Madadman wrote:

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Interesting that Jamie is playing with Andy. I wonder if Jamie and Neal is already over. If thats the case I wonder if Neal would play with Ken again or maybe Jamie Omara.

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Who he?  

So the Roehampton and WOking lists are finalised..

In Roehampton, the top 8 seeds are either British or French (with four each)

The five ITF-reserved places also have to 2xGB and 2xFR (and a rogue Lithuanian).

I hope the LTA have asked the FFT to cough up - we seem to be subsidising their event programme !

As a separate point, brilliant to see some 'obscure' names qualify for a place in the quali draw - Nadia Rawson, who's only played one event in the last 12 months gets her chance.....SO different from some of our previous 25ks which were stuffed out with high ranking players.

According to Wiki (yes, I know) Naomi is in doubles in Washington and is 2nd seed

Ace Ventura wrote:

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the addict wrote:

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Seen it reported that Heather is now one out from the main draw in San Jose

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Ostapenko has just withdrawn, so Hev is now in. I know there's a couple of bigger lead up events to come, as well as a WTA international running alongside it, but it is a bit strange seeing someone getting directly into a Premier event in the lead up to a slam with a ranking outside the top 120. Great for Heather though.

-- Edited by Ace Ventura on Friday 26th of July 2019 04:40:14 PM

In some ways I would have preferred to see her play qualies as one of the top seeds, with a decent chance of picking up ranking points.

 

DF wrote:

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Ace Ventura wrote:

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Ostapenko has just withdrawn, so Hev is now in. I know there's a couple of bigger lead up events to come, as well as a WTA international running alongside it, but it is a bit strange seeing someone getting directly into a Premier event in the lead up to a slam with a ranking outside the top 120.

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 Apparently Hev's ranking here is 108

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 http://www.tennisteen.it/entry-list/wta/23326-wta-entry-list-29-luglio-4-agosto-2019.html

I'm not sure, that site has her main draw entry down as 122, which I was referring to, but then 108 for quals.

102 Doi, Misaki (JPN)
119 Bouzkova, Marie (CZE)
122 Watson, Heather (GBR)
131 Hon, Priscilla (AUS)

https://twitter.com/WTAEntryList/status/1154806968395210752

That Twitter page which is usually spot on seems to think Hon is next in which would suggest they're using the 122 and 131 (Hon) rankings, and there usually is a 4 week cut off for entries, which would have been pre the McNally win, but either way, 122 or 108 is pretty low for a Premier entry, especially when you consider Konta wasn't in the initial list with an early 40's ranking for one of the 2 GB Premiers.

 

-- Edited by Ace Ventura on Friday 26th of July 2019 08:29:51 PM

RedSquirrel wrote:

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According to Wiki (yes, I know) Naomi is in doubles in Washington and is 2nd seed

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She's also managed to sneak into Washy singles qualifying as well and plays Vickery.

Coco Gauff also got in.

-- Edited by Ace Ventura on Friday 26th of July 2019 10:22:34 PM

flamingowings wrote:

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Ace Ventura wrote:

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RedSquirrel wrote:

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According to Wiki (yes, I know) Naomi is in doubles in Washington and is 2nd seed

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She's also managed to sneak into Washy singles qualifying as well and plays Vickery.

Coco Gauff also got in.

-- Edited by Ace Ventura on Friday 26th of July 2019 10:22:34 PM

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 a lot of hype about Coco getting in...

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 Yeah, the tournaments Twitter feed is about 90% Gauff, it's like the rest of the field doesn't exist. I was thinking quals might be tough since she just sneaked in, and then saw the draw and remembered it obviously uses the current (post Wimbledon) ranking not what she was 4 weeks ago, so she is Q1 seed and should have a relatively safe passage through.

To be fair, I'm really interested to see how she gets on and she will be a focal part of my viewing next week assuming she qualifies (unless she's always on around 1/2am UK, which I suspect she might), but there's so much attention on someone so young and there will be a lot of disappointment over there if she does lose to someone like Manasse.