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Top 250
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Recently being inside the top 250 by the time Queens came around made you eligible for a Wimbledon WC (though didn't mean it was automatic by any means). Regardless of whether it leads to the valuable WC or not, top 250 by then would be a decent goal for a few of our players. Interestingly enough, sever...
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Amazing Fact
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"The LTA employs nearly 300 members of staff at a cost of £13.3m, an average salary of £45,000"http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/tennis/16190056.stm
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Week 50 Futures - Turkey F35 ($10K) - Antalya - Hard
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Oli is a DA here, so he will have one last chance to nick the year-end top GB teenager in the ATP rankings spot from Lewis Burton - he will need to reach the semis to overtake him though and the QFs to tie Liam's points total for 2nd place in that mini-contest. QR1: Joshua Bexon UNR v Aggelos Venizelos (GRE) U...
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Week 50 Futures - Brazil F43 ($10K) - Guarulhos - Clay
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Ed Corrie returns to action with a kind-looking R1 draw against an unranked 16-year-old. L32: Edward Corrie WR 746 v (WC) Caio Rocha Martins (BRA) UNR There is also a 14yo Brazilian WC here by the name of João Lucas Magalhães Hueb de Menezes ...
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Week 49 Futures - Mexico F15 ($10K) - Tehuacán - Hard
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L32: Matthew Short WR 816 v (Q) Maciej Smola (POL) WR 962 Smola lost to Jack Carpenter in Poland earlier this year, so a decent R1 draw for Matthew, though the winner is likely to face no. 2 seed Daniel Garza (MEX) WR 376, who won the title last week, or an unranked Dutchman who qualified last week then re...
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Week 49 Futures - Turkey F34 ($10K) - Antalya - Hard
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QR1: Darren Walsh WR 1514 v (q11) Josip Mesin (CRO) WR 1108 QR1: Alan Bevan UNR v (q5) Miki Jankovic (SRB) WR 873
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Week 48 Futures - Turkey F33 ($10K) - Antalya - Hard
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QR1: (q1) Oliver Golding WR 710 v Ronald Slobodchikov (RUS) WR 1630 QR1: (wc) Nihar Navapurkar UNR v Matthieu Vierin (ITA) WR 1919 QR1: James Allemby UNR v Liau Fei Yun (TPE) WR 1376 QR1: Darren Walsh WR 1511 v (wc) Richard Polivka (SVK) NR
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Week 48 Futures - Mexico F14 ($10K) - Ixtapa - Hard
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L32: Matthew Short WR 816 v Chris Letcher (AUS) WR 580 Letcher, who lost 3 & 2 to Jamie B at the Leon Challenger in April, only just missed being seeded so it's not as good a R1 draw as Matthew might have hoped for in what is a relatively weak tournament.
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Who will be GB No 2 at the end of 2011 ?
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vandenburg was wondering whether we should maybe have a poll as to who will be GB No 2 at the end of this year. Well, why not I've put 2 weeks time from now as the close date
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Week 47 Futures - Turkey F32 ($10K) - Antalya - Hard
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Oli Golding is a DA here. QR1: Alan Bevan UNR v Adham el-Effendi (USA) UNR QR1: Darren Walsh WR 1511 v (q15) Gibril Diarra (AUT) WR 1496 QR1: James Allemby UNR v Georgi Revazishvili (GEO) UNR (CH 1322 in 2001) QR2: (q4) Jack Carpenter WR 1059 v Romain Bogaerts (BEL) or Jannick Lupescu (NED) WR 1932 (CH 8...
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Week 47 Futures - Czech Republic F5 ($15K) - Opava - Carpet
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R1: Andis JUSKA (LAT) WR 528 Vs Alexander WARD (GBR) (6) WR 407 R1: Daniel SMETHURST (GBR) (7) WR 431 Vs Jan SATRAL (CZE) WR 665 R1: Alexander BURY (BLR) WR 549 Vs Josh GOODALL (GBR) (2) WR 307 L16: SMETHURST (GBR) / WARD (GBR) Vs KONECNY (CZE) / STAKHOVSKY (UKR) L16: GLANCY (IRL) / GOODALL (GBR) (3) Vs F...
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County Cup Winter 2011
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http://lta.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/teammatch.aspx?id=5F920FD6-F016-44EF-AC4C-B44B9D05E498&match=15
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Week 47 Futures - India F11 ($15K) - New Delhi - Hard
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James avoids the top seed this week - at least in R1 anyway R1: MARSALEK, James (GBR) WR 795 v ARENAS-GUALDA, Ivan (ESP) WR 670 R1: COX, Daniel (GBR) 4 WR 422 v SIRILUETHAIWATTANA, Perakiat (THA) WR 777
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Week 47 - Challenger (€106,500+H) - Helsinki, Finland - Indoor Hard
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Of the four Brits on the Alt list here, only Josh Milton has turned up. A pity in a way because half the players in the qualifying draw are unranked Finns. Having said that, the top four seeds are ranked 166-259 (and Josh is in the section with top seed Delbonis) so actually picking up any ranking points h...
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Week 47 Futures - Australia F13 ($15K) - Bendigo - Hard
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L32: Richard Gabb WR 928 v (6) Isaac Frost (AUS) WR 473 L32: Toby Martin WR 938 v (WC) Luke Saville (AUS) UNR Saville may be unranked, but he's the player who beat Liam Broady in the junior Wimbledon Final and current world junior no. 2.
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AEGON British Tour 2011 thread
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The British Tour starts 2011 in Billesley, with a lot of world-ranked Brits taking the chance to dust off the cobwebs before the first set of GB Futures starts the following week. This makes it ridiculously strong for a BT, with the seeds set to be:1/357 Richard Bloomfield 2/363 Daniel Evans 3/399 Jos...
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Week 46 Futures - Czech Republic $15K
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Draw out with Josh Goodall top seed: Josh GOODALL (GBR) (1) Vs Piotr GADOMSKI (POL) Daniel UHLIG (GER) Vs Vaclav SAFRANEK (CZE) Leonard STAKHOVSKY (UKR) Vs Juho PAUKKU (FIN) Jonas KOENIG (GER) Vs Daniel SMETHURST (GBR) (6) Marek MICHALICKA (CZE) (4) Vs Jiri SKOLOUDIK (CZE) Mateusz SZMIGIEL (POL) V...
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Week 46 Futures - Australia F12 ($15K) - Traralgon - Hard
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L32: Richard Gabb WR 948 v (8) Michael Venus (NZL) WR 425 (CH 274 in July) L32: (WC) Toby Martin WR 1056 v (WC) Rhys Michael Johnson (AUS) WR 1348 Johnson is the young Aussie (17yo last Monday) who beat Gabb 7-6 in the 3rd last month. -- Edited by steven on Sunday 13th of November 2011 09:57:08 AM
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Week 46 - Challenger ($50,000) - Champaign, IL, USA - Hard
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Jamie Baker is a direct entrant here. The other two Brits are both seeded in the same qualifying section: QR1: (q4) Alex Bogdanovic WR 322 v Alexander Domijan (USA) WR 742 (CH 541 in 2010) QR1: (q7) Chris Eaton WR 354 v Lee Hsin-Han (TPE) WR 558 (CH 541 in Aug) Boggo beat Domijan 7-6(3) 6-2 at Charlottesvi...
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Week 46 Futures - India F10 ($15K) - Pune - Hard
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After a decent draw last week (thanks mainly to his seeding), James' run of dire draws resumes. No sign of Dan Cox though. R1: BHAMBRI, Yuki 1 WR 378 v MARSALEK, James WR 797
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Week 46 Futures - Iran F4 ($15K) - Kish Island - Clay
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L32: James Feaver WR 799 v (7) Mikhail Vasiliev (RUS) WR 458 H2H 0-1, 6-4 3-6 6-3 Islamabad Fut QF 2008
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Week 46 Futures - USA F31 ($10K) - Amelia Island, Florida - Clay
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QR1: Matthew SHORT (GBR) (4) BYE QR2: Matthew SHORT (GBR) (4) defeated Jeff ZENISEK (USA) 7-6(2) 4-6 6-4 QR3: Daniel SOTOMARINO (PER) defeated Matthew SHORT (GBR) (4) 1-6 6-4 6-4
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Week 46 - Challenger (€85,000 +H) - Bratislava, Slovakia - Hard
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QR1: (q5) Joshua Milton WR 373 v (WC) Oliver Nagy (SVK) UNR Pretty crapy draw for Milton as he potentially face (q1) Kamil Kapkovoc (SVK) WR 261 in the final round of qualifying.
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Week 46 - Challenger (€42,500) - Salzburg, Austria - Hard
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If you thought Josh Milton's draw in Bratislava was bad ... QR1: David Rice WR 508 v (q1) Jan-Lennard Struff (GER) WR 240 QR1: Sean Thornley WR 567 v (q4) Peter Gojowczyk (GER) WR 281
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Week 45 - Challenger ($50,000) - Knoxville TN, USA - Hard
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QR1: (q7) Chris Eaton WR 361 v Antoine Benneteau (FRA) WR 747 (CH 718 in Aug) Antoine is world no. 53 Julien's younger brother by 4.5 years. The other seed in Chris's section is (q3) Peter Polansky (CAN) WR 334 (CH 164 in 2009) Oddly (and somewhat disappointingly!), neither Baker nor Boggo are in the dr...
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