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Week 39 - 50K+H Challenger (men) - Grenoble, France
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Alex Bogdanovic is the 8th seed here He faces Mikhail Ledovskikh of Russia in round 1, and is seeded to face Micheal Berrer (the top seed) in the Qf's He should make the QF's at least if his injuries have cleared up
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Rice and Broady on facebook
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Anyone manage to see the pics before they got locked ? My opinion, FWIW, is that if you accept the funding under certain terms, ypou have to live with it. I'll have to fund them instead now (as long as I can see the pics )
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Week 39 - ATP Mumbai
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British interest in this ATP event, with Gregory Howe continuing his tour of ATP qualies He plays Tushar Liberhan of India in the first round, with Ti Chen of TPE in the next round (seeds go down to 710 here, so would have been nice to see a couple of Brits try, even though it would cost a lot to get there and b...
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Week 39 - Futures F36 (M) - Martos, Spain
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Tournament Key : M-FU-ESP-36A-2007 Dates : 24 Sep to 30 Sep 2007 Venue : Martos, Spain Surface : Hard No DAs in the MD... QD1 : WOODFORD-SMITH, Zander (GBR) lost to ALCORTA-OLARRA, Guillermo (ESP) 6-2 6-2 P Barlow v BYE R Brooks v BYE ARENAS-GUALDA, Ivan (ESP) def SUTTON, David (GBR) 6-3 6-1
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The Shedman's cry for help
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Can some people help do the articles on bt.net please ? I got the site pretty much up to date late last night but from now on I cant do all the articles as before. Only have like an hour on the computer each night at most due to my job etc wolf did a great DC article yesterday....maybe someone can do one for t...
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Week 39 - Futures F15 (M) - Forbach, France
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Tournament Key : M-FU-FRA-15A-2007 Dates : 24 Sep to 30 Sep 2007 Venue : Forbach, France Surface : Carpet Ross Connolly was just outside the MD entry list....but not in the QD so presume he made it as a DA.
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Davis Cup: GB v Croatia
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The draw for the world group play offs takes place at the ITF offices in London on Tuesday. The teams that are already through to the 16 team draw are : The 8 world group 1st round loosers : Chile, Romania, Croatia, Australia, Czech Rep, Switzerland, Belarus and Austria. Winners of the 4 group 1 2nd round...
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Week 38 - Futures F5 (M) - Jakarta, Indonesia
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Tournament Key : M-FU-INA-05A-2007 Dates : 17 Sep to 23 Sep 2007 Venue : Jakarta, Indonesia Surface : Hard James and Chris Eaton continue their eastern tour. Both are in the main draw t.b.c
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The Shedman's Davis Cup blog: day 1
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Part 1: Got there about 11.30 due to tube issues for John...expected Andy to be winning comfortably due to the sheer number of massive roars emanating from court 1 (you could hear them from the station)...but to our surprise he was 3-5 down and about to lose the 1st set. One of the things I love about cent...
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Week 39 - Futures F3 (M) - La Paz,Bolivia
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Tournament Key : M-FU-BOL-03A-2007 Dates : 24 Sep to 30 Sep 2007 Venue : La Paz, Bolivia Surface : Clay QD2 - OLBRICH, Adam (GBR) lost to ZEGARRA, Diego (BOL) 6-3 6-1 Thats it !!
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Tim Henman Tributes
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Im gunna miss henman. ive already had a few tears. i cried after the usopen loss. and i cried after yesterdays sgnles match..even tho i didnt see it here in america. and i cried jst a few hrs ago after his last professional match
Hopefully he stays envolved in tennis like he said he plans to. it would be a...
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Has Childs retired?
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Just looking at the BBC website and on a discussion on the future of British Tennis is mentions of the 7 Brits who have Davis Cup experience who have now retired - Rusedski, Mackin, Parmar, Sherwood, Lee, Henman and Childs Would be a shame if he has http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/606/A27095213?s_fromed...
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Entries Week 39 - 24/9
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Grenoble $50K+H (Indoor Hard) - Alex Bogdanovic Nottingham F18 $15K (Hard) - Jamie Baker, Richard Bloomfield, Josh Goodall, Miles Kasiri, Tom Rushby, Alex Slabinsky, Ed Seator (Flanagan, Irwin, Brewer, Connolly, Miotto, Searle, Bamford, Kennaugh, Evans, Allinson, Cox, Rice, Milton, Ill...
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Henman: Doubles will give us the edge
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After practise on Tuesday the British no 2 told press: I think the singles are all going to be very tight. [Ivan] Ljubicic and [Marin] Cilic are obviously both really good players, but the fact that were playing on grass definitely favours us so I think all of the singles rubbers are there to be won but co...
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Davis Cup: bt.net meet up
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As steven suggested, it would be nice to have some kind of meet-up if people are interested A lot of the andymurray.com members (and some are also members here like Kelle, Zainab, Rochelle, Chrissi) will be meeting up at the Rose and Crown pub near SW19 on Saturday evening. I'll be there with those guys...
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Bates now head of Sutton academy
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Jeremy Bates is one of only six men since the Second World War to have played 20 or more Davis Cup ties for Great Britain and one of eight captains in the past three decades. For almost ten years before Tim Henman reared his head, he fought the unequal fight as Britains No 1 when progress to the worlds top 50...
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Week 38 - Futures F3 (M) - Valencia, Venezuela
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Tournament Key : M-FU-VEN-03A-2007 Dates : 17 Sep to 23 Sep 2007 Venue : Valencia, Venezuela Surface : Hard Mozart pops up here looking for cheap points...he hopes ! He was just outside the MD entry positions but now in the MD I presume as he is not in the QD.
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Week 38 - Futures F23 (M) - Costa Mesa, CA, USA
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Tournament Key : M-FU-USA-23A-2007 Dates : 17 Sep to 23 Sep 2007 Venue : Costa Mesa, CA, USA Surface : Hard Another week, another qualifying marathon in the US Five Brits up for the challenge and all have cleared the first round Richard Wire d. Jean Marc Bazanne (HAI) 7-6(6) 3-6 6-4 Jonathan Kinsella d....
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Entries Week 40 - 1/10
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Metz $400K (Indoor Hard) - Andy Murray Mons $125K+H (Indoor Hard) - Alex Bogdanovic Spain F37 $15K (Hard) - James Ward (Barlow, Brooks) Australia F6 $15K (Clay) - Myles Blake France F16 $15K+H (Hard) - (Slabinsky, Connolly) Bosnia F6 $15K+H (Clay) - (Illingworth) Mexico F7 $10K (Hard) - (Fulford...
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Sacramento Challenger
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here is the early list. i'll email Jamie and see if i can get some more info on his game. Anderson, Kevin RSA 232.. Montcourt, Mathieu FRA 119Baker, Jamie GBR 226 ...Odesnik, Wayne USA 145Bogomolov Jr., Alex USA ...188 Querrey, Sam USA 51Bozoljac, Ilia SRB 228 Ram,... Rajeev USA 203Fleishman, Zack U...
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Week 38 - Futures 35 (M) - Madrid, Spain
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Tournament Key : M-FU-ESP-35A-2007 Dates : 17 Sep to 23 Sep 2007 Venue : Madrid, Spain Surface : Hard NO Brits in the MD by right... QD1 : ARROGANTE-DE LANUZA, Faustino (ESP) v BROOKS, Richard (GBR) 12 Bye v BARLOW, Philip (GBR) 9 HARFIELD, Christopher (GBR) v LORA-PRADO, Jorge (ESP) SEGO, Nicho...
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Week 38 - Futures F2 (M) - Cochabamba, Bolivia
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Tournament Key : M-FU-BOL-02A-2007 Dates : 17 Sep to 23 Sep 2007 Venue : Cochabamba, Bolivia Surface : Clay Just noticed that Adam Holbrich was not deterred by his results in Poland earlier in the year and was trying to qualify in Bolivia, both this week and last. Adam was given a double bagel on both occ...
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Week 37 - Futures F31 (M) - Sassari Porto Torres, Italy
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Tournament Key : M-FU-ITA-31A-2007 Dates : 10 Sep to 16 Sep 2007 Venue : Sassari Porto Torres, Italy Surface : Hard A rare appearance of some Brits in Italy. MD : Ross Connolly QD1 : Ed Seator (4) v Bye QD2 : Ed Seator (4) v CATANI, Riccardo (ITA) or HEYL, Heinrich (RSA) 9
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Player of the month - August
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Nominees: (1) Jamie Baker: Reached final qualies round of the US Open (2) Alex Slabinsky: Reached 2nd 15K final in Surrey, climbing 120 places as a result (3) Ed Seator: First ever 10K final on clay in Poland, knocking out top seed Balleret (ranked 300ish) in straight sets (4) Aucks and Hutchins: Won d...
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Tim Henman tributes
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Thought we should have a thread for these....what will stand out most in your memory from Tim's career ? Maybe theres a scintillating set of serve and volley tennis, a special run of results that stands out ? What about your favourite match of his (or if this is too hard..a top 5)
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