Anyone know where I can find the fact sheet for this event? Thanks in advance for your help people...

This is the link to the factsheet - http://stevegtennis.com/factsheets/2008/ch-surbiton.htm


The factsheets for all ATP events are stored here - http://stevegtennis.com/atpres.htm

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Apparantly Baghdatis is looking to play in a challenger this week to get some match practice, so given that Surbiton is on grass and the other challengers are on clay, I'd expect this is the one he is more likely to show up at (or take the money at Prostejev)

Can't see the organisers turning down a WC to a top 20 player, but would mean 1 less WC for a Brit

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any idea when they will make the WC annoucement? seem to be leaving it late.

the weather isnt looking great at the mo for surbs is it.

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Guess they may be waiting to see if Baghdatis or any other top player wants a WC, or seeing how far Bloomers goes in Turkey.

I'm going to say the WC's will go to:

Goodall
Slabinsky
Skupski
Ward

With Boggo and Bloomers in qualifying given that they are likely to qualify anyway.

If Bloomers can't make it for qualies, then he'd probably replace Ward/Skupski as the WC, and the same would happen in Baghdatis does want to play

Wild Card to Baghdatis

http://www.lta.org.uk/Newsroom/GeneralNews/GeneralNews2008/080530WorldNo18InSurbiton.htm

Not entirely unexpected, and I think we'd have to say that Baghdatis is going to have a greater pull as a WC than a lower ranked british player would, but means we're down to just 3 WC's for this event now

Surely you don't expect the LTA to know the exact dates their own events are being held on?

A pity Baggy has got a WC anyway - 5 of the GB top 20 are defending 35 points from Surbiton between them and with this news and the strong original entry list it's beginning to look like it's going to be a very tall order for more than one or two of them to get through a round, let alone two, depending on the draw.