Ace Ventura wrote:

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Is Katie playing Rogers quals net week as I see she is pretty much the only Brit of the group not featured in Landisville.

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JonH wrote:

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Shame for Katie. As an aside I noticed in us open qualies she is joined by 5 others Brits as well as jo in main draw. 6 in qualies must be a recent high mark?

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No, no, no!
This is the wrong question!
I'm currently looking at GB main draw participation at general WTA level events; not qualification!

So here is the numbers for that, which shows just how sparse our WTA main draw presence has previously been.
The lines are deliberately broken if we have no players in a WTA main draw in any given week, so as to show the gaps.
A single dot shows that we had a player in that week, but nothing the weeks either side. A continuous line shows that we had players in contiguous weeks for the duration of the line.

I've highlighted the weeks of the GB events, and if we had a player in an overseas event in those weeks, they are plotted in the standard colour (it's Laura twice in 's-Hertogenbosch, and JoKo once in Copenhagen that ventured to other grass events during GB weeks)

Slams are excluded, as are year end events and Fed Cup, and $125K challengers.

The longest continuous stretch of weeks where we had GB participation was 6 weeks, weeks 38-43 of 2012 - the period that included Laura's Guangzhou final, and Hev's first GB WTA title in 30 years, In Osaka.

If I include Slams and $125K, then we get this:

Qualifying though, is in a whole other set of files that I'd need to download to look at it

JonH wrote:

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Wrong question but good answer!

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To answer the question which was actually asked:

Michael D wrote:

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So Wimbledon is the only GS we haven't had a women qualifier in over the last decade...  

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Yup. Our better players get MDWC, where as they have to qualify at the other Slams.

Edit: which naturally means that our actual entrants in to Wimbledon qualifying are themselvew QWC, and playing above their level. They thus find it harder to qualify than do our good players playing at an earned level, as of right, and of which they have proven capable on merit, in the other Slams.

Ace Ventura wrote:

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[...] Kiick's left thigh looks well strapped - did she have that vs Katie the other day?

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No, against Katie, for once, she was (seemingly) injury free.
She does have a heck of a story though: https://www.citiopentennis.com/news/american-allie-kiick-continues-long-road-back-123