Auckland teams up with Ashley Fisher WR 29 here. In round 1 they play the Austrian 3rd seeds Knowle and Melzer (combined rank 42) who Jamie and Butorac beat in the final of Memphis last week.
I spoke to Slabba yesterday about last week's 10K in Portugal. Alex said "In the last tournament I lost in the 3rd qualies round to a Nadal lookalike. It was weird, he was an absolute copy. The same technique, an identical face and the same vamos screams. He was pretty good too and the courts re...
This is my last post.....from my old house....tommorrow a new house and a fresh start....5 houses in 7 years....way to much.....hopefull will not be moving for at least the next 10 years !!! My broadband wont be up until the weekend.....dam BT ! Go Boggo for later....
These start at the beginning of March. British team so far: Men: 60m: Jason Gardener (Wessex & Bath AC); Craig Pickering (Marshall Milton Keynes); Ryan Scott (Yate); reserve: Simeon Williamson (Highgate Harriers) 1500m: James Thie (Cardiff AAC) 3000m: Mo Farah (Newham & Essex); Scott O...
Unusually, many of the top singles players are also playing doubles here this week (i wonder if the appearance money has made it worthwhile!!). Even a certain Mr Federer has appeared in the draw with countryman Yves Allegro (WR38, WR40 on live rankings). Just for those of you interested the cut for th...
Just two Brits in qualifying here and a Friday start means they are both out already. QR1: Philip Barlow UNR lost to Francesco Zacchia (ITA) UNR by 6-4 5-7 6-3 QR1: Alexander Ward UNR lost to (WC) Mark Vervoort (NED) UNR by 6-1 4-6 6-2
The new table is posted here (On Britishtennis.net) - thanks Guy! It's now Jamie & Bootie's turn to try some masterful inactivity (c) Tim Henman. As the week begins, Jamie's career- high, top 50 ranking of 44 goes straight up to 42, as Coetzee and Skoch drop below him. Aucks also ris...
Joc Rae in main draw Amanda Elliot and Caitlin Steel in qualies Olivia Howlett in ALTS... Broady and Yasmin Clarke withdrew a fortnight ago. http://www.cosat.org/main/index.php?i=torneo.list
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I've extracted the top Brits from most of steveg's 2006 stats lists and I'll post them in the next couple of days, but first let's have a bit of fun. (some of you might find it fun, anyway! ) Without looking at the stats (obviously!), PM me as many of the answers to the questions b...
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Unusually there wasn't a single late withdrawal here so Morgan Phillips again has to play qualies. The draw was made on Thursday evening and round 1 was played today: Q1: (1)Morgan Phillips WR 578 bt Asim Jalilov (Azb) UNR 6-0 6-1 Nicolas Pinones-Haltenhoff (Chi) UNR bt Zander Woodford-Smith (...
Ross Connolly turns up in qualifying here (3 round): QR1: bye QR2: (10)Ross Connolly(Gbr) WR 1053 vs Andreas Eichenberger(Sui) UNR/ Patrick Linke(Aus) UNR
Anne Keothavong and Katie O'Brien have both entered qualifying for this week's Las Vegas 75K. Anne is seeded 6th and faces 17 year old wildcard Julia Cohen in round 1. Cohen is the world no 6 in the juniors and already has a women's ranking of 368. She plays most of her tournaments in Centra...
3 Brits in qualifying here: QR1: (6)Myles Blake (Gbr) WR849 bye Joshua Oxley (Gbr) UNR vs Erkki Viitisaari (Fin) UNR Simon Childs (Gbr) UNR vs David Currer (Aus) UNR QR2: (6)Myles Blake (Gbr) WR849 vs Mark McCook (Aus) UNR/ Todd Breeze (NZ) UNR (13)Mao-Xin Gong (Chi) WR992 vs Joshua Oxley (Gbr...
QR1: Alexander Ward UNR lost to (WC) Mark Vervoort (NED) UNR by 6-1 4-6 6-2 
) Without looking at the stats (obviously!), PM me as many of the answers to the questions b... 
