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Other action, week 9th Oct
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Australia 25K
Q: Lucy Fletcher
Lagos 25K
Q: Lucy Warburton
Quite a weak field, could make it through with a good draw. Should be seeded.
Spain 10K
MD: Kirsty Woolley
Q: Romina Sceats, Anna Hawkins (should be seeded), Nikki Prosser, Amanda Carreras, Aimee Jarrett
Portugal 10K
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Jersey 25K
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MD: Anne K, Mel S, Katie O'B, Becky L as DA
Wild cards: Naomi C, Georgie S, Karen P, Anna S
Lots in qualifying-too many to type out!
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50k Joue-Le-Tours
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Amanda Keen has popped up in qualifiers here.
R1 bt Nadege Vergos of France 57 63 62 
R2 bt Ekaterina Dzehalevich of Belarus 63 62
R3 bt Estelle Guisard of France 60 61
And therefore qualifies!!!!!!!!!!!
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Katie O'Brien's player diary
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http://www.lta.org.uk/Newsroom/PlayerDiaries/061009OBrien.htm?BSMGuid=f7e5c0c1-d503-4151-8266-57696cc303a5
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Player of the month - September
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Nominees:
Katie O'Brien: Reached back to back 25K finals in Madrid and Nottingham. She won Nottingham, her first 25K title. She also won the Madrid doubles title.
Amanda Keen: Runner-up in Nottingham 25K final in singles and won the doubles title.
Naomi Cavaday: Reached semis of Nott...
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The Ren sisters
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/tennis/get_involved/5410746.stm"With the Grand Slams there are so many opportunities to win," said Venus Williams after taking the singles and doubles titles at the Sydney Olympics.
"A gold medal, it's just once every four years...
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Nantes 25K
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Mel South, Rebecca Llewellyn and Jane O'Donaghue are in the main draw. Amanda Keen should get a SE aswell.
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Granada 10k
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Qualifying highlights
R1
Sarah Needham 36 46 vs Marta Espigado Dlegado 
Nikki Prosser 60 63 vs Yevgeniya Kryvoruchko
Aimee Jarrett vs bye!
Sarah Stallard vs bye!
R2
Prosser 16 61 64 vs De Block
Jarrett 06 06 vs Gago Fuentes :furio...
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Volos 10k
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Qualifying highlights
Madeleine Brooks (GBR) is seeded 5 and has byes through to the final qualifying round where any of her possible opponents will be unranked.
Fran Kinsella (GBR) faces unranked Ukrainian ALina Shazhko in round one with the winner facing Austrian Birgit Ritschka fo...
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Anna Smith - LTA junior player of the month for September
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From the LTA:
Surrey 18-year-old Anna Smith has firmly established herself as a rising star of British tennis after enjoying a breakthrough month in September.
Smith had a strong argument for taking the LTA.org.uk August player of the month title after winning the 18-and-under Ariel Bri...
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$25,000 Traralgon, Oz
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Q1:Lucy FLETCHER (GBR) defeated Bianca ACQUISTAPACE (AUS, 1204) (10) 61 60
Q2: Lucy FLETCHER (GBR) defeated Michelle BRYCKI (AUS, UR) 62 60
Q3: Lucy FLETCHER (GBR) defeated Emelyn STARR (AUS, UR) 63 61
To make the main draw.
R1: vs D'AMELIO, Lisa (AUS, 388)
Qualifying w...
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50K Troy, Alabama
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Danielle Brown in qualifying.
She beat Chrissier Seredini 61 61.
Nex up is 6th seed Leanne Baker of NZL ranked 425 to Danielles 514.
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25K Nottingham
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The tournament starts on Wednesday.
Entry list:
1 SOUTH, Melanie GBR 177
2 PICHET, Virginie FRA 181
3 RUUTEL, Margit EST 182
4 BORWELL, Sarah GBR 204
5 O'BRIEN, Katie GBR 237
6 HARING, Florence FRA 242
7 BREADMORE, Lauren AUS 255
8 OZEGOVIC, Nika CRO 271
9 LLEWELLYN, Rebecca...
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WTA Taskhent - tier IV
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Anne Keothavong has made the main draw here, there have already been 13 withdrawals so it looks as though it will be quite weak
Tournament starts on October 2nd
There's appears to be no official website unfortunately
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Barcelona 75K+H
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Qualifying:
Rd1: Sarah Coles vs Franziska Etzel
Etzel is a German clay-courter, currently ranked 442 [peaked at 376 in Dec 05]. Her best result this year has been reaching a 10K semi on Belgian clay. I'd expect Sarah to win this one but it may prove trickier than the stats suggest as the tourna...
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Thessaloniki 10K
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Qualifying:
Rd1:
F Kinsella [GB] v V Simouli [Gre][WC] [unranked]
M Brooks [GB][6] v A Sadikovic [Sui] [unranked]
L Jacks [GB][7] v B Ritschka [Aut] [unranked]
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WTA Guangzhou - tier IV
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Anne is 4th on the qualies list here. Reasonable chance of her making the main draw or if not, she'll be one of the top seeds in qualies which start on Sunday.
Official website:
http://www.gzopen.com.cn/eng/index.asp
Thankf...
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10K Nottingham
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Entry list:
1 Jane OŽDONOGHUE GBR
2 Karen PATERSON GBR
3 Naomi CAVADAY GBR
4 Claire PETERZAN GBR
5 Nadege VERGOS FRA
6 Georgie STOOP GBR
7 Nadja ROMA SWE
8 Piia SUOMALAINEN FIN
9 Pauline WONG NED
10 Emily WEBLEY SMITH GBR
11 Natasha KHAN GBR
12 Rebecca FONG GBR
13 Louise DOU...
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25K Madrid
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Lots of British players are competing in Madrid next week: Melanie South, Sarah Borwell and Katie O'Brien will be seeded. Rebecca Llewellyn and Amanda Keen are also competing. Sarah Coles is 1st on the alternates list so she'll be extremely unlucky if she doesn't get in direct.
Others to look ou...
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WTA Kolkata - Tier 3
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Anne Keothavong has made the main draw for the WTA tournament, the first time she's made a WTA draw on her own ranking  Given that there are a large number of European 25Ks this week plus a tier 4 in Slovenia which she would have got into easily, going for this tournament which has much bigger...
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10K Mytilini
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Qualifying:
6: Francesca Kinsella
Francesca is 19, she reached no 211 in the juniors in 2005. She's currently unranked, she needs 2 more tournaments in which she wins ranking points.
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WTA Bangkok - tier III
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This tournament starts on October 9th
Anne Keothavong is entered, she was 25th on the qualifying list on 12th September
Official website:
http://www.pentanglepromotions.com
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10K Limoge
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Qualifying:
3: Romina Sceats [GB] - ranked 1367
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Lleida 10K
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Some disappointing results from qualifying:
Rd1: N Rodriguez [Esp] bt J Allan [GB] 6-3, 6-0
L Gallego [Esp] bt N Lee [GB][3] 6-3, 6-4
X Hermoso [Mex] bt A Carreras [GB] 6-3, 3-6, 7-6[5]
F Sintes [Esp] bt L Jacks [GB][14] 6-4, 6-2
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Kentucky grade 1 juniors
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Jade Curtis is playing here. She's seeded 10th and so has been given a bye through rd1.
In rd2 she faces either Sarah Guzick or Christina Liles, both are from the USA.
Jade could face 8th seeded Aussie Jessica Moore in rd3. They've played twice this year, Jessia won 7-6, 6-4 in rd2 of a 10K down un...
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