Coup Droit wrote:

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No, it's estimated wins

i.e. out of 7 matches, we were expected to win 4.79

BUT we won 7 !

The odds were FAR wider, as you say - it's on steven's twitter somewhere (20:1 comes to mind but not sure....)

-- Edited by Coup Droit on Thursday 26th of August 2021 07:49:02 AM

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 Yes, I made it overall 4 expected wins for our women and about 13/1 against all 6 women winning. So it would be getting up towards 20/1 against them all winning when you throw in Liam.

It would have been much bigger odds before the draws came out.

3 of our 6 women are favourites with bet365 to win their QR2 matches though there is not much in it for some matches . 

In order of favouritism :
Emma  1/4 vs 11/4
Harriet  2/5 vs 7/4
Katie B  8/11 vs 1/1
Fran  11/10 vs 4/6
Jodie  11/10 vs 4/6 

Sam  9/4 vs 1/3

That's an accumulated around  42/1 against all 6 winning. Add in Liam ( favourite at 1/2 vs 6/4 ) and it is about 64/1.

I'm rather thinking a full house is not going to be repeated. But let's hope for quite a few wins. 

-- Edited by indiana on Thursday 26th of August 2021 06:14:26 PM

Until recently Mariam was based in UK at Chiswick and coached by Simon Ainley for 6 months of the year. Thus she had a BTM and played a lot of LTA events. She presumably still has her BTM and all her results in both LTA and ITF events will count towards her combined rankings. Her standard has improved greatly in the last couple of years. World ranking of 174 would place her as fourth best in a British ranking list.

Coup Droit wrote:

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JonH comes home wrote:

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Im still not clear on the Mariam Bolkvadze link and why she is included in the LTA Rankings list

competitions.lta.org.uk/ranking/ranking.aspx

LTA have her as our 4th best overall player on these combined rankings a) really and b) how does she get included??

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 As Bagel says, she was based on the UK. That's why I've seen her several times. 

I don't follow the system but as I understand it anyone who plays LTA events gets an LTA ranking. It's nothing to do with nationality.

(That's certainly the French system)  

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 Ok, makes sense - and presumably skmeone has to have a county allegiance through being based here - otherwise we would see all those playing Queens or Eastbourne or ITF events getting ranked ?! 

Coup Droit wrote:

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You don't need a country allegiance. You just need a licence. (An LTA licence in this case). Anyone can get one.

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 Sorry, I meant county - I see Mariam, Conny and Aljaz Bedene all have a county next to their name! Which presumably would mean they could play County Week if so inclined? 

JonH comes home wrote:

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Coup Droit wrote:

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You don't need a country allegiance. You just need a licence. (An LTA licence in this case). Anyone can get one.

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 Sorry, I meant county - I see Mariam, Conny and Aljaz Bedene all have a county next to their name! Which presumably would mean they could play County Week if so inclined? 

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 Yes, I imagine you have to have a club or county or whatever for reference. 

In France, you just join a club. Anywhere you like. You don't need to live there. And then your licence is part of that club's list.  

Summary of main rules from LTA site:

To play County Cup a players must be either a British citizen or have resided in GB for 24 consecutive months prior to the event.

and

(i) his/her place of birth or permanent residence at date of birth is in the particular county;

or

(ii) his/her place of permanent residence has been the county for at least one year immediately preceding the event:

or

(iii) at any time his/her place of permanent residence has for a period of five consecutive years been in the county