Week 30 - ITF ($25K) - Porto, Portugal Clay

the addict · Tennis legend

Week 30 - ITF ($25K) - Porto, Portugal Clay

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

QF: Grey/Vogelsang (GBR/NED) 540 lost to Gaspar/Silva (POR/CAN) UNR (UNR + 974) 4-6 6-3 [4-10]

indiana · Tennis legend

Let you off, Beth+. Now Beth, have yourself a good rest prior to tomorrow.

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

indiana wrote:
Let you off, Beth+. Now Beth, have yourself a good rest prior to tomorrow.

Scheduled up first, at 11:00 local time

Meanwhile, Tara & another Dutch lady, Quirine Lemoine, are first seeds in the doubles.
They had a first round bye, and a walkover in the QF, so roll right on in to the SF tomorrow! Hopefully Tara is better recovered by then.

SF: Moore/Lemoine (GBR/NED) [1] 350 v. Gonzalez/Pigossi (PAR/BRA) [3] 608

Strongbow · All-time great

According to OER SBG will be up to 440 - only 10 behind Maia. Both rushing for the poisoned chalice of GBR #10. And both at Woking.

indiana · Tennis legend

Strongbow wrote:
According to OER SBG will be up to 440 - only 10 behind Maia. Both rushing for the poisoned chalice of GBR #10. And both at Woking.

Projection for 06/08 ( when this week's points add ) is Beth indeed at #440 on 81 points but Maia still at #410 on her current 92 points.

Tara still GB #10 then with 97 points but yes with Laura out these 3 are effectively the provisional leaders for the GB #9, 10 & 11 spots.

Incidentally, of our 39 top 10 year end predictors, only one person has Beth in their 10. The top 9 including Laura were picked by most ( in some cases all ) folk, with the 10th spread around quite a bit. Tara was picked by 10 people, Maia by 3. Laura by 33 of us, and that ain't happening now.

-- Edited by indiana on Friday 27th of July 2018 06:01:52 AM

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

indiana wrote:
Let you off, Beth+. Now Beth, have yourself a good rest prior to tomorrow.

Yes, frankly I was pleased she lost.

What with all these long set matches, and having to leg it back to the UK for Woking (where I assume she'll play both singles and doubles), enough's enough !

I realise it's Sam Murray who's got rather further to leg it back from (Canada rather than Portugal) and that - unless they're are zillions of SEs - both of them are in the main draw, being 19 and 20 on the entry list - but Sam is only playing doubles and Beth is running her booty off in hot Portugal - she needs a rest, poor love.

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

We're underway. Saez Larra has lost one total point on serve thus far. Sarah Beth, *2-4

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

Saez Larra served at 88%, and lost just two points. Hard to do much against that. Sarah Beth, 2-6

the addict · Tennis legend

Have to use the usual tactics then, weather the storm and take it the distance !

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

Gonna be a long distance.
21 point first game of set to, in which Sarah Beth was eventually broken, 2-6 0-1*

indiana · Tennis legend

Did they do next point the winner after 20 points ?

Anyway, c'mon Beth !

PS: If looking at the ITF 'momentum' it's a bit sneaky with the first point of any set which is indicated by the first dot but without any line leading to it.

-- Edited by indiana on Friday 27th of July 2018 11:21:56 AM

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

indiana wrote:
Did they do next point the winner after 20 points ?
[...]
PS: If looking at the ITF 'momentum' it's a bit sneaky with the first point of any set which is indicated by the first dot but without any line leading to it.

A perfect execution of a perfectly aposite callback reference, sir.
My cap is well and truly doffed

I always end up stating an odd number, and, of course, that can't be right disbelief

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

In the last knockings, it seems.
Sarah Beth, 2-6 *1-5

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

Sarah Beth really had run herself dry previously, and there was little left to give, it seems, 2-6 2-6