R1: NICHOLLS, Olivia (GBR) UNR def. GREY, Sarah Beth (GBR) 850 7-5 6-4

Indi said yesterday "So with Olivia having 2 counters Bad Beth stands in the way of her getting a ranking."
Well this time, Olivia comes out on top and gets the valuable point

Edit - typo on score corrected 6-4 not 6-7 !

the addict wrote:

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R1: NICHOLLS, Olivia (GBR) UNR def. GREY, Sarah Beth (GBR) 850 7-5 6-7

Indi said yesterday "So with Olivia having 2 counters Bad Beth stands in the way of her getting a ranking."
Well this time, Olivia comes out on top and gets the valuable point

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 Is the 2nd set score the wrong way round or was there a third set?

Must be tricky playing your dubs partner

The Optimist wrote:

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Regarding sign-in, I think the current system is quite practical for lower level tournaments. MD players don't have to sign-in the day before, just turn up on the day in time for their matches. If they don't (and invariably some don't), LLs can be promoted from the qualifying draw and a full draw of players can be given a chance to play.  If people don't turn up for the Q draw (even more common than a no show in the MD), then there would just be a half empty draw if sign-in were just before the matches.  Making people turn up the evening before means local players can turn up on spec and take any empty places in the Q draw.  If they don't get in at the end of sign in, they know they aren't going to and can go home.  If they do, they can prepare properly for their matches the next day.  Quite a few girls in the Q draw would not be there without this system.

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 You've clearly never had to drive a child two hours to a tournament just to sign in on A Friday afternoon having had to take time off work who then gets a bye to the next round so had to come back two days later, great fun. Online sign in with a hefty deposit should be available as opposed to this horrendous waste of time. Certainly prevents some players (parents) from entering as it's such a pain and a waste of time. It's 2016 life has moved on, parts of tennis is stuck in the 1950s still it seems.

Regarding question about age of players it just seemed a bit strange as one of the 15 yr olds was playing a 17 yr old so not really a big deal? I get the general principle Though I suppose.

Kenneth wrote:

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The Optimist wrote:

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Regarding sign-in, I think the current system is quite practical for lower level tournaments. MD players don't have to sign-in the day before, just turn up on the day in time for their matches. If they don't (and invariably some don't), LLs can be promoted from the qualifying draw and a full draw of players can be given a chance to play.  If people don't turn up for the Q draw (even more common than a no show in the MD), then there would just be a half empty draw if sign-in were just before the matches.  Making people turn up the evening before means local players can turn up on spec and take any empty places in the Q draw.  If they don't get in at the end of sign in, they know they aren't going to and can go home.  If they do, they can prepare properly for their matches the next day.  Quite a few girls in the Q draw would not be there without this system.

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 You've clearly never had to drive a child two hours to a tournament just to sign in on A Friday afternoon having had to take time off work who then gets a bye to the next round so had to come back two days later, great fun. Online sign in with a hefty deposit should be available as opposed to this horrendous waste of time. Certainly prevents some players (parents) from entering as it's such a pain and a waste of time. It's 2016 life has moved on, parts of tennis is stuck in the 1950s still it seems.

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 Driven plenty of kids to tournaments......so have huge sympathy with your take on this!!  Clearly from the players that are accepted, on-line sign in would be great, but I still feel it would deny local kids the chance to take the places of no-shows.  There would always be those whose signed in online, pulled a muscle, felt sick, missed a travel connection and then local kids wishing to take their place in the Q draw would have to hang around as an onsite alternate until the last Q match had started before finding out whether or not they had got in.