The rewards in tennis can be huge but so are the physical demands. Andy Murray returned last week from his first holiday for six years, having taken a fortnight off following the Paris Masters, completed his commitments in the Aberdeen Cup exhibition tournament yesterday and will fly on Wednesday t...
Qualifying:
Danielle had an excellent rd1 win over the top seed Ashley Weinhold [Katie's US Open conqueror]: 6-0, 1-6, 7-5
Unfortunately she then lost 6-2, 6-1 to an American girl ranked 41 places lower at 551, in rd2 [final qualifying round].
It seems that Danielle's one of these play...
Thought some of you might find this bit of fun, even though I doubt any of you will find it very hard. Read this (horribly contrived) story and try to find (in bold within the text) 15 British tennis players. To avoid you having to write out the whole lot, the question you need to answer is:...
Inside Tennis are going to be doing an exclusive interview with Nicole Vaidisova and want to give fans the opportunity to ask questions to Nicole. Send your questions to inside_tennis@hotmail.co.uk and as many as possible will be put to Nicole. You can post them on here too (so others can make sure th...
Greg will fight on and play next season.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/tennis/6182870.stm
He will not be playing AO qualies. The LTA should ask AO authorities for a WC.
New thread for today.... I will try and get a hold of Jamie Murray as soon as I can....i have my list of questions for Andy...going to use my new found status and give it to Jamie hoping that Andy scribble down quickly some answers....! Please post here for the matches...other than Andy v Greg 'The Return...
http://www.aberdeencity.gov.uk/ACC_Data/news%20item/ppu_news_060324a.aspThe Lawn Tennis Association has approved the 2006 event and Andy Murray and Greg Rusedski have both agreed terms with the...
Friday Left work at 12.16...14 min ahead of schedule. Thought the weather would be a lot worse than it was. It actually got warmer the closer I got to Aberdeen. 10deg C and not a cloud in the sky! Arrived in Aberdeen 2.06pm. 1 hr 50 mins not too bad. Takes me a further 20 mins to drive through and arrive at the...
This thread will contain Andy's ranking throughout the year, updated as often as the ATP lists come out. At the start of the year, his entry ranking is 64.
ENTRYJanuary: 2nd - 64 9th - 62 16th - 62 30th - 60 February: 6th - 62 13th - 60 20th - 47 27th - 42 March: 6th - 44&n...
Here's the table (c)GC77 for the week of the 20th November. It's done before Tennisfacts have updated. Please let me know if anything's wrong!
No Andy's competitors this week; No Tim's competitors this week.unning ...
I thought there was already a separate thread for this but could't spot it, if I'm just being stupid someone let me know and I'll delete this thread! -- Edited by ultimateshedman at 20:54, 2006-11-26
"Andrew Murray message board" - Officially at the Aberdeen Cup Both David (The Shed Man) and I have been working away trying to get the Murray camp to do something for this messageboard at the Aberdeen Cup.
Representing this messageboard only I have been granted full media accreditation for the Ab...
The entry list is really strong here. 5 top 100 players and the cut is 144.
It's stronger than some tier 4s.
Anne and Amanda are both entered for qualifying which starts on Sunday. Anne is no 3 on the qualies list so has a chance of getting into the main draw via withdrawals. Amanda is 13th on the li...
LIVESCORING : https://www.bwin.com/splash.aspx? this is wrong...see below !!!!! LIVEVIDEO STREAMING : http://www.247.tv/?men=PAGE13&setsp=TENNIS You can pay £5 per day or per match....50p junior matches. £2.00 for others. -- Edited by Drew at 16:57, 2006-11-25
New thread for the main match tonight. WSM sport are worried about the time overrun.....most games / matches are going to TB or several deuces....!!!! Please post score updates / comments in this thread.
damn strong field for this one! Shrewsbury 1 Del Potro, Juan Martin ARG 82 OUT 2 Norman, Dick BEL 87 3 Waske, Alexander GER 102 OUT4 Sanguinetti, Davide ITA 103 OUT 5 Pless, Kristian DEN 105 6 Schuettler, Rainer GER 112 OUT...
Well we arrived. Met John and he is down courtside watching Andy and Jamie in a practice seesion. John has never seen live tennis and is excited ! "John" from here just in case you did not know he was coming.
just been told that Sky only dropped the live coverage 2 weeks ago "budget constraints" apparen...
[intro posted: May 2006]:
Vonce wrote:
"Hey my name is Vince really but I just like the sound of Vonce. I'm from Scotland from a place called Larbert which is on the outskirts of Falkirk. At this moment in time I'm not actually feeling quite well as I have a virus.
I'm into most sports really...
1 Spadea, Vincent USA 81
2 Kim, Kevin USA 96
3 Roitman, Sergio ARG 108
4 Hartfield, Diego ARG 116
5 Fraile, Gorka ESP 126
6 Berlocq, Carlos ARG 128
7 Delgado, Ramon PAR 131
8 Delic, Amer USA 135
9 Capdeville, Paul CHI 147
10 Russell, Michael USA 148
11 Bozoljac, Ilia SRB 151
12 Bastl...
Israel F5 - Hard Alts : Ross Connolly, Robert Dee (no chance) Edit : Qualy draw is out and NO Brits have entered. Presume that Ross will pop-up in Tunisia or Czech rep. Tunisia F6 - Hard Alts : David Brewer, Ross Connolly, F Amadeus-Jones, T Greenland, Simon Childs, R Dee Edit : Searle out...playi...
Well i made it to the press room and my new laptop connected to the net without a hitch....one hitch so far....I walked in with Greg Rusedski and said hello to Jamie, Elena, James and Katie...should not have been there...never mind....i am a rookie at this after all!
So got a good spot and will post the...
On the official site, theres a poll in deciding how andy's hairstyle should be! also, there have been a few 'experts' in deciding how andy should style his hair!http://andymurray.com/about/news/02-11/hair-gets-bigger/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/tennis/6182870.stm
He will not be playing AO qualies. The LTA should ask AO authorities for a WC.
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