British Tennis Forum - Celebrating 20 Years!

wolf wrote:

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Katie live ranked 103 going into the final week of qualification but has 9 players below her that can overtake in 3 different tournaments. Although they can't all overtake as they'll end up playing each other.

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 Hopefully Katie will be close enough to make it. I feel she may just miss out - when I looked she was at 103, but I think someone dropped ranking points to drop below her. Withdrawals, special protected ranking due to injury make it always very difficult to know the exact rank that she needs to be to make it, but once she is ranked outside the top 104, then it is going to be very tight.

The qualifiers have still got until December 22 to get their rankings sorted. Lily lost today, which does her chances no good, but Mimi won and is getting a little closer to making the cut offs for qualification. Another couple of wins and she might have enough points, as some of the Aussies ranked from 105 to 224 are sure to get wildcard spots, so maybe to be ranked around 230 to 232 might be enough to get into the draw. Again depends on withdrawals. protected rankings etc, but Mimi is getting closer all the time.

British Number 6 at the age of 18 is also a good achievement for her.