well the lta looked like they were improving their site, buit i think they have let themslves down big time with their total lack of coverage of bloomers and bakers sterling efforts this week! Esp in a week in which the only real news was the AO, its not like they had huge ammounts to deal with; 1 senior p...
I see the American young hope, Donald Young, has just been double bagelled in Miami by Carlos Berlocq of Argentina.
That'll be 9 WCs to ATP events and still to win a set.
He's 16 and only played 3 Challenger events in addition to the 9 ATP ( includes US Open and 4 Masters Series events ) so...
Hi This is a chart showing the strength in depth of British Men's tennis going back to 1990 as I was interested to see if/how much we've improved as a nation since then ... unfortunately not very much (apart from 2005). Hopefully it will start to show some real improvements in the Roger Draper e...
Entry list per Steveg: Indian Wells 1 Federer, Roger SUI 1 2 Nadal, Rafael ESP 2 3 Davydenko, Nikolay RUS 3 4 Ljubicic, Ivan CRO 4 5 Blake, James USA 5 6 Robredo, Tommy ESP 6 7 Roddick, Andy USA 7 8 Nalbandian, David ARG 8 9 Gonzalez, Fernando CHI 9 10 Ancic, Mario CRO 10 11 Baghdatis, Marcos CYP 11 12 Haas, Tom...
I thought I'd put together a graph of the ranking progress of the top Brits in 2006. The battle to be British number one is now a three way fight with all three competing for points this week. I will keep updating the graph throughout the year and we will see what happens. [img]http://im...
Good too see the LTA report something on Teen Tennis. [url=http://www.lta.org.uk/Newsroom/GeneralNews/070129Teen.htm?BSMGuid=9f1cb6b6-233b-4093-98de-6284cda8365f]http://www.lta.org.uk/Newsroom/GeneralNews/070129Teen.htm?BSMGuid=9f1cb6b6-233b-4093-98...
QR1: Ranjit Lal Pasricha UNR lost to Ranjeet Virali-Murugesan (IND) WR 1372 by & R1: Ian Flanagan WR 658 v TBA -- Edited by steven at 14:34, 2007-01-28
With Murray reaching the final of Doha in his 1st tourney of the year, he has entered the Race for the Masters! (still very early days i know!). Many on the board says he is ranked as no.4 in the Race, but isn't he no.2 behind Lujbo due the difference in the points offered for Doha compare...
Begins on the 29th of January. Confirmed Players - Andy Murray. Mikhail Youzhny. Andreas Seppi. Ivan Ljubicic and Mario Ancic should be there. Cilic should get his WC. Official Website. Tim defends 75 poin...
Jamie Baker is 2nd seed in qualifiers here and receives a first round bye (such a week qualifying draw for a challenger - 8th seed is ranked 905 in the world - wow, and there are 8 places in the draw taken by byes - surely a decent opportunity for some of the middle ranked Brits to have won easy points). QR...
MD with Rebecca Llewellyn, Karen Paterson, Danielle Brown, Natasha Khan and WCs Julia Bone, Anna Fitzpatrick, Naomi Broady, Jocelyn RaeQualifying draw (1) Katerina Kramperova CZE BYE Elizabeth Thomas GBR v Nicola Mooney GBR Lisa Sutton GBR v Laura Morrill GBR (14) Claire Ricketts GBR BYE (2)...
Here's Andy and his competitors' ranking for the Australian Open fortnight. The table is, as always, (c)GC77. unning Start of week Running So 18th Def1 Def2 19th Rank rank name points Points Far Result Result 4 7 An...
1 Guccione, Chris AUS 153 2 Faurel, Jean-Christophe FRA 157 3 Haase, Robin NED 167 4 Cakl, Tomas CZE 185 5 Salzenstein, Jeff USA 198 @ 6 Ascione, Thierry FRA 192 7 Vico, Uros ITA 198 8 Sela, Dudi ISR 201 9 Goodall, Joshua GBR 206 10 Jeanpierre, Julien FRA 207 11 Haehnel, Jerom...
I think that all of our Challenger level players are playing great tennis. Mackin, Bloomfield, Marray and Baker have had good starts to the year, and Goodall had an incredible rise up the rankings in the second half of 2006. I believe that there'll be great competition between them this year. Who do yo...
Just wondered how well everyone thought Serena will do in the coming fortnight
Impressive win today though she didn't have to do particularly much, her serving was of a high standard and she hit some great backhands.
Next up for Serena is Anne Kremer (who surprisingly beat Michaella Kraijc...
The LTA are thought to be currently doing a deal with Kim Cljisters to get her to coach the British girls for 10 weeks a year once she's retired. Just a rumour at this stage but if it's true it sounds like great news !
Singles Main Draw (1)Edina Gallovits (ROM) v Raquel Kops-Jones (USA) Kelly Liggan (IRL) v Rossana De Los Rios (PAR) (wc)Neha Uberoi (USA) v Q (8)Natalie Grandin (RSA) v Q (4)Shiho Hisamatsu (JPN) v Sunitha Rao (USA) Jenifer Widjaja (BRA) v (wc)Mary Gambale (USA) Julie Ditty (USA) v Jessica Kirklan...
Found out some stories today, both concerning Emily Webley-Smith: According to Emily, her most embarassing moment on the tour was once in a tournament when she finished the 5min warm-up before her match and then took her tracksuit bottoms off forgetting that she hadn't got her skirt on unde...
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R1: Ian Flanagan WR 658 v TBA -- Edited by steven at 14:34, 2007-01-28
). Many on the board says he is ranked as no.4 in the Race, but isn't he no.2 behind Lujbo due the difference in the points offered for Doha compare...
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