Entries Week 1 - 31/12/2012

seagull · Hall of fame

Entries Week 1 - 31/12/2012

seagull · Hall of fame

Points Defences Week 1

Mens Singles

250 - Murray

Mens Doubles

45 - Murray A, Murray J

Ladies Singles

30 - Baltacha

10 - Keothavong

wolf · Tennis legend

I've never understood why the Brits don't play Noumea chally, they always go for ATP qualifying instead. They need to be in that part of the world for Aus Open qualies the week after, so why not Noumea?

seagull · Hall of fame

Is Wardy ready to play again? I'm assuming Goodall is staying at home?

johnnylad · Tennis legend

I've always assumed Noumea was one of those "one flight in and out a week" jobs so doesn't suit the sudden need to fly away if you lose early or get away on schedule if you go deep. I've no idea if I'm right.

Count Zero · Tennis legend

I know Alex played there a few times, although never with much success from what I can recall. I assume it may not be the easiest place to reach, and possibly costly which is why its often skipped.

Speaking of Alex I understand he plans to play a few of the early season clay Florida futures again to get some match practice in, but ideally not many futures after that. There is no future in futures really.

insomniacfolder · Challenger level

johnnylad wrote:
I've always assumed Noumea was one of those "one flight in and out a week" jobs so doesn't suit the sudden need to fly away if you lose early or get away on schedule if you go deep. I've no idea if I'm right.

Dang it, I always have to check when people say things like that!

At least one flight to/from Sydney every day, even over Christmas it seems. Also 3+ flights to Tokyo a week, and supplmementary other Oceanic routes and islands (Papeete, Tahiti for example)

Source: http://www.ourairports.com/airports/NWWW/flights.html#departures

seagull · Hall of fame

Bloomfield and Pauffley are playing the British Tour event in Graves this week, as is Anna Fitzpatrick

seagull · Hall of fame

Week 1 Doubles Entry Lists

Doha

1 Lindstedt, Robert (SWE)/Zimonjic, Nenad (SRB) 28
2 Fleming, Colin (GBR)/Hutchins, Ross (GBR) 55
3 Knowle, Julian (AUT)/Polasek, Filip (SVK) 69
4 Kas, Christopher (GER)/Kohlschreiber, Philipp (GER) 70
5 Chardy, Jeremy (FRA)/Kubot, Lukasz (POL) 71
6 Bracciali, Daniele (ITA)/Marach, Oliver (AUT) 72
7 Cermak, Frantisek (CZE)/Mertinak, Michal (SVK) 72
8 Brown, Dustin (GER)/Marray, Jonathan (GBR) 73
9 Erlich, Jonathan (ISR)/Youzhny, Mikhail (RUS) 74
10 Huey, Treat Conrad (PHI)/Inglot, Dominic (GBR) 75
11 (OS)
12 (OS)
13 (OS)
14 (OS)
15 (WC)
16 (WC)

Chennai

1 Bhupathi, Mahesh (IND)/Nestor, Daniel (CAN) 16
2 Bopanna, Rohan (IND)/Ram, Rajeev (USA) 56
3 Paire, Benoit (FRA)/Wawrinka, Stanislas (SUI) 64
4 Delgado, Jamie (GBR)/Skupski, Ken (GBR) 112
5 Lu, Yen-Hsun (TPE)/Soeda, Go (JPN) 119
6 Haase, Robin (NED)/Sijsling, Igor (NED) 124
7 Ratiwatana, Sanchai (THA)/Ratiwatana, Sonchat (THA) 130
8 Kohlmann, Michael (GER)/Petzschner, Philipp (GER) 131
9 Begemann, Andre (GER)/Emmrich, Martin (GER) 138
10 Klaasen, Raven (RSA)/Monroe, Nicholas (USA) 152
11 (OS)
12 (OS)
13 (OS)
14 (OS)
15 (WC)
16 (WC)

seagull · Hall of fame

Interesting partner for Marray! Wonder if it's long-term?

wolf · Tennis legend

Jonny planning on playing with Andre Sa for the foreseeable future. Sa can't play the first week because it's his daughters birthday. Sa's ranking is 57 and they need get it down to about 40 to get into the Masters events.

indiana · Tennis legend

So Andre Sa has moved on from Jamie Murray. Did Jamie give him a long service award ? wink

kundalini · Specialist Reporter + Intermediate Club Player

Anne K is in Shenzhen qualifying (source TennisForum). JoKo would be inside the cut for Brisbane qualifying if she has entered as Rezai (169) is last in at the moment.

-- Edited by kundalini on Monday 24th of December 2012 01:38:16 PM

korriban · Challenger level

Seagull. I haven't seen anything confirming it, but JoKo spoke on twitter about heading off to Brisbane Australia, so I assume she must be in qualifying for the big WTA event there in week 1, starting just after Christmas.

Miriambee · Futures level

Emily Webley smith is out of the Hong Kong futures, late withdrawal on 26th Dec.