Would you believe you can now buy a Wimby umpire's jacket. Yes, really! Haute couture that's a snip at £420! I can think of one good reason for buying one - sneaking into the umpire's chair on Centre Court and seeing how long it takes for them to realise you're not a real one! Just think how many "Code...
I couldn't help noticing a remarkable resemblence between Marlon Dingle of Emmerdale , and Scotland's finest, Andy Murray. I wonder if by any chance they are related ? Andy Murray [img]http://i8.tinypic.com/6f09vlv.jpg[...
6 Brits in qualies. Oscar Podlewski (unr) vs Vlad Cirla (Rou) (unr) Joshua Miller (unr) vs Matthew Illingworth (1290) (10) James Feaver (unr) vs Adrian-Ionut Balota (Rou) (unr) Konstantinos Kalaitzis (1387) (13) vs Octavian Avram (Rou) (unr) James Langford (unr) vs Ionut-Mihai Beleleu (Rou) (1...
rebecca fong is in qualifying, still out there been there for 6 weeks i think now. q1st round beki fong def. chrissie seredni wr.653 63 64 2nd round q macall harkins v beki fong
Boggo might finally get to play his mixed doubles, scheduled 2nd on court 3 (is there a live stream of that one?) Aucks opens his md on court 13 at 11am. with murray j v blooms 3rd up
Henman, Draper, Becker now Andy Murray, everyone is jumping on the bandwagon and they making me so mad. Every single one of the British Men that got WC's are ranked higher than they were last year, so they are making progress. In the last 3-4 weeks: Boggo beat a seed at Queens and went close to beating Rod...
Bloomfield/Marray take the 3rd set against 16th seeds Fyrstenberg/Kubot, breaking in the 10th game, after losing a previous break and almost going a break down themselves. They lead 6-3, 3-6, 6-4, 1-0. Hutchins and Goodall lose in 4 sets to Tursunov and Kunitsyn.
Rob Dee vs GARCIA-PARRA, Xavier (ESP) Antoni Gomez vs CHALA, Eddy [4] (1078) (FRA)Gary Chamberlain vs PALACIOS-SIEGENTHALE, Marcelo (ESP)Benjamin-George Levi vs GOOSSENS, Yannick (NED)all players unranked unless stated. British players first...
3 Brits in qualifying here, but they all lost in the first round Marco Bella (ITA) def. John Rambotas (GBR) - 6-1, 6-2 Valerio Caresse (ITA) def. Paul Bishop (GBR) - 6-3, 6-0 Adriano-Bonilha Garcia (BRA) def. Dominic Ross-Hurst - 6-3, 6-2
I've been delighted by the increased attention paid to Jamie by the British media this year in Andy's absence from Wimbledon, not to mention his & Eric's win over the 7th seeds, Erlich & Ram, yesterday evening. Below is an interview (well, more a Q&A) with him which appeared in yes...
No British players were left in the singles by day 5 this year, the first time that's happened for 17 years. Speaking to reporters after his defeat to Feliciano Lopez in rd2 yesterday, Henman said "Yeah, it's depressing. I think for years we've been far too accepting of mediocrity. I think you lo...
i will try and update every monday when the new rankings come out ranking (prv. rank) name points 154(188)O'BRIEN, KATIE GBR206.500.0031169(204)SOUTH, MELANIE GBR182.000.0033178(179)KEOTHAVONG, ANNE GBR172.500.0031232(233)CAVADAY, NAOMI...
Murray blames British attitudes (http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/tennis/6260352.stm) British number one Andy Murray has launched a wide-ranging attack on underachieving British tennis players and the authorities that run the sport. "The problem with British tennis is that there'...
Just the 1 Brit has made the trip for qualifying here, as Gregory Howe is here Gregory Howe (GBR) unr vs. Andrew Howe (AUS) unr At least 1 Howe will make the second round! Very tough for Greg to qualify here, as in the final round he would have to overcome Phillip Marx, ranked at 595 (the top seed here is rank...
The New Table is posted here (on britishtennis.net) Alex starts the week climbing three places to 105 , as Sanguinetti, Dlouhy and Stepanek defend points from last year (Alex only defends 5). Unfortunately, he loses one of those places immediately as Roger-Vasselin overtakes because he qualifi...
The New Table is posted here (on britishtennis.net) Bloomers, of course, is defending his controversial R1 win at last year's Wimbledon. As the week begins, therefore, he drops a massive 33 places out of the top 200 to 227 back into the Josh- Jonny table. He also loses places as Qureshi and Lopez gain p...
How much influence does the BBC have on the order of play each day? All broadcasters can put their requests for when they would like a match to be played via official systems at the club and those are then passed on to the referee's office. Clearly as host broadcaster, the BBC would like to feel we have a go...
Rain delayed the start of play until 3.15 and then returnrd at 4.15 During which time Auckland/Curran beat Childs/O'Brien 6-2 6-1 Bloomers/Marray took the first game against 16th seeds Fyrstenberg/Kubot and held on to take first set 6-3 - Second set missed 2 break points but still on serve at 3-3 whe...
Lots of action tomorrow in addition to the unfinished men's matches. Apologies if I shouldn't be including the mixed... Goody & Hutch vs Kunitsyn & Tursunov in the 4th match on Court 4 Boggo & Mel South vs Benjamin Becker & Anna-Lena Groeneveld in the 5th match on Court 7 Delgo &...
