Here the global league monthly standings for the month of August which took in the Cincinnati Masters and the US Open.
Congratulations to Tricia who wins this month and gets the level 2 prize with a fine total of 2056.722 which was 14 points clear of Blinkova Nigh in 2nd place.
Tricia's burst for August glory really took off at the US Open where she finished in 2nd place in the Global League. That was enough to overhaul the other contenders for this months title.
Level 2 standings
Please note that there is an extremely high probability that neither Mens Events (Chengdu and Hangzhou) Main Draws will be available for the upcoming GameWeek Lockout. According to the information that has been provided from both the ATP and WTA, the Main Draw of the Womens event in Korea is set to take place on Monday September 15th, whereas both Mens events won't start until a couple of days later on Wednesday.
Sadly, in terms of FTL this is what we call a Blind Lockout, and its both extremely uncomfortable and borderline unfair. Unlike in previous years, we have a solution (Event specific lockout) for this issue, but its not ready quite yet and probably won't be ready for the upcoming lockout.
When this solution is available, to help remove the confusion, we'll be sure to provide a HOW TO guide.
I'll pray for a miracle that it will be ready before the 15th, but I'll be honest that the odds of it happening in the next few days are closer to getting hit by lightening!
A belated congrats to our three winners from Game Week 24.
Diana Shnaider had a terrific 2024 but maybe hasn't kicked on as much as many expected this year but this result in Monterrey gave her a title and some much needed ranking points. Aside from a fine win in the final over compatriot Alexandrova, the crucial win for Diana was a hard fought three set win over Elise Mertens in the Quarter Final in which she came from a set down to win two tie break sets.
Sorana Cirsrtea was in inpsired form all week in Cleveland. It was a bit of the blue if truth be told. She came through two rounds of qualifying for the loss of just 5 games and continued to dominate everyone she playing in the main event defeating no 1 seed Samsonova 6-4, 6-1 in quarter finals and ultimately she was just too good for American Ann Li in the final. 7 matches played - no sets dropped. A good weeks work for the veteran Romanian!
In Winston Salem, it was Hungarian Marton Fucsovics holding the trophy at the end of the week. There were 9 withdrawals at the start of the week so the starting line up was a little different from the one original expected. It was seemingly bolstered by the late addition of Stefanos Tsitsipas and Tallon Griekspoor. But in keeping with his forgettable season, Stef was skittled out in his first match by Bu of China. No 2 seed Griekspoor also lost his opening match in a tight three setter against Fucsovics. And Fucsovics kicked on from that match going on to beat RBA and Munar before benefitting from a walkover against Korda in the semi final. Maybe a little rest helped as he defeated Botic van de Zandschulp in striaght sets in the final.
And so to FTL. Here is the final global league table for the week.
Massive congrats to Lukas de Grauw who won the game week by almost forty points. This particular win is even more remarkable as he left one of the game week finalists (Ann Li) on his bench!! 😲 Funnily enough - this is a theme which at the time of writing will be applicable to the US Open winner as well but we'll resist from any further spoilers until that write up is done.
Here is the winning team for Lukas.
Lukas had both finalists from Monterrey - Shnaider and Alexandrova a well as semi finalist Bouzkova. Linda Noskova also provide some decent points with her run to the Quarter Final. But just imagine what that total might have been had Lukas played Ann Li instead of Jacqueline Cristian!
Lukas is the level 2 game week winner for the week. Jenny Foreman was the best of the rest in the Global League.
A tricky week for all of us FTLers.
Only two WTA events in play this week and we have had plenty of big name withdrawals. If anyone can field a team of 8 this week, you're either a genius or a crazy person! 😃
Notable withdrawals:
Guadalajara - Fernandez, Kalinskaya, Kartal, Navarro, Stearns, Ruse
Sao Paulo - Baptiste, Burrage, Cirico, Klimovicova
Here the global league monthly standings for the month of August which took in the Cincinnati Masters and the US Open. Congratulations to ...
