How much is it to enter futures qualifying these days? It just seems like the tournaments are losing out on income and also denying many willing players entry by making it just a 32 qualifying draw. Would surely be a win win for everyone if they increase the size.

It just seems ridiculous when players with ITF rankings cant even get into the draw. After Freddie Riddouts entry as an alternate there are TWENTY players below him with ITF rankings that have not made it into the draw, not to mention a further SEVENTY THREE without any sort of ranking.

Even EIGHT players with ATP rankings were in the alternates here, so turned up at sign in not guaranteed to get into the tournament.

It seems like the only three ways to start a career these days is to get in as a JE, get a WC or a qWC or fly to somewhere like Tunisia where the draws are bigger. Only the latter option is available to everyone.

The smaller qualifying draws are not helped by the fact through no good reason the tournaments have to start on Sunday now, where as before they could start as early as Friday in some places.

All of this just seems to be lasting impacts from the Transition Tour. The panel that gave recommendations on how to shape the Transition Tour said they needed the these changes to a smaller qualifying draw which starts later to a) decrease overlap of events which will reduce match fixing - which makes no sense as no one would throw a semi final in order to make qualifying of the next tournament - and b) to increase rest time for players - which again I dont see how condensing a tournament increases rest time.

I get that if you were running a combined event with two 64 qualifying draws you would need a lot of courts in order to get through 32 mens and 32 womens matches - so in that case you might need to run the tournaments at two venues which would increase costs, but actually to be frank would you actually fill out a 64 draw for the women?

If they put the finals on a Sunday you could run a 8 day tournament but I suppose rain could be a bit of a killer if its on the first day of qualifying. Would just help if the ITF let you start on a Saturday.

A good point, although I do think that would still exclude a lot of players still if its a 32 qualifying draw.

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FQR:  (q2) Pierre Delage (FRA) WR 969 vs (q15) Matthew Summers WR 1535

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QR1:  (q10) Toby Martin WR 1286 defeated Nicholas Jovanovski (AUS) UNR by 4 & 3

QR1:  (q4) Alexander Klintcharov (NZL) WR 1140 defeated David Quayle WR 1670 by 3 & 3
QR1:  (q11) Finn Bass WR 1326 defeated Brandon Murphy WR 1988 by 3 & 2

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FQR:  (q4) Alexander Klintcharov (NZL) WR 1140 vs (q11) Finn Bass WR 1326

Things seem to have got moved around a bit 

QR1: (ALT) Freddie Ridout UNR vs (q14) Ali Habib WR 1458 (CH = 1406 in June)

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FQR:  (q2) Pierre Delage (FRA) WR 969 vs (q15) Matthew Summers WR 1535

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QR1:  (q11) Finn Bass WR 1326 defeated Brandon Murphy WR 1988 by 3 & 2

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FQR:  (q4) Alexander Klintcharov (NZL) WR 1140 vs (q11) Finn Bass WR 1326

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QR1:  (q17) Ewan Moore WR 1578 defeated Finn Murgett WR 1761 by 3-6 7-5 [10-4]

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FQR:  (q17) Ewan Moore WR 1578 vs (q10) Toby Martin WR 1286

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QR1:  (q8) Emile Hudd WR 1255 defeated Yujiro Onuma WR 1855 by 0 & 0