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Michael


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I don't know if any of you follow the progress of the irish players but Ireland's top 2, Louk Sorenson and Conor Niland are starting to make progress now with Conor reaching the final of the GB future last week and Sorenson WINNING Wolfsberg challenger a few weeks ago. Sorenson has improved over 100 ranking places already this year and is set to soon break the top 200m if he continues this form.

After achieving promotion from group 3, the Irish take on Morocco this weekend in group 2 euro/africa zone in Dubli.

This thread can be updated by anyone but ill keep the top page for current rankings of the selected Irish players and people can update results. I am heading over to Ireland tonight but not for the Davis Cup and i wish the boys good luck.

Current male top 3:

Louk Sorenson - 262 (High 246 7-April-08)
Conor Niland - 304 (High 301 12-May-08)
Peter Clarke - 538
James Cluskey - 824 (High 801 5-Nov-07)
John Mcgahon - 895 (High 7-Apr-08)
James McGee - 1487 (High 1364 22-Oct-07)
Eoin Heavey - 1578 (High 1456 5-Nov-07)
Colin O'Brien - 1737 (High 1494 11-Jun-07)
Tristan Farron-Mahon - 1823 (High 1823 19-May-08) biggrinbiggrin CAREER HIGH!

Female:

Kelly Liggan - 328 (High 181 15-Sep-03)
Emma Murphy - 870 (High 639 10-Sep-07)

Irish Mens Rankings

Irish Women Rankings


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-- Edited by Michael at 19:42, 2008-05-21

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Ireland won!  Looks like it was an exciting tie.

Morocco were 2-1 up going in to the last day.

El Aynaoui was a set up on Sorensen, who came back brilliantly to beat the former Top 15 player, to level the tie at 2-2.

And then in the final match Niland was 2 sets to 1 down, and came back to win it for Ireland. clap.gif

Ireland d. Morocco 3-2 at Dublin, Ireland: Carpet (Indoor)
Singles
Louk Sorensen (IRL) d. Mounir El Aarej (MAR) 6-3 2-6 6-4 6-2
Younes El Aynaoui (MAR) d. Conor Niland (IRL) 6-4 6-4 6-2

Doubles
Rabie Chaki/Reda El Amrani (MAR) d. James Cluskey/Colin O'Brien (IRL) 1-6 7-5 2-6 7-6(4) 6-4

Reverse Singles
Louk Sorensen (IRL) d. Younes El Aynaoui (MAR) 3-6 6-4 7-6(5) 6-4
Conor Niland (IRL) d. Mounir El Aarej (MAR) 7-6(4) 1-6 6-7(6) 6-3 6-0
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Hope you had a good time in Ireland, Michael.  I was in Dublin the weekend before.

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Im a big fan of irish tennis, Louk's brother Kevin used to be a really good player and got to like 300 something in the world, he has stopped now, for some reason not really sure why.

Peter Clarke is really good as well, but not really sure why he has stopped. Its happend a few times, he has gone like on an awesome run of form, then just stops.

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Hi im back from ireland and was delighted to read in the Irish Newspaper of the Davis Cup victory and they now have a home tie vs ukraine which will not be impossible either.

I don't know where the two of them are playing next week but if anyone could find out it would be great.

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GB Bournemouth:

Conor Niland (Irl) bt Clement Reix (Fra) 6-3 6-2

Niland is top seed so hopefully he goes far.

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Niland won the future and now heads to Mississippi where he plays in a challenger but is drawn against Scoville Kenkins in round 1 potential against Donald Young in round 2.

Louk plays in Telde, Spain no draw has been released yet.

John Mcgahon plays in the GB future in Edinburgh

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Nice thread and I think I'll post here once in a while.



Just a question, Michael - are you Irish or part Irish or do you like Irish tennis just like that? No offence meant in any way and of course you don't need to be Irish to like Irish tennis! Don't bother to answer if it's personal but I'm just curious because you've been cheering on the Irish players for a while now.



One very talented young player that Ireland has is Amy Bowtell. She's not world class (at least not yet) but she's just 14 and is ranked 522 in Juniors, which is quite impressive. I think she's very tall for her age. That's all I know!

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Um im half Irish, i have dual nationality British and Irish and i presumed Ireland was awful at tennis as i don't know any of my large family over there ever even mention tennis let alone play it or anything.

I then saw Louk Sorenson and Colin Niland pop up now and again and followed their progress, seeing they both were improving and had just gained promotion in the davis cup so decided I would follow their progress on here for others and also for others to help contribute as well. Any input onto this thread would be great thanks.

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Ahh, that is good. smile.gif



Anyone know who are the highest ever ranked Irish players are (men and women)? Has anybody been in the top 100?

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Sorenson plays Gabriel Trujillo-Soler of Spain in the first round at Telde

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Colin O'Brien picked up his first ranking point by winning in the first round of the GB future 7-6(5) 3-6 6-0 against David Nylen of Sweden. He now faces 6th seed Brit James Ward in round 2.

Conor Niland went down to Scoville Jenkins in mississippi 3-6 3-6.

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O'Brien's out 6-0 6-3 but better news is Louk's convincing win over higher ranked Spaniard 6-0 6-3 and faces David Marrero next.

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Wow Louk's on fire, he defeated Marrero 6-0 6-1 and now played 6th seed Simon Stadler in the quarter finals at 2 o clock today but no scores ahve come through yet.

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Unfortunately he went down in the quarters 7-6 6-2

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Conor plays 5th seed Ivan Miranda in a florida challenegr while Louk plays 6th seed Harel levy 6th seed in Italy.

Rankings also updated on first page

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