The ITF have changed their URL's again. They've finally come out of 'beta' and removed the 'beta' from the lead ins, replacing it with www.
This sort of change is a massive pain to some people that actually use the site, especially, I imagine people like Steven who will probably have to reconfigure all the links in the top 25 tables.
These are mistakes that web hosting companies were making in 1993 - not having any automatic and seamless redirection in place.
It doesn't speak at all well of the ITF they they still do so today.
All true (and it's certainly not just the ITF among tennis sites that still does it - the most recent WTA downgrade was many times worse from that point of view) but I did change the ITF links a while ago, which is why they all still work on the more recent tables.
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Hopefully this will be a successful tournament for the GB players. Expect Anne to go well, no reason why Tara cannot perform like she did a few weeks ago over in the states and any other girls picking up wins will be a bonus.
Excellent win that by Lucy, who has looked in pretty decent form for some weeks, threatening to do something like this.
korriban, no reason at all why we shouln't expect our fair share of such victories. The more particular discussion point that I was not alone in making re the recent GB 15Ks was in having no real expectation of any out of 7 or 8 non ranked Brits with no particular senior form upsetting players in the world 400s to 600s. You disagreed, fair enough, but that is a different scenario to players in say the 600s to 800s in the rankings beating players several hundred places higher.
R1: (WC) Jade Windley WR 436 v (Q) Irina Ramialison (FRA) WR 472 R1: (Q) Melanie South WR 382 v (Q) Amandine Hesse (FRA) WR 437 R1: (Q) Naomi Broady WR 355 v (7) Stephanie Vogt (LIE) WR 210 R1: (WC) Katy Dunne UNR v Giulia Gatto-Monticone (ITA) WR 307 R1: (Q) Lucy Brown WR 725 v Anna-Giulia Remondina (ITA) WR 358 R1: Lisa Whybourn WR 272 v (3) Ekaterina Bychkova (RUS) WR 186 (CH 66) R1: (6) Tara Moore WR 207 v Kristina Barrois (GER) WR 276 (CH 57) R1: (WC) Emily Webley-Smith WR 431 v (Q) Anne Kremer (LUX) WR 745 (CH 18) R1: Samantha Murray WR 270 v Severine Beltrame (FRA) WR 242 (CH 34) R1: (2/WC) Anne Keothavong WR 186 v (LL) Mayya Katsitadze (RUS) WR 387
Tough draws for Naomi, Lisa and Tara. The rest must have decent chances of getting through. Suprised that we have no all GB clashes given the numbers of GB players.
Yes, was no doubt odds against no all Brit clashes.
It is also a very bottom half weighted draw for Brits. Jade is in the first quarter, Mel is in the second quarter, and then these last 8 ties listed above actually make up the bottom half of the draw.
So Anne and Tara are in the same quarter and we could theoretically secure a guaranteed British finalist after Round 1, although I'd say odds against that !