Week 46 – W100 Takasaki, Japan - Hard

GAMEOVER · Satellite level

Week 46 – W100 Takasaki, Japan - Hard

DF · Tennis legend

Isn't the cut off for main draw AO Dec 4th ?

emmsie69 · Top national player

DF wrote:
Isn't the cut off for main draw AO Dec 4th ?

I think so. Does that count out the 40k tournament then? Can't remember if it's all ITF tournaments or just the lower 15 and 25k ones that are a week behind.

emmsie69 · Top national player

GAMEOVER wrote:
MrTSymonds wrote:
Last year the top 93 made it into the draw initially with the top 99 making it after withdrawals.
So at the very minimum she needs to get into the top 115 to get a top seeded draw in qualifying.
There seems to be more players than ever using SR'S or PR's to get into Grand Slam main draws. Former Grand Slam champions seemingly wanting to play but not with a high enough ranking include Emma, Wozniacki , Kerber and Ozaka. Then you can add on the likes of Patricia Tig of Rumania who has to qualify for a $25k tournament but has a protected ranking of 65 for Grand Slam purposes in 2023.

Can Lisicki get a PR too. She was out for so long I'm not sure if that qualifies her.

the addict · Tennis legend

Lisicki won Calgary last week having entered on her ranking of 378. She's up to 281 this week. But she's been back playing since May 2022 - on and off - so no PR for her now

the addict · Tennis legend

Doubles

L16:- Harriet Dart (GBR) / Valeria Savinykh (***) CR 781 (156+625) LOST TO Hanyu Guo (CHN) / Xinyu Jiang (CHN) CR153 (73+80) [2] 5-7 4-6

GAMEOVER · Satellite level

MrTSymonds wrote:
Last year the top 93 made it into the draw initially with the top 99 making it after withdrawals.
So at the very minimum she needs to get into the top 115 to get a top seeded draw in qualifying.

The main draw consists of 128 players so with 16 qualifiers and 8 wild cards the cut off would be 104. However as a guide there must have been at least 11 other players making the main draw one way or another to reduce the main draw cut off to 93. I think in some of the 2023 entries Simona Halep was included even though she was suspended .

paulisi · Tennis legend

DART, Harriet (GBR) 140 (CH=84 2022) beat KAJI, Haruka (JPN) WC 260 (CH=213 2023) 6-4 6-3

the addict · Tennis legend

Nice win. This tournament has now become one of Harriet's counters for next week's rankings. She's up 7 places according to OER.

Peter too · Tennis legend

R2: DART, Harriet (GBR) 140 def KAJI, Haruka (JPN) WC 260 6-4 6-3

QF: DART, Harriet (GBR) 140 (CH=84 2022) v OKAMURA, Kyoka (JPN) Q 323 (CH=223 2016)
They met in Bangkok in 2015 with Kyoka winning 2 & 4

PaulM · Tennis legend

Well done Harriet

Jan · Hall of fame

Good news!

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Has the seed fallen from Harriets section of the draw?

emmsie69 · Top national player

JonH comes home wrote:
Has the seed fallen from Harriets section of the draw?

The only seed left is the No.5 and she is in the other half. Great opportunity for Harriet to atleast secure a qualifying seeding in Australia

the addict · Tennis legend

JonH comes home wrote:
Has the seed fallen from Harriets section of the draw?

Yes, both seeds are out - Galfi [8] and Wang [3]. Galfi lost to Harriet's next opponent and Wang to her last opponent.

In fact only Yue Yuan [5] is the only seed left in the draw - and there are 5 qualifiers in the QF's - the other three players in Harriet's half are all qualifiers.