Week 9 - Oracle Challenger ($162,480+H) - Indian Wells, CA, USA (hard)

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

RE: Week 9 - Oracle Challenger ($162,480+H) - Indian Wells, CA, USA (hard)

flamingowings · All-time great

Sorry for the confusion - could have been clearer. Yes, I was talking about the WTA top seeded player.

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

Stircrazy wrote:
Ace Ventura wrote:
Stircrazy wrote:
flamingowings wrote:
The Chinese top seed is ranked18!

Means Wang Qiang in the WTA 125k equivalent. She got one of the 'top 50' WCs so don't know the deal with those and whether tournaments have to accept them, or what they do if there were a few who wanted one.
She is actually in a very similar position to Kyle, not played since the Aussie Open due to injury. She also needs a new coach, but her coach retiring was announced before she entered this event.
She does look a bit out of place here, but I guess she's in the exact same location next week for a much bigger event and it will give herself a chance to ease back into things and gain confidence (2-2 this year) against slightly weaker opposition and get used to her new coach before the more important stuff.
Ah, thanks for the explanation & background, AV.

smile Ha, probably didn't need go into such detail on this particularly thread, but the parallels with Kyle are really close and it is an interesting topic. I can't imagine a circa top 100 player, playing at their correct level, would be too chuffed to find themselves playing against someone early who really should be playing at a higher one, but they do need to do what's best for them.

JonH · All-time great

what is the rule re ranking level and Challengers - didnt there used to be something stopping top 30 players from dropping down to Challenger level or am i imagining it??

Nix · Futures level

Numbers 11-50 can play with a wildcard. 1-10 cant play at all. Unless it's a £75k or below without hospitality, in which case no wildcard can be granted.

-- Edited by Nix on Monday 25th of February 2019 02:23:11 PM

The Knight · Challenger qualifying

JonH wrote:
what is the rule re ranking level and Challengers - didnt there used to be something stopping top 30 players from dropping down to Challenger level or am i imagining it??

there was always an amnesty on the big challenger in 2nd week of Indian Wells, maybe there's one for this one too

-- Edited by The Knight on Monday 25th of February 2019 02:25:06 PM

Vandenburg · Futures level

Stircrazy wrote:
flamingowings wrote:
The Chinese top seed is ranked18!

Nishikori is Japanese, saying all oriental people look the same is just not on.

Racism is not tolerated on this forum under any circumstances.

flamingowings · All-time great

Vandenburg wrote:
Stircrazy wrote:
flamingowings wrote:
The Chinese top seed is ranked18!

Nishikori is Japanese, saying all oriental people look the same is just not on.
Racism is not tolerated on this forum under any circumstances.

A - Not racist merely.lack of clarity which some people understood anyway and also doesn't make sense for Kei- he isn't top seed as he isn't even playing!

B - clarification above or is nobody allowed to make a mistake in Vandy world?

-- Edited by flamingowings on Monday 25th of February 2019 05:09:57 PM

Oakland2002 · All-time great

A good move by Kyle an extra week on these courts will do him no halm in terms of preparation, from what I can tell they are one of the slowest sets of hard courts on tour.

JonH · All-time great

Dan is going for it !

Neil Harman
@Neil_Harman57
After his so-near-yet-so-far loss in @DelrayBeachOpen Dan Evans was up at 3.30 am for a 5.30 flight from Miami to Palm Springs via Dallas. No resting on the laurels. Plays @oracle Challenger 1st rd

Madadman · Masters Series Champion

Fair play, considering it was a 19:00ish finish. By the time hes eaten and done some recovery he cant have got more than 5 hours. Or he might just be getting the flight as thats the one he booked and doesnt want to waste money changing. So could still pull out. I guess he might be seeing how he is Tomorrow.

Michael D · All-time great

Vandenburg wrote:
Stircrazy wrote:
flamingowings wrote:
The Chinese top seed is ranked18!

Nishikori is Japanese, saying all oriental people look the same is just not on.
Racism is not tolerated on this forum under any circumstances.

Except she didn't mean Nishikori Vandy, she meant Wang Qiang, who is Chinese, if you'd bothered to read the thread above before biting her head off.

flamingowings · All-time great

I no longer feel welcome here. At least not at the moment. Bye for now.

indiana · Tennis legend

Maybe a lesson on how good contributing posters can be effected by some careless / uncaring / smartarse posts.

Hope to see you back soon, flamingowings.

the addict · Tennis legend

Yes flamingowings, ignore the smartarse, and come back soon.