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Post Info TOPIC: Week 38 - ITF ($25k) - Cairns, Australia Hard


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Week 38 - ITF ($25k) - Cairns, Australia Hard


No luck for Jodie, but a good week

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Its a shame because at one point in the first set Jodie was 4-1 up and 0-30 on her opponents serve (spot of insomnia!). Nothing dramatic happened just a few more unforced errors crept into Jodies game and opponent just started making hers. But as you say, a good week for Jodie.

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QF: Jodie BURRAGE [Q] 468 lost to Kaylah MCPHEE (AUS) 385=CH 5-7 2-6

A day off (well travelling) before qualifying for Darwin on Sunday.

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Yes, a pity this, especially as from Nix's account Jodie started well. I thought with her draw after beating Hozumi in the first round she had a good chance to get to the SF, where indeed the next opponent would be Astra Sharma. Still, it's been a good run of wins for Jodie, and when the points go on will move her up to about 430 in the rankings. So steady progress, next aim will be to get past having to qualify for the MDs of these 25k events.

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Sharma took this title in very unusual circumstances. They started it on Sunday in Cairns as planned and Aiava raced into a 6-0 lead and then rain stopped play. Just saw that it concluded in Darwin and Sharma turned it around.

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There must be some special contingency regulation allowing that. I can't find it however. It's possibly under some wording like, 'at the tournament organisers sole discretion'.

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I've seen many cases of similar things in lower tournaments where the two parties agree or - indeed - actually suggest it.

If Sharma and Aiava both wanted to not lose their place in Darwin, then I guess the tournament director wouldn't stand in their way.

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They were going to resume the match at 7am in Cairns but the courts were still wet and as both players needed to get to Darwin, it seems a pragmatic solution to complete the tournament to finish it there.

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For one tournament to have invested their $25K and to forego any final I imagine they have to give the go ahead. Yes, the final would be a day late, and perhaps very sparsely populated, but no final publicity for your investment, shots of/with the winners etc, which might affect decisions to fund a similar event in the future. Good on this director in not digging their heels in.
Also, I wonder how it intersects with situations whereby players that routinely miss out on qualifying in one event through being in another - they can ask, but not expect, to have their matches scheduled at preferential times to more easily enable travel should they lose.
It's a nice facility to employ, but I presume it must be covered in some rule somewhere, otherwise, at some point, someone is bound to find some ingenious way to abuse it, almost nothing in sport can be left to well-intentioned agreements these days.

CD when you say, 'lower tournaments', do you mean at ITF professionally ranked levels, or more generally club tennis competitions and leagues? I can see the latter being commonplace, but can't immediately recall a professionally ranked example.


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AliBlahBlah wrote:

For one tournament to have invested their $25K and to forego any final I imagine they have to give the go ahead. Yes, the final would be a day late, and perhaps very sparsely populated, but no final publicity for your investment, shots of/with the winners etc, which might affect decisions to fund a similar event in the future. Good on this director in not digging their heels in.
Also, I wonder how it intersects with situations whereby players that routinely miss out on qualifying in one event through being in another - they can ask, but not expect, to have their matches scheduled at preferential times to more easily enable travel should they lose.
It's a nice facility to employ, but I presume it must be covered in some rule somewhere, otherwise, at some point, someone is bound to find some ingenious way to abuse it, almost nothing in sport can be left to well-intentioned agreements these days.

CD when you say, 'lower tournaments', do you mean at ITF professionally ranked levels, or more generally club tennis competitions and leagues? I can see the latter being commonplace, but can't immediately recall a professionally ranked example.


In this case, a final at 7 a.m. on a damp morning was probably not a crowd puller so the event hasn't really lost anything. And they could still get publicity pictures of the finalist being presented with the trophy (take a picture of each one with the trophy before they leave and just use the one that turns out right)

For 'lower tournaments', I meant money tournaments in France. But, although not ITF, they are rich events, can have money pots as big, and are covered by general FFT rules as well as usually a whole other heap of rules as they form part of a circuit. 

I think you might be surprised how flexible some tournaments/players can be (even ITF ones). Individual players might agree to play a third-set TB instead of a full third set. Or agree to go and play on a different court somewhere close by to speed things up. Or to not wait the proper time between two matches. Or whatever. (No umpires, of course, in ITF qualis). And it's usually for when the weather's bad - in which case, the tournament umpire is just desperate to get things moving along so really doesn't mind. 

And I've never seen any players go back on agreements and 'abuse' it, although that's not to say it's impossible. Sometimes it's between friends anyway - as might be the case for the two Australians. But also between players who don't know each other but know that everyone's in the same boat. 



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