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JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Id not checked the world rankings for April 14 and missed two big moves: Alfie had gone to number one in the mens singles rankings, replacing Oda who must have had points dropping off.

And in mens doubles, Gordon Reid went to number one alone from Alfie who drops to two.

Congrats to both of them.

However, in singles, Oda should have super series points coming on this week and , I think, will go straight to number one again - with it being a bank holiday, not sure if the ITF will update the lists today or tomorrow, but whenever it is, we shall see.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

As expected, Oda replaces Alfie as WR 1 in mens singles.

But Alfie also replaces Gordon as WR 1 in mens doubles, although both have the same points tally. Havent checked detail but some sort of count back going on.

ETA - Alfie has only played 9 events versus Gordons 10, hence the lead on count back - hes got his total in fewer events

-- Edited by JonH comes home on Tuesday 22nd of April 2025 04:25:45 PM

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A few of the Brits continue their Asian Odyssey with a Series 2 event in Japan, the Kobe Open.

Ben Bartram, Andrew Penney, Lucy Shuker and Greg Slade are in action in quite a strong event, dominated by Japanese players.

Will update on their progress over the next few days.

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JonH comes home wrote:
A few of the Brits continue their Asian Odyssey with a Series 2 event in Japan, the Kobe Open.

Ben Bartram, Andrew Penney, Lucy Shuker and Greg Slade are in action in quite a strong event, dominated by Japanese players.

Will update on their progress over the next few days.

All 4 brits progressed to the last 8, which will be played tomorrow.

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In the Series 2 event in Kobe, Lucy Shuker and Greg Slade progressed to the semis in both singles and doubles in the womens and quad events, respectively.

Both have higher ranked/seeded semifinal opponents in singles and will have done very well if they can progress further over the weekend.

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Congrats to Greg Slade for reaching the final of the Kobe Open beating second seeded Silva in the semis. He also won the doubles semi and then received a doubles final walkover to take the title.

He plays the singles final tomorrow- good luck, Greg

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Greg lost the final in 3 sets, tough. Good week for him though.

Next big event is the World Team Cup which starts in just over a week. Always a fun event to follow!

We should have a good chance of gold in mens, a medal in quads if Andy and Greg play and may be a juniors medal also

-- Edited by JonH comes home on Sunday 27th of April 2025 09:04:47 AM

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The BNP Paribas World Team Cup starts on Tuesday and the LTA has published the British team squads for the 4 events:

Mens team - Alfie and Gordon are not in the squad, which is a real shame and probably means we cant win this year, depends on other squads. Our team is the #'2 3,4 and 5

Men's Captain - Alex ****ram

Ben Bartram - WR 22
Dahnon Ward - WR 39
Andrew Penney - WR 26

Womens team - we have our top 3 players in the team for the women

Women's Captain - Marc McCarroll

Lucy Shuker - WR 18
Cornelia Oosthuizen - WR 21
Ruby Bishop - WR 47

Quad team - we have our 1,2 and 4 ranked players, with Gary Cox in the team over Oliver Cox, his brother

Quads Captain - Martyn Whait

Andy Lapthorne - WR 5
Greg Slade - WR 13
Gary Cox - WR 52

Juniors team - we have a full strength team here also and a chance of a medal

Juniors Captain - Imran Aswat

Ruben Harris - WR 7
Lucas de Gouveia - WR 20
Matthew Knoesen - WR 14
Will Barton - WR 16
Team Leader: Erik Koers

Relative to other countries, the juniors are probably not as strong as Australia or USA, but could get a podium. The mens team will do well to get a podium with Alfie and Gordon missing and the womens will also be some way behind NL, Japan and China if they put out half decent teams.

The quad team probably gives us the best chance of the highest level medal; NL will be much stronger than us but a silver could be on the cards

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And the provisional seedings for the World Team Cup

www.itftennis.com/media/14381/2025-bnp-paribas-world-team-cup-provisional-seeding-020525.pdf

Women - seeded 4th behind NL, Japan and France

Quad - seeded 3rd behind NL and Turkey, albeit equal on ranking points with Turkey.

Men - seeded 5th behind Japan, NL, France and Brazil

Juniors - seeded 4th behind Belgium, Brazil and USA

So, per above, best chances appear to lie with our quad team to get onto the podium

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Here is the full run down of the World Team Cup fields, the draw is due to take place today and action starts tomorrow:

www.itftennis.com/en/news-and-media/articles/2025-bnp-paribas-world-team-cup-competing-nations-and-players/

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JonH comes home wrote:
And the provisional seedings for the World Team Cup

www.itftennis.com/media/14381/2025-bnp-paribas-world-team-cup-provisional-seeding-020525.pdf

Women - seeded 4th behind NL, Japan and France

Quad - seeded 3rd behind NL and Turkey, albeit equal on ranking points with Turkey.

Men - seeded 5th behind Japan, NL, France and Brazil

Juniors - seeded 4th behind Belgium, Brazil and USA

So, per above, best chances appear to lie with our quad team to get onto the podium

The seedings have been finalised with todays rankings list and Britains quad team is now seeded 2, which means we can avoid NL in the opening group stage. Turkeys top player, Kaplan withdrew and , as such, the home nation fell down the seedings, with Brazil getting third seeding spot.

-- Edited by JonH comes home on Monday 5th of May 2025 05:41:19 PM

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And the draw is out: the men have the toughest route to the semis, in a group with higher ranked Brazil. The women also face Brazil in what will be tough but winnable in both cases. The juniors also face Brazil but, with 2 going through, should make the semis. Despite being seeded 2, out quad team face USA and Australia in a tough group, but we should have enough to progress by winning the group.

In the mens and womens draw, the teams are split into four round-robin groups and the top team from each group will advance to the knockout semi-finals, with the remaining teams contesting play-off draws.

In the quad and junior draws the top two nations from each of two round-robin groups will advance to the knockout semi-finals, with the remaining nations going into play-off draws to decide final positions.

MEN

Group A: Japan, USA, Colombia, Thailand
Group B: Netherlands, Chile, Spain, Iraq
Group C: France, Poland, Germany, Morocco
Group D: Brazil, Great Britain, Sri Lanka, Turkiye

WOMEN

Group A: Netherlands, Colombia, Turkiye
Group B: Japan, Switzerland, Thailand
Group C: Great Britain, Brazil, Tanzania
Group D: France, Germany, Morocco

QUAD

Group A: Netherlands, Brazil, Japan, Turkiye
Group B: Great Britain, USA, Australia, Colombia

JUNIOR

Group A: Belgium, USA, Japan, France
Group B: Brazil, Great Britain, Australia, Germany

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Most of the first day matches have completed now and here are the day one results:

MEN - all results with seedings. GB beat Sri Lanka (not without Ben Bartram getting taken to 3 sets, a bit more of a struggle than anticipated)

Group A: Japan, USA, Colombia, Thailand - Japan beat Thailand and USA beat Colombia
Group B: Netherlands, Chile, Spain, Iraq - NL beat Iraq and Chile beat Spain
Group C: France, Poland, Germany, Morocco - France beat Morocco and Germany beat Poland
Group D: Brazil, Great Britain, Sri Lanka, Turkiye - Brazil beat Turkiye and GB beat Sri Lanka

WOMEN - all results with seedings, GB despatched Tanzania with ease, as expected

Group A: Netherlands, Colombia, Turkiye - NL beat Turkiye
Group B: Japan, Switzerland, Thailand - Japan beat Thailand
Group C: Great Britain, Brazil, Tanzania - GB beat Tanzania
Group D: France, Germany, Morocco - France beat Morocco

QUAD - all results in line with seedings; GB won both singles over Colombia but rested Andy Lapthorne in doubles and lost that rubber

Group A: Netherlands, Brazil, Japan, Turkiye - NL beat Turkiye, Brazil beat Japan
Group B: Great Britain, USA, Australia, Colombia - GB beat Colombia and USA and Australia are tied 1-1 (USA in control)

JUNIOR - again, in line with seedings; GB won 2-1 over the Aussies, losing the opening singles before Ruben Harris took control and helped us win second singles and doubles easily enough

Group A: Belgium, USA, Japan, France - Belgium beat France and USA beat Japan
Group B: Brazil, Great Britain, Australia, Germany - GB beat Australia and Brazil beat Germany

So, no surprises today and GB won all their ties. Harder matches to come!!

-- Edited by JonH comes home on Tuesday 6th of May 2025 02:02:05 PM

-- Edited by JonH comes home on Tuesday 6th of May 2025 02:02:31 PM

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

In the world rankings, the womens number one slot for the Brits is suddenly a lot tighter than a few months back. Lucy Shuker has gradually lost places and is now 18th, whilst Cornelia Oosthuizen has slowly pulled herself to 20th. Points wise, it is still a small gap for Cornelia to close and I doubt it will happen anytime soon, although she will have less to defend than Lucy in the British grass events at Roehampton and Wimbledon and that could see a possible change of top Briton.