Week 30 - ITF ($10K) - Tallinn, Estonia Clay

Peter too · Tennis legend

Week 30 - ITF ($10K) - Tallinn, Estonia Clay

steven · Tennis legend

Via Aivars on Twitter - Eleanor's match is about to start and is being livestreamed at sport.postimees.ee/2862921/otsepilt-estonian-openi-tenniseturniir (press play on the 3rd image down and wait for the ads to finish)

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

great link, steven - many thanks - excellent picture quality.

And thanks to Aviars too.

Eleanor 1-2* down though . . .

steven · Tennis legend

Fortunately she won the next 4 games to lead 5-2*

kundalini · Specialist Reporter + Intermediate Club Player

Eleanor won 6-2 6-3. Shame I missed it.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

ditto-ish

-- Edited by Coup Droit on Tuesday 22nd of July 2014 02:33:27 PM

steven · Tennis legend

L32: (1) Eleanor Dean WR 574 beat Eva Paalma (EST) WR 989 (CH 988 in Mar) by 2 & 3

L16: (1) Eleanor Dean WR 574 v (Q) Laura Gulbe (LAT) WR 1230 (CH 1111 in 2013)

Laura is the sister of Ernests Gulbis

-- Edited by steven on Tuesday 22nd of July 2014 02:39:16 PM

Priesty · Challenger level

Good to see the Deanster back to winning ways smile

Mervatron · Masters Series Champion

Different kind of pressure this week being top seed. Hopefully she can lift yet another title.

Any sign that Eleanor is gonna start playing a few 25k's? Think she should be now that her ranking is much better

paulisi · Tennis legend

I don't think her ranking is high enough yet to guarantee a qualifying spot yet, never mind a main draw. Katy and Katy have the same issue, although Katy is getting close to moving to the 25k circuit.

Mervatron · Masters Series Champion

Elly 3-2 up in her second round. There have been breaks both ways Elly was 2-1 40-0* up but failed to break

Mervatron · Masters Series Champion

Currently watching Eleanors first round match. Don't know what to make of it. She has a big first serve and is mixing the play up playing lots of backhand slices, lots of loopy balls.

I wonder if she's been told to play like this to work on it or she's changed her game from the power baseline play?

Mervatron · Masters Series Champion

Elly was a break up 4-2 now back at 4-4. Just held for 5-4

PockyTastic · Futures level

Ellie took the 1st set 7-5 but lost the 2nd 6-3

philwrig · Hall of fame

Clearly something bugging Eli, hardly winning a point on serve. In normal circumstances this would be a match that would be won with comfort, let's hope she can rally in the decider.