sorry as this isnt directly tennis related but.................... to whoever does this site wats ur screen name by the way?? are you going to be doing anymore profiles as there are only a selection of players are yo u hoping to do top 10 top 20?? sorry i know you probably are extremely busy
Hi Tennisbrain: The site's a collaborative effort:
Sheddie does probably 70% of the articles ( feels like 90% this week) There's also Sally, Drew, John, Josh, Guy, Matt Arka and me contributing to the articles. Drew does most of the graphics. I try to keep the site working smoothly within the confines of what our webhost (freewebs) gives us I do the rankings with Steven, Guy, Madeline, Imoen and Drew.
WE'RE ALWAYS LOOKING FOR VOLONTEERS TO HELP OUT!! - so if you'd be able to add a profile or two, or help us update those that are already there, we'd be eternally grateful
- Also if you fancy trying your hand at an article or two, please do volunteer.
In particular we're short of someone to do the Schedules page - particularly the womens and juniors.
We've got a threat in the mens tennis section devoted to the site: We try to put up a list of the articles that need doing each day there.
So if you fancy trying your hand, all help is welcome and we'd very gladly guide you through how to put stuff up there, and also be very happy to help edit your prose should you not be confident in it.
sorry as this isnt directly tennis related but.................... to whoever does this site wats ur screen name by the way?? are you going to be doing anymore profiles as there are only a selection of players are yo u hoping to do top 10 top 20?? sorry i know you probably are extremely busy
The admin / owner is David Cox aka 'sheddie'...Im sure he will reply !
Elena's breakthrough year was 2002. She made her Grand Slam debut at Wimbledon, as wildcard ranked No. 295, and reached the 3rd round with an upset of No. 32 seed Coetzer before falling to No. 48 Likhovtseva. As a result of her explots at Wimbledon, she cracked the Top 200.She also won her maiden pro title at 25K Felixstowe with wins over No. 2 and No. 3 seeds and captured her second pro title at 25K Pamplona
The former British No. 1 reached her highest world ranking in March 2005, when she was ranked 118 in the world. 2005 was perhaps her best year on the tour as she matched her best ever when she qualified for the Australian Open and reached the 3rd round beating Srebotnik and Cohen-Aloro along the way and eventually being downed by No.15 seed Farina Elia. In the same year she also won 25K Jersey.
However, much of Elena's career so far has been plagued by injury and has held her back considerably. In 2002, fell victim to illnesses including two bouts of tonsillitis, chicken pox and fatigue brought on by an ongoing liver complaint. In 2003 she underwent two liver biopsies and was diagnosed with primary sclerosing cholangitis, and decided to take six months off to try and recover. Finally, in 2006 almost crippled by back pain, with sciatica running down from her hip to her ankle and with a prolapsed disc she had to undergo keyhole surgery and intensive rehabilitation and has been making tentative progress.
Elena comes from an extremely sporting family. Her father and brother used to play professionalfootball and her father even represented the USSR whilst her mother Olga represented the USSR in thepentathlon and heptathlon at the Olympic Games.
hi tennisbrain, I run the site...I definately agree about the profiles, will be looking to add more soon, eventually I aim to have profiles for most of the ranked GB players
some of the game style info you've provided for players like Becki Fong, will be very useful
also looking to improve our photo gallery, there's pics for most of the GB girls now down to Yasmin Clarke. If anyone has a pic of Lucy Warburton that would be great, she's the only one missing
i will do a few profiles. i dont have a picture of lucy warburton but i do remember about christmas time she was rising player of the month in british tennis and they had a photo so if there is anyway public can reach those photos?
i will do a few profiles. i dont have a picture of lucy warburton but i do remember about christmas time she was rising player of the month in british tennis and they had a photo so if there is anyway public can reach those photos?
not that I'm aware of, but maybe if you emailed them?
She seems to have finally switched to contacts now
