Entries Week 12 - 21/03/22

seagull · Hall of fame

Entries Week 12 - 21/03/22

seagull · Hall of fame

Miyazaki shown as British now?

scottie1 · Futures level

Russell Fuller has confirmed this on BBC Sport website now British

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Miami Doubles - Joe, Neal and Jamie are our only entrants in this in main draw, Dan and Luke Saville are alt 1 and Lloyd and Harri alt 8

www.dartsrankings.com/tennis/miami

seagull · Hall of fame

Updated with withdrawals

Madadman · Masters Series Champion

Stuart Fraser has confirmed the suspicions that Jack Draper has got a MD WC for Miami.

twitter.com/stu_fraser/status/1502398360887644163

chocandlolly · Junior player

Great to see Jack playing a match on the tour again . He deserves his shot . Hope he gets a winnable 1st round match .

DF · Tennis legend

chocandlolly wrote:
Great to see Jack playing a match on the tour again . He deserves his shot . Hope he gets a winnable 1st round match .

He won't face Novak this time smile

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Wild cards for Miami are really interesting , no Americans at all I believe.

Lambda · Challenger level

It is no surprise though that all Miami wild cards outside of former slam winners/top 20 players have gone to IMG managed or IMG academy players, as they always do.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Lambda wrote:
It is no surprise though that all Miami wild cards outside of former slam winners/top 20 players have gone to IMG managed or IMG academy players, as they always do.

As you say always the case and I guess the upside of going with a big agency , although whether it is anti competitive practice is another thing !

flamingowings · All-time great

JonH comes home wrote:
Wild cards for Miami are really interesting , no Americans at all I believe.

Not technically correct. Plenty of US players got WC - almost all the quals ones are US men, and last I checked Sofia Kenin was American and has a WC for the main draw, as well as 3 other US women.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

flamingowings wrote:
JonH comes home wrote:
Wild cards for Miami are really interesting , no Americans at all I believe.
Not technically correct. Plenty of US players got WC - almost all the quals ones are US men, and last I checked Sofia Kenin was American and has a WC for the main draw, as well as 3 other US women.

Sorry - I was talking just men and main draw and apologise as I didnt make that clear - indeed, I hadnt and typically dont look at the womens details. my bad for not being clear what I meant.

I do think not having a US mens main draw wildcard in a US event is unusual and interesting

-- Edited by JonH comes home on Sunday 13th of March 2022 02:40:49 PM

indiana · Tennis legend

Maybe a wee bit surprising here re the men's MD but the Americans in general get a very good WC deal by having 3 Masters events and so often just getting WCs for being American,.

Of course that is typical with other countries awarding WCs to their own players. But it's not so good wirh leg ups for such big events and some may know my views re MD MCs when wr get to Slam level, ie earn them.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

indiana wrote:
Maybe a wee bit surprising here re the men's MD but the Americans in general get a very good WC deal by having 3 Masters events and so often just getting WCs for being American,.

Of course that is typical with other countries awarding WCs to their own players. But it's not so good wirh leg ups for such big events and some may know my views re MD MCs when wr get to Slam level, ie earn them.

Indeed - I wasnt really commenting on whether Americans deserved them, agree they get a good deal overall. More that I was surprised the 5 cards had gone to 2 Brits, 2 Aussies and a Chinese player.