Entries Week 28 - 13/7

seagull · Hall of fame

Entries Week 28 - 13/7

The Hoose · Satellite level

Brave trip for Wardy - let's hope it pays off.

The Knight · Challenger qualifying

Manchester and Frinton in the same week? What is that about?

steven · Tennis legend

There's always (i.e. as long as I can remember!) been one week of the year with a grass court challenger and a grass court Future.

ForeverDelayed · Grand Slam Champion

It's clearly part of the LTA's plan to give their players the best chance to score points by holding perhaps two of the best chances for the lower ranked Brits to get some points in the same week of the year.

Count Zero · Tennis legend

the LTA has recently hired a new Technical & Events Director Aleksandr, comes highly regarded from Russia, apparently his favourite phrase is 'simples'

Vandenburg · Futures level

glad to see ward not playing on grass.

Count Zero · Tennis legend

could turn out to be a good move by James, the field, whilst a little bit stronger isnt way ahead of Manch but the points will be a lot better.

ForeverDelayed · Grand Slam Champion

Evans is 4th alternate so should be able to sneak into the draw. Bloomers and Eaton are 6th and 7th alternates so may just be able to make it as well.

Plenty of decent grass courters such as Rochus, Mahut, Amritraj etc so it's going to be a tough event for a Brit to win. Boggo and Goodall may just sneak a seeding as well.

Count Zero · Tennis legend

when does alex lose his granby points. wont be sneaking a seeding then.

ForeverDelayed · Grand Slam Champion

He drops them on the 13th of July, so he will still have them when he is seeded for this event.

It means that he's got a couple more weeks to enter tournaments where he'll have this highish ranking rather than the ranking of around 260 he'll have when the points come off (and then just inside the top 300 when Vancouver points come off)

Going to be touch and go as to whether he'll make the cut for US Open qualies unless he has a couple of good runs.

Count Zero · Tennis legend

i think his plans are to play Manchester, a challenger in Italy then head to the states, but where he'll end up having to go in the challenger Q draws or not at some point we'll have to see.

surely the USO would give him a Q WC, just think of all the publicity they'd get over here

ForeverDelayed · Grand Slam Champion

Looking at the current challenger calender up then it looks like Boggo will do Manchester, Recananti and then presumably over to Granby to defend his title.

But no more information regarding a challenger calender exists on the ATP site, and it would be the tournament on the 4th August where Boggo's ranking would have dropped for entry purposes.

seagull · Hall of fame

Boggo said in his interviews that he wants to play more ATP qualies which I think is a good idea

Count Zero · Tennis legend

the PDF has gone backwards.

Just b4 they changed the site i looked at it, and saw that there were no indoor challengers down for the 1st few week after the USO which was a shock.

you can see a bit further into the future though if you click on the 'see all upcoming challenger events' tab in green on the RHS of the challenger page, they are laid out really horribly tho.