It will be very interesting to see how the tournament pans out, there are a number of girls either about to or playing college tennis in different conferences and occupying different slots in the order in each programme.

E.g Nell Miller is about to go to Texas Tech (Big 12) who have made the elite 8 last two years in the NCAA final tournament, two girls making the NCAA singles tournament, ie girls in the no 1and 2 slots. Great coach, great programme. Where as Holly Hutchinson dominated a less powerful conference in the No. 1 slot as a freshman (conference freshman of the year) for Old Dominion and again did well as a sophmore (all conference first team) but had limited opportunity at national tournaments as Conference USA although NCAA div 1 is generally weaker and so only gets one slot in the national tournament each year and usually fails with any at large bid as OD missed out this year. Both the head coach and assistant coach won regional coach of the year (12 regions nationally) so again presently great coaching, great programme but week in week out at a lower level than in the power conferences.

Finally, some results posted from today

QF lineup for tomorrow
Samantha Murray [1/436] v Aleksandra Topalovic
Victoria Allen [4] v Lily Hutchings

Sasha Hill [7] v Nell Miller [3]
Katherine Barnes v Ella Taylor [2/1144]

Can't blame Sam for getting in matches here but her ranking means she doesn't need the Wimbledon Q play-offs WC on offer here.

And if she wins the title that WC won't be given to the losing finalist or at least it doesn't have to be the way the LTA have worded things.

I think giving Nell a QWC play off place wouldnt be a decent reward for her efforts on the British tour. Nell missed out on Wimbledon last year and is still eligible for the junior tournament so hopefully will get a crack in one shape or form it would square the circle and is a sort of validation of the junior under 14 road to Wimbledon tournament lots of kids play in in their clubs which she won in 2014.

Well, good to see Sam playing again, finally, even if her presence seems to have screwed up the WCs.

Away from the major matches this week, a Tier 2 three-day tournament at the NTC in Roehampton (outdoor hard court)

Semi finals:-

Holly Hutchinson [1] def Aleksandra Topalovic 6-1 6-0
Tiegan Aitken [6] def Lillian Mould [2] 6-1 6-3

Final
Holly Hutchinson [1] def Tiegan Aitken [6] 6-0 6-0

Good to see Holly playing, but far too good for Tier 2 tournaments. A bit more competition next week at West Worthing with Summer Yardley and Laurs Sainsbury on the entry list.