Week 49 - Women's ITF (25K) - Sorrento, Australia

paddy3883 · Social player

RE: Week 49 - Women's ITF (25K) - Sorrento, Australia

Happycynic · Pro player

Both did well. Really nice to Joc make the QF. 8 points so far will put her rank nicely upward.

steven · Tennis legend

17-year-old Jocelyn had 16 ranking points a couple of weeks ago. She has now added 13 more in two weeks.

johnnylad · Tennis legend

great shakes Joc

Mervatron · Masters Series Champion

Joss makes it 7 girls between 500-600 now. If you add Tara Moore to that group thats 8 players that should move into the top 500 next year and beyond.

wolf · Tennis legend

Jade C continues to flourish in the doubles, if only she could reproduce her form in the singles.

SF
CURTIS (GBR) / ZHANG (HKG) (3) defeated DOMINIKOVIC (AUS) / STEWART (AUS) (2) 7-5 6-7(2) [10-2]

Final
CALDERWOOD (AUS) / GOLDS (AUS) Vs CURTIS (GBR) / ZHANG (HKG) (3)

Great win for Joss. smile

Jade W has shown a bit of promise on this tour of India and Australia. She's so slender you just think she just needs to beef up a bit to push on towards top 500 and beyond.

seagull · Hall of fame

Joss lost 7-6(5), 7-5

Close one

Smidster · Challenger level

In the Doubles it was 4th time unlucky as they finally lost a MTB 6-4 3-6 10-8

briteny · Intermediate Club Player

steven wrote:

17-year-old Jocelyn had 16 ranking points a couple of weeks ago. She has now added 13 more in two weeks.

Great job! Hopefully it will give her more confidence. What is her next tournamet?

Mervatron · Masters Series Champion

Rogowska went on to lift the title so not as bad a loss as first thought.

steven · Tennis legend

For some reason, Jocelyn's 8 points for reaching the QFs here that got added last Monday have nowbeen taken away again and on her player activity page, it still shows her prize money for this tournament byut the points have been reset to 0.

That's the second time this year that a GB girl has had their biggest points haul cancelled and Jocelyn has been 17 since February and has only scored points in 13 tournaments this year, so she can't have broken the age eligibility rule like Tara Moore did with her WCs.

I've emailed the WTA, but unlike the ATP, they didn't reply the last time I emailed them about something like this, so has anyone got any idea why this might have happened?

Mervatron · Masters Series Champion

I can't explain it either. She hasn't reached the AER restrictions for tournament numbers and it wasn;t a WC so the Tara Moore factor doesn't apply.

I was going to e-mail the WTA but if you already have i'll just to see what/if you get anything back.

Peter too · Tennis legend

Ahhh! I thought she was 18 and she is only 17. If you add all the singles and doubles tournaments it makes a total of 18. You could say that both Tara and Jocelyn suffered loss of points because they agreed to play Wimbledon.

steven · Tennis legend

I think you must be right - I hadn't twigged that a tournament counted towards the limit if you scored points in singles and/OR doubles in it, though it is clear in the rule.

What a pathetic rule bleh

- it effectively means that under 18s whose main priority is singles should never risk entering doubles unless they are already guaranteed a singles point from the tournament.

If this is the case, it seems like the WTA don't have an automatic system in place to pick up on this, so they must just wait for one of their rivals to complain ... which may explain why the Brits keep getting caught just as they've had their best ever tournament. cry

-- Edited by steven at 16:06, 2008-12-22

Mervatron · Masters Series Champion

So cos Joss played doubles at wimbledon it affects her singles ranking?

What a farce! I know the AER are there to try to protect the younger girls but Joss is 18 in feb and she played one round of doubles :o