ANDY WHO?After a weekend that saw Andy Murray slip back out of the worlds top 10 as a result of his fi rst-round exit in Rotterdam, it came as a pleasant surprise when Sport learned of title wins for two other British tennis players. First up is Jamie Baker, the British number three who spared the nation an embarrassing whitewash in GBs impossible Davis Cup tie against Argentina earlier this month. The 21-year-old Glaswegian won the $15,000 USTA Futures Tour event in Texas without dropping a set, beating the top-seeded American Kevin Anderson in the fi nal. It was just weeks ago that the Scot scored a surprise win over the Argentinian top-50 player Agustin Calleri in that Davis Cup tie a victory that seems to have inspired him to continue in winning form.The other player doing her bit to boost British tennis is Anne Keothavong, the nations number two female. Also winning her fi rst title of the year, Keothavong won $25,000 at an ITF event in Italy she was made to work hard for it against the 18-year-old Russian Vesna Manasieva, however, winning 6-3 in the fi nal set. The Hackney-born 24-year-old has bigger scalps in her sights now, as she heads to Bangalore for a Tier II WTA event starting on Monday. The Williams sisters and world number four Jelena Jankovic are also set to appear in what is Indias richest tennis tournament

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-- Edited by RobC at 14:02, 2008-02-29

"Also winning her fi rst title of the year, Keothavong won $25,000 at an ITF event in Italy ..."

There seems to be this assumption by the press again that a $25,000 tournament means the winner gets $25,000, rather than the 10% of that figure they might take home.

Thanks for that, and yes, I bet Anne wishes she'd won $ 25000 instead of the about $ 3500 she actually won!

Also Kevin Anderson is South African, not American.

Stircrazy wrote:

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at which Sarah Borwell apparently also took the doubles title with a South African partner  

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'apparently', Stircrazy? Is that you confessing to not reading the updated-weekly 'British Successes' thread? Tut, tut!