john wrote:

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I'm sure no one is keeping it a secret Gary. Once someone knows, they will post. No news as yet. Getting early results from the LTA is like getting blood from a stone. You either have to phone up the tennis centre and ask or wait for the results to be posted on the BBC site or drawsheet.

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The BBC site ???? Arent they usually 3 days behind with any news. I cant see any links to anything on the site and i have had a good look? Can please someone help me as i must be going blind??

Salmon wrote:

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It's a secret, my friend, a highly guarded secret.

The legend goes like this -

In the good old days of Henman and Rusedski, BBC had a page where you could get results from tennis tournaments held in Britain. However, someone who was in charge of updating the tennis section during Wimbly 2007 replaced the link with the Wimbly results link and forgot to change it back after Wimbly.

Funnily enough, the page still exists but no one in the BBC team has realised that it's not linked, even after 14 months!!


http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/tennis/uk_results/default.stm


Bookmark it and use it well.

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Oh my god - i actually thought you were winding me up until i tried the link. Cheers m8y. I guess their stats show the page being hit....but still unbelievable incompetence...

It's hilarious. How can you possibly not realise that something isn't in place for 14 months? Or is it linked somewhere else but we don't know?





Another place where you can get results -

http://www.sportinglife.com/tennis/results/


Normally you get the same results in both places as far as international men's and women's tennis is concerned. Although the BBC covers British Tour and Junior events at times, too.




I love the BBC for it, seriously. We insult them every now and then (and all for valid reasons), but hardly any country has this sort of service from a non official site.

Result...

Daniel Evans def Daniel Danilovic (no score details)

Just a wonderful run and hope he takes a well earned rest.

Well done Evo, put me to shame

Evans def. Danilovic - 3-6, 7-6(7), 6-2

Well done to Dan on winning back to back titles, and hope he takes a week or so's rest to recover from this, and then continues his winning form when he returns.

He probably has to save a match point in that TB as well, which makes the win even better!