Jersey ATP

Count Zero · Tennis legend

Jersey ATP

Drew · Oct 28, 2008

Count Zero wrote:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/tennis/7694923.stm

so looks like we will have a new home absed ATP in the calendar?

The island will host a £32,000 men's and £16,000 women's event in March and again in November next year.

I hope you are being funny....does the BBC not know the difference between a full blown ATP event and an ATP challenger ?

Unless you can have an ATP int series event with a total prized fund of £32,000 ???

extract....

The events are likely to attract players ranked anywhere up to the top 50 in the world, and are a stepping stone to higher-ranked Challenger Tour events as well as the Masters Series.

LOL what idiots....'higher ranked challenger tour events as well as masters series"

A 50k challenger is a stepping stone to the Master Series...technically correct but I think they do not know what they are talking about.

As for the womens £16kevent...I didnt know the ATP did womens event !!!

(It would probably be a Womens ITF event anyway rather than a low level WTA)

Who the hell wrote this....any more holes in this storey and you could use this as a virtual tea bag !!!!

Count Zero · Tennis legend

well i though it looked fishy

wolf · Tennis legend

I wish they would put it in dollars for standardisation. A £16,000 womens event must be a $10,000 and a £32,000 is a $25,000?

-- Edited by wolf at 14:52, 2008-10-28

Count Zero · Tennis legend

they are calling the current on a £19k. whats thats?

Wolf i think £16k = $25k

Drew · Oct 28, 2008

I agree Wolf but the general public have no idea....its awful that the BBC sport site produce an article so full of errors..its embarrassing.

steven · Tennis legend

The Count's arithmetic is better than his spelling.

That really is a poor article - they seem to think Challengers and standard ATP tour events are the same things.

steven · Tennis legend

I've read the original now:

"Jersey is set to become the UK's leading venue for indoor tennis in 2009 after securing two tournaments."

*thinks* and what's that little event the O2 is due to host next November?

"The island's Les Ormes tennis centre will host two of the four ATP tournaments to be held in the UK next year with £95,000 of prize money."

*thinks* please tell me there aren't going to be only four Challengers next year!

Or is it two Challengers + two ATPs (forgetting Wimby and the WTF)

Come to think of it, WTF is an appropriate abbreviation for use with that article as well as for the newly rebranded Masters Cup replacement.

mjd · Challenger qualifying

I know that the general public believe that for a $15,000 event that is what the winner gets, when in fact it would be $1950 less taxes of course, which in the USA can be 30%, even some tennis fans find this hard to believe and wonder how players can afford to continue to play at this level and of course this example only applies to the event winner.

Vandenburg · Futures level

this is very confusing
i must admit im a not 100% on all the changes next year for prize money etc, but yes at first i thought the island of jersey had a full blown ATP tourn!!!!!!!!!!! not just a wrexham style challanger!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ForeverDelayed · Grand Slam Champion

My understanding of the report is:

- Jersey has 2 of the 4 UK men's challengers for next season - (and we know Nottingham is the grass-court warm-up event, so that leaves just 1 other throughout the season)
- Whoever wrote this article is a complete and utter clown who knows nothing about tennis.

4 challengers in the UK isn't enough, and with 2 in Jersey, that would deny a large amount of the British public a chance to see top class tennis - if the other challenger isn't in Manchester, then the entire northern half of the UK has no tennis at challenger level all year!

Presumably the writer has just forgotten about Queens, Eastbourne, Wimbledon and the WTFs which are also in the UK next year, rather than him having inside information about 2 of them being dropped from the calender