 So the Asian Swing kicking off next week the final sort of leg of the WTA tour before we go to Mexico for the WTA finals Alina Rabakina is not happy with how the draw has sort of panned out and it's for a very interesting reason Let's go have a look at why just what she had to post on social media a few hours ago Showing the picture of the draw saying performance by thank you for changing the rules last moment great decision And always WTA and you can see there that she is the number three seed and she does not get a buy in the first round But Zachary and Garcia who are four and five seeds they get a performance buy Due to the fact that they played Guadalajara last week and got rewarded for their good weeks last week now having a look over at the WTA rulebook this is actually been in the rulebook for the entire season on page 519 it shows what is a performance by it says the type of buy awarded to a player based on a previous week's performance as Determined by the WTA when approving the calendar and draw sizes Basically in layman's terms it means that the players that played well the previous week or the previous few weeks Get a buy in the first rounds and Rabakina didn't play last week She didn't play in Guadalajara She actually skipped the event and she has to play in the first round So she doesn't get a first round buy to get to the second round She is gonna have to play in his cover in the first round and because of her performance last week making the semis Garcia gets her buy taken from Rabakina. So it's a weird rule I don't remember it being used anytime recently or at all in fact in the last couple of years But let me know down the course by if you've heard of this before performance by it's new to me I think it's a little unfair because Rabakina chose not to play last week had she have known this I'm sure she would have played Guadalajara knowing that she was gonna lose her buy in the first round of future tournaments potentially And this kind of like makes seating irrelevant It seemed because you could be the number three seed But you don't get a buy in the first round if you don't play the week before and it's a slippery slope I mean how far do we go down the track if you don't play this week is the number one seed next week? gonna lose a buy in the first round because Sabalinka is not playing here. Is she gonna be able to you know like how far do we go with this? But Rabakina not happy with the decision given out by the WTA