Points Defences This Week:

Mens:

100 - Broady
30 - Peniston
1 - Storrie

Womens:

13 - Maloney
7 - Miyazaki

I believe Harriet is in the qualifying draw for the WTA 250 in Cluj and Jodie is a MDO alternate. Not sure whether either will remain so, but thought worth flagging.

Coup Droit wrote:

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Great to see that Hannah Klugman has entered the W50 in Birmingham

She'll certainly get a MD wildcard, surely

And Mimi too

-- Edited by Coup Droit on Saturday 20th of January 2024 12:31:48 PM

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Remember there's another W50 in Roehampton the week after, which I'd expect both to enter since they've entered Birmingham, and that they're juniors with additional restrictions on WCs.

Don't think it's certain Hannah will get a WC. She has 1 WC left before her quota renews back to 3 the week after Roehampton and may want to use it in Roehampton, with it being "home".

Mimi has 4 WCs to use before October (excluding Wimbledon) and I expect she'd save 1 for Ilkley and possibly other grass events, so again not a certainty she'd take a WC in both Birmingham and Roehampton. I'd say definitely 1 of them but not so sure about both. It comes down to whether she and her team think it's better to use 2 up in the W50s now or if they would make better use of them in the spring W35s and how many she wants to save for the grass.

An added complication to deciding where thet take their WCs is that they do both have direct entry to main draws through the Junior Accelerator route (2x up to W50, 3x up to W35 for Hannah, 1x up to W50 and 4xup to W35 for Mimi) but I expect they'd use them overseas where WCs won't be available to them.

It must be a real headache to plan a top junior's schedule with all these different routes and additional restrictions.

Lambda wrote:

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markymc1983 wrote:

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No sign of Katie post AO

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I expect Katie to next play in the Middle East 1000s. I think they're both 64 draws so she should get in. I'm not sure with the changes the WTA have made to the calendar, rankings and entry rules, and that the WTA think it's perfectly acceptable to make these changes without publishing the rulebook, whether there are any changes to mandatory requirements for 1000s and she'd be required to play if she got Direct Acceptance.

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 Katie is still in Melbourne supporting Alex.

markymc1983 wrote:

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No sign of Katie post AO

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 Didn't she say she was playing Linz next?

Nottingham Doubles early entries are out.
Luke Johnson & Ben Jones
Scott Duncan & Marcus Willis
Aidan Mchugh (& Christian Harrison)
Billy Harris & Ryan Peniston

Crawford out of Chennai.