indiana wrote:

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Further to the discussions about the lack of British unranked players here with as said many playing county week, I was noticing how many fewer unranked players with any counters we currently have compared to the end of last year. This appears to be principally due to sparse grass season pickings compared to last year.

Currently we have 34 ranked players plus 13 unranked players with at least one cointer ( 5 with two counters, 8 with one )

At the end of 2016 ( thanks again to Steven for easily accessible info on this ) we had 35 ranked players plus 22 unranked players with at least one counter ( 7 with two counters, 15 with one ).

Of the 13 currently unranked players with counters only 4 have a counter this year and just 3 of these during the GB grass season ( Louise Holtum, Olivia Peet and Akeksandra Pitak with single points from Manchester ). Tiffany Williams has 2 points from a Portugal hard court 25K+H. The other 9 have no 2017 counters so come year end we may have relatively very few unranked players with any counters at all.

This Dublin week does look to have been one of the better opportunities to pick up the odd point ( with say qualification from an unranked qualifying field and a decent R1 draw - and any non seed was outside the top 890 ) and as said the upcoming Woking 25K entry list doesn't suggest any at all easy pickings.

But then I know relatively nothing about what county week offers current active players other than what I have read here.

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 This above stat for this year is probably a good thing. I'd rather see players ranked that have a chance to make it, rather than a fudging of the figures by picking up ranking points by playing other Brits. The semi-pro or backpacker type players if you like being cut out is probably what will happen in the coming years anyway. I can see pros and cons to this.

Emily won 6-3 6-1

R2: APPLETON, Emily (GBR) 6 849 def ROBINSON, Monica (USA) Q UNR 6-3 6-1
R2: DEIGMAN, Laura (GBR) 997 def BYRNE, Julie (IRL) WC UNR 6-1 6-3
R2: BURRAGE, Jodie Anna (GBR) 891 def BASTIN, Juliette (BEL) Q UNR 6-3 6-3
R2: GREY, Sarah Beth (GBR) 8 859 def RODGERS, Amanda (USA) Q 968 6-3 6-4

QF: APPLETON, Emily (GBR) 6 849 v BOWTELL, Anna (IRL) WC UNR 17yo JCH=638
QF: DEIGMAN, Laura (GBR) 997 v BURRAGE, Jodie Anna (GBR) 891
QF: GREY, Sarah Beth (GBR) 8 859 v GLEASON, Quinn (USA) 2 625 =CH

Michael D wrote:

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Beth taken out pretty comfortably there by the #2 seed. Lost 4-6 2-6

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 Closer than the scoreline would suggest - 5 points difference in the first set, and only 6 in the second. But it's the crucial points that count of course

I assume you mean yesterday. Today she is set up so far against Anna Bowtell 6-3 *0-1

Emily won 6-3 7-6(1)

Good day for Emily. Into the doubles final as well as the singles SF.

SF: (2) Emily Appleton & Quinn Gleason (USA) beat (WC) Georgia Drummy & Helena Jansen Figueras (IRL/ESP) 4-6 7-5 [10-6]

F: (2) Emily Appleton & Quinn Gleason (USA) vs Giorgia Marchetti & (1) Rosalie van Der Hoek (ITA/NED)