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Putting Josh's achievement into context
(Preview)
I can only find stats back to 1980, but since then:
Only eleven Brits have qualified for two Grand Slams (John Feaver, John Lloyd, Nick Fulwood, Chris Bailey, Jeremy Bates, Neil Broad, Andrew Castle, Danny Sapsford, Arvind Parmar, Jamie Delgado and now Josh Goodall)
Btw, Delgado, who has done i...
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Bulgaria F1
(Preview)
Jim May is entered for this futures, he's 7th on the entry list so should be seeded. Draws haven't been released yet
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National U18 championships
(Preview)
This title was won in 2005 by Richard Wire and lining up in an attempt to become the new national champion last week were the best British juniors: Iain Atkinson, Ed Corrie, Daniel Cox, Daniel Evans, Sean Thornley, Josh Milton, David Rice etc. The only notable absentees were Graeme Dyce, Chris Llewel...
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Finland F2
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1 2
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(Preview)
4 Brits in qualifying.
Qualifying Round 1
Michael Crooks lost 46 64 64 to Fredi Voorman of Estonia in R1. 
Ed Allinson seeeded 5 got a bye to R2. 
Chris Harfield beat Mika Purho 64 60
James southwood beat Tommy Luhtala 60 61.
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Netherlands F4
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(Preview)
Alan Mackin appears to have entered and decided to go through qualifying as well for the extra point.
Heres a link to the draw. Funny because he's got an indian flag next to his name
http://www.holy-international.nl/draw32qms.htm
Got a bye through round one and now faces Dominik Pfeiffer of...
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Goodall v Pequery - US Open qualies rd2
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1 2
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(Preview)
This match will be on Thursday
Pequery is ranked 268, a few places below Goodall, in rd1 he knocked out his out of form compatriot, 20th seed Cyril Saulnier 4-6, 6-4, 6-4. This ended a 5 match losing streak stretching back to the beginning of June. He's got a high of 180, reached in 2004.
Earlier...
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Lee v Ulihrach
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1 2 3
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(Preview)
This will be Martin's 3rd match against the 31 year old Czech clay-court specialist Bohdan Ulihrach who's ranked 750 but is playing with a protected ranking of 139. His career high was 22, reached back in 1997.
Ulihrach won 6-4, 7-6 on indoor carpet in rd1 of ATP Battersea, London in 1998 and he als...
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Iran F3
(Preview)
Qualifying draw
(1)Milan Petercak (SVK) d. Hamid-Reza Al Yasin (IRI) 6-1 6-0 Ned Boone (GBR) d. Boris Vallejo (FRA) 7-6(3) 6-3 (2)Pirmin Haenle (GER) d. Gokay Celik (TUR) 6-0 6-0 (WC)Shahin Khaledan (IRI) d. Martin Dalton (GBR) 6-3 6-2 (3)Diago Sakurai (JPN) d. (WC)Mojtaba Moazza...
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Bloomfield v Zib
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(Preview)
A really tough rd1 match for Richard against the veteran Czech 25th seed.
Zib is ranked 139 but this time last year he was 51 in the world. He has beaten Henman in the past indoors but is most at home on clay.
In Jan and early Feb he reached 2 challenger finals but since then he's been on a very bad run...
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Goodall v Dorsch
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1 2 3 4 5
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(Preview)
Josh has got possibly the best draw of all the Brits. Dorsch is rd1 and then Cyril Saulnier [seeded 20] who lost to Auckland in Graz last week is a possibly rd2 opponent and if he got to the final qualies round then Belgian veteran Dick Norman would be seeded to play him.
Dorsch is at a career high ranki...
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US Open qualies
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(Preview)
Entry list:
1 Dancevic, Frank CAN 96
2 Vanek, Jiri CZE 100
3 Pless, Kristian DEN 101
4 Berrer, Michael GER 105
5 Patience, Olivier FRA 106
6 Roitman, Sergio ARG 108
7 Delgado, Ramon PAR 109
8 Koubek, Stefan AUT 110
9 Portas, Albert ESP 113
10 Galvani, Stefano ITA 114
11 Carlsen,...
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Bogdanovic v Okun - US Open qualies rd1
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1 2
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(Preview)
Alex has the chance to gain revenge tonight for his two DC defeats against Okun. The Israeli is ranked over 100 places below Alex at 257 but he's been in the top 200 [world no 95 in 2002] and that experience has shown both times they've played.
The 1st match was on the hard courts of Tel Aviv in March 200...
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Italy f28
(Preview)
Doubles main draw
(1)Dusan Karol/Matteo Volante (CZE/ITA) vs Giuseppe Moeri-Delgado/Marco Simoni (GBR/ITA)
Don't know if this is a typo on stevegtenis or if he really is representing Britain.
YOU DECIDE!
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Germany F13
(Preview)
Qualifying round 1
Jacek Szygowski (GER) d. Joseph Dewhurst (GBR) 6-2 6-2
No Brits in Main draw
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Bronx 50K Challenger
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1 2 3
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(Preview)
Martin Lee(2), Arvind Parmar(8) and Jamie Baker are all in qualifying here.
Martin faces Carlos Salamanca of Colombia in Round One.
Arvind faces Florin Merge of Romania who Jamie beat last week!
Jamie has drawn 6th seed Peter Wessels of the Netherlands in R1.
Arvind would appear to have the...
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Manerbio challenger
(Preview)
Qualifying:
Rd1: M Phillips [GB] v A Biasella [It]
A Wright [GB] v A Giraudo [It]
Morgan having his first attempt at challenger qualifying on clay in Italy. In rd1 he faces Alan Wright's conqueror from last weekend, 25 year old Adriano Biasella. Biasella is ranked 732 and hasn't won a mat...
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25K Challenger - Graz
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1 2 3 4 5 … 9
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(Preview)
4 Brits in qualifying here. Draw has been pretty unkind.
James Auckland, Jonny Marray, Jamie Delgado and Ross Hutchins.
Delgado and Hutchins play each other and then the winner faces Auckland(3) or Patrick Gamauf of Austria. He's ranked 1557.
Jonny M(7) has drawn an Austrian Wildcard calle...
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Breaking News
(Preview)
from bbc sport:
Evander Holyfield launched his comeback bid with a second-round stoppage of journeyman Jeremy Bates in Dallas.
The 43-year-old former undisputed heavyweight champion had Bates in trouble at the end of the first round before the bell sounded.
Holyfield continued his onsla...
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Egypt satellite
(Preview)
Week 1 got underway last week and Britain's David Brewer [world ranking: 1070] got off to a good start on his favoured clay.
Results:
Rd1: D Brewer [GB] bt E Zurabian [Ukr][wr:1204] 6-3, 7-6
Rd2: D Brewer [GB] bt T Ouahabi [Morocco][7] [wr: 924] 2-6, 6-3, 7-5 
QF: D Brew...
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Spain F26
(Preview)
Qualifying:
Rd1: N Sego [GB] v bye
P Barlow [GB] v P Belloso [Esp]
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Germany F12
(Preview)
This clay-court futures event starts tomorrow, Alex Slabinsky is the only Brit taking part, he's 9th on the entry list.
The main draw isn't available yet due to tenniseurope not having been updated all weekend.
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Romania F16
(Preview)
Qualifying rd1: E Carboo [GB] bt C Stohor [Rom] 6-2, 7-5
Qualifying rd2: E Carboo [GB] bt I Giurgiu [Rom][2] 7-6[7], 6-4
Ekow is unranked while Giurgiu is ranked 1277.
Qualifying rd3: E Carboo [GB] v N Nejdi [Mor]
A great chance for Ekow to qualify, facing an unranked Moroccan...
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Thailand F5
(Preview)
Myles Blake is in the main draw here this week.
34 year old Briton Gregory Howe (with no world ranking) attempted to qualify and won two rounds but lost in round of 16. I wonder why he bothered.
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Binghampton 50k challenger
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1 2 3 4 5
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(Preview)
There will plenty of British players in action in this tournament next week. Richard Bloomfield, Martin Lee and Arvind Parmar are direct entries into the main draw and Jamie Baker, Josh Goodall, Colin Fleming and Jamie Murray will be playing qualifying which starts tomorrow.
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GB F12 - Wrexham
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1 2
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(Preview)
The Qualifying Draw has been released.
A lot of our young guns are involved including Ian Atkinson, Chris Llewellyn, David Rice, and for once Daniel Cox doesn't get a wild card into the main dra...
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