What I am suggesting is that the WTA have had to increase the points available for winning early rounds in higher level tournaments because otherwise women would not enter them. Women would often prefer instead to enter lower ranked tournaments where they would be seeded and stood a very good chance of collecting winners points.

If I was a professional player ranked around 350-100 I would enter big tournaments for the experience of rubbing shoulders with the stars but $25Ks would be my bread and butter.

At present you win 50 points for winning a $25K final, a $50K SF, a $75K QF or two rounds of a Grand Slam Qualifier. A 200 ranked player would I suspect be less likely to meet a someone they couldn't beat in the $25K than in any of the others.

Katie is first

1-0*

4-1* manages to hold this time.

6-1 1-1*

6-1 *3-2

6-1 3-6 3-2* I need to leave again, good luck katie

Ahh good, I was a bit worried in the middle!