Week 28 - Progress Tour Women's Championship - NTC, Roehampton, UK (Outdoor Hard)

Bagel · Lower Club Player

Week 28 - Progress Tour Women's Championship - NTC, Roehampton, UK (Outdoor Hard)

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Thanks !

the addict · Tennis legend

Bagel wrote:
Boulter in 3
Bissett in 2
Barnett/Nicholls in 2

Or to be more precise

Katie Boulter def Jodie Burrage 3-6, 7-6 (4), 6-2

Millie (Amelia) Bisett def Erin Richardson 6-3 6-2

Barnett/Nicholls def Arbuthnott/Popescu 6-3 7-6(4)

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Good article and interesting point about the culture and putting themselves on the line

www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/tennis/article-8536721/Katie-Boulter-wins-Progress-Tour-Championships-Roehampton-beating-Jodie-Burrage.html

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

Behind a paywall, but a similar, more detailed version of the above from Stuart Fraser in the Times:

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/progress-tour-womens-championships-flop-an-indictment-of-womens-game-in-britain-s5j5clvjp

Key points:
- Questions of culture
- 19 of the top 25 either pulled out or didn't enter
- Players practicing at the same site last week after withdrawing
- One player apparently didn't reply to communications
- Potential personal issues between female British players
- Mentions overall state of British women's tennis is 'not good', many gone backwards

I used to often copy and paste these type of articles, but don't really like doing that now, but it's a fairly interesting read if you have a subscription, or have weekly free articles still available.

Bagel · Lower Club Player

Ace Ventura wrote:
Behind a paywall, but a similar, more detailed version of the above from Stuart Fraser in the Times:

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/progress-tour-womens-championships-flop-an-indictment-of-womens-game-in-britain-s5j5clvjp

Key points:
- Questions of culture
- 19 of the top 25 either pulled out or didn't enter
- Players practicing at the same site last week after withdrawing
- One player apparently didn't reply to communications
- Potential personal issues between female British players
- Mentions overall state of British women's tennis is 'not good', many gone backwards

I used to often copy and paste these type of articles, but don't really like doing that now, but it's a fairly interesting read if you have a subscription, or have weekly free articles still available.

Many things went wrong during the week. The first hammer blow was when the LTA decided to sanction three women's events in the same week.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Bagel wrote:
Ace Ventura wrote:
Behind a paywall, but a similar, more detailed version of the above from Stuart Fraser in the Times:

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/progress-tour-womens-championships-flop-an-indictment-of-womens-game-in-britain-s5j5clvjp

Key points:
- Questions of culture
- 19 of the top 25 either pulled out or didn't enter
- Players practicing at the same site last week after withdrawing
- One player apparently didn't reply to communications
- Potential personal issues between female British players
- Mentions overall state of British women's tennis is 'not good', many gone backwards

I used to often copy and paste these type of articles, but don't really like doing that now, but it's a fairly interesting read if you have a subscription, or have weekly free articles still available.
Many things went wrong during the week. The first hammer blow was when the LTA decided to sanction three women's events in the same week.

On Twitter, Barry Fulcher is working hard to defend the success of the event (it got more viewers than the previous weeks events that where men and womens - err, yes, those would be two British Tour events, surely that isnt the measure??!) and Sarah Borwell also defending the culture and how much the players in her care enjoyed it

https://mobile.twitter.com/stu_fraser/status/1286576395368517632

-- Edited by JonH comes home on Friday 24th of July 2020 10:37:49 PM

PaulM · Tennis legend

Fulcher did a fantastic job and noone as far as I can see is criticising the organisers or anything about how the event was held. The criticism is being levied at the female players for not supporting it as its role as effectively a National Championship.

But as others have said, the LTA sanctioned three events for that week. The men's event was standalone. If SGH hadn't been allowed to hold an event that week you would have had a slightly stronger premier division.

jb288 · Satellite level

To be fair to everyone, Fraser's article is poor. It's not good journalism to say 'I've heard some awful things, but I'm not going to tell you any of them, but just believe me, things are bad'. Obviously a journalist has to protect their sources, but in this case Fraser hasn't actually spelt out any of the issues he alludes to, even in an anonymous way. It's just content-free. No doubt there are issues, but either report on them frankly, with examples, or don't report on them.