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2013 Australian Open BOTB pick 'em contest
(Preview)
Apologies for the lack of prior notice (though happily there are still about 70 hours before entries close!), since we only decided at the last minute that we are going to run a BOTB for the AO this year. I am unlikely to have a big enough block of free time early next week to get all the results pages up and r...
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Weeks 2-3 - Australian Open men's qualifying 2013 & JB in main draw
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(Preview)
Both Brits have drawn unseeded clay court specialists, which is about as good as we could have hoped for as far as QR1 is concerned.  QR1: Jamie Baker WR 246 v Julio César Campozano (ECU) WR 222 (= CH) (q19) Matteo Viola ITA & former top 5 player (q9) James Blake (USA) are the seeded players in thi...
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Week 3 - Futures F2 ($10K) - Sunrise, FL, USA - clay
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(Preview)
Boggo should be in the main draw here but probably won't be seeded this time. QR1: Liam Broady WR 885 v Hassan Ndayishimiye (BDI) WR 1106 QR1: Luke Bambridge WR 797 v Guilherme Hadlich (BRA) WR 1021 QR1: (q12) James Marsalek WR 616 v Dominik Varhanik (CZE) UNR QR1: (q9) Kyle Edmund WR 571 v Rafael Mazón-H...
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Week 3 - Germany F2 ($10,000) - Stuttgart-Stammheim (Hard)
(Preview)
QR1: Harry Meehan WR 1546 v (qwc) Gil Uwe Grund (GER) UNR (q3) Dennis Novak (AUT) WR 709 awaits the winner.
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Week 2 - Futures F1 ($10K) - Plantation , USA
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(Preview)
Could this be one of the most competitive qualifying tournaments of all time to reach a $10k main draw, which in turn is one of the most overly competitive main draws I've ever seen. 4 rounds of matches just to qualify and just look at some of the names. And the next 2 USA futures events look very similar in...
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Week 2 - ATP 250 - Auckland, New Zealand
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(Preview)
I can't find the qualifying drawsheet yet, but the OoP on the app suggests Colin is having a go at qualifying here: QR1: Colin Fleming UNR v Michal Mertinak (SVK) WR 854 (CH 129 in 2005)
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British Tour - Billesley
(Preview)
Josh Goodall beat Dan Evans 6-4, 6-2 in the final. A really strong line up here, lets hope plenty are played in for next weeks first futures.
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2012 Mens Ranking Predictions
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(Preview)
Since no-one else has stepped up to the plate, here be this year's ranking prediction competition. I've made some changes to the rules in order to try and make each player's performance have an equal contribution to your score regardless of their current ranking, and to mitigate the effects of injur...
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Week 2 - Germany F1 ($10,000) - Schwieberdingen (Carpet)
(Preview)
QR1: (q16) Harry Meehan WR 1544 v Bye QR2: (q16) Harry Meehan WR 1544 v Boris Melamed (GER) WR 1788 or Marcel Waloch (AUT) UNR
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Week 1 - British Tour - Graves
(Preview)
http://lta.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/draw.aspx?id=3D4A0EA8-8D8A-4168-8E28-497569199991&draw=3
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Week 2 - Turkey F1 ($10,000) - Antalya Kaya-Belek (Hard)
(Preview)
QR1: Anthony Hudson UNR v (q12) Andy Lau (HKG) WR 1851 -- Edited by RJA on Friday 4th of January 2013 11:17:35 PM
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GB Mens tennis in 2013. 10 random predictions
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(Preview)
I've revised my 10 random predictions for GB men in 2013 downwards a little, after the last week's juniors and Team Aegon announcements. Still rose-tinted spectacles and overly optimistic, but I hope some successes worthy of Paul the Octopus. 1. Andy Murray WILL be a winner at Wimbledon, a finalist...
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Sports Personality of the Year
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(Preview)
Just seen that Kyle Edmund has been nominated as one of the 10 contenders for Junior Sports Personality of the Year. Sadly, the winner is decided by a panel of "experts" and so we can't vote for him. Wouldn't it be great to see Muzza and Kyle do the double. Tough year to win though !!
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Week 1 - ATP 250 - Doha, Qatar
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(Preview)
R1: Treat Conrad Huey (PHI) & Dominic Inglot v (1) Robert Lindstedt & Nenad Zimonjic (SWE/SRB) R1: Dustin Brown (GER) & Jonny Marray v Lukas Lacko & Albert Ramos (SVK/ESP)
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Week 1 - ATP 250 - Brisbane, Australia
(Preview)
R1: (2) Colin Fleming & Jamie Murray v David Goffin & Gilles Muller (BEL/LUX) Colin was entered to play with Ross in Doha, and tweeted about it just a couple of days ago so not sure what happened.
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Week 1: ATP 250 - Chennai, India - hard
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(Preview)
Great to see Wardy back in action after wrist problems kept him out for 3 months: QR1: (q7) James Ward WR 250 v Pierre-Hugues Herbert (FRA) WR 257
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Glasgow herald article
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http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/tennis/exclusive-ostracised-mackin-rounds-on-ltas-culture-of-cronyism-within-governance-of-uk-tennis.19799724
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Points in qualies
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I seem to have missed a change, can anyone help with a link or an explanation. Do ATP players now get points for losing in the qualies? Ive read hints of this but cant seem to find the actual rule. Cheers
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Week 45 - Futures F15 ($10K) - Antalya, Turkey - Clay
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(Preview)
QR1: BROADY, Liam (GBR) 15 WR 1417 v GALUPPO, Giovanni (ITA) UNR
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Weeks 26 & 27: Wimbledon (grass) - men's doubles
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(Preview)
No draw available yet, obviously, but a thread to flag up the fact that Colin & Ross have been seeded 13th & "Booty & Stretch", as they used to be known in the good old days, 14th. I guess Eric will once again become an honorary Brit for the duration of the tournament! Also in the d...
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Brits in Challengers in 2012
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It's been the best year in memory for slam titles (obviously!) and Futures titles, but the worst year I can remember (so far!) for Brits in Challengers (singles) and only the 2nd year this century (but also the 2nd in the last three years) when we have had no Challenger singles finalists - indeed, Jame...
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Week 51 - Turkey F49 ($10,000) - Antalya Kaya-Belek (Hard)
(Preview)
There were a couple of Brits on the main draw list here but they both withdrew. QR1: Anthony Hudson UNR v Salar Saraydarpour (USA) UNR
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Week 51 - Hong Kong F3 ($10,000) - Hong Kong (Hard)
(Preview)
QR1: Marshall Tutu UNR v (q12) Matt Simpson (NZL) WR 1540
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Week 50 - Turkey F48 ($10,000) - Antalya Kaya-Belek (Hard)
(Preview)
Alex Ward (who should be seeded) and Tom Burn are DAs here. QR1: Anthony Hudson UNR v Quentin Robert (FRA) UNR
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Week 49 - Cambodia F3 ($10,000) - Phnom Penh (Hard)
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No Alex Ward this week (he didn't enter in the first place, so clearly always intended his East Asian trip to end with Cambodia F2) but Richard Gabb should be seeded and Joshua Jones is also a DA. Two new Brits in qualies this week - 18-year-old twin brothers. Marcus has recorded a win in Futures qualie...
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