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This Week in British Tennis, Friday 4th December 2009

Friday, December 04, 2009
  • Alexander Slabinsky is through to the final of the doubles at the $10k event in Santo Domingo (DOM) with partner Amir Weintraub (ISR).

  • The pair will meet the American pair of Adam El Mihdawy and Blake Strode in the final after defeating the tournament No.1 seeds David Canudas-Fernandez and Ignacio Coll-Riudavets from Spain, 6-2, 3-6, [10-3].

  • James Feaver is through to the final of the doubles at the $10k event in Arequipa (PER). The Briton teamed up with Juan-Pablo Amado (ARG) and gained a walk-over against No.3 seeds Paris Gemouchidis and Alexandros Jakupovic from Greece,  to secure their final place.

  • Naomi Broady is through to the quarter-finals of the $10k singles event in La Habana (CUB) where she will play Lisa Summerer (AUT).

  • The Eddie Herr International Junior Championships are currently taking place in Bradenton, USA, with Olly Golding through to the quarter-finals of the boys’ 18U singles after defeating Gonzales Austin (USA) 7-6(4), 6-1.

  • The British Junior No.1 now faces No.13 seed Sekou Bangoura (USA) and will be joined in the quarter-finals by Jack Carpenter. Carpenter plays No.5 seed Mitchell Frank (USA), a player ranked No.18.in the World Junior rankings and 67 places above the Briton.

  • Heather Watson is through to the quarter-finals of the girls’ doubles competition with partner Magda Linette (POL) following their 7-5, 6-3 victory over the Romanian pairing of Cristina Dinu and Illinca Stoica and will now face Lidziya Marozava and Polina Pekhova from Belarus.

  • In the boys’ 14U event at the Eddie Herr International, Luke Bambridge is through to the semi-finals and Edmund is competing in the quarter-finals against Thai Kwiatkowski. Edmund, Bambridge, Evan Hoyt and Christopher Pearce are all competing in the quarter-finals of the 14U doubles.

  • Katie Dunne, Katie Boulter and Pippa Horn are through to the quarter-finals of the girls’ 14U singles. Dunne meets No.6 seed Domenica A Gonzalez (ECU), whilst Boulter plays Spencer O Liang  (USA) and Horn plays No.8 seed Maria Tsakanyan (RUS).

  • Joseph Dodridge has reached the third round of the Grade 3 U14 Tennis Europe singles event in Sweden whilst Jack Busby has reached the second round of the 16U doubles event.

  • Warwickshire's British No 2 Jordanne Whiley and Middlesex's Andrew Lapthorne have reached the women's singles and quad singles finals respectively at the Prague Cup Czech Inoor wheelchair tounament.   

  • Second seed Whiley beat Spain's Barbara Vidal 6-3, 6-2 in Friday's semi-finals and plays Dutch top seed Aniek van Koot in Saturday's women's singles final. Whiley and van Koot also remain on course to lift women's doubles title.

  • Top seed Lapthorne beat fellow Briton John Parfitt 6-1, 6-2 in the quad singles semi-finals and meets Swedens' Anders Hard in the final. Lapthorne and Parfitt are also on course to reach the final in the quad doubles.

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