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9vicman


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Coup Droit wrote:
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Do you think the French go through all this when they hand out wildcards? I am going to Wimbledon on first Tuesday and want to see as many Brits as possible.

 Don't think you can compare Roland Garros wild card discussions with Wimbledon. For a start you only have 6 wild cards after the two reciprocal places for the US/Australia (which are quite ridiculous).

For men, Wawrinka got one, as did five French men all ranked in the top 160. For women, four players were in the Top 200, one was a 19 year old at a career-high ranking, and one was Lois Boisson.

Not sure much deliberation needed.

Yes

The qualis wildcards were far more 'out there', more radical, more controversial - ones given to completely unranked juniors, for instance

The main draw ones, as you say, were pretty safe

But the point that the French would never, ever worry about justifying favouring the French, using all their wildcards to that end, no matter what, is certainly true

 

 Talking of wild cards, we were talking about whether Moise Kouame might get a main draw wild card and he ends up losing first round juniors.



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L16:  Blake Bayldon & Reese Stalder (AUS/USA) CR 237 (124+113) defeated Joshua Paris & Takeru Yuzuki (JPN) CR 234 (112+122) by 6-4 7-6(5)  hmm

Predictably:

L16:  (4) Marcelo Demoliner & Sadio Doumbia (BRA/FRA) CR 117 (91+26) defeated (WC) Lui Maxted & Jack Pinnington Jones CR 1751 (778+973) by 3 & 3

Equally predictably:

L16:  (3) Théo Arribage & Constantin Frantzen (FRA/GER) CR 104 (54+50) defeated Billy Harris & Marcus Willis CR 981 (872+109) by 6-3 3-6 [11-9]

That means that JoMo & David S are the sole survivors of the entire GB contingent in Brum.  bleh



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Birmingham hasnt been a memorable event for the Brits!

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Bring back Surbiton

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seagull wrote:

Bring back Surbiton

 If only 



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Raining  in Birmingham right now, hard, if anyone is thinking of visiting. 



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Coup Droit wrote:
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Bring back Surbiton

 If only 

 Can they? Or have they burnt their bridges there? Just looking they are still advertising seats for the WTA 500 pretty hard sell..



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Var wrote:
Coup Droit wrote:
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Bring back Surbiton

 If only 

 Can they? Or have they burnt their bridges there? Just looking they are still advertising seats for the WTA 500 pretty hard sell..

 I am sure when they announced Surbiton was being replaced as a challenger, there was some mention about Surbiton being excited about future opportunities etc - I may be making that up! I took that to assume they may go down the ITF M25/W35 route or some such at some point and I guess that is easy to put in place with the LTA. Organising a challenger is probably harder and clearly the LTA wont support that (I imagine, having just got rid of it) and presumably would require the ATP/WTA to give it a license as well. So I assume the future is, if anything, ITF route.   



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JonH comes home wrote:
Var wrote:
Coup Droit wrote:
seagull wrote:

Bring back Surbiton

 If only 

 Can they? Or have they burnt their bridges there? Just looking they are still advertising seats for the WTA 500 pretty hard sell..

 I am sure when they announced Surbiton was being replaced as a challenger, there was some mention about Surbiton being excited about future opportunities etc - I may be making that up! I took that to assume they may go down the ITF M25/W35 route or some such at some point and I guess that is easy to put in place with the LTA. Organising a challenger is probably harder and clearly the LTA wont support that (I imagine, having just got rid of it) and presumably would require the ATP/WTA to give it a license as well. So I assume the future is, if anything, ITF route.   

 Surbiton club has a strong padel group 

I wouldn't be surprised if their 'future opportunities' lay that way crycrycry



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I think it was a combination of size of club (Edgbaston v Surbiton), the fact that Edgbaston has hosted a tour event since 1982, and having more events (slightly further) up north.

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The glimmer of hope continues at least to gleam amid the Brummie gloom:

QF:  (WC) Johannus Monday & David Stevenson CR 505 (397+108) defeated Nicolás Barrientos & Rithvik Choudary Bollipalli (COL/IND) CR 141 (66+75) by 4 & 4  ban-woohoo.gif



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David could make the top 100 here with a title, he is showing live 104 as we stand. Not sure who is left in the draw, but that would be something for him to shout about if he could make it and take the title

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The glimmer of hope continues at least to gleam amid the Brummie gloom:

QF:  (WC) Johannus Monday & David Stevenson CR 505 (397+108) defeated Nicolás Barrientos & Rithvik Choudary Bollipalli (COL/IND) CR 141 (66+75) by 4 & 4  ban-woohoo.gif

SF:  Diego Hidalgo & Patrik Trhac (ECU/USA) CR 184 (80+104) vs (WC) Johannus Monday & David Stevenson CR 505 (397+108)



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SF:  Diego Hidalgo & Patrik Trhac (ECU/USA) CR 184 (80+104) defeated (WC) Johannus Monday & David Stevenson CR 505 (397+108) by 4 & 4



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