I think Alfie could well take on top spot this week; Kunieda is currently top, just 16 points ahead of Alfie. He lost in the semis and will therefore lose his 2019 Cajun points as winner. So he will drop, I think by around 200 points.

Alfie doesnt have Cajun in his counters and has reached the final here, which looks like it will at least add 150 points or so to his total. So he should, if I am understanding the points properly, move comfortably to World number one position.

Need to see final result (maybe the weather delayed it?) and then new rankings to determine!

Brilliant! Congratulations to Alfie!!

Alfie is straight into more action, as the focus swaps to the BNP Parisbas World Team Cup Qualifying Round, being played at Antalya, Turkey.

The World Group Finals are being played in Portugal in May; the last finals took place in October 21 in Sardinia; the mens team withdrew due to various illnesses in the team. Hence, although the womens, quads and juniors have all qualified for the World Finals in May, the mens team need to go through qualification.

www.lta.org.uk/news/great-britain-name-four-strong-mens-team-for--2022-bnp-paribas-world-team-cup-qualification-in-turkey/

The team of Alfie, Dermot Bailey, Ben Bartram and Dahnon Ward (the latter two both 16) is the strongest in the event, so we should get through

Britain secured their spot in the World Team Cup mens event with a win over Israel, 2-1, after beating Germany and Sweden earlier in the event. Came down to a final doubles win.

The World Team Cup finals are in Portugal in early May , last season they were much later in the year.

Full list of finalists below: GB are in all 4 events as are Japan, NL, USA, and Brazil.

The full list of nations set to take part in the 2022 BNP Paribas World Team Cup in Portugal on 2-8 May is as follows:

Men: Netherlands, Spain, Argentina, France, Japan, Sri Lanka, USA, Poland, Korea, Rep., Brazil, Portugal (WC), Great Britain (Q), Malaysia (Q), South Africa (Q), Chile (Q), (one additional wild card spot)

Women: Netherlands, Japan, USA, Great Britain, Colombia, Germany, Brazil, France (Q), Switzerland (Q), Thailand, South Africa (Q), (one additional wild card spot)

Quad: Netherlands, USA, South Africa, Japan, Brazil, Great Britain, Israel (Q), Turkey (Q)

Juniors: Japan, Great Britain, Netherlands, Brazil, France (WC), Australia (WC), USA (WC), Argentina (WC)

The players and seedings for next weeks World Team Cup have been announced, as per below: it looks like juniors is the only event we might win a medal this time with weaker squads generally than we could have put out

Juniors - www.itftennis.com/media/7894/2022-provisional-seeding-juniors.pdf We are top seeds and Dahnon Ward is our number one player (#s are world rankings)

5 of the top 10 boys and 5 of the top 10 girls play in a mixed team format. Our team is all boys.

Ward Dahnon 3
Penney Andrew 4
Harris Ruben 20
Johns Joshua 22


Quads - www.itftennis.com/media/7893/2022-provisional-seeding-quad.pdf - we are seeded 5th here with a much weakened team - no Andy Lapthorne and no Antony Cotterill

7 of the top 10 players are playing

Green Richard 14
Slade Greg 24
Shaw James 28

Womens - www.itftennis.com/media/7892/2022-provisional-seeding-women.pdf - again, a much weaker team without Lucy Shuker, we are seeded 7th

7 of the top 10 players are playing here

Oosthuizen Cornelia 20
Breakwell Abbie 37
Bishop Ruby 60

Mens - www.itftennis.com/media/7891/2022-provisional-seeding-men.pdf we are seeded 6th here and missing Gordon Reid although Alfie Hewett is playing.

6 of the worlds top 10 are playing here

Hewett Alfie 1
Bartram Ben 45
Bailey Dermot 66

Juniors won again today, 2-0 now.

Quads lost and are 0-2

Mens lost to NL. They are 1-1

And womens are still playing against South Africa, first match
In their group