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Patrick Ogier & Dominic McLuskey, both unranked, have already been confirmed as entered by Guernsey - they may not make the draw of course.

Back when the criteria were announced I tried to work out the women's draw based on the rankings at the time, and it wasn't possible to fill the 26 slots with ranked players even if everyone eligible played.
Interesting. That's not true of the men, I don't think.

AUS, CAN, ENG, RSA & NZL ought to be able to produce 3 each, giving us 15 (possibly 18 if SCO can be included on that list too) plus the 13 other countries in my list makes 28 or 31.

However, this does suggest that most of those of 13 other countries will get a place if they want one, and if a few of them don't send anybody, someone from Guernsey might get in despite not having a ranked player, especially if Heather plays the women's event and agrees to play the mixed too.

wolf wrote:

Why on earth would he? He hasn't been injured.

I wouldn't think PR's count for this anyway.

I don't see why PRs wouldn't count in the normal way, but I hadn't been following Qureshi's career closely enough to know that he was ranked that low without having been injured. I wonder if Imran on MTF is still pushing for him to be given a main draw WC to every slam. wink

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Articles in the Guardian and Australian have Andy listed among the stars not participating. Also Somdev Devvarman states he is undecided, so even the Indian's aren't that committed.

That does surprise me, I thought that if anyone in the top 100 entered, it would be him, with the lure of winning a gold medal on home soil. I guess it'll be him from the  top 100 or nobody then.
indiana wrote:
I guess some folk decided that tennis at the Commonwealth Games would be a good idea  confuse.gif

And the gold medal for the Champion Commonwealth player of those who hadn't got something better to do goes to....

Yes, it is looking a bit like that, isn't it! Looks like Glasgow 2014 were right not to include it.



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Another reason why players might not be too keen to play at the CGs - it's being played on Rebound Ace, the surface that the AO gave up on after it was thought to contribute to an increased number of injuries at that event.

http://www.hindustantimes.com/sports-news/tennis/Tennis-courts-Another-scam/Article1-582507.aspx

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i'm quite bored by this wink.gif

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2 questions,

1) sorry if this has been answered before, but is there points available for this, or is just for national pride?
1)SOL - Michael Leong WR 1268 what nation is this? is my english translation for this nation letting me down?

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Vandenburg wrote:
2 questions,

1) sorry if this has been answered before, but is there points available for this, or is just for national pride?
1)SOL - Michael Leong WR 1268 what nation is this? is my english translation for this nation letting me down?
Question 1) no, no points, which is why Johnnylad is getting bored with it probably (I can kind of see his point, I must admit!)

The other Question 1) the Solomon Islands

 



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No points but loads of kudos. Oh wait - no kudos either

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Scottish team - Elena Baltacha, Joss Rae, Mhairi Brown, Jamie Murray and Colin Fleming.

Seems like Andy Murray and Baker turned them down, but Nik Slater made it clear on twitter that she wanted to be selected so not quite sure why she hasn't been. Wonder if Colin will play singles, I imagine he might as well.

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Hmm, presumably Nik Slater would have got in because RBBOT earlier in the thread reckoned you couldn't fill 26 places with ranked women players given the maximum 3 singles players per country. 

Nik is certainly ranked, so don't know if it's a choice just to take up 2 singles spots and Mhairi Brown, who I don't know at all, is for doubles ? 

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So how does one pronounce "Mhairi"?

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I and most folk even in Scotland I would suggest would say Mar-ree.  However the proper Gaelic pronounciation of the name is Var-ree as per  :  

http://inogolo.com/pronunciation/Mhairi

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Cheers, that's quite interesting.

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indiana wrote:

I and most folk even in Scotland I would suggest would say Mar-ree.  However the proper Gaelic pronounciation of the name is Var-ree as per  :  

http://inogolo.com/pronunciation/Mhairi


When the golfer Mhairi McKay emerged from nowhere to lead the US Women's Open a few years ago,I hadn't seen her name just heard it.I didn't quite guess the spelling correctly.

 



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Since when has Rae been Scottish?

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Very weird! Shocked that it took 12 hours for someone to notice.

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wolf wrote:

.......... seems like Andy Murray and Baker turned them down, ...............



Perhaps they have decided to play for England     :haha:


 



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