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Ace Ventura


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According to tennisforum, these 3 are using their PRs to enter the Aussie Open:

#23 Timea Bacszinsky
#32 Laura Siegemund
#90 Bethanie Mattek-Sands

Katie B is currently #98 (that' without the retired Radwanska), so those 3 would push her down to 101, making the cut by 3 places. Niculescu, Ferro and Coco V would also sneak in with 102 Vickery just missing out.

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Still 2 days to enter, so not sue if there are any more potential SRs to push Katie out. She'd need 4 more to enter for that to happen.

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Tennisforum reports last one in is #101 Ferro

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Congrats Katie B then :D

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Vandeweghe does just sneak in at 101/102. The 3 in the above post using their PR's. Whitney O and Peng with 2 of the 8 WCs.

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For those feeling starved of live tennis, AO wild card matches are on YouTube.



-- Edited by mbturner on Tuesday 11th of December 2018 10:24:01 PM

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mbturner wrote:

For those feeling starved of live tennis, AO wild card matches are on YouTube.



-- Edited by mbturner on Tuesday 11th of December 2018 10:24:01 PM

Yeah, started a thread on the general tennis section yesterday, but nobody has replied. I saw the first two matches yesterday and have this on in the background now, but much more interested in the women's tournament especially as the players are much more familiar to me. 2 British born players (Wallace and Baines, both eliminated) as well as all the others who Gabi and Katy have played so many times in 2018.

It's a really good service though and great how they have commentary. Tennis has only been off our screens a few weeks (slightly more for the women) but this is a nice fix.



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Katy is 11th alt and Naomi 14th alt for qualifying.

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Naomi is now second alternate and is making a last minute dash to Melbourne and hoping she's lucky.

Katy would have been first alternate had she not withdrawn

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First alternate now

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Watson/Maria and Dart/Kontaveit make the doubles cut

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PaulM wrote:

Naomi is now second alternate and is making a last minute dash to Melbourne and hoping she's lucky.

Katy would have been first alternate had she not withdrawn

Dash indeed - it's over 9 hours from Hong Kong to Melbourne I believe.

Naomi has posted on instagram that her flight was overbooked, and she was bumped onto another flight from Hong Kong, indirect this time. BUT, she got upgraded to First Class in compensation !



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Draw is out, and Naomi is in.

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QR1 draw now up on its own thread.

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Reviving an old topic (and amending the title) rather than starting a new thread.

Main draw (cut off 9th December)

  • Konta will be a 9-16 seed, but the exact number will depend on how she, and others, do in the Aussie warm up event(s).
  • Boulter has a PR that will get her in the main draw, so she can definitely play if she wants to
  • Bar any surprise late MDWCs into the W25 Solarino draw today, Watson will be ranked 102 at the cut off in a couple of weeks - I'd imagine there will be more using PR than withdrawing, so it'll be very touch and go whether or not she manages to sneak in, I'd probably lean more towards unlikely.


Qualifying (cut off 23rd December)

  • Possibly Watson as a high seed unfortunately
  • Swan will be 243 as it stands in 23rd Dec rankings
  • Bains will be 248 as it stands


Noami B just sneaked in to AO quals last year as the final entry ranked 253, which is pretty high for a cut off, so I think it'll be roughly 240-250 (maybe one or two added or taken off either side) depending on withdrawals and players using PR.

3 weeks of point scoring events for quals remain:
25/11 - Solarino W25 - No British interest
2/12 - Solapur W25 (Bains in the main draw)
9/12 - Dubai W100+H, Pune W25 (Bains in the main draw, but may sneak into Dubai Qs after the withdrawal deadline)

Plus a number of W15 events each of those 3 weeks, but the W25+ events are where the most significant points are going to be scored

So in a nutshell - Konta 9-16 seed, Boulter probable PR, Watson borderline main entry, Swan relying on withdrawals / others below not passing her, in Naiktha's hands but she'll need to win matches, no other Brit in realistic contention.

Feel free to add if I've missed anything, or if any of the above info is wrong.



-- Edited by Ace Ventura on Monday 25th of November 2019 02:54:26 PM

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