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LTA Press Briefing. Sunday 8th March 11.15am
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I sat through this 48 minute long briefing along with the main press and took 7 pages of notes. suffice to say I dont have time today to transcibe them but I will leave you with a couple of questions ? Which 36 GB men and women would you give central 'Team Aegon' contracts to ? That includes some juniors as we...
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David Felgate
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Someone on MTF said he was working again with Xavier Malisse - is this true? P.S. I didn't know which thread to put this in so i just started a new one -- Edited by The Knight at 16:33, 2009-03-10
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Where the Brits get their points
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In response to the Steve Martens quote about ""There will be no more running around the world chasing points like before" ... Count Zero wrote: it could be interesting to see what % of world rankings points are made up from home nation events for the lower rankled players, say those ou...
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Week 10 - Futures F2 (10k) - Lagos 1, Portugal
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Tournament Key : M-FU-POR-02A-2009 Dates : 09 Mar to 15 Mar 2009 Venue : Lagos 1, Portugal Surface : Hard QR1: COOPER, Joe (GBR) UNR v MENDES, Tomas (POR) UNR QR1: WC COSTA, Henrique (POR) UNR v WC FINCH, George (GBR) UNR QR1: BARLOW, Philip (GBR) WR1655 v MOHR, Phillip (GER) UNR Lets see if they can muste...
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John Lloyd: In or Out
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In the wake of our defeat to the Ukraine i thought i just run a quick poll to see how we here feel about JL's tenure as the man in charge of DC team. He started impressivly with a few wins, but we have now lost 3 ties in a row. Ok we cant say much about the Argentina tie really, but the other 2 were home ties, so we h...
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BT at the DC : Dead Sunday
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I hate 'Dead Sunday'. At least last year at wimbledon it went down to the last match. Colin hurt his back during set 2 yesterday and is due to play at Tipton this week coming so wont be playing today. Lloyd confirmed that Josh & Chris will be playing today. Cannot see Stak playing so the two will be from...
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Davis Cup Day Two - Drews Blog
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Just read J Overends blog on the BBC. Agree with some of it but came to the line "There is more stability in a weeble" (Referring to the GB mens game) Now he has just become a father for the second time and perhaps been watching too much cbeebies or something but thats an awful line !
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Davis Cup Day 2 - Hutchins / Fleming v Stakhovsky / Bubka
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The GB pair are confirmed but the Ukraine coach would not commit to his pairing until the morning. A must win match for GB.
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Week 10 - Futures F1 (15k) - North Shore City, New Zealand
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QR1: Matthew Short UNR lost to David Bidmeade (AUS) UNR (CH=1485) by 2 & 3
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Week 10 Futures - Spain F9 ($10k) - Badalona
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Another huge qualifying draw in Spain, but apart from the Wardinator (who may have an SE or be having a well-earned rest next week), where have all the Brits gone? (*) QR1: James Allemby UNR v Jon Polanec (SLO) UNR (*) No Brits on the main draw acceptance list either, and the dream team both missed the qua...
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Davis Cup Day One - Drews Blog
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Davis Cup Day one - Press Blog - Drew Brown 10am on Day One Fairly quiet press centre so far.....the hum of key strokes is only broken by the 'crack' of the press marquee floor as the even the lightest of jurnos enters. However the loudest sound comes from Mr Flatmans booming laugh ! Still there is genuine...
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Davis Cup - Chris Eaton vs. Sergiy Stakhovksy
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So the second tie.... and with us being 1-0 down, it becomes a must win match. Eaton blew three match points against him the last time they met, so have a chance against him, but Stakhovsky is still the big favourite to win the match.
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Week 9 Futures - Spain F8 ($10k) - Sabadell
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One of those horrendous Friday start, four rounds of qualifying on clay affairs, and to make it worse the main draw is so strong that even Matt Illingworth has to play in qualifying this week. All the Brits have avoided section 1, where the top Q seed in a ringer WC ranked 254, but look who Matt's drawn in...
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Gregory Howe
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As I mentioned on the DC thread, GB's oldest currently world-ranked player has started posting on AM.com. I asked him if he'd mind writing a bit about his experiences and how he gets into qualifying for some of the big tournaments and his reply is fascinating - well I think so anyway. Picking up someone...
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Week 9 - Challenger (€42,500+H) - Cherbourg, France
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Oh dear, it looks like the Brits may have to bash each other again QR1: (q2) Richard Bloomfield WR 306 v (WC) Kenny de Schepper (FRA) WR 1190 QR1: Jonny Marray WR 435 v Mathieu Rodrigues (FRA) WR 378 Winners to play each other in QR2. The other seed in this section is (q5) Tim Smyczek (USA) WR 334.
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BT at the DC : Day one - Press Conferences, Match Comment and Gossip
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Will concentrate this time on press conferences and some inside information. Will also give some match comment but not full match by match reports. We must keep the DC page on the bt.net site up to date. Can we have some volunteers to write some match reports ? PM me. BTW had a pleasant welcome from the jo...
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Davis Cup - Josh Goodall vs. Illya Marchenko
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I've started a new thread for the individual matches. Let's see if Josh can get us off to a good start. -- Edited by ForeverDelayed at 14:26, 2009-03-06
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Week 9 - Futures F6 (15k) - McAllen TX, USA
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What on earth is Donald Young WR 130 doing playing qualifying for a 15K Future?! Fortunately, the Brits have avoided his section, though Chris is in the same section as (q2) Vladmir Obradovic (SRB) WR 389, another obvious late entrant (since all the other Q seeds are ranked outside the top 700), and Bu...
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Week 9 - Challenger (€106,500+H) - Bergamo, Italy
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Boggo returns to Bergamo for the first time since 2006, when he won the title there with a mix of good play and good luck: 32 W Arvind PARMAR (GBR) 7-6(5) 6-2 16 W Alex CALATRAVA (ESP) 6-4 6-4 QF O Jean-Michel PEQUERY (FRA) W/O SF W Andreas SEPPI (ITA) 6-7(4) 6-4 6-2 FR W Simone BOLELLI (ITA) 6-1 3...
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Entries Week 10 - 9/3
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ATP Indian Wells 1000 Week 1 (Hard) - Andy Murray Doubles - Jamie Murray CHALLENGERS Kyoto $35K+H (Indoor Synthetic) - Josh Goodall, Alex Slabinsky (Eaton) FUTURES GB F3 Tipton $15K (Hard) - Jonny Marray, Dan Evans, Colin Fleming, Ken Skupski (Illingworth, Milton, Cox, Arlidge, Flanagan, Willis...
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Week 9 - Futures F1 (10k) - Faro, Portugal
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Tournament Key : M-FU-POR-01A-2009 Dates : 02 Mar to 08 Mar 2009 Venue : Faro, Portugal Surface : Hard Qualy draw is out. 128 draw so 4 rounds to play. QR1: COOPER, Joe (GBR) UNR v bye QR1: EGERTON, Rogan (GBR) UNR v CHATELLE, Francois (BEL) UNR QR1: RAMOS, Francisco (POR) UNR v CLEMENTS, Valentin (GBR) U...
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The Thomson twins
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Matt and Dave Thomson - no idea which is which!
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Week 9 - Futures F1 (10k) - Gatineau, Canada
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Tournament Key : M-FU-CAN-01A-2009 Dates : 02 Mar to 08 Mar 2009 Venue : Gatineau, Canada Surface : Hard Sean Thornley in the MD. Tim Bradshaw may squeak in but defo in the QD. Also Max Jones, Ben Levi, Tom knights & Baxendine should turn up in the QD.
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Week 8 - Challenger (€30,000+H) - Wolfsburg, Germany - Doubles
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I think this deserves a separate thread with four Brits in draw. Look who has turned up here Jamie D and Ken Supski Richard has decided to give it a miss Bogdanovic/Olejniczak (POL) vs Brown (JAM)/Colangelo (ITA) Jamie D/Jonny M vs Gajjar( IND)/Raja (IND) (4)Skupski/Rettenmaier (USA) vs Galvano(I...
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Week 8 - British Tour - Swansea
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http://www.lta.org.uk/Global/Downloads/Results/2009/AEGON%20British%2...
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