Week 28 - Felixstowe 25K - 2008.

Salmon · Tennis legend

Week 28 - Felixstowe 25K - 2008.

Mervatron · Masters Series Champion

But Tara will get the same amount of points for a 1st round loss as for qualifying.

Sheddie · administrator

probably best that Tara is in main draw as atm I doubt she's consistent enough to make it through 3 rounds of challenger qualifying while with her talent, she's capable of stunning a top 300 player in rd1

Sheddie · administrator

would be amazing if Laura Robson got the final wc but seems likely that she won't start womens events till the autumn.....how many ITFs is she allowed this year ?

and how come they have this crazy restriction in the womens game but not in the mens ?

DavidC · Tennis legend

Sheddie wrote:
would be amazing if Laura Robson got the final wc but seems likely that she won't start womens events till the autumn.....how many ITFs is she allowed this year ?

and how come they have this crazy restriction in the womens game but not in the mens ?

According to Stephen on GBTG Naomi Broady has the last WC - but I haven't found official confirmation of this. The rules for 14 year olds are:

b. 14 Years Old
i. Between the date of a players 14th birthday and the day before her 15th birthday a player may participate in a maximum of eight (8) ITF Womens Circuit
Tournaments, no more than three (3) of which may be at ITF Womens Circuit $50,000 and above, plus Fed Cup. ........
ii. These players are permitted to receive a maximum of three (3) Wild Cards as follows: one (1) Wild Card into the Main Draw or Qualifying Draw of any WTA Tour Tier I-IV or ITF Womens Circuit Tournament, and two (2) Wild Cards into the Main Draw or Qualifying Draw of any ITF Womens Circuit Tournaments.

The rules are there to protect young players from burn-out, as happened often, especially to precocious American girls, in the 80s and 90s.

Salmon · Tennis legend

But surely Tara would get 2 points if she would qualify and then lose first round?

Salmon · Tennis legend

Shedman, it won't be a good idea if Robson does this as she has played too much tennis at one go - Eastbourne Juniors, Roehampton and now Wimbledon. Probably it'll be good to take a week's break, then train on clay for the Euros.

DavidC · Tennis legend

Greenleaf wrote:
But surely Tara would get 2 points if she would qualify and then lose first round?

No, in women's ITF/WTA tournaments qualifiers who lose in the first round only get qualifying points (in the case of a 25K this means just 1 point). Personally I don't think it is fair that qualifiers get the same as first round losers and queried it with the WTA statistics department when the points scheme was changed 18 months ago, but they refused to budge or explain their logic.

DavidC · Tennis legend

Qualifying draw is now on the official website along with oop:

(1)Katerina Kramperova (CZE) v BYE
Catriona Stewart (GBR) v Holly Richards (GBR)
Amy Askew (GBR) v BYE
Tammi Patterson (AUS) v BYE

(2)Courtney Nagle (USA) v BYE
Claire Ricketts (GBR) v BYE
Irina Koripenko (RUS) v BYE
Laura Morrill (GBR) v BYE

(3)Jocelyn Rae (GBR) v BYE
Francesca North (GBR) v BYE
Helen Parish (GBR) v BYE
Marine Sorg (FRA) v BYE

(4)Ganna Piven (UKR) v BYE
Libuse Kaucky-Lawrence (GBR) v BYE
Sophie Proctor (GBR) v BYE
Jodie Bratchell (GBR)

(5)Natasha Khan (GBR) v BYE
Subbadharmi Sundaram (USA v BYE
Victoria Brook (GBR) v BYE
Natalie Proese (GER) v BYE

(6)Nicola Mooney (GBR) v BYE
Krushmi Chheda (IND) v BYE
Anastasia Nebojanko (GBR) v BYE
Isabela Miro (BRA) v BYE

(7)Amy Sargeant (GBR) v BYE
Michaela Ince (GBR) v BYE
Amanda Cunningham (GBR) v BYE
Catherine Green (GBR) v BYE

Lucy Warburton (GBR) v BYE
Jeanette Draeger (GER) v BYE
Lottie Fox (GBR) v BYE
Emily Askew (GBR) v BYE

Salmon · Tennis legend

Okay, thanks for that. Then it's obviously a great idea that Tara gets a WC!

Dumb rule, by the way!

RedCabbage · Club Coach

That is possibly the silliest qualifying draw I've ever seen.

The Hoose · Satellite level

With this draw, I quite fancy Bye to get one of the qualifying spots.

gazzpash · Club Coach

Anyone else feel sorry for Holly Richards and Catriona Stewart

Silver · County player

Me. But sadly, that's the luck of the draw (as it were)

DavidC · Tennis legend

Main draw is out. Unfortunately our 3 seeds are all in the same half of the draw. Jade W has a rerun of last week's Junior second round.

(1)Naomi Cavaday (GBR) v Q
Jade Curtis (GBR) v Q
Nikola Hofmanova (AUT) v Q
(5)Nikola Frankova (CZE) v Tyra Calderwood (AUS)

(4)Sarah Borwell (GBR) v Q
Olivia Scarfi (GBR) v Q
Elizabeth Thomas (GBR) v Emelyn Starr (AUS)
(6)Amanda Elliott (GBR) v Q

(7)Pemra Ozgen (TUR) v Elena Chernyakova (RUS)
Petra Pajalic (SLO) v (wc)Tara Moore (GBR)
(wc)Johanna Konta (AUS) v (wc)Jade Windley (GBR)
(3)Irena Pavlovic (FRA) v Anna Wishink (AUS)

(8)Laura Haberkorn (GER) v Irene Rehberger-Bescos (ESP)
Leonie Mekel (NED) v (wc)Naomi Broady (GBR)
Soetkin Van Deun (BEL) v Q
(2)Neuza Silva (POR) v Q