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Italy F14 - 10K [clay]
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(Preview)
Rd1: M Phillips [GB] v M Jorquera [It] [7]
Morgan faces 27 year old naturalised Argentinian, Manuel Jorquera who's ranked 300 places higher at 473. They've never played before.
Jorquera has been competing on Moroccan clay for the past month. His best result was in early April when he reache...
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Bogdanovic v Saoudi - RG qualies rd1
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1 2 3 4 5
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(Preview)
This was a really good rd1 draw for Boggo. The veteran Algerian just sneaked into the qualies draw with a current ranking of 262. Saoudi's career high is 212 and that was reached in 2003.
They've never played before
Saoudi has played entirely on clay since March. He lost in qualies for the San R...
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Bulgaria satellite - week 4 - masters
(Preview)
Main draw: Myles just scraped in with 6 points
Rd1: M Blake [GB] v M Zekic [Scg]
Myles is heavy favourite against the 17 year old unranked player from Serbia and Montenegro.
Zekic has only once won a main draw match, that was in week 2 of this satellite.
If Myles wins he will play 6th seed...
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5
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679
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Indonesia satellite - week 3
(Preview)
Qualifying:
Unfortunately Thomas Greenland's poor run continues and he misses out on the week 4 masters:
Rd1: V Pransath [Ind] [4] bt J Miles [GB] 6-4, 6-0
X Lai [Hkg] bt T Greenland [GB] 6-2, 6-2
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Xunta de Galicia trophy
(Preview)
These results are a little out-of-date but I wondered how Britain's junior players had been doing in the last couple of weeks.
Daniel Evans has been improving his position in the Sunday Telegraph U18 grand prix.
However, Daniel Cox has improved his junior ranking to 422 with a stunning vict...
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671
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Youth Watch - ATP Rankings
(Preview)
It would be great if we could track the next Rising British Tennis Star...apart from Andy of course....by keeping an eye on certain youngsters ! To get into this list they must be 19 and under and have a senior ATP ranking.
Please post those you think we should keep any eye on....
I have starte...
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1083
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Kuwait F1 - 15K
(Preview)
Lee Childs and Anthony Law are playing here. Britain's Dan Cottier was on the alternates list so presumably he's in qualies.
I don't yet know whether Anthony got into the main draw via withdrawals or whether he bought a wildcard.
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5
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1139
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Happy Birthday Boggo
(Preview)
Just to wish alex a happy 22nd. lets hope it brings him some luck in paris.
also novak's birthday.
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8
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751
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Mexico F7 - Guadalajara
(Preview)
Rd1: P Gubenco [Can] [4] bt A Fulford-Jones [GB] 6-2, 6-1
Amadeus isn't having a particularly good time at the moment in the Americas. He wasn't able to beat an unranked wildcard last week and this week he got drawn against a player ranked 400 places higher who's just won a doubles futures title.
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1
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588
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Greece F3
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1 2 3 4
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(Preview)
Qualies draw is out but no Brits. It's stuffed full of Greeks though as you'd expect.
Main draw should be out tomorrow. Luke Bourgeois isn't playing so the top 4 should be Baker, Loglo, Goodall and yours truly. Irwizza and May are also playing.
Loglo's top 400 but he's not reached the latter st...
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Ukraine F2
(Preview)
Q1:
James Feaver d. Kirill Savolskul 75 63
(11) Ervand Gasparyan d. Michael Fedoseyev 61 64
Q2:
(15) Dymtro Petrov d. James Feaver 67(4) 75 76 (3)
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515
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Venezuala satellite - week 2
(Preview)
Ross Connolly continues to gain ranking points in South America 
Rd1: R Connolly [GB] bt C Lima [Brz] 7-6[5], 7-6[5]
Congrats to Ross on holding his nerve in the breakers and beating an opponent ranked over 200 places higher at 1149. Ross' big serve will definately have helped him in th...
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Romania F3 - clay - 10K
(Preview)
Andy Kennaugh and Chris Eaton are in Bacau for a clay-court futures event this week. Both have good round 1 draws, avoiding the seeds.
Rd1:
A Kennaugh [GB] v T Bolanu [Rom] [wr: 869]
Preview: Teodor Bolanu is ranked 200 places lower than Andy but he has several factors in his favour. He's a...
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4
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774
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New Game
(Preview)
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9
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San Remo 25K+H Challenger (8 May)
(Preview)
Big Arv has struck lucky in the draw here because he's drawn America's Adam Lownsbrough in R1 - wild card Marcel Goodman has one ranking point from a WC at the Rome Challenger (even Adam's never got two Challenger WCs in a month!) and his only other senior experience is five attempts to qualify for Futur...
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1047
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Indonesia satellite - week 2
(Preview)
Qualifying:
Rd1: K Arta [Ind] bt J Miles [GB] 6-2, 6-2 
Main draw:
Thomas Greenland will be competing, however draw info isn't out yet
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815
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Bulgaria satellite - week 3
(Preview)
After 2 weeks of a satellite, the entries and seedings for qualifying and the main draw are determined by how many points the players have earnt in the preceding 2 weeks.
Myles Blake has to go through qualifying to try and reach the week 3 main draw. He's top seed, there are 2 rounds of qualifying and...
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4
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676
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Spain F15 (15th May)
(Preview)
Q1:
Pierre Clad v Guifre Ricart (wc)
Max Gregor v Christian Fuster
Alexander Hutchings - Bye
Daniel Cox (wc) v Alex Domenech
Kristian Zak v Oriol Hernandez
(12) Alan Wright - Bye
Oscar Podlewski v Alvaro Diaz Garcia
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7
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Greece F2
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1 2 3
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(Preview)
R1:
(1) Jamie Baker v (q) Davor Kuseta
Jim May v (wc) Alexander Jakupovic
Neil Bamford v (wc) Nikolaos Serkedakis
(4) Josh Goodall v (q) Remko De Rijke
Richard Irwin v Andreas Haider Maurer
(6) Jonathan Marray v (q) Omri Hasin
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42
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2704
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Player of the month - April
(Preview)
The winners so far have been: Boggo - Jan and Feb, March was shared by Baker and Bloomers, who do you think is the player of the month for April ?
Nominees:
[1] Alex Bogdanovic - Boggo reached 3 challengers quarter-finals in Talahassee, Cardiff and Lanzarote. Reached a new career high ranking...
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9
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831
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Barker Twins
(Preview)
Does any one know what happened to the Barker Twins? They were doing really well last year and then seemed to drop off the face of tennis.
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11
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1789
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Brits in Futures Week 20
(Preview)
Mexico F7 :
14 - Fulford-Jones Italy F14 : 17 - Morgan Phillips 50 - A Lownsbrough 
Spain F15 :
Alan Wright - currently in final QR. Greece F3 :
1 - Jamie Baker 3 - Joshua Goodall 4 - J Marray 6 - N Bamford 9 - Jim May 10 - R Irwin 31 - A Lownsbrough Kuwait F1 : 3 - Lee Childs 18 - A Law 2...
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Ukraine F1
(Preview)
Rd1 qualifying:
C Rizzo [It] [9] v M Fedoseyev [GB]
O Castillon [Esp] [7] v J Feaver [GB]
I believe that Michael Fedoseyev has been trying to get British nationality and he's just received his British passport so instead of representing the Ukraine he's representing GB. He's 18, and has...
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Boggo Out of Zagreb
(Preview)
Al has pulled out of Zagreb, i guess he feels he isnt quite over his injury to risk it on tougher clay surface yet, lets hope he is ready for the grass though.
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678
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GB F8 - Edinburgh
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1 2 3
)
(Preview)
1st Round Draw. (1) Martin Lee (GBR) vs Joseph Sirianni (AUS) Michael Ryderstedt (SWE) vs Adam Barratcloughadam (GBR) Ed Corrie (GBR) vs James Auckland (GBR) Nick Van De Meer (NED) vs (6) Melvyn Op Der Heijde (NED) (3) Richard Bloomfield (GBR) vs Ed Seator (GBR) Lee Childs (GBR) vs Colin Fleming (GBR...
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