Week 17 offers little in the way of Challengers, but Georgie and Natasha have entered the first of 3 25K events in South Korea. These events were fruitful for Bally last year, and she reached the semi-final here. Tash's qualifying section is as follows:
[6] Lizaan Du Plessus (RSA) vs Joo-Hee Lee (KOR) WC Hwa Lee (KOR) vs Hyung-Jung Kim (KOR) Youn-Ji Kim (KOR) vs Shiho Akita (JPN) Yoo-Mi Jung (KOR) vs [12] Natasha Khan (GBR)
(6)Irena Pavlovic (FRA) v Yan-Ze Xie (CHN) Chiaki Okadaue (JPN) v (SR)Georgie Stoop (GBR) Tatjana Priachin (GER) v Q (4)Natsumi Hamamura (JPN) v Alexandra Panova (RUS)
Okadaue was thumped by Mel in her last match, but Pavlovic is a serial Britbasher.