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can there be a Special Exemption into the Main Draw where a player would have made the Qualifiers but having been a qualifier in the current tournament, has proved their worth such that they have reached the final and so is unable to play the qualifiers .. or must that be a Wild Card?

spelling ..

-- Edited by B00thy on Friday 28th of November 2025 02:17:14 PM

more spelling ..

Coup Droit wrote:

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JonH comes home wrote:

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Madadman wrote:

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From page 12 of the WTT regulations:

Qualified Tournament (related to Special Exempts) For M15 & M25 Tournaments: the Singles event of any M15, M25, ATP Tour or ATP Challenger Tournament within the same region in the preceding week is a Qualified Tournament.

So depends if they deem it the same region. What flexibility is in that.

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 There you go, AI was unreliable!! Haha

Pakistan to Egypt - same region? It is a stretch, I would say. But they can make their own rules, I guess! 

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 A1 was not 'unreliable' - it was wrong 

I've just been working on a file where the person has got a legal case 100% back to front - black is white, north is south 

And I have finally realised, from a bit of googling, that the person had based their reasoning on A1's understanding of the case which, needless to say, was also 100% back to front (there's a tiny procedural quirk which might be the reason that A1 got it the wrong way round but that hardly matters, it's just wrong) 

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 No, you are right definitely wrong!! Not unreliable - I am being too kind!!

BTW, did you mean to write A1 instead of AI? Or is that an abbreviation or acronym/spoof, I should take on board!? 

Coup Droit wrote:

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No, that was human error

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Actually, I have just been using copilot on some client work stuff. 

Taking the notes and outputs from a series of meetings/interviews/workshops and asking them to turn them into a cohesive set of actions and plans. 

It has actually done a really good job, a bit of language (not client specific enough) and some prioritisation I would change but the key elements are well structured and it has saved me possibly a half day of work. 

The next question is, does one reduce the "bill" by half a day or take the view that the output is the same and it is the output they are paying for and shouldnt care how much time went into the input side of the equation!!    

Coup Droit wrote:

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Of course you don't reduce the bill

BUT if your competitors undercut you by reducing THEIR bills/tenders to relfect their use of AI you're going to have to as well

For me, AI generated stuff reads very well, it is slick, it is quite sophisticated in language, it is perfect for 'blah-blah' - but in terms of its substantive content, it is often really poor

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You definitely have to work through the output and sense check it and build/adapt it, for sure. But it certainly helps make sense of pages of notes and creates a good starting point!