Giving a MDWC to a player who only needs one more counter (eg Nell Miller or Anna Popescu) would be a totally sensible thing to do. I suspect, however, that the LTA do not even look at or probably even know about the situation of such players!
-- Edited by telstar on Saturday 2nd of June 2018 11:04:07 AM
I'm not sure, 100k WCs are pretty lucrative and there's not that many of them to go around and there'd be a fair few in the qualifiers pretty annoyed if they were overlooked for someone more than likely a walking bye who would be lucky to get a sniff of a game against people in the top 200.
The MTO in Ems match can't have been for her - she's taken the last six games.
Didn't see this before i commented. Chang had been in decent form with some notable wins in recent months so this would be a great win for Emily, even if did turn out to be slightly assisted.
The MTO in Ems match can't have been for her - she's taken the last six games.
Didn't see this before i commented. Chang had been in decent form with some notable wins in recent months so this would be a great win for Emily, even if did turn out to be slightly assisted.
Chang had her right thigh strapped but in all honesty I'm not sure it made a huge amount of difference. Simply, Emily can play on grass and she can't. EWS relied on a heavy slice and some nimble net-work at any opportunity, and a very erratic service from Chang. I would guess the DF count must have been well into double figures?
The MTO in Ems match can't have been for her - she's taken the last six games.
Didn't see this before i commented. Chang had been in decent form with some notable wins in recent months so this would be a great win for Emily, even if did turn out to be slightly assisted.
Chang had her right thigh strapped but in all honesty I'm not sure it made a huge amount of difference. Simply, Emily can play on grass and she can't. EWS relied on a heavy slice and some nimble net-work at any opportunity, and a very erratic service from Chang. I would guess the DF count must have been well into double figures?
Emily 8 aces, 3 DF (2 DF and 3 aces in one game in 2nd set)
Nell is one counter ( ie one qualifying win here ) off being ranked. Emilie Lindh Gallagher, mentioned in the Israel 15K thread ( though rather more because she is not playing ), is our only other player currently on 2 counters.
Laura Sainsbury and Anna Popescu also have 2 counters. Anna was an Alt here. Both are entered into Manchester and Ilkley.
Thanks and apologies. I had actually a note of Anna's counters but failed to make 1+1 = 2. Had missed Laura.