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wimdledont wrote:

Hannah 2-6, 4-6

Dont think her name goes into the hat for the LL spots?

MD R1 Raducanu v Pliskova Ka

 I think Hannah would be last into the hat for a LL spot, especially as some of the Q seeds lost



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Alicia lost 6-3 6-3. Didn't play anywhere near as well as yesterday unfortunately but still learning.

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PaulM wrote:

Alicia lost 6-3 6-3. Didn't play anywhere near as well as yesterday unfortunately but still learning.

 Yes, disappointing 



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For the record

FQR:- Himeno Sakatsume (JPN) WR127 [ALT] def Alicia Dudeney ( GBR ) WR258 [WC] 6-3 6-3

FQR:- Hannah KLUGMAN ( GBR ) WR511 [WC] lost to Zeynep Sonmez (TUR) WR67 [Q5] 2-6 4-6

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Birrell, Preston and Kenin are the lucky losers.

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Current draw

Rankings as at 08-06-2026 - some changes to come on Monday !

R1:- Emma Raducanu (GBR) WR42 [10] [WC] v Karolina Pliskova (CZE) WR106

R1:- Francesca Jones (GBR) WR98 [WC] v Talia Gibson (AUS) WR63

R1:- Harriet Dart (GBR) WR160 [WC] v Katie Boulter (GBR) WR73 [WC]

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paulisi wrote:

I might go on Monday.
Forecast is OK and seems centre court tickets are available.
Not been for years.

 I'm going tomorrow, will have to look out for you, been quite a few years. 

 I've not bought a ticket as i've been out of the country until about 15 mins ago. I'll be going as long as i dont sleep in....

Still tickets online

It was either Birmingham, Shrewsbury or Sportcity we last me. Must be 10yrs



-- Edited by paulisi on Sunday 14th of June 2026 10:44:30 PM

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Bought a ticket, but no idea how to access.
I have an email confirmation, but no details on which app and how to access.

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paulisi wrote:

Bought a ticket, but no idea how to access.
I have an email confirmation, but no details on which app and how to access.

 I believe the app is called LTA Courtside that you need to download and access. For me, it let me log in initially using my email address I used for tickets and then set a password on logging in, but then I think it was facial recognition thereafter. 

 



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45 mins later sent me details on app and then struggled to log in.

The app is awful. For a big organisation, the ticketing is a mess

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As an example of the disparity in terms of grass opportunity for men and women; today we have one woman playing, Fran, and all week there are just 4 involved from this point on (Fran, Emma, Katie B, Harriet) with just this WTA 250 and a WTA 500 on offer for the women.

The men had many more players potentially playing yesterday and have 12 in action today at Queens (ATP 500), Nottingham (ATP 125 Challenger) and in Dublin (ATP 75 Challenger).

Both obviously have the wild cards later this week and then next week the Eastbourne event is the same for both. But this week is a glaring gap between the women's opportunities and the men's overall

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JonH wrote:

As an example of the disparity in terms of grass opportunity for men and women; today we have one woman playing, Fran, and all week there are just 4 involved from this point on (Fran, Emma, Katie B, Harriet) with just this WTA 250 and a WTA 500 on offer for the women.

The men had many more players potentially playing yesterday and have 12 in action today at Queens (ATP 500), Nottingham (ATP 125 Challenger) and in Dublin (ATP 75 Challenger).

Both obviously have the wild cards later this week and then next week the Eastbourne event is the same for both. But this week is a glaring gap between the women's opportunities and the men's overall

Thanks CD and JonH and others for highlighting  this disparity. I didnt realise how challenging it would be for our younger lower ranked players to fully take advantage of the grass court swing, given the dearth of lower level events. Now it is blatantly obvious. Putting them against players so much higher ranked is not very good mentally for them. Lets hope the powers that be have a rethink! 



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Var wrote:
JonH wrote:

As an example of the disparity in terms of grass opportunity for men and women; today we have one woman playing, Fran, and all week there are just 4 involved from this point on (Fran, Emma, Katie B, Harriet) with just this WTA 250 and a WTA 500 on offer for the women.

The men had many more players potentially playing yesterday and have 12 in action today at Queens (ATP 500), Nottingham (ATP 125 Challenger) and in Dublin (ATP 75 Challenger).

Both obviously have the wild cards later this week and then next week the Eastbourne event is the same for both. But this week is a glaring gap between the women's opportunities and the men's overall

Thanks CD and JonH and others for highlighting  this disparity. I didnt realise how challenging it would be for our younger lower ranked players to fully take advantage of the grass court swing, given the dearth of lower level events. Now it is blatantly obvious. Putting them against players so much higher ranked is not very good mentally for them. Lets hope the powers that be have a rethink! 

 The powers that be have been doing this for YEARS. So not hopeful they will re-think and gain some common sense any tine soon. I do believe the LTA have a stake in the Berlin tournament from vague memory 



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Var wrote:
JonH wrote:

As an example of the disparity in terms of grass opportunity for men and women; today we have one woman playing, Fran, and all week there are just 4 involved from this point on (Fran, Emma, Katie B, Harriet) with just this WTA 250 and a WTA 500 on offer for the women.

The men had many more players potentially playing yesterday and have 12 in action today at Queens (ATP 500), Nottingham (ATP 125 Challenger) and in Dublin (ATP 75 Challenger).

Both obviously have the wild cards later this week and then next week the Eastbourne event is the same for both. But this week is a glaring gap between the women's opportunities and the men's overall

Thanks CD and JonH and others for highlighting  this disparity. I didnt realise how challenging it would be for our younger lower ranked players to fully take advantage of the grass court swing, given the dearth of lower level events. Now it is blatantly obvious. Putting them against players so much higher ranked is not very good mentally for them. Lets hope the powers that be have a rethink! 

 The powers that be have been doing this for YEARS. So not hopeful they will re-think and gain some common sense any tine soon. I do believe the LTA have a stake in the Berlin tournament from vague memory 

 One thing that shows the disparity over the years is in the prediction game where we track the grass court wins. Mens wins total is always much higher than womens, twice as many last year and twice as many almost this year so far, and some of that is down to opportunity, for sure. 

We also see the womens players with the most wins in a season typically being the top players, one of the players taking part in the WTA level events. In the men's, it is usually someone lower down at ITF level ( I am thinking like Dan Cox) or at the Challenger level, but certainly not Jack D, or Cam, Andy got close but didn't come top, I think. 

So, more opportunities for men and in particular at the ranking level catering for below 100 and below 200-300 also.   



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It is desperately sad not to see more of our women playing this week and I realise the wildcard playoffs are thursday and friday but surely there are 4 or 5 players who will be getting qualifying wildcards who would benefit from a W75 on grass this week. Also those in the wildcard playoffs would've benefitted from an ITF level event last week or the week before

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