Week 31 - ITF ($60K) - Lexington KY, USA - Hard

Michael D · All-time great

RE: Week 31 - ITF ($60K) - Lexington KY, USA - Hard

Julia Carrot · All-time great

Oh dear - never mind, onwards and upwards

blob · All-time great

Michael D wrote:
Two comprehensive losses there. Not a good week for Brit women

Depending on how exactly you count, it's currently the third worst week of the year in terms of wins per active player.
31 Active players. 21 total wins. Ratio: .538

Emily Arb, is still live in Porto.

Our worst week was the disaster of week 25 (Birmingham WTA, Ilkley ITF; and sundries).
27 Active players. Just 10 wins. Ratio: .370

We've managed to get over 1.000 (i.e. equivalent to better thaan every active player winning at least one match) on nine occasions, including last week.

Best week was week 13 (Katie Boulter won $15K, Eden made a final, Laura S qualified and made a SF, Emily W-S made SF, Manisha Q and QF, Gabi & Freya QF)
21 Active players. 32 wins. Ratio: 1.524

Hopefully Ms. Arbuthnott can keep us with some interest in the weekends events globally...

steven · Tennis legend

Thanks for quantifying it - this has certainly felt like a bad week for the GB women overall, though I can remember one or two worse weeks this year.

Having said that, if you go by win ratio alone, weeks with events above 15K in the UK (which usually mean lots of GB cannon fodder in qualies and main draw wild cards up against much higher-ranked players) are bound to come out badly.

Woking was very disappointing though - not just the lack of home upsets but we didn't even get as many through to R2 as the rankings implied we should - and even in Lexington, the 'expected' no. of wins was 4 (3 for Laura, 1 for Katie B) and the Brits only managed half that.

Still, Katy's win against Hozumi was a big mental barrier broken, even if she didn't manage to follow it up with another one today.

PockyTastic · Futures level

I'm not sure that Katy should be too disappointed. Bektas ripped through the hard hitting wunderkind Anisimova by a similar score line and is in a competitive SF at the moment with Kenin. She can hold onto her win over Hozumi (surface change due to weather may be a factor but before the rain interruption she had broken her opponent in the first game outdoors so perhaps she's got a game for plan for her kryptonite opponent).