Week 2 - Futures F1 (15k) - Glasgow, GBR

Drew · Jan 8, 2009

Week 2 - Futures F1 (15k) - Glasgow, GBR

Sheddie · administrator

RE: Week 3 - Futures F1 (15k) - Glasgow, GBR

Drew · Jan 8, 2009

I have been accepted as media for next week representing bt.net.

Hope to go Sunday, Tuesday and finals day.

freerider · Futures level

week 2 not 3

Drew · Jan 8, 2009

RE: Week 2 - Futures F1 (15k) - Glasgow, GBR

mjd · Challenger qualifying

No don't lie down read this - it's easy biggrin

The ISO week date system is a leap week calendar system that is part of the ISO 8601 date and time standard. The system is used (mainly) in government and business for fiscal years, as well as in timekeeping.

The system uses the same cycle of 7 weekdays as the Gregorian calendar. Weeks start with Monday. ISO week-numbering years have a year numbering which is approximately the same as the Gregorian years, but not exactly (see below). An ISO week-numbering year has 52 or 53 full weeks (364 or 371 days). The extra week is here called a leap week (ISO 8601 does not use the term).

A date is specified by the ISO week-numbering year in the format YYYY, a week number in the format ww prefixed by the letter W, and the weekday number, a digit d from 1 through 7, beginning with Monday and ending with Sunday. For example, 2006-W52-7 (or in compact form 2006W527) is the Sunday of the 52nd week of 2006. In the Gregorian system this day is called 31 December 2006.

The system has a 400-year cycle of 146,097 days (20,871 weeks), with an average year length of exactly 365.2425 days, just like the Gregorian calendar. In every 400 years there are 71 years with 53 weeks.

The first week of a year is the week that contains the first Thursday of a year.

From Wiki.

And I agree that this seems like a week 3 event NOT week 2

Perhaps next year the ATP will exert their power and double all week numbers so this would then be week 4 !

-- Edited by mjd at 18:28, 2009-01-08

steven · Tennis legend

I agree that technically this is week 3 not week 2, but the ATP/ITF clearly consider it to be week 2 in tennis terms, because their 2009 calendar starts with Doha and the 29 Dec-4 Jan Future was designated Brazil F35 not Brazil F1.

In addition, MTF are treating the week we're in now as week 1 in their Challengers and Futures sections and given that we get our Challenger entry lists from there (or at least I do because I don't know of another source), I think calling Glasgow a week 2 tournament is the best way to avoid confusion.

Things will be back in sync next year, because 1 Jan will be a Friday and I assume Doha will start on the 4th. That's if the ATP hasn't imploded by then and can still find tournament sponsors - rumour has it that 6 tournaments including Indian Wells still don't have sponsors this year.

Fitzy · Intermediate Club Player

The wild cards are posted up every friday before the tournament, on the lta website.

Hope all is well with everyone, and you have a good year. :)

Drew · Jan 9, 2009

Happy new year Fitzy....r u getting a WC ?

mjd · Challenger qualifying

Just reading through the ITF change of rules for 2009 I found this quite significant change

"Freeze DeadlineThe Freeze Deadline is on the Thursday preceding the tournament week at 14:00 hrs GMT. A player who is moved into a Main Draw or Qualifying acceptance list by the Freeze Deadline is committed to play the tournament.

After the Freeze Deadline players on the Qualifying acceptance list will no longer be moved into the Main Draw, and players on one or more Alternate Lists will no longer be moved into the Qualifying acceptance list.

Such Alternates are not committed to play the tournament.

Players on the Qualifying acceptance list can preserve their eligibility for known Main Draw positions following withdrawals after the Freeze Deadline by personally contacting the ITF Supervisor on-site prior to the Qualifying Sign-in Deadline."

-- Edited by mjd at 20:53, 2009-01-09

Shhh · Challenger level

Fitzy wrote:

The wild cards are posted up every friday before the tournament, on the lta website.

Hope all is well with everyone, and you have a good year. :)

Good luck for the year Fitzy. Are you sure the Wild Cards are posted on the LTA site (they dont tend to tell us anything as a rule!) as I cannot see them anywhere on there?

steven · Tennis legend

Qualifying draw out (earlier than expected) ...

QR1: Scott Nicholls UNR v Joe Young (USA) UNR
QR1: Niall Angus UNR v Gregory Chambaz (SUI) WR 1867
QR1: Jordan McCulloch UNR v Oliver Evans UNR
QR1: Orion Modeba UNR v Anton Manegin (RUS) UNR

QR2: Richard Gabb UNR v (q1) Scott Oudsema (USA) WR 649
QR2: (q12) Kyle Brassington WR 1138 v Thomas Knights UNR
QR2: Mathew James UNR v Olivier Charroin (FRA) WR 662
QR2: (q15) Andrew Fitzpatrick WR 1270 v Nicholls or Young
QR2: (q3) Matt Illingworth WR 708 v Jakub Piter (POL) UNR
QR2: Angus or Chambaz v (q13) Barry King (IRL) WR 1200
QR2: Nick Jones UNR v (q4) Colin O'Brien (IRL) WR 714
QR2: (q9) Dan Smethurst WR 974 v Harri Heliovaara (FIN) UNR
QR2: (q5) Josh Milton WR 746 v Joseph Gill UNR
QR2: (q11) Timothy Bradshaw WR 1125 v McCulloch or Evans
QR2: Michael Ward UNR v (q6) Rudy Coco (FRA) WR 798 (other match in section all-American)
QR2: (q7) Dan Cox WR 831 v Bart van Monsjou (NED) UNR
QR2: (q14) Nick Cavaday WR 1200 v Modebe or Manegin
QR2: (q8) Marcus Willis WR 963 v David O'Leary UNR
QR2: Alexander Bull UNR v (q10) Baptiste Bayet (FRA) WR 1033

-- Edited by steven at 20:23, 2009-01-10

steven · Tennis legend

I don't know if any of the main draw WCs would be based on the British Tour results this week or whether they would influence future WCs, but those on the Alt list not in qualifying are:

- Skupski (reached British Tour Final, but might have scraped a DA anyway)
- Fleming (a very obvious candidate for a WC for at least two reasons if he didn't get a DA)
- Arlidge (wouldn't surprise me if he's got a WC if he's not in qualifying)

After that, Neil Pauffley and Tom Farquharson are the only Brits who made the original qualifying cut who aren't playing in qualifying, while if they did take into account the British Tour, then maybe Max Jones (who won it) has got one. (both of the semi-finalists are in qualifying)

-- Edited by steven at 20:52, 2009-01-10

freerider · Futures level

aleex withdraw was tom farq in q cut

JT · Junior player

Full qualifying draw is out on the LTA website: http://www.lta.org.uk/Global/Downloads/Results/2009/AEGON%20Pro%20Series/Glasgow%20JAN/Mens%20singles%20qualifying.pdf.

Seems to be a lot of byes, surely more british players sould be competing as it's the start of the year?

Order of play is out too: http://www.lta.org.uk/Global/Downloads/Results/2009/AEGON%20Pro%20Series/Glasgow%20JAN/Order%20of%20play.pdf