British Tour - 2020

the addict · Tennis legend

RE: British Tour - 2020

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

Third quarter looks a bit of a cake walk to me, Lily should win that with room to spare. She's coming into this on the back of a W25 tournament win in March, and in the past year has beaten a top 200 player, beat Maia 6-2 6-4, and beat Ola Pitak (who's probably on a not too dissimilar level to the other 3 Brit's) 6-2 6-0, plus players like Ula Rad and Cagla B, who while not as good as they were, are/were still in around the top 250. I would have rather she and Jodie had swapped places in the draw as she'll probably have more gas in the tank in a potential semi final which would be a third match in three days. 8 seeds instead of 4 would have made for a more even draw, but then I guess a little bit leeway can make the draws a bit more intriguing.

Some fairly interesting R1 draws though - I'd like to see Marni give Sam a good match, and a good chance for Amelia and Grace to pick up a win in the battle of the 2002ers. I'd like to think Emma and Emily could have been decent, but given their respective last 18 months or so, that could be pretty one sided. I've still got loads of time on my hand so I'll be looking to stream a few of these assuming they do plan to stream them all.

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

the addict wrote:
Ace Ventura wrote:
Just saw the draw for week 1 and see there's now no Katie B. Was this reported anywhere, or did she just quietly withdraw? I'm sure Harriet was the only notable omission from week 1 who was also playing the Progress Tour event.
The acceptance list says she withdrew on the 24th, and Maia on the 23rd. I didn't seen any comments anywhere.

Ah, cheers. Didn't even realise that Maia was no longer there as well.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Slightly weaker womens list in week 3, most of same names appearing though

docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1XUs74BXgagzRdHI3gH2iOgXT_P2yHhHz/edit

ROSAMUND · Futures level

Heather has entered the event starting on 14th July as a wildcard.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

ROSAMUND wrote:
Heather has entered the event starting on 14th July as a wildcard.

The Progress Tour event? Perhaps we should start a separate thread to cover it off

the addict · Tennis legend

JonH comes home wrote:
ROSAMUND wrote:
Heather has entered the event starting on 14th July as a wildcard.
The Progress Tour event? Perhaps we should start a separate thread to cover it off

Agreed, and you have !

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

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JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Decent doubles field for week 1 (although most are obviously also in singles).

docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-xuyEXrqG2T_G3JwH0Z1fyB_KRRKyU0e/edit

Presumably doubles only takes place when it is a Premier event, hence womens only doubles week 1, mens week 2, none week 3 and presumably there will be both in week 4?

the addict · Tennis legend

Yes, that is correct. The Tier 1 singles fields so far are much weaker, so there the regular pairs aren't all there.

the addict · Tennis legend

Order of play for Thursday 2nd July

National Tennis Centre Court 3

Starting at 11:00 am

1 Samantha MURRAY SHARAN [1] 180 v Marni BANKS ITF1383

2 Eliz MALONEY 1109 v Yuriko Lily MIYAZAKI [4] 351

Not before 1:30 pm

3 Emma RADUCANU [3] 338 v Emily APPLETON 675

4 Freya CHRISTIE 643 v Jodie BURRAGE [2] 289

National Tennis Centre Court 5

Starting at 11:00 am

1 Grace PIPER UNR v Amelia RAJECKI UNR

2 Tiffany WILLIAM 1221 v Eden SILVA 486

Not before 1:30 pm

3 Alicia BARNETT 569 v Alice GILLAN 797

4 Beth GREY 607 v Naomi BROADY 499

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

Cheer TA. Still not back at work, so it looks a day in front of the telly / laptop for me (assuming, and hoping, there are streams for both courts...). Some of the matches I'm most interested in will likely directly clash, particularly the first matches starting at the same time, and I'm not quite as interested in either 2nd match, so a bit of a shame that they'll likely be the only options to watch at that time - although I guess I could get off my backside and go for a walk then, ha.

I could certainly get used to this back to back tennis in the afternoon and football in the evening smile

the addict · Tennis legend

Here is the link to the full tournament information, players, matches, draws and scores.

https://competitions.lta.org.uk/sport/matches.aspx?id=8F9F8069-E2A7-464F-A7B9-63D34F249829

-- Edited by the addict on Tuesday 30th of June 2020 10:06:47 PM

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

the addict wrote:
Here is the link to the full tournament information, players, matches, draws and scores.

https://competitions.lta.org.uk/sport/matches.aspx?id=8F9F8069-E2A7-464F-A7B9-63D34F249829

-- Edited by the addict on Tuesday 30th of June 2020 10:06:47 PM

Any results from NTC today? the link above is not showing any, but imagine that is just tardiness from the organisers?

the addict · Tennis legend

I know lockdown has been disorientating Jonh, but it is only Wednesday. Play starts tomorrow !