Entries Week 5 - 2/2

seagull · Hall of fame

Entries Week 5 - 2/2

seagull · Hall of fame

Updated with futures (and there is a lot of them!)

Not sure how Mel South can be in 2 places at once?

steven · Tennis legend

eek - you'd think if you go to West Africa and you have a ranking in the 600s you'd get a DA!

I suppose it is a 15K+H ... even so.

The one thing you can definitely tell from this week's entry lists is that there's no bog-standard 50K (or so) Challengers anywhere convenient to mop up the 200-300 mob.

Or are players already realising that it's now more beneficial in ranking point terms than it used to be to drop down to a Future and win it than to go a round or two in a Challenger?

-- Edited by steven at 09:44, 2009-01-16

Count Zero · Tennis legend

i certainly think being a top player at a 15k+h is better than trying to qualify for a challenger, winning 3 matches at a 15k+h is 9 pts, winning 3 to Q at a challenger 5 points.

4 matches at futures 19 pts, 4 at mid challenger (inc Q) 13 so it makes sense really, as often the players you will be facing at the challengers will be tougher.

steven · Tennis legend

Yes, that's what I think too. It's going to be demoralising (and make it even harder to win enough cash to help find themselves) for the players who used to pick up regular points from Futures though if half the Challenger players start playing down.

Count Zero · Tennis legend

i don't think you'll see MD challenger players dropping down often as then the cuts would drop so more futures players would get in, but the players outside the top 250 may well look at them more often.

of course i think it doesn't help that the early season calender seems so sparse.

seagull · Hall of fame

Zagreb
1 ASPELIN, Simon 23 - VIZNER, Pavel 26 - D+D 49
2 KNOWLE, Julian 24 - MELZER, Jurgen 66 32 D+S 56
3 MURRAY, Jamie 29 - VEMIC, Dusan 34 239 D+D 63
4 GICQUEL, Marc 40 50 MATHIEU, Paul-Henri 125 29 D+S 69
5 ANDREEV, Igor 220 19 TROICKI, Viktor 143 53 S+S 72
6 KAS, Christopher 30 - WASSEN, Rogier 43 - D+D 73
7 BOLELLI, Simone 121 39 SEPPI, Andreas 117 35 S+S 74
8 HANLEY, Paul 48 - KERR, Jordan 31 - D+D 79
9 PARROTT, Travis 44 - POLASEK, Filip 35 1193 D+D 79
10 PETZSCHNER, Philipp 37 63 PEYA, Alexander 53 142 D+D 90
11 Direct Acceptance On-Site
12 Direct Acceptance On-Site
13 Direct Acceptance On-Site
14 Direct Acceptance On-Site
15 (WC)
16 (WC)

seagull · Hall of fame

Evans now in Main Draw in France as is Ken in Ivory Coast (with Fleming certain to make it as well)

Craven91 · Lower Club Player

Maybe Eaton will be in qualifying in zagreb since he is in Croatia F1 in week 6

steven · Tennis legend

The end of the article at

http://new.edp24.co.uk/content/sport/story.aspx?brand=EDPOnline&category=SportTennis&tBrand=EDPOnline&tCategory=SportTennis&itemid=NOED27%20Jan%202009%2011%3A31%3A31%3A470

suggests that Bloomers may be trying to qualify for the Dallas Challenger (that's TBarM7's Challenger, isn't it?) then trying to get into qualifying for San Jose.

Sounds a bit more fun than playing Colin Fleming again in a Future. wink

-- Edited by steven at 22:52, 2009-01-27

ForeverDelayed · Grand Slam Champion

Would be good to see Bloomers have a go at qualifying for Dallas, especially as it has live streaming, so there's a good chance we'll be able to see his matches live, and there's probably a good chance he'd make it through qualifying which will boost his points tally.

Fleming has made it into the draw in Ivory Coast, while Thornley is now 1st alternate in Mexico, and will make it unless the 2 SE spots are used

wolf · Tennis legend

Ross Hutchins is 3rd alternate in Zagreb with Booty so will get in unless any singles players suddenly decide they want to play a bit of doubles.

seagull · Hall of fame

Updated with all withdrawals

seagull · Hall of fame

I assume one more win for Max Jones and he will get an SE for this week

Nathaliia · Lower Club Player

So I should be stalking Boggo, right?