Amiens 10K

Sheddie · administrator

Amiens 10K

Sheddie · administrator

An excellent result on the French clay for 16 year old Amanda, who gained her first world ranking last month. Oosterhof is ranked 898.

Final qualies round:
A Carreras (GB) v C Martin (Fra)

Martin is 21 and also unranked. She played just pro tournaments in 2006, losing in qualies for a 10K and a 50K.

-- Edited by ultimateshedman at 20:18, 2007-03-18

Salmon · Tennis legend

Carreras continues to impress.

Sheddie · administrator

Amanda qualifies

A Carreras (GB) bt C Martin (Fra) 6-4, 4-6, 6-1

Match stats: It wasn't a match in which serve particularly dominated, 12 breaks in total ! Amanda won in the end because she took her chances, taking 7/8 bps while Martin only won 5/11.

Overall Amanda got 62% 1st serves in, Martin got 69%....Amanda's percentage dropped to 47% in set 2 which could explain why she got broken more times.

She won 53% pts on her 1st serve, 57% on her 2nd serve. Martin also won 53% pts on her first serve but it was the 2nd serve where she really got punished, only winning 33% points.

Sheddie · administrator

Rd1: A Carreras (GB) v C Babet (Fra)(wc)

Chloe Babet is just turned 15 and unranked...junior ranking of 368 which is pretty good for her age. She's just played 2 womens tournaments before, in January, losing in straights in rd1 qualies both times.

Amanda already has a point for qualifying, good chance to get another here

johnnylad · Tennis legend

Well done to Amanda! Good qualifying performance rewarded with a winnable R1 match!

Go girl!

jamatthews · Strong Club Player

ultimateshedman wrote:

Amanda already has a point for qualifying, good chance to get another here

No you don't get anything for qualifying for a 10K.

Sheddie · administrator

we badly need an emoticon for "I'll get me coat" ....I'd be requiring it almost daily in this section with my understanding of the rankings system

Rd1: C Sapene (Fra)(q) bt K Woolley (GB) 6-2, 6-1

To sum things up, Kirsty won less than 50% pts on 1st and 2nd serve. She took 2/5 bps but Sapene took 6/8

Sheddie · administrator

Rd1: A Carreras (GB) bt C Babet (Fra)(wc) 6-2, 6-4

Great win for Amanda, it was another match with lots of breaks. Amanda took 7 of her 13 chances, Babet coverted 4/8.

Amanda got 71% 1st serves in which is impressive as she's only 5ft2. Neither player found things easy on their serve, Amanda won only 57% pts on her 1st serve and Babet won just 41%. Both also really struggled on their 2nd serve, 40% pts won for Amanda and just 32% for Babet.

Sheddie · administrator

Rd2: A Carreras (GB) v S Schoeffel (Fra)(wc)

Schoeffel is only ranked 888 but her form over the past few weeks has been impressive. She qualified and made the quarters in the Jersey 10K before losing to Jane O'Donoghue 6-1, 7-5. In rd1 here she knocked out the 6th seed 7-5, 7-5 though she did benefit from her opponent only being able to convert 2/12 bp chances.

Salmon · Tennis legend

Woop woop!

johnnylad · Tennis legend

Nice one Ms Carrerras!

Happycynic · Pro player

That is her third ranking points, so will give her her first ranking (she came close a few weeks back, but didn't manage the MD win).

Well done Amanda

Sheddie · administrator

Rd2: S Schoeffel (Fra) bt A Carreras (GB) 6-1, 4-6, 6-1

Amanda wasn't helped by 6 double faults but she did get 64% 1st serves in compared to just 49% from Schoeffel. Amanda took 3 of her 7 bps but and those 3 breaks came in the 2nd set. She was simply unable to win enough points on her serve, just under 50% on her 1st serve and just 33% on her 2nd serve. Schoeffel had 12 bps in the match and took 7. She won a reasonable 62% 1st serve pts and 60% 2nd serve pts.

Sheddie · administrator

However, still been a good week for Amanda, her first world ranking and she's had 4 really good wins. At just 16 she's been qualifying for these 10Ks on clay regularly this year.