This apparently appeared in the Daily Star yesterday:
"IT'S ONE LOVE FOR MURRAY
British tennis ace Andy Murray has found a real match winner - he has proposed to his teenage sweetheart. He went on the hunt in London for a diamond ring for 18 year old Kim Sears just before flying to Spain for the M...
No idea what this guy is like but is a wild card. How 'wild' remains to be seen ! *LOL*
Could someone add the usual predictions etc. and make it 'sticky'.
Tim -- Edited by timmoore46 at 13:03, 2006-10-22-- Edited by Drew at 19:54, 2006-10-23
Qualifying:
Rd1:
R Sceats [GB][wr:1392] bt V Vallis-Comamala [Esp] [wr:851] 6-4, 7-5
B Morata [Esp][wr:802] bt A Carreras [GB][unranked] 6-2, 6-2
K Woolley [GB][14][wr:769] bt I Koripenko [Isr] 6-3, 6-3
Rd2:
G Mortello [It][10] [wr:685] bt R Sceats [G...
Simon Childs and John Rambotas trying to qualify again.
Rambota retired at 4-2 down in first round.
Childs lost to top seed in second round after a good first round win.
Thought I'd just start a thread for this match.
2nd round being completed tom so Alex will be up vs Sluiter on Friday, having overcome him in 3 close sets in Mons but the other week!
Will be very tight I reckon. 3rd set tie-break perhaps!
Rd1 results:
A Fitzpatrick [GB][3] v bye
E Ullathorne [GB][14] bt V Wojakowska [USA] 6-4, 6-3
J Dobbins [GB] bt N Reynolds [USA] 6-2, 6-0
Rd2:
A Fitzpatrick [GB][3] v A Allin [USA]
E Ullathorne [GB][14] v J Dobbins [GB]
Lyon:
Hrbaty [1.57] v Serra [2.25]
Mayer [1.5] v Mahut [2.5]
Safin [1.72] v Gasquet [2.0]
Baghdatis [1.53] v Clement [2.37]
Ginepri [1.25] v Simon [3.5]
Soderling [1.12] v Ascione [5.5]
Grosjean [1.44] v Mathieu [2.62]
Malisse [1.44] v Spadea [2.62]
St P...
Bladetiger rates her as the hottest player in British tennis, so as you can imagine, I'm anxious to check this out.
Now, Doug posted a link to a site with pics of all the female british players but alas I deleted the thread which the post was in, a while back. I wondered if he could re-post the link to th...
Alan Wright back in qualies here! Also Antoni Gomez. James WArd has eith er made the main draw or is playing somewhere else or is not playing!
First Round (1)Matteo Viola (ITA) d. Roberto Lopez-Sanchez (ESP) 6-1 3-6 6-2 Sergio Barberan (ESP) d. Robert van Ewijk (NED) 6-2 3-6 7-6(3) (WC)Andoni Vivan...
Dan Evans, Neil Pauffley and Matthew James are competing here. Evans is seeded 9th, Pauffley is 14th. Pauffley was the runner-up to Evans in the National U16s, Evans won that match 6-3, 6-3.
All had comfortable rd1 wins.
Rd1 results:
M James [GB] bt M Hallahan [Den][WC] 6-2, 6-1
N Pa...
Entry list per steveg: 1 Federer, Roger SUI 1 2 Nadal, Rafael ESP 2 OUT 3 Nalbandian, David ARG 4 4 Blake, James USA 8 OUT 5 Gonzalez, Fernando CHI 11 6 Berdych, Tomas CZE 13 OUT 7 Ferrer, David ESP 15 8 Murray, Andy GBR 16 9 Ferr...
Tara Wigan makes the main draw but gets tp seed Ana Timotic of SRB ranked 310 in round 1.
She must be furious as the main draw lists 12 ( yes that's right 12) spaces for qualifiers or lucky losers, but she has to play the op seed.
Of those 12 spots the only Brit still in it is Anna Hawkins w...
Andy Murray's competitive year may be over. The 19-year-old has never before played so many tournaments in one year, and has entered uncharted physical and mental territory. Certainly he implied that this Masters series event might be the end of his first full ATP Tour season.
"I'll just have t...
The tournament are doing a superb online daily magazine on the tournament, there's only 1 snag, it's all in Spanish. Does anyone here speak any ?
There's a section on the Henman - Verdasco match in today's issue.
Does anyone know how to feed info in pdf files into one of those free online transl...
Here's this week's table (c)GC77 It's been put together before input from teh official ATP rankings or from tennisfacts. Please let me know if you spot any errors!
STRONG>week  ...
This match will take place fourth on court 1 with an 11am start local time. However two of the first three matches are doubles which should take less time.
A little bit of a contrast from Qualifying in Glasgow...
Q1: Lucy WARBURTON (GBR) (4) defeated Folashade OGUNSHOLA (NGR, UR) 60 60
Q2: Lucy WARBURTON (GBR) (4) defeated Beauty OGHENEKEVWE (NGR, UR) 61 60
I think Lucy has harder qualifying battles..... can't help but think this would be bette...
Time for wild predictions for 2006.
I can't see any more brits breaking into the top 100 in 2006. You either need to be incredibly talented and benefit from a large number of wildcards or you need to be very consistent at Challenger level. Right now we don't have anyone in either category though a few p...
Tim -- Edited by timmoore46 at 13:03, 2006-10-22 -- Edited by Drew at 19:54, 2006-10-23
B Morata [Esp][wr:802] bt A Carreras [GB][unranked] 6-2, 6-2
K Woolley [GB][14][wr:769] bt I Koripenko [Isr] 6-3, 6-3 
She must be furious as the main draw lists 12 ( yes that's right 12) spaces for qualifiers or lucky losers, but she has to play the op seed.
Of those 12 spots the only Brit still in it is Anna Hawkins w...