There may be Challengers in December, too. The Rimouski Challenger was there from before, by the way.


I was surprised by the number of tournaments in Brazil, too! Wish we could have that many tournaments!

i had assumed the riminouski was new as its in bold in the list. maybe someting changed about it.

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i had assumed the riminouski was new as its in bold in the list. maybe someting changed about it.

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Oh, sorry. Yes, bold means that it was added later on/changed for some reason.

I thought that by "new", you meant that it was a totally new tourney. That is, held for the first time ever - a la Jersey Challenger.

I personally love the fact that there's a Challenger in Jersey. The added travel costs mean that qualies should be weaker than a Challenger held in Britain, which gives our players more of an opportunity.

It's a strategy, I tell you! Spain hosts two Challengers in the Canary Islands and a few Futures in Africa. We need an indoor Challenger in Shetland...

I hope that he'll do Tour qualies at some point. St. Petersburg would be perfect, especially since there's no Challenger in Europe in that week.

Hopefully he'll do all the European IH Challengers till Mons, followed by a week off. Then he should do Kolding, followed by St. Petersburg (or week off if he goes far in Kolding), Aachen, Bratislava, Dnepropetrovsk and Helsinki.

He'll get some time off in the DC and St. Petersburg weeks. Plus if he does the bigger Challengers, he's unlikely to do extremely well in them, so he'll get some time off there, too. And he can always withdraw from the next week's event if he wins a big Challenger.


In my opinion, Marray, Josh, Eaton and Rich should do all the IH Challengers and one week of Tour qualies.

Jamie should go to North America after DC and stay there till the year end. Slabba and Wardy should play one or two European IH Challengers, followed by St. Petersburg and Challengers in Asia. They seem most comfortable on outdoor hard, so the Challengers in Asia are a perfect opportunity.

Skupski and Seator (and Kasiri if he comes back) should play Futures, plus two Challenger qualies and then Jersey.

Cox should play all the GB Futures and two Futures in Greece. And along with Jersey, he should do qualies at Kolding and Helsinki. Evans should do the same, barring the Futures in Greece and Kolding as he won't get the funding.

They should play Futures/Challengers in December as they were made to play truant in the first half of the year.


The rest should stick to Futures and Jersey.





I love "deciding" schedules for players.

It will be interesting to see Boggo's schedule, and I'd guess it would begin in Orleans, the week before the Davis Cup, as he if doesn't qualify for the US Open, then he'd be going into a vital Davis Cup match having not played for 3 weeks, which can't be the best preparation - he could do a week's worth on grass, play the challenger, and then another few days before the DC tie, and if he wins the title, then he'll have confidence.

I don't expect him to play each week afterwards, but if he did then the events I'd think he'd go for would be Grenoble, Mons/Metz Qualies, Rennes, Kolding, ATP qualies, Aachen, Eckental, Jersey, Helsinki.

I'd think he'd go for one of the other big events, but it makes sense for him to play 2 weeks in Germany and then in Jersey, especially the Jersey event as it's likely to be weak and so he should win the title, which is the most important thing of all really.

I'd say Marray, Bloomers, Goodall, Eaton and Skupksi will be mixing the challenger events with the stronger futures/UK Futures, while I think Slabba and Ward may try the Asian events - Tashkent, Seoul, Busan, Astana as they aren't going to be the strongest - money would be the biggest problem though, before returning for Jersey.