Spanish players are unhappy about IMG giving the majority of WC to non Spanish players and have issued a statement (can only see the Spanish statement so far).
We are starting to get into the area where WC need to be managed due to age restrictions or used all available wildcards previously. So the like of Anna Brogan may get a MDWC if a lot of the juniors can not use or wish to save for later.
Looking at the w25k in Nottingham, I suspect you will see some strange qWC as all the obvious names are in qualifying.
Ruby Cooling and Given Roach may get QWC if they don't get in direct
Maia and Freya now definitely in the MD next week at Nottingham (several pretty good players have withdrawn - which helps )
Dani, Abigail, Marni and Nadia are all into the qualis as of right
Talia has withdrawn
As has Anna Popescu
Mimi and Soumeya are the next two on the ALT list for qualis
Mimi is definitely in as there is a spare place, plus the 4 wildcards are certain to come from girls in qualifying.
Yes, I agree, absolutely, if she wants to. (I was just saying where she was on the list).
I wouldn't be surprised if she withdrew though. Especially if she has to play qualis. She's done a lot of high level tennis recently. And her interviews show she's (not surprisingly) really focused on Wimbly.
In Madrid doubles, Joe and Neal are of course in . Jamie wasnt in the original field, but I see Venus and Puetz are out, and repairing. Presumably as Venus is playing this week, he is the ok one and looking for a partner. As they seem to be doing ok in Estoril, perhaps Jamie will come into that pair for Madrid?