Entries Week 33 - 16/08/21

seagull · Hall of fame

Entries Week 33 - 16/08/21

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Andy Murray has a wildcard to Cinci according to their own website .

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

As with Toronto week before, our doubles entries here are

Joe with Rajeev
Jamie is with Max Purcell
Neal and Dan
Cam is with Alex De Minaur

With Dan and Cam joining Andy in singles.

seagull · Hall of fame

Entry List added

indiana · Tennis legend

Very unfortunate that there are no North American women's ITFs this week between the Landisville 100K and US Open qualifying.

Edit: ah, I see that there is a Chicago WTA 125 for players not at Cincinnati. Hopefully we'll have a few players there.

-- Edited by indiana on Tuesday 10th of August 2021 03:16:57 PM

indiana · Tennis legend

However, as per tennisforum, for some reason the WTA 125 has a very small qualifying draw. Fran, Harriet and Sam are currently quite far down the qualifying alts list.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Here is the current Chicago 125 entry list for women

www.tennisteen.it/entry-list/wta/23633-wta-entry-list-16-22-agosto-2021.html

emmsie69 · Top national player

What on earth are the WTA doing. How can the arrangements for pre US open tournaments be in anyway acceptable. There is literally nothing for players ranked below 100.

indiana · Tennis legend

emmsie69 wrote:
What on earth are the WTA doing. How can the arrangements for pre US open tournaments be in anyway acceptable. There is literally nothing for players ranked below 100.

Indeed

Apparently one qualifying round of 8 players for 4 places in Chicago which is ridiculous in the circumstances. Even with just 4 qualifying places, 2 rounds would have meant 16 players and 3 rounds 32 players. Or even 3 rounds and more qualifiers?!

Or / plus a high value ITF because adding more qualifying competitors to Chicago would still seemingly leave plenty players in the higher 100s and 200s with nothing.

But not getting that far into the 100s is nuts.

flamingowings · All-time great

emmsie69 wrote:
What on earth are the WTA doing. How can the arrangements for pre US open tournaments be in anyway acceptable. There is literally nothing for players ranked below 100.

Would be nice if some players called this out.

emmsie69 · Top national player

flamingowings wrote:
emmsie69 wrote:
What on earth are the WTA doing. How can the arrangements for pre US open tournaments be in anyway acceptable. There is literally nothing for players ranked below 100.
Would be nice if some players called this out.

The WTA are an absolute joke, who the hell is in charge, how incompetent do you have to be at your job to leave such a glaring hole in the schedule

flamingowings · All-time great

emmsie69 wrote:
flamingowings wrote:
emmsie69 wrote:
What on earth are the WTA doing. How can the arrangements for pre US open tournaments be in anyway acceptable. There is literally nothing for players ranked below 100.
Would be nice if some players called this out.
The WTA are an absolute joke, who the hell is in charge, how incompetent do you have to be at your job to leave such a glaring hole in the schedule

The ATP isn't far behind with the lack of US challenger swing. Very poor and further fuels the inequality between the top players with the up and coming or ones that are good but not top 100 players/those coming back from injury.

emmsie69 · Top national player

Spiceboy posted the Qalt list for 125k and Fran and Harriet are 11th and 12th alt respectively I think, Sam is 28 and Katie and Emma aren't listed so assume they didn't enter

-- Edited by emmsie69 on Thursday 12th of August 2021 01:08:53 PM

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Emma has a wildcard for Chicago

(probably been mentioned somewhere but here seems a good place to have it too)

the addict · Tennis legend

Harriet has actually travelled to Chicago, so must be close to getting in. tennisteen shows Harmony Tan WR139 as next entry.