indiana wrote:

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Coup Droit wrote:

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PaulM wrote:

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So Nicholls beat Aimee to qualify, pulled out and was replaced by her?

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Yes. It seems so. And seems weird that Olivia would not even give the match a go (does she still get her ranking point for qualifying?). Although, if she's injured, then there's no real point of just turning up, of course.

-- Edited by Coup Droit on Tuesday 25th of August 2015 07:44:10 PM

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Strange.

On the positive side I assume Aimee gets a ranking point for competing in R1, i.e. the point that everyone, including WCs, generally gets for competing in R1 of a 25K, not the additional point that qualifiers would get if they won their R1 match.

If so, that will preserve Aimee's ranking as she will now retain at least 3 counters ( into next year indeed ). She had been due to go down to 2 counters after the US Open.

PS : I'm not sure if Olivia gets a point, CD. I am guessing, perhaps ironically, no.

-- Edited by indiana on Tuesday 25th of August 2015 08:43:09 PM

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 I hope we are not hinted that Olivia deliberately let Aimee in for the points - people get banned for that 

However would it be cost effective for Olivia to stay given her draw against a seeded player? The increase in prize money from final qualifying to 1st round loser won't even cover an extra night stay.

PaulM wrote:

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Neither Olivia nor Aimee get a point for their troubles.

Lucky losers who lose r1 get r1 prize money but FQR points (zero). Qualifiers who pull out before playing round one get FQR prize money and points.

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I'm surprised if that's the case with Aimee  I was making the distinction between the qualifying point from winning the FQR which gets added at the R2 stage, and which I didn't see her getting, and the point for just competing in R1 which I thought all R1 competitors would get.

i.e. that her in theory points progression were 1, 5, 9 ..  ( the standard 25K points ) rather than 1, 6, 10 .... ( what a FQR winner would get ). So, if it was 0, 5, 9, . ( I assume that's the implication ) then I'm wrong ( not for the first time ! ) and a LL is unusually getting less than a standard R1 entrant. But I'm not convinced.