For Week 2 - a number of British juniors are playing in both Belgrade (Joel Pierleoni, Kylie Bilchev, Ranah Stoiber - Given Roach lost first round) and also in Israel (Harry Lazell, Matthew Rankin, Hep).
Kylie is top seed and Joel is 2nd seed in Belgrade.
6 (=) Jack Pinnington Jones 45 (=) Lui Maxted 67 (=) Will Nolan 82 (=) Derrick Chen
266 (+95) Oliver Tarvet 369 (+17) Will Jansen ('04) 440 (+7) Roy Keegan ('05) 498 (+8) Freddie Ridout ('04)
728 (+10) Fabio Nestola ('05)
1175 (+829) Maceo Simpson 1327 (+174) Raahim Agha ('04) 1750 - NEW IN - Miles Groom
I always forget that junior rankings incl 80% singles and 20% doubles points towards a single combined ranking. Do you think this is a good thing? I always thought it could be a good way of getting players playing doubles in the main tours if the authorities wanted to do that (ATP, WTA)
Probably a good thing for juniors. Not for seniors though where I want to know how players stand purely in respect of singles and doubles separately, and that's how they should be judged for entries and seeding, certainly for singles draws.
There is some leeway for top singles players to enter doubles draws in that they can use their singles rankings
I agree. I think it's great for juniors (you want them to play dubs, it's a good learning thing, makes it more team-like, the more tennis the better etc. etc., and it would make no sense to have two different rankings for them)
But I wouldn't want it for adults - I don't care about their doubles prowess - and I don't see why we would want them to encourage them to play doubles per se. If they want to play both (and many do), then fine. And it would scupper the doubles rankings too - now they'd have to play singles too (if you're emulating the juniors system), which would be really unfair on the real dubs players.