week 46 sunderland 10k

Salmon · Tennis legend

week 46 sunderland 10k

Salmon · Tennis legend

2nd Round

Christina WHEELER (AUS) (1) Vs Iuliia KIRIIENKO (UKR)
Gajane VAGE (EST) Vs Renee REINHARD (NED)
Irina KUZMINA (LAT) (3) Vs Constance SIBILLE (FRA)
Naomi BROADY (GBR) Vs Elizabeth THOMAS (GBR) (7)
Estelle GUISARD (FRA) (8) Vs Danielle HARMSEN (NED)
Vitalia DIATCHENKO (RUS) Vs Anna-Giulia REMONDINA (ITA) (4)
Jennifer REN (GBR) Vs Olivia SMITH (GBR)
Eva PIGOVA (CZE) Vs Iryna KURYANOVICH (BLR) (2)

Great chance for Jennifer to make the quarters. Although Olivia Smith beat her in Winchester earlier this year.

RedCabbage · Club Coach

Shame about the nature of the win (always better to win properly than to have an opponent retire), but it's another step toward a senior ranking for Ren. This is her second point-worthy tournament, right? So she only needs another second-round performance in a $10k+ to get a foot on the ladder?

-- Edited by RedCabbage at 11:24, 2007-11-15

Salmon · Tennis legend

Yes, I think so. There are two 10Ks in January, so she could get it soon with a good draw.

RedCabbage · Club Coach

That would be pretty extraordinary. From what I can tell, there is only one 1993 baby in the world who has a senior ranking and that's Michelle Larcher de Brito. There's a handful that have had senior activity but I think Ren the Elder is the closest to getting points on the board.

Salmon · Tennis legend

I saw that Amandine Hesse has a ranking at women's level, although her points come from first round losses.

Orlik doesn't have one now but that's just due to lack of trying. She won a round at a 50K last week and then lost to Rezai by 7-5 2-6 3-6.

Salmon · Tennis legend

Naomi Broady (Gbr) bt Elizabeth Thomas (Gbr) 6-3 6-2

Olivia Smith (Gbr) bt Jennifer Ren (Gbr) 6-4 6-3

sd51rby · Lower Club Player

Naomi Broady (Gbr) bt Irina Kuzmina (Lat) 6-1 6-1

Danielle Harmsen (Ned) bt Vitalia Diatchenko (Rus) 6-3 6-0

Iryna Kuryanovich (Blr) bt Olivia Smith (Gbr) 6-3 6-1

johnnylad · Tennis legend

Good solid performance from Broady...

D'ya think she can go all the way??

Sheddie · administrator

some insightful match reports (taken from GBTG)

Rd1: C Wheeler (Aus) bt S Cornish (GB)

"During the rally, Steph hits a net cord, and it bounces into the tram lines. Umpire says nothing. Play continues. Steph hits the next shot for a winner. Wheeler complains to umpire. Umpire calls score as advantage Wheeler. Steph has a long but fortunately inaudible conversation with umpire. Wheeler goes and plays pit-a-pat against a pillar, and at one point misses, and has to spend several seconds fishing the ball from behind a curtain. Eventually play resumes with the score standing as called. Wheeler hits a let serve which lands plumb on the side line. Even I can see that, and my eyesight isn't the best. Also, it's the one line that there's a line judge for. Umpire overrules and calls fault. Wheeler gets upset. Steph turns round and describes the umpire to the peanut gallery in very unflattering terms, not using the worst possible words, but if I repeated them here, one would get asterisked out. Wheeler wins game. Lineswoman puts score up as 4-3, but unfortunately by the time I've made my notes, score has been corrected to 5-2.

After that, the great Cornish wall is constructed, and Wheeler can't find any way through for a while. Not sure what went wrong after the tie break--I went to see Josh Goodall get beaten."

Jenny Ren bt S Kadur

Jennifer Ren got diddled out of a game at one point First set score was 3-4, 30-15, Ren hits a first serve which isn't returned. The umpire (a good one, this time, but it is a long day) calls 30 all. Jennifer's dad shouts out 40-15 from the gallery, but isn't heard. Kadur wins the next two points, and umpire calls game. Only at that point does Jennifer realise something has gone wrong, but after argument the score stands.

Sheddie · administrator

and on today's quarters:

Naomi was really impressive. Constructed the points well, kept her opponent out of position and off balance. Possibly being ultra critical could say Naomi made too many errors. One Naomi found particularly funny was where the ball bounced up chest high a yard from the net, and Naomi smacked it straight into the middle of the net. Kuzmina was carrying at least two injuries, and the match got a bit weird half way through the second when she realised it was all over, including an underarm serve or two. Basically though, Naomi was two or three classes above Kuzmina.

In Olivia's match, the games were closer than the sets, but Kuryanovich was too good for her and the result was never in doubt.

I was looking forward to Harmsen vs. Diatchenko. Harmsen has a gorgeous leftie forehand, and Diatchenko looked the bees knees on Wednesday, hitting it flat and hard with her double-handed-on-both-sides groundies. Today, though, Diatchenko just disintegrated, and couldn't hit the proverbial with the proverbial by the end.

Wheeler toughed it out against Reinhard in a good match.

tennisbrain · Club Coach

broady is on fire once again and is not returning to train at roehampton out of choice. she is training back at home up north

Sheddie · administrator

Naomi now plays top seed Chrissie Wheeler who's the class act in the field on paper, ranked 226 and having been top 150. However, her form in the past few months hasn't been great and she hasn't had things her own way this week, having to fight through tough matches against British teenager Steph Cornish and a 3 setter in the quarters

Sheddie · administrator

Naomi lost 7-6(4), 7-5

So close...but great effort against a player ranked so much higher !

Happycynic · Pro player

Naomi is making a great comeback after her layoff. Really pleased. Best answer to anything is to prove to people you can do it.