FQR: MALONEY, Eliz (GBR) UNR 18yrs (JCH:122 April 17) v Jenny DUERST (SUI) UNR 19yrs (JCH:687 Feb 16)
FQR: ELLIOTT, Olivia (GBR) UNR 17yrs (JCH:360 Jan 17) v Ivana SEBESTOVA (CZE) UNR 17yrs (JCH:466 Feb 18)
FQR: PITAK, Katarzyna (GBR) UNR v Kiara PETROVICKA (SVK) UNR 18yrs (JCH:269 Aug 17)
FQR: HILL, Sasha (GBR) UNR 17yrs (JCH:377 July 18) v Iuliia SOKOLOVSKAIA (RUS) UNR (CH:1149 Feb 18)

What a shame - all three of the 'new' players of the circuit lost out in long three set matches.

Only Kasia came through (again in three)

Oh and OOP for tomorrow shows Ola with a WC into the MD. She and Kasia are the only Brits in doubles this week too.

All matches went to three but only one ended up the right way.

Q2: MALONEY, Elis (GBR) UNR lost to DUERST, Jenny (SUI) UNR 6-1 1-6 4-6
Q2: ELLIOTT, Olivia (GBR) UNR lost to SEBESTOVA, Ivana (CZE) UNR 3-6 6-4 3-6
Q2: PITAK, Katarzyna (GBR) UNR def PETROVICKA, Kiara (SVK) UNR 3-6 6-4 6-1
Q2: HILL, Sasha (GBR) UNR lost to SOKOLOVSKAIA, Iuliia (RUS) UNR 6-2 2-6 4-6

Yes that's a good result against someone that is in the top 1000. Her first counter drops off 5/11 so she needs another one before then to keep the ranking she will get the week before then. However she and Kasia are not playing next week, so it is likely her return to the rankings will be highly temporary until she can get the additional counter. These are all transition tour points of course, so good in that respect.

R32: Aleksandra PITAK (GBR) [WC] UNR beat Ramya NATARAJAN (IND) 976 (CH:943 Sept 18) 19yrs 6-2 6-1

For me, the only thing I'm not fully clear on is whether a single 25k point will give a woman player a WTA ranking next year, instead of the 3 counters currently required. For instance that would mean that Mandy, who will lose her WTA ranking next week, but has at least earned 1 25k (or above) counter in the last month, has 1 WTA point... Is that enough for her to have a WTA ranking beginning of next year?

RedSquirrel wrote:

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Michael D wrote:

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For me, the only thing I'm not fully clear on is whether a single 25k point will give a woman player a WTA ranking next year, instead of the 3 counters currently required. For instance that would mean that Mandy, who will lose her WTA ranking next week, but has at least earned 1 25k (or above) counter in the last month, has 1 WTA point... Is that enough for her to have a WTA ranking beginning of next year?

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Not in the shadow rankings. But everything I have seen on WTA ranking points for next year has been TBA so it may not have been decided.

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Ok thanks RS, I thought you would know best on the current status on this.   Maybe they are waiting to see how many players actually have WTA ranking points at the end of this year before they finalise their decision making on how the new tour will work. I saw one remark to suggest it would not come fully into effect until later in January. An actual transition date doesn't seem to have been indicated yet.