ESP) d. Philip Barlow (GBR) 6-2 6-1 Alexan...
I've heard a rumour that Alex has left his US base in Saddlebrooks, Florida to become part of the LTA setup again. He's now based at the new national centre in Roehampton Not 100% on this though
It's called "Hitting back" and comes out on 7th June, you can pre-order it on amazon. Personally I think it's too soon for an autobiography, he's only 20 !!! Even the likes of Federer and Henman haven't brought out autobiographies yet ! Will still be interesting but it would be even mor...
1 Lu, Yen-Hsun TPE 99 2 Kim, Kevin USA 130 3 Bogdanovic, Alex GBR 150 4 Fleishman, Zack USA 165 5 Okun, Noam ISR 167 6 Odesnik, Wayne USA 179 7 Carlsen, Kenneth DEN 180 8 Bloomfield, Richard GBR 183 9 Warburg, Sam USA 188 10 Ram, Rajeev USA 192 11 Mamiit, Cecil PHI 194 12 Reynolds, Bobby USA 201 13 Sela, Dudi IS...
Quarter finals day, and some fairly competitive matches: 1900 V Spadea 1.72 v A Montanes 2.00 2100 T Haas 1.33 v I Karlovic 3.25 2230 J Melzer 1.66 v M Zabaleta 2.10 0100 J Blake 1.36 v J Monaco 3.00
Well, it's getting to be that time again! Steven are you up for sorting the spreadsheet/web posting out again? If you're interested in playing please sign up here (Sheddie I'm guessing we're not playing against AM.com this time, am I right?) Well, I'll start...I'm in! -- Edited by Sheddie at 17:04, 2...
Tournament Key : M-FU-JPN-04A-2007 Dates : 09 Apr to 15 Apr 2007 Venue : Tokyo-Ariakea, Japan Surface : Hard Slabba in the MD with Simon Childs in the qualies.
Jamie and Booty have drawn the top seeds again! Knowle/Aspelin should be beatable tho. both experienced doubles player, but don't recall them playing together before! should be fascinating to see the transition to clay - a successful 6 weeks or so could well lead to a seeding at wimbledon!
i am not sure who on this board is a current or ex student but thought this might be of interest to some: Please send on to all students/ex-students! you know........ For any of you that have still have student loans outstanding....please pass on For most unsuspecting graduates who are paying back the...
From the Telegraph.... FULL ARTICLE "Murrays strong ambition to break into the top 10 was startlingly obvious at the last two Masters Series tournaments in the United States. Murray will become only the 19th teenager to hold a place in the top 10 since the official rankings system was introduc...
