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seagull · Tennis legend

Entry Week 3 - 19/01/2026

seagull · Tennis legend

No Points Update this week

Sheddie · administrator

Where's Toby Samuel so far in 2026?

seagull · Tennis legend

Toby was playing deep into November so maybe he is starting the year a little later

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

seagull wrote:
Toby was playing deep into November so maybe he is starting the year a little later

LTR shows him as playing Manama challenger in Babrain in the second week of the Aussie Open

Var · Futures level

Hev drops out of AO qualifying so assume Mimi is in now?

-- Edited by Var on Friday 2nd of January 2026 12:24:17 PM

Lambda · Top national player

Var wrote:
Hev drops out of AO qualifying so assume Mimi is in now?

-- Edited by Var on Friday 2nd of January 2026 12:24:17 PM

Heather was never entered. She's ranked below Mimi.

Var · Futures level

Lambda wrote:
Var wrote:

Hev drops out of AO qualifying so assume Mimi is in now?

-- Edited by Var on Friday 2nd of January 2026 12:24:17 PM
Heather was never entered. She's ranked below Mimi.

Oh dear! Moi getting too excited! Lol

the addict · Tennis legend

Var wrote:
Lambda wrote:
Var wrote:

Hev drops out of AO qualifying so assume Mimi is in now?

-- Edited by Var on Friday 2nd of January 2026 12:24:17 PM
Heather was never entered. She's ranked below Mimi.
Oh dear! Moi getting too excited! Lol

Hev not expecting to play anywhere until late February

stevemcqueen · Futures level

I was also wondering about Toby. I had speculated that he'd appear in Nottingham and Glasgow after nearly 5 weeks of no tournaments as he'd probably want to continue his excellent run of form. I'm sure he is surrounded by top level coaches and physios and will take the correct advice. It was a very, very big end of the year for him, he will need some down time too. His last two events were in Egypt and Bahrain. He won both of these without breaking too much of a sweat. Returning to the exact same locations has plenty of logic. HHe might not make the cut for Manama as it is a 125 event, but it is hard to imagine him not being offfered a wild card.

Toby's first five months of 2025 gave us nothing to get excited about. He won 3 matches and lost 9, with most of these being futures events. He won only 4 ranking points until the Moldova at the end of May. A casual observer such as myself would say that he was out of his depth playing challengers. He entered the Moldova challenger ranked 1350. In the second half of the year, he won 200 points. Fabulous! But why the turnaround in form, does anyone have any insight?

emmsie69 · Masters Series Champion

Wasn't he out injured for a while, Liam struggled too for the 1st few months after injury.

Lambda · Top national player

Toby was a top 10 college player (by ranking) so clearly has the ability. I suspect he struggled to adapt to playing on the pro tour at the beginning of the year.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Lambda wrote:
Toby was a top 10 college player (by ranking) so clearly has the ability. I suspect he struggled to adapt to playing on the pro tour at the beginning of the year.

Toby had a great 2023 and won a number of titles including a couple of M25. A number of people picked him out for a real rise in 2024 but then he suffered various injuries and illnesses and missed the whole of 2024 and he literally dropped from sight for a whole year.

2025 he came back and has started rising and really made an impression. Not so much it is adapting as he has really re started his pro career and risen rapidly, and has now got to a level where he is really competing at challenger events and hopefully beyond.

seagull · Tennis legend

Updated with withdrawals

indiana · Tennis legend

Katy Dunne has withdrawn from the Tunisia W50