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Week 7 - ITF ($10K) - Antalya, Turkey Clay
(Preview)
Q1: GOODMAN, Camille (GBR) UNR v Bye Q2: GOODMAN, Camille (GBR) UNR v MOCETE-TALAMANTES, Paula (ESP) 1 1010
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Week 6 - ITF ($25K) - Rancho Mirage, USA Hard
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(Preview)
Q1: SOUTH, Melanie (GBR) 5 368 v NGUYEN, Cindy (USA) UNR
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Week 6 - ITF ($25K) Grenoble, France - Hard, Indoor
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Q1: Jade WINDLEY (GBR) [5] 449 vs. Melanie BENYADI (FRA) (WC) UNR (H2H: 0-0) Jade should qualify from a section mostly filled with local WC. The other seed is 29 yo Nicole Clerico [15] (CH 381)
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Week 6 - ITF ($10K) - Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt Hard
(Preview)
R1: ABDELAZIZ, Farah (GBR) WC UNR v COPPOLA, Claudia (ITA) Q UNR
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Week 5 - ITF ($75K) - Eilat, Israel - Hard
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(Preview)
L32: (7) Johanna Konta WR 153 v Julia Glushko (ISR) WR 176 (CH 157 last Sep) Probably the worst R1 draw JoKo could have got as a seed - the H2H is 0-4 (0-2 in juniors & 0-2 in seniors), including a 3 & thrashing in the Lexington 50K Final last summer, though there are two 3-setters in that H2H as well...
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Week 5 - ITF ($10K) Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt - Hard
(Preview)
L32: (2) Amanda Carreras WR 327 v Lidziya Marozava (BLR) WR 575
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Week 5 - WTA International ($235K) - Pattaya City, Thailand - Hard
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(Preview)
L32: (8) Heather Watson WR 50 v Timea Babos (HUN) WR 73 (CH 59 last Aug) Starting with her loss to Petkovic in New Haven (and includng her loss to JoKo at the USO), Babos is on an 8-match losing streak, though she did go very close against Mladenovic at the AO - the Impaler won 11-9 in the 3rd. The other seed i...
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Week 4 - ITF ($10K) - Preston, UK Hard
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Q1: FEDERICI, Sabrina (GBR) UNR v HONIGOVA, Sandra (CZE) 1 1045Q1: PETERSON, Nicole (GBR) UNR v EJDESGAARD, Malou (DEN) UNRQ1: PRADOVA, Martina (CZE) 2 1117 v LOHAN, Sinead (IRL) Q1: SMALLER, Rebecca (GBR) UNR v MULLINS, Ceire (GBR) UNRQ1: REN, Jessica (GBR) 3 1145 v LAWSON, Georgia (GBR) UNRQ1: S...
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Week 5 - ITF ($25K) - Burnie, Australia Hard
(Preview)
Hope Emily can get back to some better form this year. Q1: Emily WEBLEY-SMITH (GBR) 466 [q7] vs BYE Q2: Emily WEBLEY-SMITH (GBR) 466 [q7] vs Yana MOGILNITSKAYA (RUS) 975 (CH 970) H2H: 0-0 Yana is 17 on Feb 5th, and seems based in Australia, as that's where she played all 7 of her pro events to date. She beat...
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British women's Twitter accounts
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(name in brackets if not immediately obvious from the twitter name) - http://twitter.com/annekeothavong - http://twitter.com/NaomiBroady - http://twitter.com/oliviascarfi - http://twitter.com/melaniesouth - http://twitter.com/laurarobson5 - http://twitter.com/ews24 (Emi...
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Week 3 - Australian Open (women's)
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(Preview)
L128: Laura Robson WR 50 v Melanie Oudin (USA) WR 82 (CH 31 in 2010) H2H: 1-1 in juniors, 1-0 in seniors - Laura won 3 & 4 in QR1 at the Aus Open last year) L128: Heather Watson WR 47 v Alexandra Cadantu (ROU) WR 89 (CH 65 last July) Cadantu is looking for her first grand slam main draw win, having lost in R1 a...
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Week 4 - ITF ($10K) Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, Hard
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(Preview)
Amanda Carreras plays a tournament on a surface other than clay! Two late WC's mean that Mandy is not the #1 seed, as had looked likely. Any run of MD wins between now and the end of April should see Mandy climbing up and up and setting new CH's along the way. R1: Amanda CARRERAS (GBR) [3] 335 vs. Alix COLLO...
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Week 4 - ITF ($15K) - Lima, Peru Clay
(Preview)
R1: BAMBURAC, Sabrina (GBR) 826 v ALVES, Maria-Fernanda (BRA) 2 404
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Week 4 - ITF ($25K) Andrezieux-Boutheon, France Hard-Indoor
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Q1: Naomi BROADY 290 (GBR) [8] vs Fiona GERVIAS 995 (FRA) Nomes is in a good section, the other seed is #9, Magda Linette. Hope she can find some form this year. JoKo should be MD & seeded here. -- Edited by wolf on Saturday 19th of January 2013 12:08:08 AM
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Week 3 - ITF ($10K) Glasgow, UK Hard
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(Preview)
Q1: RACA, Edita (GBR) UNR v HAAS, Patricia (AUT) UNRQ1: FEDERICI, Sabrina (GBR) UNR v NEWMAN, Anouska (GBR) UNRQ1: REN, Jessica (GBR) 3 1145 v ByeQ1: PETERSON, Nicole (GBR) UNR v BEJENARU, Karola Patricia (ROU) UNRQ1: KONOTOPTSEVA, Danielle (GBR) 5 1153 v DU PLESSIS, Sarah Lynn (RSA)Q1: GIBSON, Ai...
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Weeks 3-4 - Australian Open Doubles
(Preview)
R1: Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova & Lucie Safarova (RUS/CZE) v Timea Babos (HUN) & Laura Robson R1: Marina Erakovic (NZL) & Heather Watson v (9) Anna-Lena Groenefeld & Kveta Peschke (GER/CZE)
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Week 3 - ITF ($25K) - Port St Lucie, FL, USA - Clay
(Preview)
QR1: Sabrina Bamburac WR 825 v Mari Osaka (JPN) WR 914 Osaka is a 16-year-old who looks to be heavily under-ranked, having played only intermittently last year and reached a 10K Final, reached the FQR last week and qualified for the last 25K she played in 2012. -- Edited by steven on Monday 14th of Janua...
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British Tour 2013
(Preview)
There are some very interesting ties in this week's British Tour. Anna Smith continues her return to competitive tennis and faces Mel South tomorrow. This will be a good measure of where her games is. In another QF, Fitzy plays Fran Stephenson. The top seed is Tara, and 13 year old Katie Swan took seven...
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Week 2 - Australian Open women's qualifying 2013
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(Preview)
QR1: (q22) Anne Keothavong WR 142 v Grace Min (USA) WR 178 2nd on Court 5 after 23.00 GMT, so probably around 00.30 GMT The other seed in Anne's section is (q4) Tatjana Malek (GER) WR 115 (CH 64 in 2009), whom she beat in Ismaning in 2011, having lost to her 5 years earlier. QR1: Johanna Konta WR 153 v Anastas...
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No more WTA tour on Eurosport
(Preview)
http://www.sportspromedia.com/news/bt_sport_gambles_on_watson_and_robson_in_wta_rights_swoop
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Week 2 - WTA International ($235K) - Hobart, Australia Hard
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(Preview)
R1: ROBSON, Laura (GBR) 53 v STEPHENS , SLOANE (USA) 8 38
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2012 Womens Ranking Predictions
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(Preview)
Since no-one else has stepped up to the plate, here be this year's ranking prediction competition. I've made some changes to the rules in order to try and make each player's performance have an equal contribution to your score regardless of their current ranking, and to mitigate the effects of injur...
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Week 2 - ITF ($25K) - Innisbrook, FL, USA - Clay
(Preview)
QR1: Sabrina Bamburac WR 821 v (q13) Tereza Martincova CZE WR 481
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Week 1 - WTA International ($235K) - Auckland, New Zealand - Hard
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(Preview)
L32: Heather Watson WR 49 v (5) Sorana Cirstea (ROU) WR 27 (CH 23 in 2009) A tough draw for Hev (especially considering that she would probably have been seeded in the International with more prize money in Shenzhen) but she does lead the H2H 1-0 - that stunning comeback from 0-5* down in the final set in M...
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Week 1 - WTA Premier ($1M) Brisbane - Hard
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(Preview)
Andy may be due to play Tipsy in the exo in Abu Dhabi in the next few minutes, but the proper season starts at midnight our time tonight, with this match first on Court 10: QR1: Johanna Konta WR 156 v (q4) María Teresa Torró Flor (ESP) WR 98 (CH 95 in Oct) These two met once in a grade 3 junior ITF on clay in Spain...
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