Weak tournament entry lists

Madadman · Masters Series Champion

Weak tournament entry lists

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Wow - shame there isnt a Brit taking advantage

Grachka · County player

Good that they are trying to branch out to countries that don't have a history of watching/playing tennis, but can't help that there are Foreign Office warnings across chunks of Congo...I imagine that the safety warnings put off a lot of players (never mind the cost of getting there).

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

It would probably help if there was another event in the same region/continent the following or previous week. Would surely act as an incentive to play for some?

Madadman · Masters Series Champion

Still no Brits but the qualifying entry is out. Looks like some players have seen the weak entry and decided to make the trip now. The top 11 players in qualifying would have displaced the bottom 11 in the main draw had they entered.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Still no Brits sadly

Madadman · Masters Series Champion

Just checking on the list for Brazzaville next week. All the alts into the main draw. The qualifying draw list is currently at 8, so currently 12 Alt spots then 4 WCs. Youd get a ranking point for winning 1st round of qualifying. I think you see some stronger M15s than this!

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

The Brazzaville qualies list seems to have ended with 9 players - 5 unranked. 6 get through to main draw so some players will get lucky

www.dartsrankings.com/tennis/brazzaville&;

the addict · Tennis legend

JonH comes home wrote:
The Brazzaville qualies list seems to have ended with 9 players - 5 unranked. 6 get through to main draw so some players will get lucky

www.dartsrankings.com/tennis/brazzaville&;

The three wildcards all lost in the only three qualifying matches.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

the addict wrote:
JonH comes home wrote:
The Brazzaville qualies list seems to have ended with 9 players - 5 unranked. 6 get through to main draw so some players will get lucky

www.dartsrankings.com/tennis/brazzaville&;
The three wildcards all lost in the only three qualifying matches.

and 3 players got through without playing! And 3 doubles round one byes as well.

And seems there was just one Congolese player in qualies as a wildcard, who lost 1 and 1. The 1 wildcard in the main draw is American

What actually was the point of this event ?!

Madadman · Masters Series Champion

There were two M25 in Brazzaville in the summer which had better numbers than this. I wonder if its a because its one event on its own and a bit out of the way to the rest of the tour. Or if the conditions at the M25 events were not very good and word got around.

Var · Satellite level

Even on the womens tour, some of the entry lists on the WTA 500 events towards the end of the year have been a gift, and Katie has taken full advantage.