Don't know if anyone's interested, but here is a breakdown of the countries with players in the top 100 and how many players they have there. If anyone finds this interesting, I can maintain this as a kind of league table updated weekly....
1.nc France &nbs...
[Intro posted: August 2006]:
Iclair wrote:
Hi guys, I'm Ian. I'm an electronic engineer, have been following British tennis since Henman broke onto the seen in '96. First saw Andy Murray in the 2004 Bolton Challenger. He'd just won the US Open juniors and played a superb match against Peter...
She wrote [March 2006]:
"By the way, I think I should say "hi" - I was your little reporter from one chalenger. My name is Nathaliia, I am from Poland and I study law at Wrocław University (so now everybody could guess which challenger I am referring to). I am also a journalist and I work at press...
He wrote [March 2006]:
"Hi everyone, the Turbanator is in town !!!!
Am a 17 year old student aiming to do a degree in Physics. I'd like to study the "dark side" for a career !!!
Am a massive tennis fan, the one and only Slabba is among my favourites, number 1 is Murray followed by Bloomfield, M...
Judith wrote:
"Hey Madeline, I'm a newby and I think I will match you in age if not surpass you. My daughters have told me you are all lovely people and that I should post; my daughters being twins Kate and Lucy Flory who run Murray's Mount fansite. I have 'lost' them this year Kate to Spain and Lucy to M...
Niall wrote:
"Due to unpopular demand I have decided that now is the time to introduce myself properly.
I am not, as I think many suspected, a German-Russian tenis pro. In reality I am a Scottish basketball amateur. I would like to turn pro but I'm probably not tall enough or good enough...
She wrote:
"Hi Amanda here, really interesting reading about everyone. I'm 14, so still at school.
Like many people, have been a big Andy fan since the US Open juniors and then after the Davis Cup I discovered the freewebs.com/andrewmurray site which led me to this message board.
I've poste...
He wrote:
"Hi I've been a member here since November but I've been mostly guesting regularly.
I'm 20 and doing a degree in Maths at Sussex Uni. I first heard about Andy Murray when he won US Open juniors but first saw him in action at Queens - that was a phenomenal performance against Johansson. Th...
Siobahn wrote:
"Hey, newbie here!!
I'm Siobhan, 18 and from England. I'm currently at University studying Sports Studies in my first year. I've been playing tennis for around 14 years and started to follow the pros back in 1999.
My favourite ever player is the one and only Lindsay Daven...
I live in Belgium at the moment, but I am British.
I'm an Andy Murray and Tim Henman fan.
My favourite players are Lleyton Hewitt and Andy Roddick.
Now that I'm talking, I can tell some other stuff too.
I'm 17 years old, I travel a lot and watch plenty of tennismatches. I also play a lot of te...
Brittenfan wrote:
" Hi Fabian, Steve P, murrayfield and everyone.
I'm 17 and a committed British tennis follower, currently studying A2s in Maths, Biology, Music and General Studies.
I'm a big fan of Sherwood and have been since the Davis Cup in March. I was really fortunate to see his m...
Fabian wrote:
"Hi there, I'm Fabian and from Paris though my Dad is Scottish. I'm 16 and currently at high school.
I saw Andy in the french open juniors and although he lost in the semis we all thought that he would go far having seen his match against Del Potro in the quarters.
He displayed all...
SteveP wrote:
"Hi guys, I'm a 20 year old student at Liverpool University studying physics. I've supported Andy since the US Open juniors, info has been hard to find since I found this sie in July. I've been guesting for 5 months but decided to log in, seeing how friendly and popular this site is.
...
Tim wrote:
" My sport is non competitive Long Distance Horse Riding. What? you may ask but less than 200 miles I don't saddle up for.
It's a very specialised biz, but my steed is now 20+ and enjoying a relaxing time. Not planned cos I've got a short/medium term injury and can't lift the saddle ont...
Stagger wrote:
" hello, my name is stagger and i teach english to taiwanese people. I like hummous, giraffes and john steinbeck and I dont like things that begin with K.
i cant play tennis for toffee but i am an exceptionally good spectator and i would be world number one if tennis was just intelle...
Madeline wrote:
" My name is Madeline, but I answer to Mad or Decrep as well. I think I am very probably the oldest poster on the tennis message boards - at least, if there is anybody older, they have not admitted it yet. I have followed tennis since I was 14, but I was absolutely useless at playing it. T...
As we head into the off season it might be good to have a thread each month that follows articles relating to Andy...just to keep up going....a bit early maybe for this (Still October) but some good articles out there....will make it sticky....if that is okay with our mighty UMF
Here's the table (c)GC77 for the week of the 6th November. It's done before Tennisfacts have updated. Please let me know if anything's wrong!
No Andy's competitors this week: Only Tursunov is playing (in the Ukraine), and he can't overtake.
No Tim's competitors t...
QR1: Andrew Kennaugh WR 763 beat Hidekazu Ina (JPN) UNR by 1 & QR1: Myles Blake WR 855 beat Anthony Tuong (AUS) WR 1542 by 2 & 2 QR1: Chris Eaton WR 782 beat (q8) James Cerretani (USA) WR 683 by 6-4 5-7 6-4
QR2: Andrew Kennaugh WR 763 lost to (q1) Sebastia...
I am not, as I think many suspected, a German-Russian tenis pro. In reality I am a Scottish basketball amateur. I would like to turn pro but I'm probably not tall enough or good enough...
QR1: Myles Blake WR 855 beat Anthony Tuong (AUS) WR 1542 by 2 & 2 
QR2: Andrew Kennaugh WR 763 lost to (q1) Sebastia...