Ace Ventura wrote:

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Just been doing a bit of digging on Chloe Compson as it is a bit random all these Italy 25k MDWCs - she's played 4 matches in Italy these past 7 months and won 3 games combined. Anyway, she's 17 from Glasgow and is involved in modelling. She or her family must surely have links with Pula.

Wish they were handing out MDWCs for fun to the likes of Emma, Vic or either Holly.

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 I looked up Chloe's record too - worthy of a complaint to the WTA almost, so I'll rant here instead. She has now had 3 WCs all from 25Ks here. the first was back in September, and 2 this month. She is approx. 25th on the alt lists and she's never won a main draw match at any level, yet she's gained these WCs at this level which gives her a WTA point.  she's stood on the court here and only won 4 games in 6 sets and in her 1 qualifying match the other week she didn't win a single game.  Her pro record goes back 2 years, her 2 wins were qualifying rounds for a 15 K, so she has never by merit got into a main draw at any level. Yet here she will gain a WTA ranking of 850 gaining her a good deal of access at least until September.

One problem is being able to gain a WTA point at R1 level of a 25K without winning a match.

Yes agree with Miriam. Worthy of some investigation I think. I read somewhere that some events sell wild cards which is disgraceful. Might this be the case here?

Err don't give WCs points for R1 losses? 

The men don't get R1 loss points at all except in Slams and Masters events ( and there is clearly an argument for similar for the women ) but then don't even then give any points to MD WCs just for being in R1.

It often seems as if the ATP and WTA deliberately set out to be different ( and hence more confusing ) with such as ranking points. And usually one of the different ways appears inferior.

Clearly R1 points for 25Ks and above and the 3 counters for a WTA ranking have been there for many years so is not a new loophole for a ranking but is much more significant now with 15Ks not counting and hence many less WTA ranked players. Absolutely ridiculous that such a player now whizzes up entry lists ahead of all these players with just ITF points. 

She doesn't seem to be on the LTA's radar because I asked that LTA women at Sunderland if she knew much about her (as she had a MDWC that week) and she was aware that she had a WC but didn't know why and seemed as surprised as me that she got one.

www.itftennis.com/procircuit/tournaments/women's-tournament/info.aspx

Looking at the grass 100k entry lists from last year, she'll almost certainly be able to play Manchester 100k qualifying if she wants to and perhaps sneak into the other 2 as well. It does feel wrong and is - perhaps 0 points for MDWCs losing in R1 would be a good idea (or 0 points at all as Indi and Jon mentioned), obviously it would halt those genuine players wanting to get on the ladder, but it would stop these kind of situations.

She has just turned 17 and does seem to have some kind of junior tennis background, but it is just a waste of a WC at this stage and surely there'll be much better candidates in Italy to get one. They do have far more 25k events than us - they have 15 of those in addition to a couple of 60k and 15k events, so more WCs to hand out and probably less noticeable than if they just had 6 or 7, but imagine on here if we were eagerly waiting for say Glasgow 25k entry list and a random 17 year old Italian kept getting WCs and subsequently kept on losing 0-6 1-6, ha.

Next week is the 6th Pula 25k event in succession and the final one this year, so it'll be interesting to see if she gets a final WC there, if her allocation allows it that is.