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Coup Droit


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JonH comes home wrote:
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The LTA are currently listing 21 players on their entry list, leaving 11 spots for wild cards and qualifiers. Four wild cards is the normal allowance, but if they only award three it leaves open the possibilty of a 16 or 32 player qualifying competition for 8 places, but an 8 player draw does also look a distinct possibility and as CD says is the norm.

 Looking at the WTA website for 125s , there do appear to be some 32 draw qualies events - eg Canberra before the AO. So perhaps that will prove the case here as well, hopefully so. 

 That would be very nice, let's hope so (but don't hold your breath)

However, it's only one part

Look at the acceptance list here - 15 players in the top-100

Last year at Surbiton there were 5, I believe

A W125 event is stronger - and it makes sense, you get more points



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So Jodie hasn't used her PR. I assume thats because she knows she will get a WC and wants so save it?


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Based on her results she probably shouldn't have used it at the French either ;)

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It's a 24 qualifying draw I think.There's 22 direct acceptances, 4 WCs leaving 6 qualifiers for a 32 main draw. The event schedule shows there are 2 rounds of women's qualifying, ruling out an 8 player qualifying draw.

It's a poor reflection on WTA/LTA that we don't even have the basic details to draw sizes less than 2 weeks from the start of the tournament.

-- Edited by Lambda on Wednesday 21st of May 2025 02:14:21 PM

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Lambda wrote:

It's a 24 qualifying draw I think.There's 22 direct acceptances, 4 WCs leaving 6 qualifiers for a 32 main draw. The event schedule shows there are 2 rounds of women's qualifying, ruling out an 8 player qualifying draw.

It's a poor reflection on WTA/LTA that we don't even have the basic details to draw sizes less than 2 weeks from the start of the tournament.

-- Edited by Lambda on Wednesday 21st of May 2025 02:14:21 PM

Thanks, Lambda

As a reminder, in the qualis last year at Surbiton, we had: 

(1) Eliz, (2) Millie R, (3) Isa Lacy, (4) Ranah, (5) Alicia Dudeney, (6) Emily App, (7) Brooke, (8) Dani Daley, (9) Naiktha, (10) Lauryn JB, (11) Sophie D-Lewis, (12) Eden, (13) Freya, (14) Alice, (15) Gabia Paskauskas

So as long as the Birmingham event gives equal opportunities to GB players to make their case, and - as Lambda said before - to score points, then that's just fine 

 

ADD: just for full info, we also had in the MD: (1) Sonay, (2) Fran, (3) Beth Grey, (4) Katy Dunne, (5) Harriet, (6) Lily  



-- Edited by Coup Droit on Wednesday 21st of May 2025 02:21:16 PM

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Lambda wrote:
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Were Katie and Emma eligible to enter here and are they able to take a WC?

 

Normally they wouldn't but as its during the 2nd week of a Grand Slam, they were able to enter and can take a WC. Only top 10 players are not eligible to play 125s during the 2nd week of a 2 week mandatory event.

So what will probably happen is when they lose in the French Open they'll take up a wild card they could have saved by just entering...



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Don't think Katie and Emma would look to play Birmingham if planning on Queen's / Nottingham / Eastbourne / Wimbledon.

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9vicman wrote:

Don't think Katie and Emma would look to play Birmingham if planning on Queen's / Nottingham / Eastbourne / Wimbledon.

 Emma isnt playing Nottingham. She is going to Berlin. Has a wild card. Not sure about Katie.



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Katie is guaranteed to be playing Nottingham. Her home event and double defending champion

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So no reason for either to play Birmingham even if they lose early in Paris.

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Doubles
Madeline (& Hule)
Jodie (& Gadecki)
Harriet & Maia
Lissey (& Lechemia)
Heather & Emily A

https://www.wtatennis.com/tournaments/1126/birmingham-125/2025/player-list

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Hev and Emily App sounds a nice pairing

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Coup Droit wrote:

Hev and Emily App sounds a nice pairing

 Agreed - love this! Surprised so many of the others still going for foreign partners, which presumably reduces wildcard chances. 



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jb288 wrote:
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Hev and Emily App sounds a nice pairing

 Agreed - love this! Surprised so many of the others still going for foreign partners, which presumably reduces wildcard chances. 

Two of the three you refer to are regular partnerships so expected. Jodie doesn't often play doubles, but Olivia Gadecki is a good partner and has partnered Freya and Liv this year, and won a W100 with Sutjiadi this year.

I think that splitting up the partnerships to increase the number of wild cards would be a waste of time as it takes time to create a good pair.

And if Hev and Emily gel they could have quite an impact.



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