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Petition - no more RR
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Round Robin Petition If you are as disgusted as many fans are with the farcical situations that have developed in Round Robin play recently, please sign the petition. It will be forwarded to the ATP prior to a meeting in Miami in 3 weeks time to review the Round Robin format. This situation with James Bl...
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Tim's live ranking and competitors Week 9:Vegas etc..
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The New table is posted here (On BritishTennis.net) Tim's defending 75 points from last year, so drops out of the top 40, down 7 places to 45  Also dropping places are: Calleri, Almagro, Gaudio, Chela and Monaco (who plays his final in BA tonight) Best case, Tim can get up to WR 31 if he win...
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IW coverage on Radio Tennis & Ken's website
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I got an email from our old mate Ken at Radio Tennis which says that they are covering IW as follows: Mar. 10: Pacific Life Open: Indian Wells, CA. Mar. 11: Pacific Life Open: Indian Wells, CA. Mar. 17: Pacific Life Open: Indian Wells, CA. Mar. 18: Pacific Life Open: Indian Wells, CA Might be useful to tho...
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ATP Dubai 2007
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Unusually, many of the top singles players are also playing doubles here this week (i wonder if the appearance money has made it worthwhile!!). Even a certain Mr Federer has appeared in the draw with countryman Yves Allegro (WR38, WR40 on live rankings). Just for those of you interested the cut for th...
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Custom box
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Just to let everyone know that the custom box on the control bar on this site is used for google ads. So if you click on custom, 3 google ads will pop-up.
These are pay-per-click ads. Just to clarify, it doesn't cost you anything to click on them, it means that google pays me something like 5p per click...
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Henman vs. Mahut.
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Discuss the match out here...
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Gaston Gaudio?
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What happened to him? Was one of the top five clay players till 2005, but something went wrong from there on. Now he loses almost every match he plays - he even managed to get bagelled by Gilles Muller on Rebound Ace! He is yet to win a match this year and after the latest disater he went on to say - "I was...
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Tim's competitors Week 8: Memphis. Rotterdam etc..
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The new table is posted here Only a rise of one place to 37 as the week starts, and loads of players who can overtake: down to Canas at WR62..... That one place was because of Benneteau defending 120 points from last year. Vl...
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Masters Cup from 2009 - London
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BBc report that Londaon is one step closer to hosting the Masters Cup from 2009.... http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/tennis/6383347.stm
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ATP Rotterdam
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Have been watching quite a bit of this over the last few days... Saw Thiemo De Bakker in action against Ljubicic yesterday. I was impressed, he's definately got the game to be top 100. Can hit big shots off both sides, especially the forehand and he works the points really well. Not afraid to come i...
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Rusedski to play Davis Cup
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Does anybody know anything about his schedule? Why hasn't he played any tournament so far? He would get some WC without a doubt. He should play some matches if he wants play for GB.
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Tim's competitors: Week 7: Marseille, San Jose etc..
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The table is posted here (on www.britishtennis.net, as namechecked by Jamie Murray!) Tim returns to masterful inactivity this week, gaining two places as the week begins, as Moya and Clement drop below him, defe...
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Marseille ATP
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The seeds are dropping like flies.... Soderling knocked out Davydenko, and Mahut(!) has just added to Ljubicic's horrible start to 2007. This added to Djokovic's exit on Monday...
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Henman Out Of Rotterdam.
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Gustavo Kuerten
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Remember him? Always loved to watch him play, just had his first win in two years ! Talk about hanging in there..........
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Hawkeye to be used in more tour events
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They're starting to introduce Hawkeye into more tour events which is great  Dubai will be using it for the ATP and WTA events there. No surprise really as Dubai is one of the richest tournaments. I wonder when Queens will get it ? I love Hawkeye, think it's great for the game...hopefully...
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ATP introduces green clay event
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The ATP Houston event this year will be held on green clay, first ATP event to be held on the surface. It's to cut costs. Green clay is made from crushed stone and is a tiny bit faster than the red stuff and has a more uniform bounce.
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Size zero causes racket
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Just as the use of ultra-skinny 'size zero' models have been the talking point of London Fashion Week, there are also concerns within women's tennis about body image. Zina Garrison, a former Wimbledon finalist and a "recovering bulimic", suggested last night that the obs...
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ATP Outlines Round Robin Format Trials for 2007
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Thirteen ATP tournaments selected for round robin testing
* Three formats to be monitored to determine benefits for fans, broadcasters, others
* Sunday Starts also will be featured at several of the selected tournaments
The ATP announced today that it will test three different roun...
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Henman out of Marseille
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When will he be back I wonder?
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Henman Tea-time stereotype shocker!!
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http://www.atptennis.atponline.net/5/en/blog/tursunov/mailbag2.asp2). Full Name: Lena Slacenge City, Country: Hull, England Message: Hey Dmitry, your blog is wonderful and makes me always...
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Watch ATP Marseille online for free
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If you don't feel like doing much work this week like this lazy shedman......then don't worry as high quality tennis from Marseille is available live and online for free  Just go to the official website http://www.open13.org/ and scroll down the page and click on li...
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Watch Aussie Open classic matches online
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http://www.eurosport.co.uk/tennis/mc_vid30284.shtml
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Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes?
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"Look for the new ATP calendar to include eight Masters Series events: Indian Wells, Key Biscayne, Rome, Canada, Cincy, Paris, Madrid and China. (Hamburg and Monte Carlo get downgraded to economy class.) Players will be expected to play "eight of eight", though, realist...
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Tim's competitors week 5
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Here's the table of the players ranked around Tim in week 5. It was produced before the ATP rankings for week 4 were released. Running Start of week Running So 18th Def1 19th Rank rank name points Points Far Result Result 37 39 Gaston Ga...
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