johnnylad wrote:

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Although the BEEB don't openly post the results anymore, remarkably and quite stupidly given they don't tell anyone they do it - they still do if you use the old link which I happened to have stored in my favourites.

Tuesdays results not on there yet but they still do all British futures and challengers for men and women.

link is http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/tennis/uk_results/default.stm

save it to your favourites and it should work, but I can't find a way of clicking through to it from the BBC site.

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I've had the link stored in my Favourites since I realised the page was no longer accessible from the Beeb's site & I rediscovered it courtesy of Google!  All of today's men's result are up there now - & those from the first three matches played today were there for a while earlier, too, but it's still very much the inexplicable "now you see them, now you don't" approach someone mentioned earlier, so you never know what you're going to find when you go to that page!   It's also maddening that the only doubles results reported are from finals...    Still, in the absence of info from the bone-idle, can't-be-arsed LTA, better than nowt!

DJ wrote:

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With Alex producing form like this, perhaps he'll be the first of our four-man field to reach that magic top 500, pipping Miles, Ed and James. Live totals are, I think: Miles, 41; Ed, 39; Alex and James, 36 - the 500th place is, at the moment, held with 50 points.
Imagine, though, our dream scenario: Ed winning in Kampala, James beating Miles in the Israel final, and Alex reaching the Shrewsbury semis. That would give our lads totals of 56 (ES), 54 (JW), 53 (AS) and 52 (MK); what a difference that would make to Steven's graph! (Though it would take till a week on Monday for this to appear in the ATP tables, given the 'Futures timelag'.)
Sweet dreams, all!

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Yes, those running points totals are correct. Out of our top 25, only Josh still has points to defend this year (30 of them! ), so if you take the points in the "NEW PTS" column on http://www.britishtennis.net/rankings.html?blogentryid=2540450 and add any Futures points shown as NW: in the column before that, it'll give you accurate running totals between now and the end of the season for everyone but Josh.

One of the reasons why I drew such attention to the drop to just 7 Brits in the top 500 is because I am quite hopeful that it will prove to be a medium term low - the same (or do I mean opposite?) reason to why I drew such attention to the 20-in-the-top-500-for-one-week just over two years ago.

Obviously we are going to lose Tigger and Lee Childs from the top 500 next year, but hopefully Jonny Marray will regain his place there not long after he starts playing again and I'd be very disappointed if we don't get at least 2 or 3 out of Kasiri, Slabba, Skupski, Ward, Blake (and perhaps Seator if he can find enough African Futures before his RU points drop off next summer) getting there next year. Don't forget the long-awaited return of Morgan Phillips either!

wolf wrote:

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Does anyone know if this even will cost anything to go to?

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will cost u nothing !

you should be able to catch alex's match at 1.30. then some brits in the dubs later. would like to see your report on that.

wow could be a big result for slabba here.

A.Slabinsky def. Bloomfield 7:6(5) 7:6(5)!!!!


I.Sijsling - A.Mannarino Sijsling won the first set and he is 3:2 up in second and serving!!

thats from mtf (so hope its right). what a tight match, great week from slabba so far!