Part 2 as would not let me post all together as too long!

 WTA                              

  No British Entrants                        

 FUTURES                          

  Italy $25K (Clay) - Bains, Taylor (Jones)                  

Uzbekhstan $25K (Hard) - Lumsden (Barnett, Christie)      

 Columbia $15K (Clay) - Lindh        

  Mexico $15K (Hard) - (Stuart)

                

  Points Defences Week 17:                

   29 - Broady              

   18 - Swan        

   12 - Dart      

   13 - Ward

   7   - Clarke      

    6   - Broady             

 

-- Edited by seagull on Friday 12th of April 2019 08:44:34 AM

Planning to be at Barcelona to give Cam and Dan some support.

seagull wrote:

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Interesting to see Bains is now British

Also Blu Baker using his Junior ranking to make main draw in Columbia (Strange to think my son played both him and Jack Draper in red ball days!!)

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 Are we all definitely confident that Bains is British now - the ITF site seems to be the only place showing it, WTA is still Aussie and social media is still v quiet. I also would typically expect some comment from one of the good tennis writers on twitter (Dickson, Briggs, Fraser, Law, Bellshaw) but nothing forthcoming there at all? 

JonH wrote:

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seagull wrote:

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Interesting to see Bains is now British

Also Blu Baker using his Junior ranking to make main draw in Columbia (Strange to think my son played both him and Jack Draper in red ball days!!)

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 Are we all definitely confident that Bains is British now - the ITF site seems to be the only place showing it, WTA is still Aussie and social media is still v quiet. I also would typically expect some comment from one of the good tennis writers on twitter (Dickson, Briggs, Fraser, Law, Bellshaw) but nothing forthcoming there at all? 

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 No, we are not at all confident yet!!

I think Dan is displaying confidence by playing some tour level dirt tournaments this spring. If all he cared about was ranking points, a trip to Korea or Mexico to play on hard court challengers would have made far more sense. Dan needs a bigger stage, and exhausting journeys to far flung places to play in front of meager spectators for meager rewards  just don't inspire him. I don't think he'll win loads of matches on clay, but he'll stay close to home and fresh for the grass court season. 

I think he'll make the cut for most ATP grass events apart from Queens.  Will they give him a wild card? I hope they do. Does anyone care to guess what the press coverage might be?

i hope he plays Surbiton, but that is just because Surbiton is just a bike ride away from my place.

Yes Queens gave Dan a MD WC last year. He lost to Mannarino in R1 in 3 sets. Then Wimbledon didn't give him any sort of WC at all so off he went to the WC play-offs to play for a Q WC.

Can't imagine that he wouldn't get a Queens MD WC again this year if needed.

And he'll save Wimby any onerous considerations by his ranking. 

-- Edited by indiana on Friday 5th of April 2019 06:01:35 PM

Hi Seagull, can I ask a question? I wondered if you looked at both alt lists or just the ITF reserved alt list as I notice you no longer include players high up in the alt list but do include players relatively high in the ITF reserved alt list. For example, for Uzbekistan 25K you have put (Raducanu) but she's only currently 44th in the alt list. But you haven't included Tara, Alicia, Freya, Emily WS and Sam who all have this as priority 1 and are higher in the alt list than Emma. Emma is currently 28th in the ITF reserved alt list, but she doesn't stand a chance of getting into an ITF reserved place in the main draw from that far down.