Biberach 25K

johnnylad · Tennis legend

RE: Biberach 25K

RedCabbage · Club Coach

Fantastic result for Natasha! Several brits have made pretty unauspicious starts to the year, but Natasha Khan is showing early signs that she may be one of the stand-out players of 07.

Happycynic · Pro player

Natasha's run continues...

bt WC Kayser (Ger, 1072) 6-3 6-3 For a QF place.

QF: vs (7) Mihalche (Rom, 255), Stoop's conqueror.

Seven very handy ranking points for this LL venture!

johnnylad · Tennis legend

Hope she can get revenge for Georgie!

What Natasha's best ever performance in a 25k!

Sheddie · administrator

Fantastic couple of results for Natasha

She's really taken full advantage of this lucky loser place. Several career bests for her too, the round 1 win was her 2nd best ever victory, this is her 25K quarter-final and she's now guaranteed to move up to a career high ranking of 456.

Hopefully she can get Georgie's revenge.

RedCabbage · Club Coach

Amazing! She'll be shooting up the rankings if she can keep up this form. Here's hoping she's settling at her level and not just "in the zone" temporarily.

I hereby withdraw the "maybe" from my post in the Stockholm thread.

Sheddie · administrator

I'm told that the big difference in the last 6 months is that she's playing with more belief and also moving up the court a lot more, looking to finish things at the net

RedCabbage, did you see Natasha in Eastbourne last summer ?

jamatthews · Strong Club Player

Natasha won 6-3 6-4

Happycynic · Pro player

Like wow.

SF vs (2) Meusberger (Aut, 140)

If she can win that, she is really on a big big roll.

RedCabbage · Club Coach

An unbelievable week from the Brighton girl.

No, Shed, I didn't see Natasha at Eastbourne. In fact, I don't even remember her being there (unless she was a MD WC....not unlikely given her geographical proximity to Eastbourne...I certainly don't recall her being in quals). The only brits I saw in action were Mel South (who was rather humiliated by Brandi), Jane O'Donoghue, Sarah Borwell (the only one to win iirc) and Geogie Stoop (in passing). Anne K was effing and blinding on the practice courts :)

Sheddie · administrator

Another brilliant win for Natasha today, converting the form and promise she showed in Sutton
and Tipton into ranking points

These wins will surely give her loads of confidence that she can beat players at this level.

She'll now move up to 429

I think that the semi against Meusburger may be a match too far though. The Austrian knocked out Urzsula Radwanska in the quarters and has a career high of 112 reached earlier this month. In 2006 she qualified for the Aussie Open, made three 25K finals, a 50K final and a 75K semi. She's continued that form this year, qualified for WTA Auckland and beat world no 88 Ekaterina Bychkova in rd1 before losing to Camille Pin in 3 sets. At the beginning of Feb she made a 75K quarter-final.

-- Edited by ultimateshedman at 00:41, 2007-02-17

Sheddie · administrator

The Cabbage wrote: No, Shed, I didn't see Natasha at Eastbourne. In fact, I don't even remember her being there (unless she was a MD WC....not unlikely given her geographical proximity to Eastbourne...I certainly don't recall her being in quals). The only brits I saw in action were Mel South (who was rather humiliated by Brandi), Jane O'Donoghue, Sarah Borwell (the only one to win iirc) and Geogie Stoop (in passing). Anne K was effing and blinding on the practice courts :)

You should get to see her this year, if she keeps up this form she's got a very good chance of getting a qualies wildcard.

Lol @ Anne. The guy reporting on the matches in St Paul this week said that she tends to get a little het up

-- Edited by ultimateshedman at 00:45, 2007-02-17

Sheddie · administrator

Speaking after her quarter-final win Natasha said “I’m very happy with my game this week. I played an unbelievable first round and my confidence has grown from there. ’m serving really well and if I can keep playing as aggressively as I have been, I know I have a good shot of winning this tournament."

Happycynic · Pro player

Alas, Natasha's run come to an end against WR140

Meusberger def Khan 6-4 6-2

Such a good week for her. What a great LL.

Sheddie · administrator

Meusburger was always going to be a bit too tough, Natasha's not quite at the level yet where she can beat top 150 players. Don't think it will be long though with the game she's got.

Will move up to 429 approx, great week's work !

She's not playing anywhere this week, had planned to compete in the Portimao 10K but she withdrew