Well congrats to Emma, the only win against the seedings during qualifying, and giving us 3 Brits going through to the main draw, which is one more than I expected today.
Here's the full draw with all Brit players, and Brit player names first. Two all GB draws as paulisi mentions. Rankings provided for GBR players are updated to this week from Steven's list, those for their opponents now also updated to this week.
R1: APPLETON, Emily (GBR) WC 846 vs PAOLINI, Jasmine (ITA) 1 133 R1: HURST, Emma (GBR) Q 1106 vs BARNETT, Alicia (GBR) WC 792 R1: MURRAY, Samantha (GBR) Q 610 vs BURRAGE, Jodie Anna (GBR) WC 891 R1: TAYLOR, Gabriella (GBR) 310 vs MARCINKEVICA, Diana (LAT) 338 CH:196 Apr 14 R1: LUMSDEN, Maia (GBR) WC 665 vs MELNIKOVA, Marina (RUS) Q 617 CH:170 May 15 R1: CHRISTIE, Freya (GBR) 385 vs LEE, Ya-Hsuan (TPE) 8 274 CH:186 Apr 16 R1: SILVA, Eden (GBR) Q 583 vs BUZARNESCU, Mihaela (ROU) 2 142
-- Edited by Michael D on Monday 31st of July 2017 05:25:51 PM
Yes, its a great article. Even though we all know it's tough it still puts things into perspective well - and makes it clear that Eden is very ambitious! Well good luck to her, and in that case, this is a very important coming year for her, since she needs her ranking to improve 250+ places in the coming year if she is really to have any chance of making some kind of living from tennis.
I'm not sure Emily App quite has it in her (do so hope to be wrong) but top seed, Paolini, was the player that Eden most certainly should have won the first set against in the Wimbly qualis, and then maybe the match.
She really seems to be a clay court player and Eden made her look very ordinary for a large chunk of that match.
Well we 're certainly throwing numbers into the top seed's quarter ( Emily App and the two all Brit ties ) and from CD's account she may well not be the worst seed to be in with.