Maia will do what she thinks is best for her, but if I was her, I'd be very tempted to pull out. Unless she wins it, I'd imagine she will be pretty unlikely to get a Surbiton MDWC, and of course there will be no applicable SE. 9 points for a QF would be her joint 5th biggest points haul, so would be handy, but that would mean she'd have to be there until at least the Friday with it being a Sunday final and then that's a tight turnaround for potential Surbiton qualifiers, and anything less than 9 points will hardly be worthwhile. I was going to say it'll be stronger this week with the inclusion of Nara, but she of course will be withdrawn as she qualified for the FO, but you do have Han as a top 200 top seed, and it looks like Maia will be 6th seed, certainly not a top 4 seed, so will probably have a harder potential QF on paper.

Side note - does anyone know how Surbiton quals work this year? Last year it was a 32 women field, 6 QWCs and 3 rounds of qualifying with 4 going through. Looking at the acceptance list, it looks like it will just be 20 + 4 QWCs, so only 2 rounds and 6 advancing - is it planned to be double Q matches on the Monday?

-- Edited by Ace Ventura on Sunday 26th of May 2019 12:57:59 PM

Maia may have planned to stay out and chase points and come back for play off week

Freya lost 4-6 6-1 4-10 

MD is out now too, with both Maia and Lissey in it, as expected - so to answer Ace, Maia is looking to accumulate more points out here still! Lissey faces the 8th seed, which at least should give her a chance. Jang has a CH of 120 and beat Freya recently, though unfortunately that's not a recommendation at the moment.

Maia's opponent was actually in the French Open qualifying last week, losing easily in the first q round, and she's lost in several other first rounds recently at this level too.

R32: Maia LUMSDEN (GBR) [6] 319 vs Susanne CELIK (SWE) [IR] 671/202 (CH:153 July 16)
R32: Alicia BARNETT (GBR) 543 vs Su Jeong JANG (KOR) [8] 332 (CH:120 June 17)

Christ, that's grim and a new low. There will have been, but I'm not sure I can ever remember someone as short as 1/200 losing before.

To show just how dreadful Freya's loss was yesterday as the supposed q2 seed.. Today in the fqr, Ayaka Okuno, q9, and Naomi's doubles partner from last week, beat Yun 6-1 6-0. That's what Freya should have achieved yesterday.

Maia and Lissey will play their first round matches tomorrow.

Two holds and it's 6-5*

-- Edited by Babfive on Wednesday 29th of May 2019 05:47:18 AM