Entries Week 8 - 17/02/2014

paulisi · Tennis legend

RE: Entries Week 8 - 17/02/2014

paulisi · Tennis legend

In the men's events looks like 6 out of the eight seeds will be Brits, but just 8 in the main draw so far.

JWH withdrawn, so I'm guessing still injured.

I would expect Cam, George M, Coups and Bloomers to get wc's

Jaggy1876 · Grand Slam Champion

Laura Deigman with a wild card is a strange one can't see any value in that for anyone. Other than a Brit who might draw her of course.

paulisi · Tennis legend

Aren't the LTA limiting to 3 per calendar year, so all the usual players have none left?

indiana · Tennis legend

Really ? In the middle of February ?

The Optimist · ATP qualifying

paulisi wrote:
Aren't the LTA limiting to 3 per calendar year, so all the usual players have none left?

Not the LTA, the ITF/WTA rules are that a player can have a max of 6 WCs in a calendar year, only 3 of which can be for MD.

RJA · Hall of fame

Would you believe it. Last week Tom Farquharson had the best week of his career beating Corrie and Smethurst on the way to his first futures title. This week he played a British Tour event and got injured (he retired during his second round match) and has now pulled out of Nottingham.

freerider · Futures level

that's horrible luck. Poor guy. hopefully nothing too serious

RJA · Hall of fame

In better news Marseille is starting to look like a pretty week field. Of the 19 original DAs, 8 have withdrawn including Berdych, Wawrinka, Raonic and Janowicz.

As it stands Gasquet, Tsonga, Gulbis and Seppi will be the top 4 seeds and thus have a first round bye. After that come the likes of Dodig, Benneteau, Roger-Vasselin and Mahut and there are also 5 DAs ranked outside the top 100. Therefore there is a good chance of Kyle getting a match where he at least has a glimmer of hope.

-- Edited by RJA on Friday 14th of February 2014 06:36:11 PM

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

RJA wrote:
In better news Marseille is starting to look like a pretty week field. Of the 19 original DAs, 9 have withdrawn including Berdych, Wawrinka, Raonic and Janowicz.

As it stands Gasquet, Tsonga, Gulbis and Seppi will be the top 4 seeds and thus have a first round bye. After that come the likes of Dodig, Benneteau, Roger-Vasselin and Mahut and there are also 5 DAs ranked outside the top 100. Therefore there is a good chance of Kyle getting a match where he at least has a glimmer of hope.

Any news on Evo ? Is he playing Qualies tomorrow.

I am heading out the door in 5 mins to begin the long drive.

RJA · Hall of fame

Qualifying draw is made at 9PM local time. I expect Evo to be in it and hopefully Ward as well.

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

RJA wrote:
Qualifying draw is made at 9PM local time. I expect Evo to be in it and hopefully Ward as well.

I had better get a move on then. Thanks for the info.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Bob in Spain wrote:
RJA wrote:
Qualifying draw is made at 9PM local time. I expect Evo to be in it and hopefully Ward as well.
I had better get a move on then. Thanks for the info.

Drive carefully !

freerider · Futures level

Darren Walsh has turned up in qualies for the Mexican hard court challenger.