I misread your post and though Jodie had lost.

Still going in a tight second set.

lost 7-6 7-6....

Very unfortunate for Jodie, but as far as the entry lists are concerned there is certainly a good argument for them coming out some weeks in advance with clearly defined entry dates ( and the rankings thus that they are based on ), allowing players to firm up plans as they see where they stand.

To me only how far ahead these lists should be is open to argument, but leaving them later doesn't help such as flight deals in amongst general planning. And it would clearly be a nonsense to update the order after the entry lists come out leaving far too much uncertainty.

-- Edited by indiana on Friday 27th of May 2016 05:03:50 PM

Oh, well, blind luck it is then. She's still down on the entry list for Eastbourne, but probably too late and too upset to play.

Off topic...

In the adult ranks it's worse. The points from last week's Korean 25k where Harriet made the final weren't added this week, because...? won't be added next week either, because the French Open, because....?, then they can be used for entry lists to tournaments in the first week of Wimbledon, which is 6 weeks after the tournament was actually played. With the extra 50 points added, the Korean winner of that tournament could go up from WR252 to WR213 -good enough for Wimbledon qualifiers, but too late, if it takes the powers-that-be 6 weeks to do some simple adding up. She'll probably spend the week of Wimbledon qualies playing a 10k in Korea, or at a 25k somewhere in Europe; while her place in Roehampton is taken by some woman with less ranking points, who very pôssibly hasn't won a match in 2016, but is preferred on the basis of some good results in July-Sep 2015. It's a system that is remarkably prejudicial to in-form players, rapidly improving players and, most annoyingly of all, all the young players.

Rant over.

Gutted for Jodie. I think she's been cheated.

I do agree that in this day and age, when tournament results from around the world can be collated so easily, there is no need for the one week delay in adding ranking points for senior ITFs up to and including 25Ks. I believe there is no delay for juniors.

Otherwise, while Jodie has been very unlucky on a number of mutually exclusive counts she has not been cheated, specifically not cheated by the very understandable practice of having ordered entry lists a number of weeks before tournaments.

I personally cannot see how letting late results count to or change the order would not result in real inconvenience if not a bit of chaos for the planning reasons I have given earlier unless anyone has any alternative practical solution? There are enough doubts for players just outside cut-offs without later and/or moveable lists!

I think there are reasons that I have not previously seen entry list dates being argued / debated. Probably because there is no clear better way.

-- Edited by indiana on Friday 27th of May 2016 11:12:36 PM

Bad luck Jodie; GL on the grass :)