Week 12 - ITF ($25K) - Jersey, Great Britain Hard

philwrig · Hall of fame

RE: Week 12 - ITF ($25K) - Jersey, Great Britain Hard

albino · Intermediate Club Player

Could Amanda Elliot have had her WCQ bumped up to a WCM? If not then she must have withdrawn.

indiana · Tennis legend

albino wrote:

Could Amanda Elliot have had her WCQ bumped up to a WCM? If not then she must have withdrawn.

Mm, what I said re Jade with bells on smile

SMC1809 · All-time great

Looking at the drawsheet, it appears that the players who were due to receive qualifying WCs, did not need to use them, and they're in by their rankings alone. Presumably, they can use these WCs elsewhere now?

Josh · Challenger level

I don't think they can because the qualies draw has already been made so no room there and the main draw will already have enough spots filled from the 4 WCs advertised before and the 20 DAs.

Jade was still playing at Bath today in the final of the U21 Challenge, so maybe she couldn't make it to qualifying sign-in in time and has got a WC instead?

SMC1809 · All-time great

SMC1809 wrote:

Looking at the drawsheet, it appears that the players who were due to receive qualifying WCs, did not need to use them, and they're in by their rankings alone. Presumably, they can use these WCs elsewhere now?

Having read my own post, I can see that it could be interpreted two ways.

Rather than the tournament using the WCs elsewhere, I was referring to the players, i.e. Hope Johnson, Alex Walker, Ruth Seaborne. If they haven't used one of their allocation of WCs here, I guess they can apply for them at other tournaments in the future.

philwrig · Hall of fame

I would concur with that opinion.

Josh · Challenger level

Oh, I see what you mean. I don't know the answer to but would presume you're right, especially seeing as Sfar is listed as a WC so its not that they just haven't bothered to specify who has one.

SMC1809 · All-time great

Scoreboard has just appeared and instead of Klaschka (no 1 Q seed) playing Alpay we have Millie Radovic (GBR). smile

The door opens wide for Johanna if she can get past Ozga.

-- Edited by SMC1809 on Monday 22nd of March 2010 10:49:23 AM

steven · Tennis legend

Radovic is 14 and listed on ITF as playing for Serbia ... hmm. She got double bagelled by WR 787 in QR1 in Bath last week when playing for Serbia, so maybe they've decided to let us have her? wink

Apart from Bath, she has only played a couple of junior ITFs in Scotland, losing in R1 in both of them and she seems to be training here: http://209.85.229.132/search?q=cache:2vAZaTafDx0J:www.tennisavenue.co.uk/+millie+radovic+tennis&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk (this is from a google cache, the site itself seems to be down)

-- Edited by steven on Monday 22nd of March 2010 10:54:43 AM

seagull · Hall of fame

link to scoreboard?

steven · Tennis legend

http://www.protennislive.com/frameset.asp?year=2010&wkno=12C&lang=en&tabno=1&eventid=3939

For future reference, there's always a link to this kind of live score on the GB top 25 tables if you can't find it anywhere else more easily,

-- Edited by steven on Monday 22nd of March 2010 10:56:07 AM

Embittered · Junior player

Josh wrote:

Oh, I see what you mean. I don't know the answer to but would presume you're right, especially seeing as Sfar is listed as a WC so its not that they just haven't bothered to specify who has one.

I've lost the thread here (Monday mornings cry

), so apologies if I'm going down a blind alley. I think Sfar will have needed a WC because she didn't sign in (perhaps she rang up and said "can't get a flight, not going to make sign-in" and the organiser said "that's OK, you can have a wild card")--I think the others signed in and it turned out after sign-in that they got in (not atypically) on ranking, so didn't need the wild cards. As for whether Mr Martens' system will credit them with an extra wild card, well, you'd need someone who actually knows what they're talking about to answer that, and that's not me.

philwrig wrote:

I would concur with that opinion.

I really have lost the thread. Which opinion?

Embittered · Junior player

steven wrote:

Radovic is 14 and listed on ITF as playing for Serbia ... hmm. She got double bagelled by WR 787 in QR1 in Bath last week when playing for Serbia, so maybe they've decided to let us have her?

Apart from Bath, she has only played a couple of junior ITFs in Scotland, losing in R1 in both of them and she seems to be training here: http://209.85.229.132/search?q=cache:2vAZaTafDx0J:www.tennisavenue.co.uk/+millie+radovic+tennis&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk (this is from a google cache, the site itself seems to be down)

-- Edited by steven on Monday 22nd of March 2010 10:54:43 AM

To be fair, the world no. 787 was Ellen Barry. wink

More than likely, the nationality is in error on the scoreboard anyway.

EDIT: ...though I doubt there would have been a different result against the no. 786 or 788. Looks like Millie's been been here a while, at least some of the time, and possibly under a rather transparent alias, so I shouldn't have pooh-poohed your suggestion on nationality. Actually, I didn't do any pooh-poohing, that's not how it sounded in my head, and if it came out that way, I'm sorry.

FWIW, here's a post about Ilge and Mil(l)ie on wtaworld.

-- Edited by Embittered on Monday 22nd of March 2010 01:26:34 PM

Embittered · Junior player

Georgie Bastick has disappeared in a puff of smoke. cry

And she's back. How do I delete posts on this thing?

Scoreboard for court 4 going berserk. Suspect Georgina's still playing.

-- Edited by Embittered on Monday 22nd of March 2010 11:08:19 AM

-- Edited by Embittered on Monday 22nd of March 2010 11:11:39 AM