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Chart of British Men's strength in depth
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Hi This is a chart showing the strength in depth of British Men's tennis going back to 1990 as I was interested to see if/how much we've improved as a nation since then ... unfortunately not very much (apart from 2005). Hopefully it will start to show some real improvements in the Roger Draper e...
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France F1 - Deauville 10k (Clay)
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QR1: K Kalaitzis (Gbr) WR 1248 vs (8) Benjamin Dracus (Fra) WR 990
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India F2 - Delhi 15K (hard and dung-free, allegedly!)
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QR1: Ranjit Lal Pasricha UNR lost to Ranjeet Virali-Murugesan (IND) WR 1372 by &  R1: Ian Flanagan WR 658 v TBA -- Edited by steven at 14:34, 2007-01-28
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ATP Zagreb 2007.
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Begins on the 29th of January. Confirmed Players - Andy Murray. Mikhail Youzhny. Andreas Seppi. Ivan Ljubicic and Mario Ancic should be there. Cilic should get his WC. Official Website. Tim defends 75 poin...
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Waikoloa Challenger 2007
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Jamie Baker is 2nd seed in qualifiers here and receives a first round bye (such a week qualifying draw for a challenger - 8th seed is ranked 905 in the world - wow, and there are 8 places in the draw taken by byes - surely a decent opportunity for some of the middle ranked Brits to have won easy points). QR...
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Wrexham Challenger 2007.
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1 Guccione, Chris AUS 153 2 Faurel, Jean-Christophe FRA 157 3 Haase, Robin NED 167 4 Cakl, Tomas CZE 185 5 Salzenstein, Jeff USA 198 @ 6 Ascione, Thierry FRA 192 7 Vico, Uros ITA 198 8 Sela, Dudi ISR 201 9 Goodall, Joshua GBR 206 10 Jeanpierre, Julien FRA 207 11 Haehnel, Jerom...
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Who Will Be Ranked Highest?
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I think that all of our Challenger level players are playing great tennis. Mackin, Bloomfield, Marray and Baker have had good starts to the year, and Goodall had an incredible rise up the rankings in the second half of 2006. I believe that there'll be great competition between them this year. Who do yo...
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Entries Week 5 - 29/1
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Delray Beach $400K (Hard) - (Bogdanovic) France $15K+H (Hard) - (Bamford, Kennaugh, Eaton, Kalitzis, Corrie, Allinson, Atkinson, Illingworth) India $15K (Crushed Poo) - Flanagan (Ward) Columbia $15K (Clay) - (Blake) Austria $10K (Carpet) - (Miotto) Costa Rica $10K (Hard) - (Searle, Fulford...
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Spain F3 - Majorca 10k (Hard)
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Robert Dee again tries his luck in qualifying here. James Ward keeps him company... QR1: Robert Dee WR 1541 vs Pablo Martin-Adalia (Esp) WR 1541 How many games will Dee win here? I'm going for a fortunate 1 at 6-0, 5-0 (11) James Ward receives a bye Draw: http://www.tenniseurope.org/PDF/Profes...
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The big poll - who do you rate as the 2006 player of the year
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Nominees: Alex Bogdanovic: 2006 was "Boggo's" best season to date. He began in stunning form, winning the Wrexham and Bergamo challengers back-to-back. Bergamo was his first overseas title and along the way he beat world no 56 Andreas Seppi. Throughout the season Alex made 9 quarter-fina...
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Heilbronn Challenger 2007.
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1 Mahut, Nicolas FRA 66 2 Phau, Bjorn GER 77 3 Greul, Simon GER 82 4 Pless, Kristian DEN 84 5 Llodra, Michael FRA 95 6 Schuettler, Rainer GER 96 7 Devilder, Nicolas FRA 97 8 Dlouhy, Lukas CZE 99 9 Vanek, Jiri CZE 101 10 Waske, Alexander GER 108 11 Galvani, Stefano ITA 109 12 Vicente, Fernando ESP 110 13 Vik, Ro...
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Australian Open Wheelchair Men's
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Jayant Mistry is in action here, doubles and singles. Would be good if he could pick up a few wins after an injury blighted 2006. R1: Jayant Mistry GBR d. Niclas Larsson SWE 6-0 6-2 R2: Jayant Mistry GBR v Satoshi Saida (4) JPN Jayant faces off against his doubles partner and number 4 seed in the second r...
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Boggo and Mike Raff splitting up
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On GRMB it says that Boggo and Mike Raff are splitting up. Suprised it doesnt seem to have been mentioned here, tho' I had heard something that has led to me not being as suprised as I would have been a few months ago. Anyone know anything about it. Apparently Boggo might be linking up with Peter Lundg...
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Colombia F1 - Manizales 15K (clay)
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QR2: (q1) Myles Blake WR 852 beat Leo Sarria (COL) UNR by 2 & 0  ... and that means he has qualified for the main draw. That was easy! 
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Panama F1 - Panama 10K (Clay)
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Qualifying draw First Round (9)Edward Seator (GBR) bye Second Round (9)Edward Seator (GBR) d.Johannes Pulsfort (GER) 6-3 6-2 -- Edited by kid at 11:37, 2007-01-21 -- Edited by kid at 11:37, 2007-01-21 -- Edited by kid at 11:40, 2007-01-21
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Aussie Open (weeks 3 and 4) Competitors and Rankings - Boggo to Mackin!
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Here's Alex's competitors for Aussie Open qualifying (c) GC77:unning Start of week Running So 18th Def1 Def2 19th 20th Rank rank name points Points Far Result Result Result 135 163 Wayne Arthurs ...
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USA F3 - Boca Raton 10k (Hard)
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QR1: Jonathan Kinsella (GBR) v Adrian Amerio (USA) Chris Harfield (GBR) v Marek Czerwinski (USA) (6) Adam Kennedy (Aus) v Paul Bishop (GBR) Jonathan Kinsella: 22, born in Bolton, right handed, fave surface hard, coach Bob Butterfield, never had a senior ranking, high junior ranking of 367 i...
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Martin Bohm.
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What do people here know about him?
I know that he coaches Josh Goodall and today I found out that he also coaches Daniel Cox along with Magnus Tiedeman when he is in Britain.
Any help is appreciated.
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New Look LTA Site
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They've changed the look of the LTA site.
It's all gone Red, White and Black.
Look's good to me.
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J Murray/Becker v Benneteau/Mahut - Aust Open Doubles R1
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Match away to start on court 15. Will try and provide game by game points.
Think this will be tough for the Brit/German new pairing.
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Erlich / Ram v Auckland / Huss : Aussie Open Doubles R2
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Tough match against the 7th seeds. They will do well to take it to 5 sets. Hope I am wrong. Would be good to have other Brit interest other than Andy. My head says they will loose is 3 but my heart says the win win in 5...take ur pick Match is on tonight last on court 13.
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Jim May
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Jim seemed to be a fairly decent doubles player but has not been active at the first two British futures. Does anybody know if he's injured or retired?
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David Sherwood
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Hi I have been a long time reader, but this is my first post, when I read the post saying how Andy Murray and David did so well in the David Cup, that got me thinking, what happened to David???? Thanks Mike
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Jonny Marray on the radio
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Jonny will kill me for telling you as he's hoping no-one listens  but he is being interviewed on Radio Sheffield's Wednesday Night sport tomorrow (weds, obv.) at around 730. If you would like to hear it, you can listen to this anywhere in the world by going to BBC Radio Sheffield's website a...
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GBF2 - Sunderland - 2007.
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Strong list.  [url=http://www.itftennis.com/mens/tournaments/tournamentacceptanceList.asp?tournament=1100014814&event=&order=Position]http://www.itftennis.com/mens/tournaments/tournamentacceptanceList.asp?tournament=1100014814&event=&order=Posi...
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