short version: i disagre too many $10K globally, not enough bigger events

long rambeling version:
i disagre that we should hold more women $10K there are plenty of events at this level every single week in europe within easy reach for modern travelers the LTA should subsidise groups like the japanese federation does- they play all round the world every week at all levels in clusters
we got advantage cos were so close to so many $10K in europe we should be able to do that to

the problem with the ITF womens calendar is that there are far to many $10Ks and almost nothing held above it globally every nation is doing the same in isolation - holding $10Ks to give their players a start

when they do get a start theres almost nowhere for them to ever play maybe 1 or 25K+ per week global - this means that these events get over subscribed and players often drop doen to play in them like players whho should be aiming at 50K+ to progress there ranking coming down to $25K because there aint no 75K+ which is where they should be at but they got no choice cos thoses events arent regular enough

so $25K becomes more competitive than its rewards should make it and people coming strait out of $10K often find it hard to progress
when you get to about ~700 in the ranks you should be looking up but its regular for ~150-300 rank players to fill the lists in $25K events- thats a massive jump there aint no $15K really in the year that level is ignored mostly by organisers

this is farther exsasurbated by big - $50K+- events when held often several being held 2/3 in the same week (like this week osprey & croissy) - then nothing for weeks on end elsewhere - the whole global ~WR100-500 swarm on these events
there should be a 50K 2 $25K and about a dozen $10K every week in the feb-sept part of the season

so you go from $10K - your start in the pros to steping up against ~WR250 in $25K and many just get overwelmed and live in $10K forever with a few scraps elsewere
the cream will naturally rise but the pyramid is all unbalanced at the moment

we CAN afford the money as a federation to supply the £25K+ events quota AND at the same time send and subsidise our players to easily reachable events in europe and places like sharm/antlaya
dont mean we should hold none of them but the balance is just about right now

there should be a cycle where we are farming people through their overseas $10K period in to the domestic $25K+ because we have enough prospects and a continuous flow of them and the gooduns have proved themselves capable at the lower level and so will get into bigger home events on merit and do betterer in them stopping the laments of "$25K and we got none through qualies they all lost 1&0 they aint good enough at this level" etc

but the lta need to actualy do stuff for all this to change and that aint gonna happen coz its been like that for donkeys years and nothing ever changes
our sucsesfull players do so in spite of there LTA not coz of it

but looking at the crowds for womens tennis and the interest the whole thing seems in big strife
eg when you got serena WR1 in her backyard in her home nation all conkering champ in a three set thriller against a hot young prospect on a saturday afternoon with no other major sports on and its the only match sceduled at a top level tournament on the calendar (Miami) and the stands are STILL 4/5 empty until half way through the third set when it gets to about 40% full - then well the whole thing seems increasing unsustaneable
the stands even in prem M always empty or thereabouts until SF rounds TV deals cant be so sweet as to offset that all
but then again thats why there so man y events in china now - thats ofseting the imbalance with its mega bucks but that cant last neither

ho hum! [/rant]