Week 22 - Challenger ($50K) - Nottingham, Great Britain

wolf · Tennis legend

Week 22 - Challenger ($50K) - Nottingham, Great Britain

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

According to the LTA site:

The AEGON Trophy will also welcome some of Britains best players hoping to make a good start to the grass court season. In the mens draw, Alex Bogdanovic, Josh Goodall and James Ward will lead the British charge, while Katie OBrien, Mel South and Elena Baltacha are the top ranked Brits in the womens draw.

* Looks as though Arnaud Clément (WR 57) will be the top men's seed, even though it's only a Challenger!

-- Edited by Stircrazy on Friday 29th of May 2009 02:07:06 PM

seagull · Hall of fame

Clement has pulled out

Guid007 · Strong Club Player

When is the qualifying draw made?

Count Zero · Tennis legend

i think the cut off is 9pm tomorrow so i guess late Saturday?

scoobsuk · Club Coach

Hi there.

Does mens qualifying start on Sunday then?

Shhh · Challenger level

scoobsuk wrote:

Hi there.

Does mens qualifying start on Sunday then?

Yes it does. Qualies Sunday and Monday, main draw starts Tuesday

scoobsuk · Club Coach

Thanks :o)

Guid007 · Strong Club Player

Wildcards for Evans, Eaton, Fleming and Cox.
http://www.lta.org.uk/News/All-news-items/2009-05-25/AEGON-Trophy-wildcards/

Vandenburg · Futures level

SO ARE WARD AND GOODALL, not playing?

Guid007 · Strong Club Player

Vandenburg wrote:

SO ARE WARD AND GOODALL, not playing?

Maybe the LTA want them to qualify for Nottingham because they don't want to be seen as too generous having given them wildcards to Queens?

scoobsuk · Club Coach

Does anyone know what time they're likely to release the Q draw and Sunday OOP?

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

scoobsuk wrote:

Does anyone know what time they're likely to release the Q draw and Sunday OOP?

THe LTA must be pushing for some kind of record for delaying release: still no sign of either!

The best it can manage at the moment is an article reporting that Dans Cox & Evans, Chris Eaton & Colin Fleming have been given WCs for the main draw! disbelief

ForeverDelayed · Grand Slam Champion

Quali sign-in won't close until 9pm, so for them to publish an OOP and a Q draw before then would create some kind of record for being early!

Would have expected a WC for Ward, but hopefully he can qualify anyway. Hope that the WC's can get some good draws to give them the best chance of getting points.

Count Zero · Tennis legend

wolf wrote:

No official announcement yet but wild cards are rumoured to be (if you believe the Count) Evans, Cox, Eaton and Fleming.

never in doubt?