Was Cam entered here? I know he was down for the Q draw in Washington. Just wondering how the SE works?

The thing about only being able to get a special exempt place if you were on the entry list in the first place is an oft-stated myth.

Rule 7.10 at file:///C:/Users/mrbun/Downloads/VII%20The%20Competition%20(1).pdf provides full details, the most important of which are:

"A player is eligible to receive a special exempt into the singles main draw of the following weeks tournament, subject to the provisions of this section, if he is unable to compete in that qualifying competition because he is still competing on the date the qualifying competition begins in another qualified event, and his current ranking as of the date of the entry deadline would not have otherwise qualified him as a direct acceptance on the original acceptance list if he had entered.

In addition, a player who is still playing a match at 9 p.m. local time at the qualifying site, is eligible to receive a special exempt only if he wins that match.

a) A Qualified event for special exempt to an ATP World Tour Masters 1000 tournament is the singles event of another ATP World Tour Masters 1000, ATP World Tour 500 or Grand Slam tournament.

b) A Qualified event for special exempt to an ATP World Tour 500 tournament is the singles event of another ATP World Tour 500, ATP World Tour Masters 1000, ATP World Tour 250* or Grand Slam tournament. *Approved on a trial basis for 2017.

c) A Qualified event for special exempt to an ATP World Tour 250 tournament is the singles event of any ATP World Tour 250, ATP World Tour 500, ATP World Tour Masters 1000 or Grand Slam tournament.

d) A Qualified event for special exempt to an ATP Challenger Tour tournament is the singles event of an ATP World Tour or ATP Challenger Tour tournament within the same geographic region, unless there are no Challengers in the same region the following week. If there are no Challengers in the same region the following week, then a qualified event would include all ATP Challenger Tour events scheduled in the following week, regardless of region. (Definition of Regions can be found in Exhibit M).

e) EXCEPTION: A player who has entered and been accepted into the qualifying draw of an ATP World Tour tournament and has been withdrawn because he is still competing, will be added to the last position on the special exempt list of an ATP Challenger Tour tournament scheduled for the next week, even though he would have been a direct acceptance, had he entered the Challenger. Note: EXCEPTION does not apply if player was Top 50 twenty one (21) days prior to the first Monday of the Challenger."

Cancel what I said. Steven's explanation is so much better.

Stircrazy wrote:

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L16:  (3) Luke Bambridge & David O'Hare (IRL) CR 287 (147+140) vs J C Aragone & Robert Galloway (USA/USA) CR 1661 (1231+430)

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What is Luke's plan, is he planning to be a doubles specialist, he could have easily got into singles Q here.  The doubles game will be dead in 10 years, and only still played in DC and maybe Olympics, it is 80% made up of failed singles players, not like the old days when the best players in the world would all play. It is great to see players like Mahut and Cueves play still though.

 

 

-- Edited by Vandenburg on Sunday 30th of July 2017 08:58:57 PM

Cameron Norrie lost first set 4-6 and it was 1-1 when play was interrupted in the second set

-- Edited by hoots on Tuesday 1st of August 2017 10:43:01 PM

Youinone of your moods tonight Vandy?

Pretty stunning fightback to take the second on a breaker.

Norrie played a good breaker but was distinctly second best in the rest of that set-just hanging on. The one thing he did differently in the tie break was that he actually slowed down instead of rushing everything,particularly on his own serve.