Vandenburg wrote:

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Coup Droit wrote:

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25/03/19

In the men's ITF rankings this week, Evan Hoyt continues his inexorable march to the top:

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 YES BUT WHAT DOES THIS MEAN?????  DOES he now get to enter challenger qualifying??????

I DO NOT UNDERSTAND THIS?

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As of January, this meant that you got into Challenger Main draw or qualifying:

In 2019, ATP Challenger tournaments will have a 48 Main Draw and a 4-player qualifying draw.

     - With the exception of the current top level of Challenger tournaments, $150k+H, each ATP Challenger tournament will reserve 4 places in the Main Draw for the top ITF-ranked players who apply, and 3 places in the Qualifying Draw.

     - In addition to the Reserved places, players with an ITF World Tennis Ranking can be accepted into ATP Challengers via Direct Acceptances, if there are still places available after all entered ATP-ranked players have been accepted.

     - Players with National Rankings cannot be accepted into ATP Challenger tournaments via their National Ranking.

Main Draw (48 draw)

     - Direct Acceptances (37), accepted in the following order:
              - ATP/WTA ranking
              - ITF World Ranking
              - 4 reserved places for the best ITF World Ranked players who enter
              - 5 Wild Cards
              - 2 qualifiers

Qualifying Draw (4 draw)
     - 3 reserved places for the best ITF World Ranked players who enter
     - 1 Wild Card

 

However, apparently there have been some changes re the quali draw??? Not sure. 

But MD is still the same. So, depending on the depth of ITF entrants, Evan is certainly getting close to getting into challengers.

Lowest 34 (<4 pts) as per women

recent events

 

There are lots of half-decent moves up in the lower ranks, which is normal, given we've had a home event. This is the top 100 and the main upward movers in the top 500

15/04/19

ITF rankings

17 HOYT, Evan +2
62 DRAPER, Jack -3
75 GLASSPOOL, Lloyd +16


Brydan Klein +5 to 123
Mark Whitehouse +10 to 221
Neil P +9 to 394

Coup Droit wrote:

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If you think our lads have got it bad, seemingly the Indian tennis players are soon to become an extinct species:

www.newindianexpress.com/sport/tennis/2019/apr/11/52-players-0-matches-itf-rules-hit-indians-hard-1962865.html

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 The angle I havent heard commented on before in this is that sponsors arent interested in getting involved with ITF M15 events as they have no ATP points on offer. Presumably that is the case in GB as well and I can see it - sponsors want to sponsor events with genuine world rankings impact, ATP , not second tier ITF Ranking events

Evan is now ITF 15, which must open the door for him to practically any ITF reserved slot event

Our top 200 looks like this:

22/04/19

15 HOYT, Evan +2
63 DRAPER, Jack -1
79 GLASSPOOL, Lloyd -4

130 KLEIN, Brydan -7
161 PENISTON, Ryan +12
165 MCHUGH, Aidan +1


Lots of other important jumps too, but lower down the rankings.....

www.itftennis.com/procircuit/rankings/rankings-list/players.aspx

I just found a facebook group called "Change ITF Rules - United Tennis" over 4k users on board already. A lot of interesting discussion between players and other tennis enthusiasts.

The top 100 is pretty static but Ryan P is now knocking on the door, and David Fox leaps up over 1000 places to be in the top-1000:

20/05/19

27 HOYT, Evan +1
53 DRAPER, Jack +1
66 GLASSPOOL, Lloyd +4

109 PENISTON, Ryan +54

319 STORRIE, Ryan James +16
616 CANTER, Alex +10
969 FOX, David +1004

1145 RECCI, Mason +73
1350 JHUN, Alex +209
1369 KIVANDA, Sizya +24
1531 CARTER, Rob +68
1562 MURPHY, Brandon +431
1884 ROMAY, Alex +337

2238 GIBBENS, Jack +291
2293 LLEWELLYN, Bevan - NEW IN