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The PoMs in May and June are two Im thinking of.

The French Open dates are the headache, as it starts 24 May and ends 7 June.

The options are:

End May PoM period before the FO starts ie May PoM ends 23 May, making it a 3 week period. June would then be a 5 week period ending 28 June ie end of Eastbourne.

Or

May period carries on through end of the FO is 7 June, making May 5 weeks and the June period gets squeezed to 3 weeks.

Or

We end May at the actual end of May and make it and June both 4 weeks - but that would be halfway through the FO and so the FO gets split in two.

Splitting performance in a slam is something i dont like, it becomes very clunky as it confuses things enormously. So either we have a 5 week May and a 3 week June or a 3 week May and a 5 week June.

Last season the dates fell differently and the equivalent end of month conundrum was around end of April and where the Madrid event and weeks should fall. This time its shifted to a May/June conundrum.

As I dont need to resolve it just yet, I wont, but it feels like the option is a May 3/June 5 or May 5/ June 3 one.

At this point, my feeling instinctively, particularly with FO qualies in the mix is to make May 5 weeks and June 3. This means the clay season is all in May and grass falls into June, with the exception of the challenger at Birmingham that kicks things off on the grass.

The things I think about, eh?! Opinions are, of course, always welcomed.