Week 36 - ITF ($15K) - Hammamet, Tunisia Clay

Peter too · Tennis legend

Week 36 - ITF ($15K) - Hammamet, Tunisia Clay

steven · Tennis legend

blob wrote:
Jaggy1876 wrote:
Considering how few players we had entered this week it's good to see 4 still in contention on a Friday. It's been a while since that was the case even with more than double that.
I was just lookng at this; not in terms of day of the week so much, although that's true, but in terms of the latter rounds reached.
We have had 4, or more, through to the QF or better on now 8 occasions so far this year; the last time was in week 30, when we had 5, of which 4 came in the same event, the Dublin $15K.
We had 19 entries that week though; this week we have only 6.
Our best was 7, in week 13, across four tournaments (Sharm, Istanvul, Mornington, Obidos). There were 21 entries that week.
So, the proportion of entries through to QF this week is pretty amazing. Unsurprisingly, this all makes this week amongst our best in terms of the ratio of entries/wins, currently at 1.500, placing it third.
Our best week was 2.000 (week 1).
The low number of entries doesn't really skew this, as poor performance by a few of a low number of entries counts equally against the overall total, and indeed, two of our worst four weeks were in weeks with the same number, or fewer, entries than the low number this week.
Well done ladies, and hoping for more

It's definitely been a very good week relative to the number of entrants on the women's side and even on the men's side, the only two players who have picked up points this week (Jay and Ed) have both made it through to Friday too.

Interesting stats re. wins per entrant. Does that mean wins per player in the main draw or are you including qualifying entries/wins? (I realise it doesn't make that much difference on the women's side, since so few GB women play ITF qualifying outside the UK these days, but it would on the men's side - also just realised you may also have answered this indirectly, since we had 7 entrants in total this week but only 6 of them made it into main draws)

I have to take slight issue with "The low number of entries doesn't really skew this, as poor performance by a few of a low number of entries counts equally against the overall total, and indeed, two of our worst four weeks were in weeks with the same number, or fewer, entries than the low number this week." though. It doesn't surprise me at all that weeks with low numbers of entrants have a relatively high chance of being among the best or worst weeks - you'd expect weeks with lots of entrants to tend to cluster closer to the average and weeks with few entrants to have a higher chance of being outliers.

blob · All-time great

steven wrote:
blob wrote:
Jaggy1876 wrote:
Considering how few players we had entered this week it's good to see 4 still in contention on a Friday. It's been a while since that was the case even with more than double that.
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It's definitely been a very good week relative to the number of entrants on the women's side and even on the men's side, the only two players who have picked up points this week (Jay and Ed) have both made it through to Friday too.
Interesting stats re. wins per entrant. Does that mean wins per player in the main draw or are you including qualifying entries/wins? (I realise it doesn't make that much difference on the women's side, since so few GB women play ITF qualifying outside the UK these days, but it would on the men's side - also just realised you may also have answered this indirectly, since we had 7 entrants in total this week but only 6 of them made it into main draws)
I have to take slight issue with "The low number of entries doesn't really skew this, as poor performance by a few of a low number of entries counts equally against the overall total, and indeed, two of our worst four weeks were in weeks with the same number, or fewer, entries than the low number this week." though. It doesn't surprise me at all that weeks with low numbers of entrants have a relatively high chance of being among the best or worst weeks - you'd expect weeks with lots of entrants to tend to cluster closer to the average and weeks with few entrants to have a higher chance of being outliers.

The figures are derived from all pro matches, ITF, WTA, GS & Fed Cup, whether in qualifying or Main Draw, and excludes byes and walkover's, but includes results determined by RET.

For Main Draw only: 53.41% of all Brit Women's matches YTD have been in MD. Which surprises me, I had the anecdotal impression that more of our efforts are in low level qualies, but there you go.
Obviously, this doesn't affect the rankings of numbers reaching QF, or any MD round.
But, for MD only win %, this is, as it stands, currently our most successful week based on matches won vs. matches played.
Here is the full table for MD only:

For your last point: this critique is fair. My caveat was, as ever, inelegant, and was only included becasue I supposed someone might speculate that the good figures might be due to the low entrants alone.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Go, Fran !

Leading 5-1*

blob · All-time great

Easy as pie. 6-1 6-1
Fran's first pro SF (in singles, that is)

Edit: add the bit in parentheses

-- Edited by blob on Friday 8th of September 2017 12:07:18 PM

Michael D · All-time great

Fantastic for Fran. And her 4 points from the week so far lifts her onto 11 points, and into the top 1000 and level points with Olivia Nicholls current GB women's #25. smile biggrin

indiana · Tennis legend

Yay, well done Fran on entering the top 1000 in such style

I think Olivia for now will retain her domestic #25 place based on fewer counters for her 11 points so just go and win at least one more match Fran. A SF win and a further 3 points would have her provisionally as GB #22 and into the top 900.

blob · All-time great

Not going so well for Emily, 3-6 *1-2
Manon, des Sources of the problem. (ahem!)

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Thrilled for Fran.

But I assume our Swedish compatriots are equally thrilled. Their Swedish wildcard is a junior (born 1999), with a very lowly junior ranking, unranked in adults and hasn't even got a single counter until now.

So everyone's happy