Just looking at the BBC website and on a discussion on the future of British Tennis is mentions of the 7 Brits who have Davis Cup experience who have now retired - Rusedski, Mackin, Parmar, Sherwood, Lee, Henman and Childs Would be a shame if he has http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/606/A27095213?s_fromed...
Quite brillinatly i have just seen this section adn thought i would say hi. I have been a huge fan of british tennis for about 4 years now mainly following tim. But at he mo i am a student ay UWE in bristol and thought it would b a good moment to say hi
After practise on Tuesday the British no 2 told press: I think the singles are all going to be very tight. [Ivan] Ljubicic and [Marin] Cilic are obviously both really good players, but the fact that were playing on grass definitely favours us so I think all of the singles rubbers are there to be won but co...
As steven suggested, it would be nice to have some kind of meet-up if people are interested A lot of the andymurray.com members (and some are also members here like Kelle, Zainab, Rochelle, Chrissi) will be meeting up at the Rose and Crown pub near SW19 on Saturday evening. I'll be there with those guys...
Nominees: (1) Anne Keothavong: Picked up her first 50K title in Vancouver and made the final qualies round of the US Open (2) Naomi Cavaday: reached final qualies rounds of WTA New Haven (Tier 1) and US Open (3): Julia Bone: Made semis of Ikley 10K (4) Kirsty Woolley: Very consistent month...making 10...
It has been revealed that if rain hits the Davis Cup at the weekend, its a possibility that the tie will be switched to the indoor courts at the National Tennis Centre. With vastly smaller spectator facilities in there, this would mean home support is less of a factor and also the Croatian players are a l...
Jeremy Bates is one of only six men since the Second World War to have played 20 or more Davis Cup ties for Great Britain and one of eight captains in the past three decades. For almost ten years before Tim Henman reared his head, he fought the unequal fight as Britains No 1 when progress to the worlds top 50...
Tournament Key : M-FU-VEN-03A-2007 Dates : 17 Sep to 23 Sep 2007 Venue : Valencia, Venezuela Surface : Hard Mozart pops up here looking for cheap points...he hopes ! He was just outside the MD entry positions but now in the MD I presume as he is not in the QD.
Tournament Key : M-FU-USA-23A-2007 Dates : 17 Sep to 23 Sep 2007 Venue : Costa Mesa, CA, USA Surface : Hard Another week, another qualifying marathon in the US Five Brits up for the challenge and all have cleared the first round Richard Wire d. Jean Marc Bazanne (HAI) 7-6(6) 3-6 6-4 Jonathan Kinsella d....
So Lindsay Davenport wins a WTA title after over a year out of the game after having a baby..beating players like Jankovic and Hantuchova. On this form you wouldn't bet against her taking this week's title in China too ! She must be wishing she returned a little sooner and played the US Open ! Quite ama...
according to the Times: 50 "Football is all right as a game for rough girls but is hardly suitable for delicate boys." Oscar Wilde makes a fair comment - years before anyone started diving to win free kicks 49 "They finally found one." Eddie "the Eagle" Edwards insul...
1 Federer, Roger SUI 1 2 Nadal, Rafael ESP 2 3 Djokovic, Novak SRB 3 4 Davydenko, Nikolay RUS 4 5 Roddick, Andy USA 5 6 Gonzalez, Fernando CHI 6 7 Blake, James USA 7 8 Ferrer, David ESP 8 9 Robredo, Tommy ESP 9 10 Berdych, Tomas CZE 10 11 Haas, Tommy GER 11 12 Ljubicic, Ivan CRO 12 13 Canas, Guillermo ARG 13 14 Gas...
here is the early list. i'll email Jamie and see if i can get some more info on his game. Anderson, Kevin RSA 232.. Montcourt, Mathieu FRA 119Baker, Jamie GBR 226 ...Odesnik, Wayne USA 145Bogomolov Jr., Alex USA ...188 Querrey, Sam USA 51Bozoljac, Ilia SRB 228 Ram,... Rajeev USA 203Fleishman, Zack U...
Tournament Key : M-FU-ESP-35A-2007 Dates : 17 Sep to 23 Sep 2007 Venue : Madrid, Spain Surface : Hard NO Brits in the MD by right... QD1 : ARROGANTE-DE LANUZA, Faustino (ESP) v BROOKS, Richard (GBR) 12 Bye v BARLOW, Philip (GBR) 9HARFIELD, Christopher (GBR) v LORA-PRADO, Jorge (ESP) SEGO, Nicho...
The New Table is posted here (on britishtennis.net) Jamie's not defending any points from 2006, so starts the week up four as Gimeno, Bozoljac, Meffert and Dorsch drop behind him. Richard's defending 7 points, however, which means he drops two to 239 , falling behind Przysiezny, Lugassy, Jeanpier...
Tournament Key : M-FU-BOL-02A-2007 Dates : 17 Sep to 23 Sep 2007 Venue : Cochabamba, Bolivia Surface : Clay Just noticed that Adam Holbrich was not deterred by his results in Poland earlier in the year and was trying to qualify in Bolivia, both this week and last. Adam was given a double bagel on both occ...
Tournament Key : M-FU-ITA-31A-2007 Dates : 10 Sep to 16 Sep 2007 Venue : Sassari Porto Torres, Italy Surface : Hard A rare appearance of some Brits in Italy. MD : Ross Connolly QD1 : Ed Seator (4) v Bye QD2 : Ed Seator (4) v CATANI, Riccardo (ITA) or HEYL, Heinrich (RSA) 9
Dom Hodgson lost in qualies Main Draw R1 Marcus WILLIS (GBR) (1) defeated Enej BONIN (SLO) 6-2 6-3 Josip MESIN (CRO) defeated Thomas KNIGHTS (GBR) (8) 5-7 7-5 7-6(2) Niall ANGUS (GBR) (2) defeated Alexey IREMASHVILI (RUS) 6-1 7-6(6) R2 Marcus WILLIS (GBR) (1) defeated Alexander LOBKOV (RUS) 7-5 6-2...
Andy Murray has admitted he may have to restrict his participation in the Davis Cup in order to guard against injuries."It's not that I don't want to play Davis Cup. I love it, but I'm hurting myself playing it," said the Scot. "I have to make a decision whether to play Davis Cup or wheth...
