Not at the moment!

It's Bamford, Feaver, Cox, Illingworth, Brewer, Ward, Hewitt and Milton who have DE at the moment, but there's only 17 players on the list, so if the SE are cleared and the next 3 get in, that would mean Bains, Flanagan and Kinsella would make it.

That would leave Evans as 3rd alternate (behind Rice and Smethurst) and so would have to qualify.

Jack Buxton wrote:

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afternoon folks - i really dont want to ask loads of stupid newbie questions so is there a link to some of your abbreviations?

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DE/DA basically mean the same thing - direct acceptance or direct entry - so the players with a DE have made the cut and will be in the main draw of the event.

SE is a special exempt, which a player can take if they are still playing in a singles tournament of the previous week when the qualifying sign-in for a tournament of the same or less value, in the same geographical area, and when they wouldn't have made the initial cut ends.

So for anyone to be eligible for a SE for Wrexham, they would have to be ranked below 1100 (or whatever the cut line ends up being), and still playing singles in a tournament in week 30 somewhere in Europe

ForeverDelayed wrote:

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Not at the moment!

It's Bamford, Feaver, Cox, Illingworth, Brewer, Ward, Hewitt and Milton who have DE at the moment, but there's only 17 players on the list, so if the SE are cleared and the next 3 get in, that would mean Bains, Flanagan and Kinsella would make it.

That would leave Evans as 3rd alternate (behind Rice and Smethurst) and so would have to qualify.

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Thanks - I did know about the DAs from having complied the top 25 table and I remembered Bains, Flan and Kinsella beng at the top of the Alt list but not Dan being there, and just assumed Dan must be ranked above Flan by now.

ForeverDelayed wrote:

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So for anyone to be eligible for a SE for Wrexham, they would have to be ranked below 1100 (or whatever the cut line ends up being), and still playing singles in a tournament in week 30 somewhere in Europe

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As the semi-final of the latest clay court Future in Transylvania went into its 9th day, Radek Stepanek's younger brother wondered if he could keep the final rally going for another 10000 shots so that he could claim one of the SE places in Wrexham.  

(sorry FD, not nearly as bad a mistake as mine but it just made me imagine the above for some reason!)


-- Edited by steven at 17:40, 2008-08-02

Fitzy must have been watching the Dans lose their semis, feeling rather guilty about his internal satisfaction at the bonus accruing to himself - the Dans' conquerors now have to meet each other in the final (Fitzy thinking "Wouldn't three tie-break sets be great"), before joining up to play Andrew and his Russian partner. By the time they finish, les francais will have played a minimum of six sets today - possibly, as many as nine!!

Pity that. I had hoped one of them could show enough guile on grass to reach the final.

Never mind - good run to the semis for both and let's hope this is the beginning of regular appearances there for both lads!

No problem, that's been throwing me as well.