While she lost her first ever match at Wimbledon in straight sets, Naomi Cavaday showed enough to suggest that she has a future inside the top 100 of the women's game. Indeed, midway through the second set Cavaday appeared capable of beating her experienced opponent, as she had break point opportuni...
Already had our 1st upset of the Championships..
Davydenko going out to Alejandro Falla in 4 sets.. 6-2, 6-7, 6-7, 3-6.
Ljubicic up 2 sets to 1 on Lopez.. 6-3, 6-4, 5-7 and 3-2 to Lopez in the 4th with Ljubicic on serve..
Qualifying:
Richard Irwin Qualified Alex Miotto reached the MD as a LL Main Draw:
Bad news - not a single Brit through to R16:
Alex, Richard & Matt Smith all lost in the first round
Well if this had been last year then no doubt Safin would have been favourite...this year probably still the favourite by some but his form has been pretty poor....Gregs' injury wont help if it goes to 4 or 5 sets....mmmmm my heart says Greg in 4...?
I'm off to Albania for two weeks today, so won't be around to make my usual insightful comments for a while.
Good luck to all Brits still in Nottingham,Wimbledon qualifying and futures.
Good luck to all Brits at Wimbledon.
Good luck to England at the world cup.
Wher...
Hopefully RobC will post his table soon! (Yep, that's a very cleverly veiled hint )
I'm really really busy this week and so won't be able to contribute very much at all until Thursday at the earliest. I will still be making time for pin sticking, of course.
Hopefully Andy can gain some points...
a mention in the bottom of an artcile in the times seems to suggest jamie will be playing here. great experience for him if its true. can anyone confirm?
It started today.. Anybody watched todays games?
Opening game was the best 1 in a few World Cups certainly the goals from Lahm and Frings for Germany were great goals.
The Poland vs Ecuador match is on the now..
First Qualifying Round: Margot Carter (GBR) v Bye Romina Sceats (GBR) v Bye Second Qualifying Round: Margot Carter (GBR) d. (2) Simonetta Miori (ITA) 63 46 62 Romina Sceats (GBR) v Lalatiana Randriamanantena (FRA)
OK it's my turn to try and beat tennisfacts! I'll put in my post just as soon as I've typed it out. I'll then try and add a version of RobC's table but no guarentees!!
Holland F2 (ALL Brits OUT) MD : A Slabbinsky (8) QD : Feaver, K Kalaitzis, M Illingworth, Seator all lost in the QD. Edit : K Kalaitzis made the MD as a LL Edit : MD1 both Kalaitzis & Slabbinsky still to play. Edit : MD1 both Kalaitzis & Slabbinsky LOST. Spain F20 (ALL Brits&nb...
Main draw:
Alex Slabinsky plays here this week, Alex just missed the top 8 seeds on the entry list.
Qualifying:
Rd1: K Kalaitzis [GB] bt W Starakiewicz [Pol] [unranked] 6-2, 6-4
[unfortunately Konstantinos is drawn against the top seed, ranked 839 in rd2 qualies.]
J Feav...
MD : 1st Round.... Matt Smith(1) bt Nikki Peel (LL) 6-2 6-3 Alex Miotto bt Ed Allinson 6-4 3-6 6-4 R Wire bt J McGahon (Ire) 6-2 7-6(6) Troy Hahn(Usa) bt A Barratclough 4-6 6-4 6-4 To play : R Irwin v Connor Niland(8)(Ire) T Greenland v P Clark(5)(Ire)
Main draw:
Andy Kennaugh, Chris Eaton, Amadeus Fulford-Jones and Simon Harston are all entered for this 10K. They've picked it well as the field's not particularly strong and it's on hard courts.
Qualifying:
J Southwood [GB] v E Alikhanbekov [USA] [The real reason why there are no ump...
I have just been browsing Stagger's excellent and hilarious blog Cold Goat Eyes [life in Taiwan and other things] and I've just found an article in which he gives his views on Dan Brown's bestseller The Da Vinci Code.
True to form, he doesn't shirk from controversy:
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-- Edited by RobC at 10:57, 2006-06-...
Alex Miotto reached the MD as a LL 
Good luck to all Brits at Wimbledon.
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I'm really really busy this week and so won't be able to contribute very much at all until Thursday at the earliest. I will still be making time for pin sticking, of course.
Hopefully Andy can gain some points...