anna fitzpatrick takes a step up here. she is in qualifying and it will be interesting to see how she does here after a few average results by her standards
(2)Anna Fitzpatrick GBR vs Mami Inoue USA 63 61 Ashley Weinhold USA vs Danielle Mills USA 61 61 (wc)Catrina Thompson USA d. Tiya Rolle USA 62 63 (6)Jennifer Elie USA d.(wc)Jennifer-Lee Heinser USA 61 61
Good luck against Ashley Weinhold(596) in next round.....
Anna has two more challengers in the States, a 50K and a 25K and then she's taking 3 weeks out for training in Florida followed by two 25Ks in Portugal to end the year.
I expect she'll have a good run in the doubles this week...while the singles form has been patchy this summer, she and Veselinovic have come on leaps and bounds as a pairing, winning a 10K and making the recent Nottingham 25K final
Anna and Ana were unlucky enough to draw Chanda Rubin and Ashley Harkleroad in rd1 ! They did well pushed the Americans very close, going down 6-4, 3-6, 10-4
Obviously, its disappointing to lose the match, but personally I cant be too disappointed because I know that I dealt with the situation well and went out to win the match, said Fitzpatrick. They started to read our volleys a bit better towards the back end of the first, so I think trying to hit more short-angled volleys may have been more effective, as apposed to aiming for the T.
Earlier in the week in the singles, Veselinovic went down against No. 8 seed Sunitha Rao 7-5, 6-0 after leading 5-1 in the first set, while Fitzpatricks bid ended in the second round of qualifying against American Ashley Weinhold.
Meanwhile, MCTA director of coaching David Sammel believes both girls will be stronger for their efforts as they prepare for more Challenger events in November. Anna has made steady progress since Wimbledon despite a blip this week, said Sammel. This is normal for Anna and at some stage over the next two months I expect her to go deep into a Challenger. Her doubles ranking rise is also very fast.
Weinhold is a classy junior but she's still only ranked 500ish WTA so Anna shouldn't be losing that comfortably.
