Entries Week 4 - 20/01/2014

Jaggy1876 · Grand Slam Champion

RE: Entries Week 4 - 20/01/2014

seagull · Hall of fame

Katy Dunne going for a $10K in Egypt rather than the $25K in Sunderland (where she would surely have got a wild-card)?

The Optimist · ATP qualifying

seagull wrote:
Katy Dunne going for a $10K in Egypt rather than the $25K in Sunderland (where she would surely have got a wild-card)?

Think she's already had her 3 MD wildcards for this 12 months - Edgbaston, Wimby, Wrexham

seagull · Hall of fame

Oh OK - Fair enough then

Jaggy1876 · Grand Slam Champion

The 10k in Egypt is nearly as strong as the 25k at the minute.

paulisi · Tennis legend

Just on the Dan Cox schedule, out to Aus for one match then back to UK for 10k, when he could have stayed in Aus and played very weak challengers. The cut off at Burnie is 415

RJA · Hall of fame

paulisi wrote:
Just on the Dan Cox schedule, out to Aus for one match then back to UK for 10k, when he could have stayed in Aus and played very weak challengers. The cut off at Burnie is 415

While I would have liked to see Dan play Burnie, and Adelaide the following week, it is only fair to point out that Burnie doesn't start for another 18 days.

DavidC · Tennis legend

One notable name in the alternates for Lanzarote is Jazzi Plews, who endured a horrendous 2013 after an equally promising 2012

indiana · Tennis legend

Be great to see Jazzi come back and have a good year, and I've just got this feeling she will.

paulisi · Tennis legend

Jaggy1876 wrote:
The 10k in Egypt is nearly as strong as the 25k at the minute.

logical decision if you are chasing points. Super strong 25k, will be difficult to qualify, never mind get to the first round and pick up a 6th point. Whereas Katy should get to QF or better in a 10K for similar points.

PockyTastic · Futures level

indiana wrote:
Be great to see Jazzi come back and have a good year, and I've just got this feeling she will.

Ditto. She had all that momentum going into 2013, but then a string of losses followed by injury derailed her year completely. She's still only 16 so there is huge scope for her in 2014 (though she will have to go back down to G4s etc in juniors during to her ranking slipping so dramatically - 91 to 900+).

Salmon · Tennis legend

I'm afraid that Coxy will be playing the same Futures next year, too. He's not defending those post-Wimbly points unless he's a contender for Challenger titles, and he's not going to learn to beat top-150 players regularly by playing Futures.

paulisi · Tennis legend

Nearly all our girls have withdrawn from Egypt. Very strange - travel issues or change in allocation of WC for Sunderland.

Spectator · All-time great

FCO has Sharm and the transfer to its airport as one of the few exceptions in its "avoid all but essential travel" zone at present: www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/egypt That may not be a factor, but it may be; there are concerns around the referendum, the situation is volatile, etc.

-- Edited by Spectator on Monday 13th of January 2014 08:20:49 PM

seagull · Hall of fame

Wild Cards in Sunderland for Konotopseva, Asghar, Askew so far, and qualifying WC's for Dunne, Bamburac, George, Covington and Dixon