Week 24 - Wimbledon Wilcard Play-offs - Wimbledon, UK - Grass

DF · Tennis legend

RE: Week 24 - Wimbledon Wilcard Play-offs - Wimbledon, UK - Grass

PaulM · Tennis legend

Go on CD, you know you want to. If they shout at you feign ignorance and start speaking French.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

PaulM wrote:
Go on CD, you know you want to. If they shout at you feign ignorance and start speaking French.

smile smile smile

You're spot on - sorely tempted !

And I do still carry my old French federation ID card which I used to great effect to march past some officious security guy last year...

Not sure I can tomorrow though (lost your bottle, CD?)

ricardo89 · Junior player

Any scores?? 😊😊

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

the mens first round results are up but no live scores.... :(

Wakey · Junior player

Coup Droit wrote:
indiana wrote:
Didn't one of the forum just brazenly turn up for the play-offs last year, asked where to park and then just sauntered in and had a great day's tennis watching, just by giving the impression that they were meant to be there

yes, and I was tempted to do that.... but it's a way to go if you then get found out and have to come home....
Agree with Scottie, can't for the life of me why you would ban the public.... surely this should be one of those events that has that 'buzz' about it - and the true underdog story that Brits love - youngster comes through out of nowhere - or 'old dog' Bloomers gets last chance - or whatever.

Most likely a combination of Health and Saftey regulations and insurance. There's much more regulations and requirements for a public event and obviously insuring to cover the general public rather than for a small number of officials, players and the players entourages is going to be more expensive.

PaulM · Tennis legend

This is the LTA and the AELTC we are talking about. Given the headhunter fees the LTA are paying for finding performance directors, they can afford to allow for circa 100 spectators at wild card play-offs.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

A couple of women's results in:

Jodie def. Jazzamay 7-6(3) 6-3

Emily A def. Holly H 6-4 6-4

Cav def. Lauryn 6-2 6-4

wimdledont · Challenger level

3 scores are up.

Cavaday 6-2, 6-4; Arbuthnott 6-4, 6-4; and Burrage 7-6(3), 6-3, through so far.

Cav appears to be the only UK tennis journalist. Now she's no longer busy, perhaps she might start tweeting some scores.

This is the most important UK domestic tournament isn't it? Is there any other point in playing the British Tour, other than winning a place in this?

PaulM · Tennis legend

Good, if unsurprising, win for Jodie.

Decent effort from Lauryn as well to take 6 games.

The delay in Fran v Lucy score might suggest its good 3 sets, which wouldn't surprise me either.

-- Edited by PaulM on Thursday 18th of June 2015 01:10:12 PM

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

List of entrants (think the excludes are just done alphabetically)

Qualification Emily Webley-Smith 1/300
Qualification Naomi Cavaday 2/370
Qualification Tara Moore 3/382
Qualification Francesca Stephenson 4/600
Qualification Emily Arbuthnott
Qualification Jasmine Amber Asghar
Qualification Beth Askew
Qualification Lucy Brown
Qualification Jodie Burrage
Qualification Freya Christie
Qualification Ali Collins
Qualification Mollie Crouch
Qualification Laura Deigman
Qualification Jazzamay Drew
Qualification Holly Hutchinson
Qualification Lauryn John-Baptiste
Exclude List Emily Appleton
Exclude List Francesca Beg
Exclude List Katie Dyson
Exclude List Ceire Mullins
Exclude List Olivia Peet
Exclude List Savannah Sills
Exclude List Elise Van Heuvelen
Exclude List Tiffany William

PaulM · Tennis legend

Lucy beat Fran 75 46 62

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Good, I'm pleased :)

wimdledont · Challenger level

Tara and Beth have won, and will play each other next.

PaulM · Tennis legend

Em wins 7-4 in a third set breaker.

Woohoo!! (Sorry Freya, you have plenty of time ahead of you)