Week 14 - ITF W25 - Santa Margherita Di Pula, Italy Clay

Nix · Futures level

RE: Week 14 - ITF W25 - Santa Margherita Di Pula, Italy Clay

the addict · Tennis legend

There are just 14 WTA 125 events on the calendar for 2023.

But if you take into account the higher ITF events which are more equivalent to the men's challengers there are plenty more - 13 W100, 3 W80, 50 W60

Lambda · Challenger level

JonH comes home wrote:
do the WTA 125 events have any sort of cut off?

Top 10 are not allowed to play WTA125. Top 11-50 are not allowed direct entry to a WTA125 but can play as a WC.

christ · Futures level

It just give Ms Kartal the opportunity to flex her muscles against some slightly better opposition is all.

paulisi · Tennis legend

Sonay took the opener 7-5

LordBrownof · Futures level

And she wins! 6-1 in the third. Great win for Sonay.

Peter too · Tennis legend

QF: KARTAL, Sonay (GBR) (7) 246 (CH=195 2023) def RUS, Arantxa (NED) (1) 108 7-5 1-6 6-1

SF: KARTAL, Sonay (GBR) (7) 246 (CH=195 2023) v BULGARU, Miriam Bianca (ROU) (8) 247 (CH=243 2023)

That's three QFs played today and three QFs won, one more to go.

-- Edited by Peter too on Friday 7th of April 2023 08:17:41 PM

Peter too · Tennis legend

Several players just outside the top 100 have used W25s to get over the line, Mel South was one. She just managed to get to 99 but never any higher.

indiana · Tennis legend

It doesn't help that the W25s have long been analamous re their prize money vs points. And this has been shown up even more by how they have recently squeezed in the points for the new W40s between the W25s and W60s when there was an opportunity for more of a shake-up.

I imagine over time the W40s and W60s will generally be much stronger fields but the W25s are an attraction to relatively stronger players who are much more interested in the points, and maintaining a ranking, than the prize money and don't really belong there.

So the WTA have fault in their points allocation. It is something that has long annoyed me ( maybe more than it should but it is so obviously pretty silly and easily fixable of someone would put a bomb up their backsides ). They should long ago have phased in lower points for W25s, which would probably make them more of the relative level of M25s and a better next step after W15s with less chance of coming across say a vulturing Arantxa Rus.

miriam abc · Strong Club Player

So glad Sonay won today, stop Arantxa winning everything.

wales1994 · County player

Thats the most promising result Sonay has had for a while. She started 2022 so well, but did she get injured? Or did she just struggle with playing higher level players?

emmsie69 · Top national player

indiana wrote:
It doesn't help that the W25s have long been analamous re their prize money vs points. And this has been shown up even more by how they have recently squeezed in the points for the new W40s between the W25s and W60s when there was an opportunity for more of a shake-up.

I imagine over time the W40s and W60s will generally be much stronger fields but the W25s are an attraction to relatively stronger players who are much more interested in the points, and maintaining a ranking, than the prize money and don't really belong there.

So the WTA have fault in their points allocation. It is something that has long annoyed me ( maybe more than it should but it is so obviously pretty silly and easily fixable of someone would put a bomb up their backsides ). They should long ago have phased in lower points for W25s, which would probably make them more of the relative level of M25s and a better next step after W15s with less chance of coming across say a vulturing Arantxa Rus.

It's not the prize money here though it's the potential to make main draw at the FO. Rus has form for this, I believe she won either 7 or 8 W25k one year, it's points doping and it's immoral.

indiana · Tennis legend

emmsie69 wrote:
indiana wrote:
It doesn't help that the W25s have long been analamous re their prize money vs points. And this has been shown up even more by how they have recently squeezed in the points for the new W40s between the W25s and W60s when there was an opportunity for more of a shake-up.

I imagine over time the W40s and W60s will generally be much stronger fields but the W25s are an attraction to relatively stronger players who are much more interested in the points, and maintaining a ranking, than the prize money and don't really belong there.

So the WTA have fault in their points allocation. It is something that has long annoyed me ( maybe more than it should but it is so obviously pretty silly and easily fixable of someone would put a bomb up their backsides ). They should long ago have phased in lower points for W25s, which would probably make them more of the relative level of M25s and a better next step after W15s with less chance of coming across say a vulturing Arantxa Rus.
It's not the prize money here though it's the potential to make main draw at the FO. Rus has form for this, I believe she won either 7 or 8 W25k one year, it's points doping and it's immoral.

Precisely. And not helped by the W25 generous points allocation.

paulisi · Tennis legend

wales1994 wrote:
Thats the most promising result Sonay has had for a while. She started 2022 so well, but did she get injured? Or did she just struggle with playing higher level players?

Stepped up a level, although she didn't play too regularly with minimal success.

25k is the right tournament choice for now.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

And Rus has done it through her career as well. Not just this season.