Anna Smith is in qualifying here as 11th seed and has started impressively defeating home girl Charlotte Rodier 60 61. She plays Elena Pioppo of Italy (seeded 7) for a place in the main draw. Mel is in the main draw, and her section is: Margalita Chakhnashvili GEO [4] vs Alexandra Dulgheru ROU Q/LL vs M...
The OOP doesn't seem to be out yet. Tsonga had a nice 3-setter tonight, hopefully he will be feeling a bit tired! I hesitate to predict as I am usually wrong, but I think Andy should win this one. Edit - the OOP is now out, Andy's match is scheduled for 5pm (4pm here) But then, the match before is scheduled fo...
Katie has just scraped into the main draw in the Uzbeki capital, and her section is:
(8) Anastasia RODIONOVA (RUS) vs Anastasiya YAKIMOVA (BLR)
Julia SCHRUFF (GER) vs Katie O'BRIEN (GBR)
Yuliana FEDAK (UKR) vs Anne KREMER (LUX)
Renata VORACOVA (CZE) vs (3) Olga GOVORTSOVA (BLR)
Schruff has...
So Andy faces the Frenchmen for the first time in any type of singles match. There are both very similar in build and height but that is where the similarities end. Llodra is 7 years older and a leftie. Llodra has not had a great year at this level with an 11/15 win lost record. Andy is seeking to improved...
Maureen Connolly Challenge Schedule & Results Thursday Sep 27 10am: Laura Slater v Olivia Janowicz Followed by: Stephanie Cornish v Lilly Kimbell Followed by: Heather Watson v Kristie Ahn Followed by: Hannah James & Slater v Janowicz / Kimbell Friday Sep 28 Four matches (order of play TBC...
Metz, France - Cut Off: 70 1 Robredo, Tommy ESP 8 2 Canas, Guillermo ARG 14 3 Mathieu, Paul-Henri FRA 22 4 Monaco, Juan ARG 23 OUT 5 Starace, Potito ITA 31 6 Kohlschreiber, Philipp GER 38 7 Andreev, Igor RUS 39 8 Simon, Gilles FRA 40 9 Clement, Arnaud FRA 41 10 Santoro, Fabrice FRA 43 11 Monfils, Gael FRA 44 OU...
James Ward 11 on entry list. 5 brits in qualies. Ross Connolly was on alts list but not in qualies and given his no show last week is probably not here. Lee Crane (GBR) (who? ) vs MARTIN-ADALIA, Pablo (ESP) 1 Phil Barlow seeded (GBR) 3 vsDE LA ROSA-LOPEZ, Ruben (ESP) Richard Brooks (GBR) 4 vs Beaus-Barq...
When will the record be broken ? the earliest he can get to 15 slams and break the record is Wimbledon next year. Personally I'm going for US Open 2008...I think Nadal will still remain the man to beat on the clay next spring...Federer has the ability and game plan to beat him but its yet to be seen whether h...
Not sure if this article has been posted but its a good one from Neil Harman....appears that Rice and Broady won't be able to play tourneys for 2 months ! "The Australians call it their tough love policy and yesterday David Rice and Naomi Broady were having to come to terms with the startling disco...
The match is scheduled 5th on the main court, with an 11am CET (10am BST) start. I think I will be sitting in a car on the motorway during this match, so cheer him on for me! The head to head is 1-0 in Tipsy's favour; c'mon Andy, start racking up those ranking points, and get your revenge for Queens in the proc...
Jonathan Kinsella seeded 10th in qualies. 128 draw again QR1 (unr)USA LANE, Alex1491 GBR KINSELLA, Jonathan [10] Also GBR TZEKOS, Nick v USA BUCHANAN, Chasetough one for the unknown Tzekos vs the talented junior. -- Edited by Drew at 15:16, 2007-09-29
Tournament Key : M-FU-MEX-07A-2007 Dates : 01 Oct to 07 Oct 2007 Venue : Monterrey, Mexico Surface : Hard Mozart has to qualify this week...he is seeded third and has a bye in QD1 Hope he can get a few wins under his belt !!!
Tournament Key : M-FU-FRA-16A-2007 Dates : 01 Oct to 07 Oct 2007 Venue : Nevers, France Surface : Hard Slabba is here and just made the main draw but his absence in the qualy draw...we do have an unkown GBR player in the Qualy draw. QD1 : GIRAUD, Guillaume (GBR) v SICCO, Mikael (FRA) He doesnt sound very...
Jamie Baker walked out of Wimbledon last weekend, his head spinning at the reception he had received, the size of the court on which he had just played and talking giddily of the best experience of my life. When he steps into the seething 15,000-seat Parque Roca in Buenos Aires in February, such emotio...
The New Table is posted here (on britishtennis.net) Boggo's defending 15 points from making R2 of ATP Bangkok last year, so slips to 133 from 129 . He's defending a massive 63 next week from the Mons Challenger semis, so hopefuly he can make some inroads into that this week. Ramirez- Hidalgo, Lapent...
The New Table is posted here (on britishtennis.net) Andy is defending 5 points from Bangkok 2006 - not enough to drop any places. He is under threat this week: Hewitt needs to reach the semis in Mumbai.
The New Table is posted here (on britishtennis.net)Jamie's not defending any points from 2006, and starts the week up four to 220 (4 above his career high) as Ledoviskikh, Hajek, Chardy and Haehnel drop behind him. Richard's defending one point, but still climbs one to 240 as Aldi and Ryders...
Tournament Key : M-FU-GBR-18A-2007 Dates : 24 Sep to 30 Sep 2007 Venue : Nottingham 2, Great Britain Surface : Hard The 2nd of the Nottingham Futures sees Jamie Baker and Richard Bloomfield as No 1 and 2 seeds. Also in the MD will be Josh Goodall, Kasiri, Slabinsky, Rushby, Seator, Flanagan and possibl...
amanda carreras makes the main draw here in a weak field this could be perfect for some point collecting maddie brooks has also made the main draw cut romina sceats in the qualifying -- Edited by Drew at 23:54, 2007-10-01
Ive just heard that Lee has retired....shame but was expected tbh...newly married and apart from Wimbledon and a 10K in Greece, hasnt had much to shout about all year, must have decided it just wasnt worth getting into all that debt again as he was struggled to stay in top 400 Tom Rushby is also consider...
Tournament Key : M-FU-INA-06A-2007 Dates : 24 Sep to 30 Sep 2007 Venue : Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia Surface : Hard James Ward seeded 2 or 3...with Chris Eaton also in the MD. Anthony Law is in the QD. QD1 : LAW, Anthony (GBR) def SUMUAL, Skiva Meriano (INA) 6-4 3-6 6-2
main draw katie obrien mel south anna fitzpatrick WC natasha khan give her a boost from being out for so long WC olivia scarfi WC lucy warburton both olivia and lucy need a match like this with no pressure so they can just rise to the occasion. both been having some dissapointing competitions recently W...
