Entry Week 20 - 15/05/2023

seagull · Hall of fame

Entry Week 20 - 15/05/2023

seagull · Hall of fame

Feels a bit like Jodie trolling me now. Italy, Japan, USA. Unlikely

Lambda · Challenger level

seagull wrote:

Feels a bit like Jodie trolling me now. Italy, Japan, USA. Unlikely

She's not playing any ITFs. She's committed to Paris 125k
https://www.tropheeclarins.com/les-joueuses

Harriet and Katie S were 8th and 14th main draw alts for the Italy 125k, so may be in qualifying there.

seagull · Hall of fame

Well she keeps putting her name down for all of them

seagull · Hall of fame

Updated with withdrawals

Lambda · Challenger level

I don't understand why Jodie has left herself on an ITF when she's in a WTA125. I'm not aware of any scenario where she can withdraw from a WTA125 to play an ITF.

DF · Tennis legend

Fran has pulled out of Austria. Hope that she will be able to play in the French Open Qualifying.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

The Japan event next week - it says grass above and in the itf site also but is it real grass or artificial grass, plastic, sand based stuff? Anyone know? I presume the latter?

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

JonH comes home wrote:
The Japan event next week - it says grass above and in the itf site also but is it real grass or artificial grass, plastic, sand based stuff? Anyone know? I presume the latter?

I see PaulM in this thread from 2015 Kurume event says it is astroturf which is what I think it actually is , artificial grass, as opposed to natural grass

https://britishtennis.activeboard.com/t60172453/week-19-itf-50k-kurume-jpn-grass/?page=3&sort=oldestFirst

from my experience of playing artificial grass a lot it tends to bounce low but also can be quite slow and a lot less slick than real grass - as PaulM said 9 years ago, it depends on the sand they layer onto the courts.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

I see Katie lost the Kurume final in 2017 to Laura

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Kurume_U.S.E_Cup

DF · Tennis legend

Burrage, Jones, Dunne, Maloney, Hutchinson, Black, Davies and Lynch withdrew

Lambda · Challenger level

It's the same surface as this week, so not sure why they've listed this week as carpet and next week as grass.
You can see the Kurume courts in the title image on the tournament website
http://www.itf-kurume.jp/woman/draw/

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Lambda wrote:
It's the same surface as this week, so not sure why they've listed this week as carpet and next week as grass.
You can see the Kurume courts in the title image on the tournament website
http://www.itf-kurume.jp/woman/draw/

Yeah, Id managed to get to that page! they previously had a couple of grass events in Pakistan and they were real grass but Ireland also had what the itf called grass, but actually turned out to be carpet

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

JonH comes home wrote:
Lambda wrote:
It's the same surface as this week, so not sure why they've listed this week as carpet and next week as grass.
You can see the Kurume courts in the title image on the tournament website
http://www.itf-kurume.jp/woman/draw/
Yeah, Id managed to get to that page! they previously had a couple of grass events in Pakistan and they were real grass but Ireland also had what the itf called grass, but actually turned out to be carpet

The irish events were in July in the past at limerick, shelbourne And Dublin variously - obviously back in the past they had been real grass but the artificial carpet grass courts took over from the 80s or 90s, I think

SuperT · Futures qualifying

Lambda wrote:
seagull wrote:

Feels a bit like Jodie trolling me now. Italy, Japan, USA. Unlikely

She's not playing any ITFs. She's committed to Paris 125k
https://www.tropheeclarins.com/les-joueuses

Harriet and Katie S were 8th and 14th main draw alts for the Italy 125k, so may be in qualifying there.

Jodies photo has disappeared from this link so I guess shes probably withdrawn again?