British Tennis Forum - Celebrating 20 Years!

indiana wrote:

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JonH comes home wrote:

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indiana wrote:

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I'm much more a singles rather than a doubles follower and find Lloyd a rather strange character.

But such has been their achievements this month I have gone for Cash & Glasspool

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 Thanks Indy - I was actually interested to see where you would go with this, per above comments. 

You'll also see 9vicman raised a point you have made before about keeping the slam qualies and main draw together so people can assess the full body of work at a slam for a given player. 

Reflecting, I agree - I think you had that view as well. It is too late now for this year, but for next year (FO, W and USO events) I will separate out qualies from the other events taking part in the pre slam week and align it with the main draw events - wrt to the US Open Mixed, I will take a view on that nearer the time!!

Further reflecting on my comments from last night re the slam qualies, it also would align them with all the other qualies across the season which are kept together with their respective main events. 

Living and learning as we go!! 

 

 

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 Actually I'd be surprised if I had made that point before because I can't recall at any time being unhappy with Grand Slam qualies being separate from MDs to keep the month lengths relatively even, and qualies ( much more of a thing than in other events ) and MD being distinctive enough to possibly deal with.

However, I have no real problems either if you want to change course in future.

-- Edited by indiana on Tuesday 26th of August 2025 08:16:53 AM

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 Im not doing so good in the memory stakes today, haha. 

Anyway, a good 9 months to dwell on it until France next year and seeing the dates when published may also help me determine best way forwards.