A few quick comments on the above. First, there are a huge number of tournaments this week, both W25 level and above, and W15. If you want to play competitive tennis, nows your week to beentering,as you can see from the current W15 entries, a few seem to be doing. With the number of tournaments available, it's open season for those with excellent scouting skills, like Emily App - good choice there, with by far the weakest field of all the W25s on offer this week.

At the WTA level there is just the Rome tournament, and even though it is only half the financial value of Madrid the week before, Jo is not yet on the confirmed entry list which stops at WR43. However, if she has entered, would expect her to appear on the MD list sooner rather than later. Katie B has withdrawn from all 4 of the W100 and W60 tournaments she was entered into, so either she is chancing Rome qualifying or she is taking the week off. Her withdrawal from week 19 too, suggest the latter might be the case, unless she appears in Madrid qualifying. No Laura entered into anything this week, after also pulling out of her week19 entries, so appears she will wait to the grass season to try and regain her WTA ranking.

Will do the ATP tonight.

Let me know if I've missed anything/anyone

 

ATP

Rome Masters 1000 (Clay) - Edmund (Norrie, Evans?)

Challengers

Heilbronn 92,040 (Clay) - Ward (& quite far down on the alt list, Choinski)

Samarkand (Clay) - Clarke, Klein

Gwangju Open (Hard) - Broady? (a guess, if he's now made the MD of the week previous) Hoyt

Futures

(as a note, 3 x 15K tournaments were cancelled that were supposed to run during this week - perhaps from the changes to the tour?)

M15 Prague (Clay) - way down on the alt list (Romay, Dixon, Bevan)

M15 Hereralion (Hard) - still in Greece are Glasspool, Draper, McHugh (main draw ITF junior reserved - Story) (Foley, Kivanda). Jhun (1st alt)

M15 Casale Monferrato (Clay) - (Martin)

M15 Cancun (Hard) - Peniston, Stoute, Paris, Canter

M15 Kalmar (Clay) - Whitehouse

M15 Tabarka (Clay) - (Modica)

M15 Antalya (Clay) - (Chaudhry)

M15 Kampala (Clay) - Storrie (Hale, Farmer)

-- Edited by flamingowings on Sunday 5th of May 2019 01:08:09 PM

RedSquirrel wrote:

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Michael D wrote:

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At the WTA level there is just the Rome tournament, and even though it is only half the financial value of Madrid the week before, Jo is not yet on the confirmed entry list which stops at WR43. However, if she has entered, would expect her to appear on the MD list sooner rather than later.

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She's Alt#2 according to the list on the Italian edition of Ubitennis.

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 Alt #1 now Maria Sharapova has withdrawn.

Here is the Rome doubles list: from Brits we have Jamie (w/Bruno as per), Joe (w/Rajeev). Dom (w/Bopanna) and Neal (w/ Santiago Gonzalez this time) are in the alts list but with it being a 32 draw, they should get in I would presume?

POS PLAYER NAME DBS SGL PROT PARTNER NAME DBS SGL PROT RANK TEAM
RANK RANK RANK RANK RANK RANK SRC RANK
1 Kubot, Lukasz 4 Melo, Marcelo 7 D+D 11
2 Murray, Jamie 9 Soares, Bruno 8 D+D 17
3 Cabal, Juan Sebastian 10 Farah, Robert 10 D+D 20
4 Mektic, Nikola 5 Skugor, Franko 18 363 D+D 23
5 Marach, Oliver 13 Pavic, Mate 12 D+D 25
6 Klaasen, Raven 14 Venus, Michael 15 D+D 29
7 Bryan, Bob 31 Bryan, Mike 1 D+D 32
8 Koolhof, Wesley 23 Tsitsipas, Stefanos 100 10 D+S 33
9 Kontinen, Henri 16 Peers, John 19 D+D 35
10 Gonzalez, Maximo 22 471 Zeballos, Horacio 17 305 D+D 39
11 Ram, Rajeev 21 Salisbury, Joe 20 D+D 41
12 Chardy, Jeremy 75 42 Mahut, Nicolas 3 249 S+D 45
13 Shapovalov, Denis 188 20 Verdasco, Fernando 112 36 S+S 56
14 Dodig, Ivan 33 Roger-Vasselin, Edouard 26 D+D 59
15 Rojer, Jean-Julien 27 Tecau, Horia 34 D+D 61
16 Khachanov, Karen 300 13 Lopez, Marc 48 S+D 61
17 Isner, John 161 9 Lindstedt, Robert 52 S+D 61
18 Albot, Radu 56 45 Basilashvili, Nikoloz 150 17 S+S 62
19 McLachlan, Ben 29 Struff, Jan-Lennard 36 48 D+D 65
20 Middelkoop, Matwe 38 Simon, Gilles 268 28 D+S 66
21 Melzer, Jurgen 61 291 Thiem, Dominic 145 5 D+S 66
Alternates (ATP)
POS PLAYER NAME DBS SGL PROT PARTNER NAME DBS SGL PROT RANK TEAM
RANK RANK RANK RANK RANK RANK SRC RANK
22 Bopanna, Rohan 40 Inglot, Dominic 28 D+D 68
23 Carreno Busta, Pablo 78 38 Sousa, Joao 30 51 S+D 68
24 Zverev, Alexander 73 3 Zverev, Mischa 65 95 S+D 68
25 Demoliner, Marcelo 57 Medvedev, Daniil 276 14 D+S 71
26 Krajicek, Austin 39 Sitak, Artem 37 D+D 76
27 Gonzalez, Santiago 44 Skupski, Neal 32 D+D 76
28 Jebavy, Roman 47 Molteni, Andres 55 D+D 102
29 Krawietz, Kevin 54 241 Mies, Andreas 53 D+D 107

Kiana Mokhtari (2002 born) has got into Singapore qualifying. New name to me. She seems to be based in Melbourne.

She's been playing for GB since 2017 definitely - she's been in the junior threads several times - but always playing down in Aussie/NZ land.