Entry Week 8 - 17/02/2025

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

RE: Entry Week 8 - 17/02/2025

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

And great re Dan !

Lambda · ATP qualifying

JonH comes home wrote:

paulisi wrote:
Dan Evans is playing Glasgow challenger.
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Just some of the big names coming to next week's ATP Lexus Glasgow Challenger

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Dan Evans | Henry Searle | Scott Duncan | Clement Chidekh

-- Edited by paulisi on Friday 14th of February 2025 06:00:10 PM
Scott Duncan / big name ?! Presumably doubles?!

Who's playing?
GB Davis Cup star and former top 25 player Dan Evans has accepted a wildcard into the main draw, as have Wimbledon boys champion Henry Searle and Merchiston Castle alumni Johannus Monday.

2024 champion Clement Chidekh is back in Glasgow alongside French compatriot Constant Lestienne.

Last year's doubles champion Scott Duncan returns to home soil to defend his title, partnering Tim Ruehl.

paulisi · Tennis legend

Quite a few late withdrawals at Manchester mean some of our lesser ranked ladies made it into qualifying either directly or via a wildcard.
Nice to see Angelica Blake playing.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

There's some dreadfully skinny quali draws around

Obviously players are stretched pretty thin

The W75 in Prague (Czechia being a powerhouse of women's tennis????) has a lot of byes in the quali draw - and there are direct entries who are barely top-1000 players

Manchester is actually a fair bit stronger....

the addict · Tennis legend

Coup Droit wrote:
There's some dreadfully skinny quali draws around

Obviously players are stretched pretty thin

The W75 in Prague (Czechia being a powerhouse of women's tennis????) has a lot of byes in the quali draw - and there are direct entries who are barely top-1000 players

Manchester is actually a fair bit stronger....

Although Prague is stated as a 32 qualifying draw there are actually 8 byes so probably was intended to be a 24 draw. The last qualifying entry on the acceptance list was WR424 (I haven't checked the actual draw yet as it's time to eat !) Must have been a lot of late withdrawals.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

I think a lot of players don't even withdraw - they just don't turn up

There's certainly players who are direct entries into qualis who are WR 938 and WR 963, down at #26 and #27 on the ALT list

Lambda · ATP qualifying

If they don't withdraw they are automatically placed in the draw. Not turning up without withdrawing will result in giving a walkover. All the players in the Prague qualifying acceptance list that didn't take the 5 vacancies in the main draw are in qualifying with the exception of Laura Samson who's an obvious candidate for a main draw wild card.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Lambda wrote:
If they don't withdraw they are automatically placed in the draw. Not turning up without withdrawing will result in giving a walkover. All the players in the Prague qualifying acceptance list that didn't take the 5 vacancies in the main draw are in qualifying with the exception of Laura Samson who's an obvious candidate for a main draw wild card.

But Freya and Eden (and others) are still on the acceptance list on the ITF site I'm looking at

They're not listed as withdrawn

They're not in the draw, giving a walkover

They obviously (?) haven't got MD wildcards

And yet there are players below them that are into qualis as of right so they obviously have the ranking to get in

wolf · Tennis legend

They are not in the qualifying list though, just the alternates list. Basically not enough alternates turned up on the off chance they might get in hence the unused spaces in the draw.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

wolf wrote:
They are not in the qualifying list though, just the alternates list. Basically not enough alternates turned up on the off chance they might get in hence the unused spaces in the draw.

Thanks, Wolf smile

Yes, that's what I meant (and explained badly) - they'd put themselves on the list, signed up for it, NOT withdrawn and just not turned up, even though they would have got in fine - hence the really low level that ended up in the qualis draw

-- Edited by Coup Droit on Sunday 16th of February 2025 08:19:51 AM