Entries Week 37 - 09/09/2013

seagull · Hall of fame

Entries Week 37 - 09/09/2013

seagull · Hall of fame

Points Defences Week 37

Mens Singles

18 - Evans
10 - Milton
8 - Goodall
6 - Marsalek, Short, Burton
4 - Corrie
2 - Ireland
1 - Bugby, Jones J, Jhun, Aswat, Burn, Hudson, Carpenter, Slabinsky

Mens Doubles

55 - Murray
33 - Goodall
17 - Baker, Rice, Thornley
10 - Morgan
6 - Bugby, Fitzpatrick, Walsh, Burn, Evans

Womans Singles

14 - Moore
1 - South, Webley-Smith, Beddow

korriban · Challenger level

Still baffled by Ed Corrie's tournament choices. Having had no joy on the clay whatsoever, but already with a QF at Challenger level on hard court to his name in recent weeks - he continues to focus on clay tournaments.

He has just lost again in his Como first round qualifying match. Then in both weeks 36 and 37 he's also down for clay court Challengers, even though there are 2 hard court tournaments in Europe (St Remy the Istanbul) which have more prize money and other similarly ranked Brits will be there in situ having a go in qualifying.

I don't understand.

RJA · Hall of fame

Roehampton could have a record number of British players. At most there will be just 2 DAs who are not British.

seagull · Hall of fame

Ed Corrie pulled out of Seville list so assume he is at Roehampton with WC or is qualifying again

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

And of course, Oli has tweeted that he is off to Bosnia for the Challenger there, I presume.

steven · Tennis legend

Oli is not in the qualifying draw in Banja Luka - presumably his "serious low point right now #feelingbaaad" earlier today might explain it.

I wonder if he got the stomach bug Kyle went down with (assuming it was a bug rather than food poisoning as someone here suggested)

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Jamie Delgado is also in Istanbul for the doubles (complaining about all the noisy weddings - can't sleep !)

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

And the Quali draw is out in Kyoto where Robyn Beddow was the first Alt - no sign on her in Q so she must have made the main draw. . . .

johnnylad · Tennis legend

what level tournament is Kyoto?

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

johnnylad wrote:
what level tournament is Kyoto?

Only a 10K - nothing too grand !

steven · Tennis legend

Coup Droit wrote:
And the Quali draw is out in Kyoto where Robyn Beddow was the first Alt - no sign on her in Q so she must have made the main draw. . . .

... assuming she turned up. She's going to lose her ranking on 16 Sep, but a R1 win here would get it back a week later.

There are some ridiculously weak 10Ks next week, including one on Lesbos (Mytilini) which is only a couple of withdrawals away from having to give a main draw seeding to an unranked player - fortunately, one Brit (Laura Deigman) should be there trying to take full advantage. This does seem crazy in Europe in a week where there aren't that many tournaments on offer, but after a few weeks with lots of tournaments on offer, which any player with any sense wouldn't want to miss out on (although sadly lots of the top 25 Brits did miss out), maybe lots of players decided this would be the week to take a break.

huntley93 · Strong Club Player

the one in algeria has 9 unranked players in the main draw wtf?

steven · Tennis legend

Yes, Algeria is the other ridiculously weak one.

However, a correction to what I said earlier about there being not that many tournaments on offer - I was mixing up the number of men's and women's ITFs next week - there ARE lots of women's ITFs (more than in previous weeks) so lots of weak entry lists does make sense. I just wish more of the GB women were having a go - there are so many of them who seem to serially enter lots of tournaments every week only to withdraw from all of them

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Just spent 15 mins looking through them and, goodness, it's almost like taking sweets off a baby - they're practically GIVING the points away.

The Greek and Algerian 10k tournaments have no qualy round. The MDs are very weak.

Even the 25k in France this week has only 15 players in the Qualifying round - three ranked (over 1000), 12 unranked.

Compare that to the Shrewsbury 25k - a full 26 qualy list, starting at WR 313 and going to 1000.

Why wouldn't the girls just go over to France ? (Not to mention getting a cheap flight to Greece or Algeria or wherever).

I don't know what their individual programmes are but there are good point-scoring tournaments out there and they don't seem to be wanting to try and take advantage.

Just as an example, there was a very good newspaper article about Lucy Brown a few months back (posted here). She set out a good view of the rest of the year, including her goals of getting into the top 500, then the top 350 (can't remember exactly but quite ambitious). Well, I know that you've got to do training blocks but you can't get into the top 350 unless you play some tournaments ! And cheap points would be a good start.

PS trying to be 'Pollyanna', maybe it means that some of the other women will get artificially high rankings and that our women will beat them when they get drawn against them later.