Myles Blake is in the main draw here this week.
34 year old Briton Gregory Howe (with no world ranking) attempted to qualify and won two rounds but lost in round of 16. I wonder why he bothered.
Murray [1.3] v Henman [3.4]
Simon [1.5] v Dlouhy [2.5]
Haas [1.4] v Verdasco [2.75]
Malisse [1.36] v Mirnyi [3.0]
Safin [1.33] v Monfils [3.25]
Youzhny [1.28] v Phau [3.5]
Nadal [1.02] v Querrey [12.0]
Berdych [1.4] v Soderling [2.75]
Ljubicic [1.08] v Rusedski...
Playing each other once again next week in Cincy in R1.. Who could have thought of it eh? I'd have to say Andy in 3 just like in Toronto this week, good luck to whoever wins this tie as I've typed in another thread they have a possible meeting with the Fed Express. Once again will someone do t...
The 121SPORTS 2006 US Open Tennis Tipping Competition runs from the 28th August - 10th September, 2006.
Each entrant in the competition is given a “virtual” bank of 1000 units. Entrants must bet on at...
I've heard that the ITF plan to scrap satellites completely from 2007 onwards so the lowest level will be futures.
What do you think about this ?
I think it's a good idea points-wise, I've always thought it was a bit tough on players having to defend all their points from 4 weeks of a satellite in...
The main ATP site is showing some stats title 'Young Talent Ranked in the Top 30' It is for those under 21...see below... As u can see Nadal (2), Berdych (14), Murray (21). Djokovic (24) Gasguet (27) & Monfils (29) make up the numbers.....!
Once the ATP move the image from their site it may disappe...
1.50 Nikolay Davydenko v Juan Ignacio Chela 2.75 1.61 Julien Benneteau v Florent Serra 2.20 1.57 Nicolas Almagro v Alberto Martin 2.25 2.35 Thomas Johansson v Marcos Baghdatis 1.57 1.50 Dmitry Tursunov v Sebastien Grosjean 2.50 1.50 Kristo...
BBC article:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/tennis/4790527.stm
Apparently Brad's been getting Andy to dip his hand in pickle juice to harden it and reduce the blisters, lol
He's apparently b...
Any one notice the young tennis pro along side Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal on the front page of the ATP site entry page...its promoting their new contest "pick'em contest"....is this prophetic.....Andy Murray for World Number 3 soon ???
There will plenty of British players in action in this tournament next week. Richard Bloomfield, Martin Lee and Arvind Parmar are direct entries into the main draw and Jamie Baker, Josh Goodall, Colin Fleming and Jamie Murray will be playing qualifying which starts tomorrow.
The Qualifying Draw has been released.
A lot of our young guns are involved including Ian Atkinson, Chris Llewellyn, David Rice, and for once Daniel Cox doesn't get a wild card into the main dra...
Nominees:
Alex Bogdanovic: Achieved a career best result in Newport earlier this month, making his 1st ATP quarter-final.
Richard Bloomfield: Made the semis of the Dublin 50K Challenger, helping him rise to a career high ranking of 200.
Martin Lee: Made the quarters of the Mancheste...
This one should be quite an interesting match up if both players are on form.
I just hope Andy is able to recover and isn't too tired(and that he can get a few first serves in!).
If a moderater wishes to jazz up the poll options feel free to edit my post.
For some reason Alan Wright has again moved up to Challenger qualies here. In round 1 he plays Adriano Biasella (Ita). A win in round 1 would see Alan play the 5th seed who received a bye.
Full Qualifying Draw
Chris Hartfield in QD :
QD1 - bt Arthur Albert (Gha) 7-6(4) 5-4 retired. (The name is no joke!) QD2 - lost to Pelach Torres (Esp) 3rd seed 6-4 6-3 -------------
MD : Myles Blake, Fulford-Jones & Ross Connolly.
Robert Dee was on the alts list but did not appear in the QD.
A good day in Q1 for British women...
(1) Anna Smith GBR d. Anna-Viktoria Lind SWE 7-5, 6-4 Zaruhi Harutyunyan ARM d. Natalie Handler ISR 6-0, 6-0 (2) Olivia Scarfi GBR d. Naomi Broady GBR 2-6, 7-6(5), 6-2 Lisa Sutton GBR d. Emma Tomlinson GBR 4-6, 6-1, 6-1 Margot Carter GBR d. (3, 1225) Edita M...
Jarkko Nieminen (FIN) Photo by AP
Birthdate:
July 23, 1981
Birthplace:
Masku, Finland
Residence:
Masku, Finland
Height:
6'1'' (185 cm)
Weight:
172 lbs (78 kg)
Plays:
&nbs...
Entry list:
1 Federer, Roger SUI 1
2 Nadal, Rafael ESP 2
3 Nalbandian, David ARG 3
4 Ljubicic, Ivan CRO 4
5 Roddick, Andy USA 5
6 Davydenko, Nikolay RUS 6
7 Safin, Marat RUS @6
8 Blake, James USA 7
9 Robredo, Tommy ESP 8
10 Hewitt, Lleyton AUS 9
11 Ancic, Mario CRO 10
12 Gonzalez, F...
Anyone interested in tracing their family tree ?
Started my tree a month ago.....now got 103 names in my tree....just found out the names of my Great Great Great Grandparents.....one of them was a railway labourer in India (Born in Glasgow) and died in 1886 !!!!!
Great websites if you want to star...
ok another new game.. Pick a winner. Simple rules. Pick someone before a touny begins that you think will win it. 100AM's for winner 50 for finalist 20 for semi finalist it costs 20AM's to enter the game or i will set odds on people because its kinda unfair with federer..... and you will have to place your...
Here's the table for our second tier of players. All 18th/ 19th/ and defending points are straight from tennisfacts.
unning|----------Start of week---------| Running So 18th Def 19th Rank rank&nbs...
I'd have to say Andy in 3 just like in Toronto this week, good luck to whoever wins this tie as I've typed in another thread they have a possible meeting with the Fed Express. 
Once again will someone do t... 
He's apparently b...
R2:
Claire PETERZA...