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This week in British Tennis, Friday 20th February

Friday, February 20, 2009
  • Anne Keothavong, Jamie Murray and Ross Hutchins are all involved in the latter stages of Tour events...

  • Anne Keothavong is set to meet top seed Caroline Wozniacki in Friday’s last four at the RMK Championships in Memphis. The British No.1 will be playing in her second WTA Tour semi-final of the year.

  • Also playing in Memphis, Jamie Murray and Dusan Vemic of Serbia are through to the doubles quarter-final on Friday where they will play Ernests Gulbis and Igor Kunitsyn. The No.2 seeds are bidding to reach their first semi-final as a partnership.

  • At Open 13 in Marseille, Ross Hutchins and Australian Stephen Huss will play either Wesley Moodie and Dick Norman or Arnaud Clement and Michael Llodra in the doubles semi-final.

  • Josh Goodall, who is seeded No.1, will meet Czech qualifier Jiri Krkoska in the singles quarter-final at the $15k event in Trento, Italy. Next week, the British No.3 will be competing in Davis Cup play-offs at the National Tennis Centre in Roehampton.

  • In Corby, the latest leg of the AEGON British Tour sees Sean Thornley play Maniel Bains and Helen Parish play Hannah James in Saturday’s singles finals.

  • AEGON 18&U Junior County Cup is taking place at venues around Britain this weekend. Bath is hosting Group 1 with Surrey boys and Essex girls hoping to retain the titles they won in 2008.

  • Great Britain’s 14&U boys’ and girls’ teams are competing at the Finals of Tennis Europe Winter Cup by HEAD. On Friday, the boys got off to a winning start by beating Belarus 3-0 while the girls lost their opening fixture to Belgium 0-3.

  • The Thomson twins, Mathew and David, have continued their fine recent run of form by reach the boys’ doubles final together at the ITF Grade 3 event in Bangladesh. Mathew is also through to the singles final where he will face Chuhan Wang.

  • Steph Cornish has reached the girls’ singles and doubles semi-finals at the ITF Grade 2 event Chile. In the boys’ doubles, Jack Carpenter and James Marsalek are also through to the last four.

  • A number of Brits, including Tom Farquharson, Richard Gabb, Joanna Henderson and Nicole Peterson, are playing in the early rounds at the ITF Grade 4 event in Netherlands.

  • AEGON 11&U Winter Masters is taking place at the National Tennis Centre over the weekend. The event is being contested by 16 of Britain’s top boys and girls who gained invitations by picking up qualification points during the winter season.

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