Entries - Week 18 - 02/05/2016

paulisi · Tennis legend

Entries - Week 18 - 02/05/2016

paulisi · Tennis legend

Plenty of opportunities on the clay for big points for the girls with effectively 3 x 100Ks on at the same time and a 75k and a 50K.

Talk about scheduling - these big tournaments are like buses....

paulisi · Tennis legend

challengers updated

paulisi · Tennis legend

priority 1 added for ITF

paulisi · Tennis legend

Waiting for double entries to be removed, but entry lists look very weak outside of Europe.

Katy Dunne looks like making main draw for a 75k+H whilst Freya would have got into a 100K in China, but is also down for Japan

paulisi · Tennis legend

Still double entries for Harris, Deigman and Foster on the site, but updated as best

Nice to see Gosea back. Freya is playing the 100K on clay, although I suspect the plan may have been to play Japan and then the grass season there

DF · Tennis legend

Freya has withdrawn from the 100K in China

paulisi · Tennis legend

DF wrote:
Freya has withdrawn from the 100K in China

Not a surprise - I think it was an entry error. She's not played on clay all season and I'm certain was looking at the weeks in Japan on grass. Just waiting for the 50K on grass for next week to be released to see if she is down for that.

wimdledont · Challenger level

Shame that Freya has withdrawn from China, as the field is very weak. The 4th seed would not make the main draw at the French 100k in the same week.

She is also down for a Turkish 10k the following week, not the Japanese 'grass' 50k, so I presume she'll not be off for a mini-tour of Asia, but hanging around Europe for the rest of the clay season, waiting for the grass to start.

EDIT: Though I see she is now hanging on my every word, withdrawing from Turkey as I typed the above. So presumably off to Japan (qualifying, at present).

-- Edited by wimdledont on Tuesday 26th of April 2016 10:39:20 AM

paulisi · Tennis legend

ITF is updated.

I assume Evan, Billy Harris, Laura D are all injured as they have withdrawn again. Nice to see some of mid rankers(Katy, EWS, Mandy, Mirabelle etc) having a go at some of the bigger ITF's

theemptyvessel · Club Coach

Bedene is several places out from making the MD and did not enter qualifying in Madrid so if he is to play there he is going to need either a qualifying or MD wild card. If he is going the WC route for this week he might rather try and get into the Rome challenger where he is the defending champion. He certainly could use a week where he strings some wins together on clay before RG.

paulisi · Tennis legend

Looks like Lloyd has gone across to S Korea and A Ward was on his way - last heard at Tokyo airport waiting for a connection

Spaced · Lower Club Player

After playing pretty much exclusively on clay in futures all year, I find it strange A Ward has decided to make the step up to challenger qualies on hard courts during clay court season. I must be missing something regarding the logic behind his schedule...

Jaggy1876 · Grand Slam Champion

Maybe Alex is thinking it might be easier to chase points that might get him to Wimbledon qualies. The fields will be weaker on hard court challengers over the next few weeks. Makes sense as he doesn't have a chance of making French Open anymore. That may also be why he pulled out of the futures over the last 3 weeks as that ship had sailed.

Hoppy · Junior player

Apparently there's an LTA coach gone out too (I don't mean evo's) - sounds like invited trip maybe????