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As an aside there was a famous story a few years back, maybe In the 90's when an American player played Wimbledon qualies and Bristol ATP in same week. I think he qualified at Wimbledon and reached semis in Bristol, Matt Davis I think. He went back and forth each day on the m4. Papers were full of it at the time. Presumably couldn't happen these days and could only happen in GB as we are a small country

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Tennis Explorer has laura's match for 4.30.



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Laura has obviously asked for as late a match as possible at Birmingham and the organisers have agreed.
I'm certain the doubles final at Nottingham will be pre- scheduled, so if Laura does win her singles, she will need some help from the organisers.

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Miriambee wrote:

Tennis Explorer has laura's match for 4.30.

 11am start - say 75 mins per match and 15 mins in between, Laura should start at the earliest at 3.30. if one of the matches goes to 3 sets, that is realistic.



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paulisi wrote:

Laura has obviously asked for as late a match as possible at Birmingham and the organisers have agreed.
I'm certain the doubles final at Nottingham will be pre- scheduled, so if Laura does win her singles, she will need some help from the organisers.

According to Stu Fraser on twitter the tournament director said Laura can't play Birmingham if she's still in Nottingham e.g. if she wins today she's out.



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Not quite as good as the Bristol one above but I remember Tsonga winning Surbiton and qualifying for queens in the same weekend.

He played the first qualifying round at queens on saturday morning then went to Surbiton and won his semi, then went back to queens to win his second qualifying round match all on the saturday.

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Laura possibly playing 2 tournaments in one day made me wonder- are Nottingham and Birmingham the closest 2 tournaments in the main tour worldwide on consecutive weeks? Queens and Wimbledon are closer but no longer consecutive.

 

Nor were they previously consecutive, says Mr Pedant. Before the calendar change, Queen's took place in the first week of the two weeks between R-G and Wimbledon. Always been a week's gap as long as I can remember.

I'm not aware of any tour consecutive weeks closer than Nottingham and Brum.



-- Edited by indiana on Saturday 17th of June 2017 09:40:34 AM

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Is it just me or is there no live scores for Birmingham on the app?

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1st qualifying matches have started. live scoring here

https://www.lta.org.uk/major-events/aegon-classic-birmingham/

 

as ATP haven't got B'ham up on their live scoring system (yet).

Emily lost 1st game, Sam( Murray) broke Min to win 1st game.

It's going to be sweltering hot in B'ham today, upper 20s almost certainly, and forecast says to be like this all week.

I shall only go if it cools down, but doesn't rain, so not very fussy you see.



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It's close, but this year there is a closer instance than Nottingham to Birmingham on the WTA:

For events held in consecutive weeks - WTA - Distances by road (shortest standard route)

  1. Koto to Tokyo - 7.0 miles
  2. Nottingham to Birmingham - 51.1 miles
  3. Beijing to Tianjin - 70.9 miles
  4. New Haven to Flushing Meadows - 71.5 miles

If you count Fed Cup, it gets complicated. No idea about the ATP.
That includes all WTA, GS, ans $125K's based on my rough idea of were they were, and looking up the exact details for likely candidate pairings.



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blob wrote:

It's close, but this year there is a closer instance than Nottingham to Birmingham on the WTA:

For events held in consecutive weeks - WTA - Distances by road (shortest standard route)

  1. Koto to Tokyo - 7.0 miles
  2. Nottingham to Birmingham - 51.1 miles
  3. Beijing to Tianjin - 70.9 miles
  4. New Haven to Flushing Meadows - 71.5 miles

If you count Fed Cup, it gets complicated. No idea about the ATP.
That includes all WTA, GS, ans $125K's based on my rough idea of were they were, and looking up the exact details for likely candidate pairings.

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Dang, forgot Eastbourne to Wimbledon - 69.9 miles
It's only 50.90 miles as the crow flies, though.

Anyway, Ms. Murray took the first set, 7-5 *0-1
Ms. Appleton doing rather well against Giorgi, breaks back for, *5-5

For wolf, I have no live scores either on the app, but a decent summary can be had from the ticker atop http://www.wtatennis.com/scores



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[2] Camila Giorgi ITA d. WC Emily Appleton GBR 7-5 6-4

Grace Min USA d. WC Samantha Murray GBR 5-7 6-3 6-4

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live scores n www.scoreboard.com

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Live scores also back on the app now.

Also up with the Main Draw:
(WC) Naomi gets Cornet
Johanna [4] gets Tsurenko (havng a great week this week, in to the SF in 's-Hertogenbosch)
(WC) Heather gets a terrible draw - Svitolina [2]

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