ENTRIES WEEK 11 - 14/03/2011

philwrig · Hall of fame

RE: ENTRIES WEEK 11 - 14/03/2011

RBBOT · Futures qualifying

Women's wild cards for Bath are on the ITF site - men's aren't there yet:

WCM WALKER, Alexandra
WCM BORTHWICK, Daneika
WCM CLARKE, Yasmin
WCM HORN, Pippa

WCQ HENDERSON, Joanna
WCQ STARLING, Natasha
WCQ DREW, Jazzamay
WCQ WILLIAM, Tiffany

Good to see Pippa Horn in a women's draw - she won her first round match on the British Tour in Sutton today in her 2nd event back after injury.

SMC1809 · All-time great

Qualifying draw out for Bath (mens). Hopefully Alex Ward has made the main draw as Raditschnigg is top seed.

indiana · Tennis legend

A very interesting men's list for Bath with 9 of the 13 top Brits, well 9 of the next 11 after Muzza and James. A mix of the older and the younger with maybe some points to prove.

SMC1809 · All-time great

I wouldn't be surprised if the loser of that one qualifying match gets in as a LL.

steven · Tennis legend

SMC1809 wrote:

I wouldn't be surprised if the loser of that one qualifying match gets in as a LL.

LOL yes, nor would I! I'm not absolutely sure whether the players who qualify without playing any matches get the 5 points for qualifying, but I assume they do. The ATP rules say that you don't get QR2 points, if they're on offer, if you lose in QR2 after having a bye in QR1, but (perhaps not surprisingly) they don't seem to have considered the possibility of players qualifying for a Challenger without playing a match.

indiana · Tennis legend

My money's on these guys that qualify without being drawn to play a single opponent do not get qualifying points.

They've effectively simply got byes into the tournament so nae !

steven · Tennis legend

indiana wrote:

My money's on these guys that qualify without being drawn to play a single opponent do not get qualifying points.

They've effectively simply got byes into the tournament so nae !

I'll try and remember to check it out when the rankings come out on Monday week so that we know for future reference.

steven · Tennis legend

Weird Challengers of week 11 - part 2:

The Guadeloupe super-Challenger (which must be a replacement for Sunrise) had nobody in qualifying at all and 8 byes in R1 of the main draw ... and it's a 100K!

Not necessarily easy points though, since all 8 seeds are in the top 100 and the last DA was WR 356 - which makes me wonder if this event was always intended to be a 24-draw without qualifying in the first place.

Meanwhile, back in Costa Rica, SMC1809 was spot on - the player who lost in qualifying did get a LL place. However,they have ended up with a full 32-player main draw including 3 top 100 players and the last DA was WR 332, so it's not that weak after all, just a case of players thinking (mistakenly as it turned out) that it wasn't worth the trip just to play in qualifying.

-- Edited by steven on Sunday 13th of March 2011 01:25:46 PM