(1)Irina Selyutina (Kaz) vs Jana Nejedly (Can)
q-Daniela Kix (Aut) vs Amanda Hopmans (Ned)
Petra Russegger (Aut) vs q-Katie O'Brien (Gbr)
Olga Kalyuzhnaya (Rus) vs [7]Sybille Bammer (Aut)

(4)Vanessa Webb (Can) vs Kelly Liggan (Irl)
wc-Amanda Janes (Gbr) vs Stephanie Gehrlein (Ger)
Francesca Lubiani (Ita) vs q-Irina Boulykina (Rus)
Andrea Glass (Ger) vs (8)Sofia Arvidsson (Swe)

(6)Angelika Bachmann (Ger) vs Jane O'Donoghue (Gbr)
LL-Elodie Lebescond (Fra) vs Olga Barabanschikova (Blr)
Raluca Sandu (Rom) vs Lucie Ahl (Gbr)
Valentina Sassi (Ita) vs (3)Elena Baltacha (Gbr)

(5)Julie Pullin (Gbr) vs Liga Dekmeijere (Lat)
Anne Keothavong (Gbr) vs wc-Rebecca Dandeniya (Gbr)
q-Yvonne Doyle (Ire) vs Dragana Zaric (Yug)
wc-Hannah Collin (Gbr) vs (2)Selima Sfar (Tun)

OMG what a draw!!! Second round matches between Ahl-Bally and Pullin-Anne are the likely national semis (although Jane could throw a spanner in the works), so they will be very interesting indeed. Just a shame they couldnt meet in the semis!

godd luck too all the gb girls
nice to see bally basher back in action!!

good luck

Irina S :drool: defend your title baby ;)
Olga B ;)
Olga K ;)
Irina B :)
Liga :)

Elena B :)
Raluca ;) get back winning again ;)
Daniela ;)
Selima vs Hannah = bye bye Hannah
Jane :)

Good luck Olga Barabanschikova :):)

Nice draw for Anne to defend her points!:D

Heres hopign Elena can play well and get to the semis

Anne Vs Selima(the rematch) in the QF?

Poor Elena - she has Elodie Le Bescond in her quarters - my FAVE !
Go Elodie, slay Olga, then Elena and make your way through, baby !

good luck german girls :D

Dragana :D
Sofia :)
Jane :D
Olga :)

Stephanie Gehrlein (Ger) d. wc-Amanda Janes (Gbr) 6-2 3-6 6-3
Francesca Lubiani (Ita) d. q-Irina Boulykina (Rus) 6-2 6-4 :sad:
(8)Sofia Arvidsson (Swe) d. Andrea Glass (Ger) 6-2 6-4
Anne Keothavong (Gbr) d. wc-Rebecca Dandeniya (Gbr) 6-2 6-0 :)

oh no Andrea !!!!

Congrats Stephanie

poor ANDREA

ANNE:D

Amanda:sad:

WOOOHOO ANNE!! :D

Well done Francesca, I really thought she would lose against Irina, but as usual Francesca is not predictable...I hope Valentina can upset Elena.....

Um no not gonna happen Elena will blow her off the court;)

But Elena does have liver damage so that might help Sassi!

O´Brien d. Russegger w.o. (the next Austrian who is injured) :mad:

GO JANE!!!!!

Go Bally!!!

Kelly Liggan (Irl) bt Vanessa Webb (Can) 6-2 2-6 7-5
Raluca Sandu (Rom) bt Lucie Ahl (Gbr) 3-6 7-5 6-3
Julie Pullin (Gbr) Liga Dekmeijere (Lat) 6-3 6-1
Dragana Zaric (Yug) bt Yvonne Doyle (Irl) 6-4 6-4
Hannah Collin (Gbr) bt Selima Sfar (Tun) 6-4 3-6 6-2
Jana Nejedly (Can) bt Irina Selyutina (Kaz) 6-2 6-3
Katie O'Brien (Gbr) bt Petra Russegger (Aut) 6-2 1-0 rtd
Sybille Bammer (Aut) bt Olga Kalyuzhnaya (Rus) 7-5 6-4
Angelika Bachmann (Ger) bt Jane O'Donoghue (Gbr) 6-3 5-7 7-6 (7-5)
Olga Barabanschikova (Blr) bt Elodie Lebescond (Fra) 6-1 6-3
Elena Baltacha (Gbr) bt Valentina Sassi (Ita) 2-6 6-2 6-2
Amanda Hopmans (Ned) bt Daniela Kix (Aut) 5-7 6-2 6-3

Hannah :) :) :eek::eek:
Julie :)
Bally :) :) :) :) :) :) :)
Anne :) :)
Lucie :( :(
Good luck against Raluca, Bally!!!!

Irina :sad: nooooooooooooooooooo :(
Olga K :sad: :(
Liga :(


Olga :bounce: :)
Raluca :D
Hannah :)
Elena B :)

Daniela :sad: :(

congrats and best of luck to:

*Jana Nejedly :D (great win, though Irina has dropped in form herself)
*Amanda Hopmans
*Kelly Liggan :D
*Sofia Arvidsson
*Raluca Sandu
*Elena Baltacha :D
*Anne Keothavong
*Dragana Zaric :D
*Hannah Collin

too bad for Daniela, Vanny, Amanda, Liga, Yvonne, and Selima :(

Olga :):)

IRINA NOW IS ZEROOOOO CONFIDENCE IN HERSELF !!!!!!



SAD!!!!!!!

Bally :D
Kelly :D
Anne :D
Katie :D
Hannah :)
Julie :D
Olga :)

Selima :sad:
Lucie :sad: :confused: :rolleyes:
Amanda :sad:

WOW Elena,Hannah,Julie,and Anne!!!!! :cool:

OMG HANNAH! :eek:
Didnt expect that!
Congrats to Anne, Bally, Julie and Katie

I can't believe Hannah beat Selima!:eek:

Well Done to her:D

Anne Vs Julie Good to see Julie win a match!

Elena won:D

Katie wins again:eek:

WELL DONE

Hannah (settled a couple of old scores there I think!)
Anne
Elena
Julie
Katie (the only qualifier through!)

COMMISERATIONS

Lucie
Jane
Amanda

omg Jane, how heartbreaking :sad:

selima.....just fucking retire damnit

Are you sure about Lubiani's score against Boulykina TBE? I have it as Lubiani winning 6-7, 6-3, 6-4 not 6-2, 6-4

Hoping for a Keothavong-Baltacha semifinal and a Keothavong-Collin quarterfinal!!!!

Sofia :bounce:

o didn't saw Petra lost :sad:

i got that score from BBC teletext, they might have changed it after :confused:

Well done Amanda, Raluca and Kelly! :kiss:

Bad luck Yvonne and Daniela! :sad:

Jane :( :sad:

common olga b
:D:D:D:D:D:D

Nice win Jana! :D Take some confidence out of this and get back into form!

Jana :eek: :eek:

The score between O´Brien - Russegger isnt correct for sure, Petra retired before the match :wavey:

Damn shame for Jane.

Big well done to Elena, Anne. Julie and for once especially Hannah :D

Sofia :)
Dragana :)

Jane :sad:

The score for O'Brian is obviously right they didn't just make up a score if she would have had a w/o !

If she had been out before the match a LL would have placed instead of her.

2nd rd:

Jana Nejedly (Can) bt Amanda Hopmans (Ned) 6-1 6-4
Sybille Bammer (Aut) bt Katie O'Brien (Gbr) 6-3 6-1 :sad:
Sofia Arvidsson (Swe) bt Francesca Lubiani (Ita) 6-1 6-3
Olga Barabanschikova (Blr) bt Angelika Bachmann (Ger) 6-4 6-0
Anne Keothavong (Gbr) bt Julie Pullin (Gbr) 1-6 7-6 (7-1) 6-3 :) :sad:
Dragana Zaric (Yug) bt Hannah Collin (Gbr) 7-6 (7-5) 6-3 :sad:

Olga :bounce: :D

Anne :)

Amanda :sad:
Hannah :sad:
Francesca :sad:

Well done Olga and Anne!! :)

Just hope Bally can win later on :)

Well Done Anne sounds like she got used to Julies slicing by the third set!:D

Stephanie Gehrlein (Ger) bt Kelly Liggan (Irl) 4-6 7-5 7-5 :sad:
Elena Baltacha (Gbr) bt Raluca Sandu (Rom) 6-4 1-6 7-6 (11-9) :)

OMG Bally 11-9!:eek:

What a fight!

Good luck against Barabanshikova!

Could be Anne Vs Bally the rematch?

Elena :)
poor Raluca :sad:

Olga will take her out ;)

Keep going Sofia, Anne, and Dragana!:D Too bad for Raluca!

Way to go Jana!!! Also well done Olga and Dragana! :D

YAY Elena & Anne :D

well done bally, not bad for someone with serious liver damage.

Its great to see Elena back in the flow of things. Also, its fantastic to see Anne keep winning. I so hope she breaks into the top 200 soon. Good luck for the rest of the tournament

Jana and Sofia :) ... keep it up

Olga and Elena :)

Julie :sad: ; Kelly :sad:

Olga :):)

great work bally, keep it up!

Poor Julie.

You dominated the first set so easily, lost a tiebreaker, and then the 3rd set.

Reminds me of Zvereva vs. Tauziat at Wimbledon 98.

I think Ballie or Keothavong will win!!! They are both young and are the most talented of all the players left!!!! The only reason why one of them doesn't always win these $25,000 Challengers is because of their inexperience!!!!

she's back she's back! . I love the score! 2 sets not more!

Bally!!!! :) :) :) :) :bounce: :bounce:

Any doubles results?

Good luck against Olga!!!!

Any news?

Go Anne and Bally

Sofia :)
Dragana :)
Olga :)

1st round doubles results

(1) Pullin/Webb GBR/CAN BYE
Ahl/Sfar GBR/TUN BYE

(3) Dekmeijere/Doyle LAT/IRL BYE
Lebescond/Ward Fra/GBR def Barabanschikova/Kalyuzhnaya BLR/ RUS 6-4, 6-4

Boulykina/Collin RUS/GBR def Nejedly/Sandu CAN/ROM 4-4 RET
(4) Klemenschits/Klemenschits AUT/AUT BYE

Hawkins/O'Donoghue GBR/GBR def Kix/Popadic AUT/CRO 6-4, 7-5
(2) Hopmans/Zaric NED/YUG BYE

Quarter-final result

Ahl/Sfar def (1) Pullin/Webb 6-1, 3-6, 6-2

:eek: Well done Selima! :D

QF results?

COME ON BALLY AND ANNE!

Sybille Bammer AUT - Jana Nejedly CAN 63 63 :hearts: :hearts:

wow Sybille ;)

Quarter final results

Bammer AUT def Nejedly CAN 6-3, 6-3

Arvidsson SWE def Gehrlein GER 6-3, 6-3

Barabanschikova BLR def Baltacha w/o

Keothavong GBR def Zaric 6-2, 6-3

Anne :)

Elena B :( hope its not too bad
go Olga all the way !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

elena has hurt her back (again)

may have to pull out of bolton unless she can get a tuesday start. Helen Crook has asked fro a tuesday start, but LTA hate her so probably wont get it.

National Champs...... its a waste having them in October, they were better off in November

Elena and the rest of the GB girls would be better off playing in some proper tournaments

Goo Sofia, Olga, and Anne!:D

Funny how well Sofia does in England.:o

They should have had nottingham next week, then 2 rest weeks (for pattaya and a couple of 50ks in the USA and France) then a 25k in Bolton then teh nats at the end of november.

then the top 4 can have a couple of weeks off b4 goign to oz for the new year. (top 3 if anne doesnt get high enough.)

It is stupid having it in the middle of the season!

It means the UK girls can't play Luxemburg where they would probably do quite well!

Sybille - she has moved up the rankings really nicely this year

Sofia :)

Why do the LTA hate Helen Crook?

Sofia :)
Olga :)

Dragana :sad:

They never seem to give her wildcards to anywhere!

Probably cos she does so much to promote womens tennis in the UK and goes against the LTA but i'm so behind her she does loads!

Arvidsson - Bammer 61 62 :( :)

Sofia :D :D good tournament Sybille :)

Any news on the other semi?

Well done, Sofia

Bam Bam, now go go and qualify at Linz

come on we need semis results!!! it is so long!!!

Barabanschikova d. Keothavong 6-1 6-1 :sad:

Anne :(

lol @ anne

Olga :D she's back!!!

Anne:o

Olga :bounce: :D

now win the title ;)

way to go Olga baby !!!!!!!

Doubles final

Amanda Hopmans (Netherlands) & Dragana Zaric (Yugoslavia) bt
Liga Demeijere (Latvia) & Yvonne Doyle (Ireland) 6-3 6-1 :sad:

interestingly, both doubles semis were decided on walkovers. Sfar pulling out to go play Luxembourg, and Boulykina (at least im presuming it was her) in the other half.

Take it, Sofia!:cool: Too bad for Anne!

Please Sofia I beg you to win. Good luck tomorrow :)

:bounce: :bounce: :bounce: OLGA!!!!!!!:bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

:kiss: :kiss: :kiss: :kiss:

Well done Olga and Sofia :)

Anne :fiery:
Oh well just keep going at Nationals!!!!! ;) :D

Did Anne play bad?!?!? I mean Olga's good but 6-1, 6-1!!!!!!!

Way to go Olga! :bounce:

Get well soon Elena

Yay Amanda, at least you can still play doubles! ;)

she is back she is back! she did not lose a sets yet and she will not lose anymore set this week! Hard work finally paid for this queen of courts from Belarus!!!

Come on Olga!!! :)

Olga :)
Sofia :)

Go Sofia!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

FINAL
Sofia Arvidsson (SWE)(8) beat Olga Barabanschikova (BLR) 6-2, 1-6, 6-4 :sad: :( :mad:

Doubles
Amanda Hopmans (NED)(2) & Dragana Zaric (YUG)(2)
beat Liga Dekmeijere (LAT)(3) & Yvonne Doyle (IRL)(3) 6-2, 6-1

Great win Sofia against the pin-up wannabe !!!

Sofia :bounce: :bounce:

:bounce: Congrats Sofia!!!

damn Olga :( She was so close... Anyway we don't care about ITF events, go for the big tournament now!!!

Olga :sad: :sad: :sad:

Olga :sad:

Well, at least she got to the final.
Next time, win! :)

Sofia :D :D

Olga :(

Originally posted by paul_masterton
lol @ anne

Why doesn't Paul like Anne?

Well done Sofia :)