Entries Week 18 - 29/04/2013

seagull · Hall of fame

Entries Week 18 - 29/04/2013

seagull · Hall of fame

Points Defences Week 18

Mens Singles

18 - Golding
10 - Fitzpatrick
6 - Bloomfield
2 - Broady, Short, Martin
1 - Bevan, Farquharson, Feaver, Willis, Pauffley

Mens Doubles

45 - Murray, Inglot, Marrray
10 - Oakley, Short
6 - Fitzpatrick, Willis, Broady, Golding

Womans Singles

46 - Watson
12 - Windley
8 - Broady
6 - Whybourn, Carreras
4 - Brown, Dart
1 - Fitzpatrick, Beddow, Baltacha, Ren, George, Konotopseva

Count Zero · Tennis legend

wonder why Ward isn't going to Tallahassee.

The Magician Santoro · Top national player

Still no EVO

Jaggy1876 · Grand Slam Champion

No Goodall either 2 weeks in a row

RJA · Hall of fame

The Magician Santoro wrote:
Still no EVO

It wouldn't really surprise me if he doesn't play again until the first Nottingham Challenger at the very start of June. For whatever reason he seems extremely reluctant to travel and there are only clay court events in the UK over the next few weeks. Then again it wouldn't surprise me if he turns up at Bournmouth and/or Edinburgh in qualies or with a wild card.

The Magician Santoro · Top national player

Count Zero wrote:
wonder why Ward isn't going to Tallahassee.

He's going to China the next week to play in the super challenger and presumably Korea the week after, not sure if this means he's going to bother with RG qualies or not.

korriban · Challenger level

Am I right in saying that Dan Evans hasn't formally applied to enter a professional tournament since week 5 in January!!!

His 3 most recent GB Futures were QWC, QWC, WC and that took him to Mid March (which is a waste of his annual WC allowance and probably annoying for other players in qualifying). Nothing until at least week 19, which is w/c 6th May, including the first 2 GB clay Futures (surely he wouldn't further waste his WC allowance on these).

Remember he wasn't actually part of the DC set-up until the very last moment, so that doesn't provide any explanation.

I know he's a bit of a maverick, but how does a professional tennis player climb the rankings without entering professional tennis tournaments? If there's nothing booked in for week 19, that takes us to mid May and at that point I would wonder whether he's even going to bother before the grass-court season. Now I believe James W is probably missing RG qualies in favour of a couple of big hard court CHs in Asia - please let's hope his DC buddy is on the plane with him.

Sorry - I missed the above post making a similar point about Dan - please forgive me.

-- Edited by korriban on Wednesday 17th of April 2013 08:39:08 AM

RJA · Hall of fame

korriban wrote:
Am I right in saying that Dan Evans hasn't formally applied to enter a professional tournament since week 5 in January!!!
His 3 most recent GB Futures were QWC, QWC, WC and that took him to Mid March (which is a waste of his annual WC allowance and probably annoying for other players in qualifying). Nothing until at least week 19, which is w/c 6th May, including the first 2 GB clay Futures (surely he wouldn't further waste his WC allowance on these).
Remember he wasn't actually part of the DC set-up until the very last moment, so that doesn't provide any explanation.
I know he's a bit of a maverick, but how does a professional tennis player climb the rankings without entering professional tennis tournaments? If there's nothing booked in for week 19, that takes us to mid May and at that point I would wonder whether he's even going to bother before the grass-court season. Now I believe James W is probably missing RG qualies in favour of a couple of big hard court CHs in Asia - please let's hope his DC buddy is on the plane with him.
Sorry - I missed the above post making a similar point about Dan - please forgive me.

Dan hasn't entered the Chinese challenger that was referred to above, or any other challengers in week 19. Futures entries for that week don't come out until tomorrow afternoon.

Miriambee · Futures level

Trouble with Dan is he needs the DC to run every week!

Count Zero · Tennis legend

is there something that could stop you travelling overseas? perhaps that we are not aware of?

korriban · Challenger level

Thanks RJA. Just spotted that myself and was, once again, disappointed. There are limits for QWCs and WCs (think its 5 and 3), so I'd be surprised if Dan wasted any of these on clay Futures. I'm presuming he is nailed on for a Wimbledon WC and one of Queen's/Eastbourne. Which leaves 2 Challengers and/or the other remaining ATP event for his QWCs.

RJA · Hall of fame

korriban wrote:
Thanks RJA. Just spotted that myself and was, once again, disappointed. There are limits for QWCs and WCs (think its 5 and 3), so I'd be surprised if Dan wasted any of these on clay Futures. I'm presuming he is nailed on for a Wimbledon WC and one of Queen's/Eastbourne. Which leaves 2 Challengers and/or the other remaining ATP event for his QWCs.

He didn't actually get a QWC for Shrewsbury. They didn't have a full 48 man draw so he just signed into qualifying as a late entry.

RJA · Hall of fame

Count Zero wrote:
is there something that could stop you travelling overseas? perhaps that we are not aware of?

I don't know but last September, after winning the Nottingham futures, he said that if he got his ranking high enough he would go to Australia this January.

Maybe he is so hopeless in love with his girlfriend that he can't bare to go more than a few days without seeing her wink

Reeltime · Satellite level

Edinburgh outdoor in April. Makes me laugh every time!