Entries Week 18 - 04/05/2015

paulisi · Tennis legend

Entries Week 18 - 04/05/2015

wimdledont · Challenger level

With Moore, Dart And Cavaday all choosing the Japan grass 50k as first preference, and currently Alts3,4,5, we could have 7 of the UK top 10 playing there.

NaomiB is the defending champ, and defending her biggest ever title, and her highest current ranking points score.

-- Edited by wimdledont on Thursday 16th of April 2015 05:12:01 PM

philwrig · Hall of fame

Interestingly Katy D has entered the Cagnes tournament as her 1st choice, would be nice to see her have a crack at the clay.

paulisi · Tennis legend

Don't take too much notice of preferences for the girls. Katy is out in the far east.

indiana · Tennis legend

I have heard it said that many of the girls just enter a load of tournaments in almost random order and make their final choice later.

Which is fair enough, although I assume means that they have to be vigilant later and withdraw from higher priority tournaments.

For as I understand it there comes a date that the ITF just leaves you in the highest priority tournament you remain entered in ?

The Optimist · ATP qualifying

1. If a player has made MD in any of the events entered, they are withdrawn from all others and then left in the MD event to which they have given the highest priority.

2. If they haven't made MD in any of them, they are left in all events in which they have made Q and withdrawn from all others and then assigned to the Q event to which the have given the highest priority.

3. If they haven't made MD or Q of any tournaments, they remain on all lists in which the are alt but can still withdraw at any point up to a couple of days before the event. The moment they move onto a Q list (due to late withdrawals), they are removed from all other events regardless of priority and are then committed to that event and cannot withdraw without penalty.

indiana · Tennis legend

Thanks, The Optimist, very interesting and helpful.

wimdledont · Challenger level

Huge week for the women, this being the start of the grass court season.

Particularly for NaomiB, who picked up 170 points on the green stuff in 2014. If you consider that only 16 girls will have got more than that at Wimbledon, NB might well be among the top 25 or so grass-court players over the last 12 months.

Or, if your glass is half empty, she has shedloads of points to defend coming up. Nearly 60% of her total.

wolf · Tennis legend

These tournaments are on artificial grass, don't think it can be counted as the grass court season.

Of course, it's all good for Naomi.

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Anyone know if Wardy is going to have a go a Madrid qualies ? Can't find the list of players on the website.

paulisi · Tennis legend

Bob in Spain wrote:
Anyone know if Wardy is going to have a go a Madrid qualies ? Can't find the list of players on the website.

currently 9th alt for qualifying - separate draw for qualifying

wolf · Tennis legend

paulisi wrote:
Bob in Spain wrote:
Anyone know if Wardy is going to have a go a Madrid qualies ? Can't find the list of players on the website.
currently 9th alt for qualifying - separate draw for qualifying

But he is down for Ostrava challenger the week before so if he goes deep in that he can't play Madrid.

indiana · Tennis legend

I suspect James would put up with that 'problem' :)

The Optimist · ATP qualifying

indiana wrote:
I suspect James would put up with that 'problem' :)

But BiS might not be so understanding after a drive to the Spanish capital smile

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

The Optimist wrote:
indiana wrote:
I suspect James would put up with that 'problem' :)
But BiS might not be so understanding after a drive to the Spanish capital

As far as Wardy is concerned, I'll take anything that gets him into the top 100, although hopefully that milestone is done and dusted by then. I will have plenty of alternatives if he is still playing the Challenger. My master plan is to travel up to Mostoles early on Fri 1st May where, as long as Willbomb doesn't let me down by getting knocked out early, he will be playing his quarter final. That is just outside Madrid. Sat and Sun will depend on Marcus progressing and whatever GB action is scheduled in Madrid. They often start the doubles and women earlier, so there is a chance the Jamie/John, Dom/whoever and Heather might be playing.

Mon and Tues will definitely be at the Madrid Masters, after which I will either be back home, or if TAP pilots cancel their strike, I could be flying back out to Brazil from Madrid on the Weds.

Lots of jigsaw pieces in there. We'll just have to see how they fit when the time comes.