British Tennis 2024 and 2025

[suttontennis]

Kyle Edmund won the 25k Loughborough Challenger last week, beating Powelski of Poland in the final.

[cazza99]

That's good news. Hope Kyle gets back to the main tennis circuit soon.

[suttontennis]

Kyle wins the 25k in Sunderland, beating GB compatriot Hamish Stewart in 3sets

[exislander]

Heather Watson was beaten in singles qualifying in WTA Charleston but is now in doubles quarter final playing with Olivia Nicholls.

[JAMES4578]

Hopefully goes better for Heather in the Doubles!

[suttontennis]

Kyle Edmund currently playing in the 75K Challenger in Cassis France. Came through qualies, won 1st round main draw and in second round plays Marin Cilic ! 2 former top twenty players now slugging it out in challengers. Cilic currently ranked 1082, Kyle #452. not due to play until tomorrow.

[JAMES4578]

Tough one, still Kyle making some progess. Cilic played Australian open using protected ranking (lost 1st Round) and in May had another knee surgery.

[suttontennis]

Cilic wins in two. still onwards and better to be losing in Challengers than still playing ITF's.

[JAMES4578]

A pity but hopefully on upwards curve. see Cilic lost in the next round though.

[Sallydaisy]

Congratulations are due to Jan Choinski for winning the Challenger 100
in Tulln, Austria, which sees him shoot up 100 places in the rankings.
:trophy:

[Sallydaisy]

Jake Fearnley notches up another Challenger Title!!!
:trophy:

Beats Mayot 6'3, 7'6(5) and that'll take him into the top 100 on Monday!

[Genbrit]

Well done Jake.

[Jane]

We have three playing in finals today - Jamie (with John Peers in Basel), Neal Skupski (In Vienna with Michael Venus) and Jack Draper (also in Vienna).:thumbup:
I wish them all the very best of luck and am looking forward to watching them.

[JAMES4578]

certainly good results, hopefully all do well!

[Sallydaisy]

Is anyone in Glasgow free this afternoon to see 2 more Brits in a Challenger Final?
If so you could probably mosey along to Scotstoun and watch
Marcus Willis, GBR/Kirkov,USA v Jonathan Paris/Cuklerman,ISR playing the Final.

EDIT - too late probably, they've just started!

BUT you can watch it on the ATP Challenger TV right now.
:p

[Sallydaisy]

Wlllbomb & Kirkov took the first set 7'5. They're 2-1 up on serve in the 2nd set.

[Sallydaisy]

Parris (GBR) and Cukierman take the win in Glasgow over Willis & Kirkov.

[Sallydaisy]

Cash/Glasspool d Salisbury/Skupski, in the battle of the Brits, to take the doubles title in Doha, Qatar.
:trophy:

[JAMES4578]

Turned out to be fairly straightforward for Cash/Glasspool who take the title 6-3,6-2 . Figured it would have been a tighter contest.

[cazza99]

Olivia Nicholls is in the women's doubles at Indian Wells. Starts 6 pm tonight.

[exislander]

Fearnley and Norrie both made it into round 2 in Geneva, as did Raducanu in Strasbourg.
Several British men will be in doubles in Hamburg this week.

[Sallydaisy]

Thanks for that information. I'll change the thread title to reflect it's now 2025!

[cazza99]

Cameron vs Djokovic in Geneva - not before 3 pm.

[Jane]

Not till 3.10 now says on tv screen. Wonder what the hold-up is - could make a few suggestions!! :)

[Sallydaisy]

Djokovic won ... 6'4, 6'7(6), 6'1
but Cam made it difficult for those first 2 sets.

[JAMES4578]

certainly was tight for a while, Djokovic though got early break in 3rd and Cameron did not stay with him.

[Genbrit]

Thought Cameron played well, shame about the 3rd set but Cam did well in those first two sets.

[cazza99]

Cameron Norrie now ranked 60 and Jacob Fearnley 49. :)

Sonay Kartel now ranked 50. :)

[Genbrit]

Well done to them. Things are looking brighter and hoping Jack continues to win matches and stay within top 5.

[cazza99]

Hopefully we will now get more brits automatically getting into tournaments instead of having to qualify.

[exislander]

Emma Raducanu joins Sonay Kartal in the 3rd round of the China open. Sonay beat 14th seed Kasatkina 6-3 6-0 and Emma beat qualifier Bucsa 6-3 6-3.

[exislander]

Emma lost to Jess Pegula despite having match points in set 2 but Sonay is in the last 16 of the China open.
Cash/Glasspool gave a walkover to Khachanov/Rublev in the quarter final. Heliovaara/Patten are in the semi final.
Mihalikova/Nicholls are in the women’s quarter final.

[JAMES4578]

Good to see Sonay through,well done! certainly unfortunate for Emma as she lost to Pegula 3-6,7-6,6-0. obviously Jessica is a top player but somewhat frustrating that Emma fell away.

[exislander]

Oh wow! Sonay has just beaten Mirra Andreeva, 4th seed, 7-5 2-6 7-5 and I think will go just above Katie in live rankings at 60!!!!!!

[JAMES4578]

A fabulous win for Sonay and did not expect that,Andreeva though having a few earlier exits recently.

[Sallydaisy]

Sonay Kartal v Linda Noskova start at 08.00 UK time.
It was 3-3 but Sonay has just been broken so the Czech player will serve at *4-3 after the change of ends.

It took Sonay 3 sets to beat Andreeva in the previous round so there's time yet ...

[Sallydaisy]

Oh dear, that didn't take long ... Noskova takes the first set 6'3 v Kartal.

[Hawkeye]

Noskova won 6-3 6-4.

[JAMES4578]

A pity but still a good run for Sonay which should build on!