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Qualifying is scheduled for tomorrow (2 rounds) with the main draw starting on Sunday. Both  Tara Moore and Fran Stephenson have had good runs here in the last 2 years.

Qualifying names include Rebecca Smaller, Jasmiine Amber Asghar, Emily Gibbens, Gabrielle Paul, Louise Ronaldson, Brielle Koulen, Dominique Covington, Mia Smith, Savannah Sills, Danielle Konotoptseva, Jennifer Brown, Ella Taylor, Natalie Haden-Scott, Brigit Folland and Kyria Dunford

Likely candidates for the 8 main draw wildcards (from the acceptance list) include Georgina Sellyn, Katy Dunne, Pippa Horn, Beth Askew, Katie Boulter, Harriet Dart, Eden Silva, Lana Rush, Georgia Craven and Jessica Ren



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LTA confirm that the first 8 named have the main draw wildcards (all except Georgia and Jess)

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No British qualifiers, but a good effort from young Jasmine, upsetting the 12th seed and pushing the top seed Jelena Ostapenko (ranked 41)

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Eleanor Dean sacking off the grasscourt season again?

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Eleanor has indeed not entered the grasscourt tournaments. The qualifier who Harriet plays is ranked top 500 WTA, as is the seed who Katie plays on her return to competition

R1 (L64)

(Q) Nigina Abduraimova (UZB) v (WC) Harriet Dart
(WC) Beth Askew v (6) Anett Kontaveit (EST)
(WC) Georgina Sellyn v (Q) Zarah Razafimahatratra (MAD)
(WC) Eden Silva v Viktoriya Lushkova (UKR)
(7) Indy De Vroome (NED) v (LL) Danielle Konotoptseva
Rebecca Peterson (SWE) v (WC) Lana Rush
(16) Sabina Sharipova (UZB) v (WC) Katie Boulter
(LL) Hikari Yamamoto (JPN) v (WC) Katy Dunne
(WC) Pippa Horn v (Q) Naiktha Bains (AUS)

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DavidC wrote:

The qualifier who Harriet plays is ranked top 500 WTA, as is the seed who Katie plays on her return to competition

Yes, just checked the draws to put the opponents for Liam & Harriet on the top 25 tables and thought I recognised the name Abduraimova! Didn't you (or someone else) say the other day that they do take WTA rankings into account if they are in the top 500? It seems crazy if they don't - they could easily have had Abduraimova drawn against the top seed in R1, when her WTA ranking is higher than the top seed's! confuse



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DavidC wrote:

The qualifier who Harriet plays is ranked top 500 WTA, as is the seed who Katie plays on her return to competition

Yes, just checked the draws to put the opponents for Liam & Harriet on the top 25 tables and thought I recognised the name Abduraimova! Didn't you (or someone else) say the other day that they do take WTA rankings into account if they are in the top 500? It seems crazy if they don't - they could easily have had Abduraimova drawn against the top seed in R1, when her WTA ranking is higher than the top seed's! confuse

 Taking into account ATP/WTA rankings is quite complicated. Boys ranked in the top 550 are seeded, using a comparison chart (eg someone ranked like the Uzbeks in the low 400s would be seeded after the 4th ranked junior boy). However there are a lot of junior girls ranked higher than that, or would be if they chose to play mainly Pro Circuit events. So  Abduraimova needed to be ranked inside 350 WTA to earn a seeding.

Boys ranked between ATP550 and ATP700 and girls ranked between WTA350 and WTA500 are guaranteed acceptance into the qualifying tournament only (unless their junior ranking allows direct acceptance). Hence Abduraimova was unseeded in qualifying here, and the only British seed (Ella Taylor) had the dubious privilege of playing her in the first qualifying round (Ella managed just 3 games).

If you look at the drawsheet (on the LTA site) you will see one player has been seeded because of her WTA ranking - Daria Gavrilova (ranked 196 in Juniors but inside 250 WTA)



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R1 (L64)

(Q) Nigina Abduraimova (UZB) v (WC) Harriet Dart
(6) Anett Kontaveit (EST) d. (WC) Beth Askew 6-4 6-2
(Q) Zarah Razafimahatratra (MAD) d. (WC) Georgina Sellyn 6-3 6-4
Viktoriya Lushkova (UKR) d. (WC) Eden Silva 6-4 6-4
(7) Indy De Vroome (NED) v (LL) Danielle Konotoptseva
Rebecca Peterson (SWE) v (WC) Lana Rush
(16) Sabina Sharipova (UZB) v (WC) Katie Boulter
(LL) Hikari Yamamoto (JPN) v (WC) Katy Dunne
(WC) Pippa Horn v (Q) Naiktha Bains (AUS)


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Excellent win for Lana over the world no. 59, but heartbreak for Pippa and a rude reintroduction for Katie

R1 (L64)

(Q) Nigina Abduraimova (UZB) v (WC) Harriet Dart
(6) Anett Kontaveit (EST) d. (WC) Beth Askew 6-4 6-2
(Q) Zarah Razafimahatratra (MAD) d. (WC) Georgina Sellyn 6-3 6-4
Viktoriya Lushkova (UKR) d. (WC) Eden Silva 6-4 6-4
(7) Indy De Vroome (NED) v (LL) Danielle Konotoptseva
(WC) Lana Rush d. Rebecca Peterson (SWE) 6-4 6-7(4) 6-1
(16) Sabina Sharipova (UZB) d. (WC) Katie Boulter 6-2 6-0
(WC) Katy Dunne d. (LL) Hikari Yamamoto (JPN) 6-2 6-2
(Q) Naiktha Bains (AUS) d. (WC) Pippa Horn 3-6 7-6(9) 7-6(4)


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Bains is the one who spent her early life in england, there was an article a few years ago criticising lta for letting her slip through their fingers

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An impressive round 1 score for Harriet against the Uzbek, but she lost a tight one in round 2. Katy similarly close to a career best junior win, but eventually lost.

R1 (L64)

(WC) Harriet Dart d. (Q) Nigina Abduraimova (UZB) 6-2-6-0
(6) Anett Kontaveit (EST) d. (WC) Beth Askew 6-4 6-2
(Q) Zarah Razafimahatratra (MAD) d. (WC) Georgina Sellyn 6-3 6-4
Viktoriya Lushkova (UKR) d. (WC) Eden Silva 6-4 6-4
(7) Indy De Vroome (NED) v (LL) Danielle Konotoptseva 6-2 6-3
(WC) Lana Rush d. Rebecca Peterson (SWE) 6-4 6-7(4) 6-1
(16) Sabina Sharipova (UZB) d. (WC) Katie Boulter 6-2 6-0
(WC) Katy Dunne d. (LL) Hikari Yamamoto (JPN) 6-2 6-2
(Q) Naiktha Bains (AUS) d. (WC) Pippa Horn 3-6 7-6(9) 7-6(4)

R2

Marcela Zacarias (MEX) d. (WC) Harriet Dart 7-6(8) 3-6 7-5
(12) Belinda Bencic (SUI) d. (WC) Lana Rush 6-3 6-1
(8) Alexandra Kiick (USA) d. (WC) Katy Dunne 7-5 1-6 7-5

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tough loses for Harriet and Katy

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