[SanTaureau Fan]

Yeah, expect Stevenson and Raymond amongst the top seed.

 

[Dawn Marie]

Ok, now let me go rep my buddy.

 

[Dawn Marie]

damn I can't it tells me to srpead the love still. I have been lazy and not repping much. I'll get yah when I can.

 

[Venus Forever]

 

[Darran]

Another hard court tier 1. tut.

 

[WtaTour4Ever]

It should get players in the top 30 though? American at least....?

 

[TheBoiledEgg]

Ok so during the summer it's:

Stanford (Tier 2)
LA (Tier 2)
San Diego (Tier I)
Montreal (Tier I)
Olympics
Olympics
New Haven (Tier II)
US Open

What will happen is that the Montreal tournement will be very weak.

I think Stanford will be the one worst hit

its only now 1 week after WIMBLEDON
plus there is the FED CUP weekend right before it also

so only players you gonna get there are the non-entities plus ones who refuse/don't get picked to play Fed Cup.

 

[Chance]

Is the Olympics worth the same as a tier 2 tournament round points ?

 

[Hulet]

Article about the scottsdale tourney merger ( http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/sports/articles/0723tennis0723.html ):

Scottsdale pro tennis tournaments to merge

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Jeff Metcalfe
The Arizona Republic
Jul. 23, 2003 12:00 AM

The men's and women's professional tennis tournaments in Scottsdale will be combined and run simultaneously over eight days beginning next year.

For the past four years, the State Farm Women's Tennis Classic has been held the week before the Franklin Templeton Tennis Classic at the Fairmont Scottsdale Princess.

Peter Tatum of IMG, which stages the tournaments, said Tuesday that two issues must still be finalized: approval from the Association of Tennis Professionals for a Monday men's final and construction of another court at the tournament site.

The Women's Tennis Association has already announced the combined event, scheduled for March 1-8, with the release of its 2004 schedule.

Because the Pacific Life Open in Indian Wells, Calif., expanded its men's draw to 96 players and moved its women's tournament back a week to be played at the same time as the men's, Tatum said, it "forced us to look at combining" the Scottsdale tourneys. "Not to mention the fact we think it makes for a better event. That's the trend of the future anyway, because it showcases the best tennis has.

"It's exciting to have two full weeks of tennis, but at the same time the site and the community would definitely benefit from having it be an eight-day window. It's still the first outdoor event and precedes Indian Wells and Miami, that's what gets the good fields."

By not playing over two weeks, the Scottsdale tournaments can avoid starting in February and perhaps reduce weather delays.

The prize money ($380,000 for men, $585,000 for women) and the size of the draws (32 singles) will remain the same, Tatum said.

Lleyton Hewitt was the men's winner this year, while Ai Sugiyama was a surprise women's champion over a field that lost defending champion Serena Williams due to injury.

Interesting about the Men's monday final and the lower prize money for the mens compared to the women for a change.

 

[TheBoiledEgg]

Article about the scottsdale tourney merger ( http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/sports/articles/0723tennis0723.html ):

Interesting about the Men's monday final and the lower prize money for the mens compared to the women for a change.

Mens event is the lowest money-wise on the ATP Tour
Womens event is a Tier II.

there is more prize-money at ATP events in 1st/2nd rds in % terms than the womens.

 

[Experimentee]

They got rid of Bol?
Theres way too many American tournaments now!

 

[DA FOREHAND]

I was just bad repped for posting this schedule.

:lol:

What's the big deal about rep points? How do you get/give them? Can you tell who gave them to you?

 

[Mateo Mathieu]

(scoffs) I don't like it as well!

 

[Meesh]

no more sarasota?

I know! It's gone! I went to the Semi's and Finals in 2002 and Qualies in 2003. I hope they bring it back in 2005.

 

[disposablehero]

My guess is that it's a 10 / 11 days tournement with a 64 players draw.

New Haven and Stanford will also be weak I suspect.

It's stupid for San Diego to upgrade for a Tier I because I'm sure most players would have played anyway even if it has stayed a Tier II.

What would be stupid is if they continued giving out near Tier I prize money and didn't want the prestige to go with it.

 

[Hurley]

But if they can't make the Tier I cutoff, they can't get it. Are you saying they should save their money? They should.

They can't upgrade or downgrade tournaments because they WANT to. Like the person who mentioned Eastbourne: great, they make it a Tier I. Now they have to get hundreds of thousands more dollars to pay the requisite prize money. How?

If they could do that...they'd have DONE that!

 

[TheBoiledEgg]

one more thing thats been overlooked is the way points drop off

AUS Open seedings will be done with points going on as usual from week 1 but Points coming off from Week1 and Sydney event. BIG changes there

then come AUS Open points coming off will be both AUS OPEN and Tokyo.

later on its gonna be more of the same when the two week events come about.
only RG and Wimbledon take place in the same weeks like this yr.

AUS Open, Indian Wells, Miami and US Open are all one week later

 

[Hulet]

From the Cincinnati Enquirer

Thursday, July 24, 2003

WTA event has Olympic conflict



But some top players could show

By Neil Schmidt
The Cincinnati Enquirer

The return of women's professional tennis to Cincinnati became official Wednesday when the Women's Tennis Association released its 2004 schedule. Though it will take place during the Olympics, the event still could include some top-20 players - and possibly Anna Kournikova, too.

The Internet icon is represented by Octagon management group, which is working out ownership details of this event with Tennis for Charity, Inc., which operates the Western & Southern Financial Group Masters men's tournament here. Kournikova is unlikely to be an Olympian, so she could please her agency by playing in its event.

"Sure, there's a chance of that," said Bruce Flory, Western & Southern Masters director. "And there's some good American players that won't go to the Olympics. With it being the peak of the summer season, it bodes well for the field."

The Cincinnati tournament will be Aug. 16-22, 2004, at the Lindner Family Tennis Center in Mason. The tentative 2004 Western & Southern dates are Aug. 2-8.

The Cincinnati women's event is classified as Tier III, which typically has a 30-person draw and features about three top-20 players. It also has a minimum of $170,000 in prize money, though draw size and prize money have not been worked out.
<snip>

The rest of the article with speculation about who might show up or not can be found at http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2003/07/24/spt_tennis24.1.html

 

[TheBoiledEgg]

2004 is along way away
by then who knows what might happen, who is top 20 or whatever.

There is another US event the week before as well at an undisclosed location.

my bet somewhere in Texas.

 

[AjdeNate!]

I've read that Chicago is lobbying for that "extra" USA event.... Let's hope.....