British Tennis Forum - Celebrating 20 Years!

Well done, a great win when we didn't expect it! A pity to see no mention at all in today's Telegraph sports section of Friday's two wins and the match in general. I know there's golf, grand national, Bath rugby, football, of course. They did find a bit of room for women's rugby, plus managed to get a report on the Friday night football, west ham wolves in, which they don't always bother with when it finishes late But they make room for pointless articles about both Liverpools season, and Slot, and whether Tottenham's new manager will make any difference. It sometimes seems with GB women's tennis it is all about Emma and if she is not playing they hardly bother covering anything (outside of grand slams, and the odd masters tournament).

 What a fabulous result 

the addict wrote:

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My vote would be for Louis Cayer - helping two singles players make a doubles team yet again.

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 The doubles result was the most impressive of all, a scratch pairing beating a Top 20 team at home.

A great debut for Mika, I remember her and Hannah doing the coin toss for GB a couple of years ago but I didn't think she'd be in the team (and winning) this early.

Harriet also playing well above her recent level, hopefully she can sustain that form the rest of the year.

Good to see Swanny play singles for GB again after so long.

indiana wrote:

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The full qualifying round results ( home team first ) were :

(1) Italy 3-1 Japan
Belgium 3-1 (2) USA
Australia 1-3 (3) GB
Kazakhstan 3-1 (4) Canada
Slovenia 1--3 (5) Spain
Switzerland 2-3 (6) Czechia
(7) Poland 0-4 Ukraine

The finals take place in Shenzhen, China on 22-27 September 2026 in 8 team knock out format with China added to the 7 qualifiers.

The 4 finals seeds will be those 4 qualifier seeds that advanced to the finals - (1) Italy, (2) GB, (3) Spain, and (4) Czechia, with Italy and GB in opposite halves of the draw.

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 The tie with the 8th seeds is missing 

Spireman wrote:

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Well done, a great win when we didn't expect it! A pity to see no mention at all in today's Telegraph sports section of Friday's two wins and the match in general. I know there's golf, grand national, Bath rugby, football, of course. They did find a bit of room for women's rugby, plus managed to get a report on the Friday night football, west ham wolves in, which they don't always bother with when it finishes late But they make room for pointless articles about both Liverpools season, and Slot, and whether Tottenham's new manager will make any difference. It sometimes seems with GB women's tennis it is all about Emma and if she is not playing they hardly bother covering anything (outside of grand slams, and the odd masters tournament).

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 I think the Telegraph was making up for lost time because the Sunday Telegraph sports section had a big  headline GB defy big-name absences to reach finals. There was a report by Sonia Twigg  ,a photo of the team and a photo of the Mika in play. The Mail on Sunday had the headline Dart double sends GB into  finals  and a small report. Mind you one of our sports pages gave far more coverage to the Spanish golfer Jon Rahm's poor performance in the US Masters golf.