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Anna Fitzpatrick's 2nd tournament of her mini-tour to Greece, begins tomorrow with qualifying for the Patras 25K. Anna will be hoping that the strong winds which caused the players such problems in Athens last week, have died down and there are much calmer conditions in Patras.

She's seeded 11th and faces Lativan Alise Vaidere in the first qualifying round. Vaidere is ranked over 400 places lower at 1050 but she's been as high as 658 so will be no pushover. She qualified and then lost in rd1 in Athens last week and last month in Stockholm she qualified for the 25K, beating Anna's friend from the Monte Carlo academy, Ana Veselinovic in straight sets along the way. 

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QR1: A Fitzpatrick (GB)(11) bt A Vaidere (Lat) 0-6, 7-6(4), 6-2

QR2 S Boffa (Sui)(7) bt A Fitzpatrick (GB)(11) 7-5, 6-3



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She played so well at sunderland aswell . So frustrated

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No disgrace though. She wasn't seeded to qualify

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Looking at the maindraw would have thought Anne, Sarah or Amanda would come through the bottom half to the final.

Sarah and Amanda should meet in the QF, battle for british #4 and both on the verge of top 200.

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Re Fitzy's results...she wasn't seeded to qualify but Boffa is only ranked 540 and is the sort of player Anna should be looking to beat. She obviously really struggled here to lose a set 6-0 against someone outside the top 1000



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Main draw:

Rd1:

A Keothavong (GB)(2) v O Brozda (Pol)(q)

A Keen (GB)(4) v L Tvarosokova (Svk)

S Borwell (GB)(5) v Y Wickmayer (Bel)(q)

R Llewellyn (GB) v J Kirkland (USA)



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Nice draws on the face of it but its never easy to face a qulaifier in R1 as they have played themselves in!

As you say we should provide the finalist from the bottom half! Lets hope so!

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Really either Anne, Sarah or Amanda should make the final but you never know. Hopefully we wil have and all british QF and semi

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Brozda is ranked 446 and was beaten 3 and 2 by Fitzpatrick last week so Anne shouldn't have too much trouble with her.

Amanda's match is tougher, the Slovakian Tvaroskova is currently ranked 352 but is a clay-court specialist and has been as high as 231. She made the semis of the Athens 10K last week and beat a top 175 player in straights earlier this year.

Sarah's opponent is 17 and currently ranked 421. Wickmayer reached no 30 in the junior rankings last summer. Since then she's been concentrating entirely on the womens tour and won three 10Ks in the latter half of last year. Before this tournament she'd just played two matches in 2007, both first round losses in WTAs.

Hopefully Rebecca can get her first win since January. Apart from that 10K in Hull at the start of the year, last time she won a match was back in September. 19 year old Jessica Kirkland is a former Orange Bowl champ and junior no 15. She's ranked 287 and has been as high as 151. She's been going for tough tourneys so far this year with little success, best result so far is a 25K quarter-final in Florida.

-- Edited by Sheddie at 07:57, 2007-03-27

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Mervatron wrote:

Really either Anne, Sarah or Amanda should make the final but you never know. Hopefully we wil have and all british QF and semi
Yeah the bottom half is quite weak, can't really see any dangerous floaters in there. Will be very disappointing if all 3 don't make the quarters and one should make the final.

 



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I can see 2 major banana skins, 1 that Amanda can face in the 2nd round, and 1 that Anne can face in the Quarters.

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would you care to enlighten us?

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Pavlovic has withdrawn so that's one of them gone, and Mervana who is a former top 100 player and beat Sarah this year, and Anne and Katie last year.



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(2) Anne KEOTHAVONG (GBR) d. (Q) Olga BROZDA (POL) 62 63
(5) Sarah BORWELL (GBR) d. (Q) Yanina WICKMAYER (BEL) 61 63

but

Jessica KIRKLAND (USA) d. Rebecca LLEWELLYN (GBR) 62 60
Lenka TVAROSKOVA (SVK) d. (4) Amanda KEEN (GBR) 64 60

Becky can't get it going at the moment, and Amanda will not be happy about the bagel.

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