Week 15 - Womens ITF (75K) - Monzon, Spain

DavidC · Tennis legend

Week 15 - Womens ITF (75K) - Monzon, Spain

Drew · Apr 4, 2008

Whats the usual cut-off point for RG ?

DavidC · Tennis legend

The cut-offs for the last 4 years have been 110 112 117 and 112 (2007).

Drew · Apr 5, 2008

DavidC wrote:

The cut-offs for the last 4 years have been 110 112 117 and 112 (2007).

So the girls really must muster on then....

djlovesyou · Strong Club Player

Melanie SOUTH (GBR) (2) defeated Robin STEPHENSON (USA) 6-3 4-6 7-5
Sarah BORWELL (GBR) defeated Leticia COSTAS-MOREIRA (ESP) 6-1 6-4
Naomi CAVADAY (GBR) (5) defeated Sandhya NAGARAJ (IND) 6-2 3-6 6-4

Now South plays Borwell.

Drew · Apr 5, 2008

They were all expected....keep it up please !!

DavidC · Tennis legend

In her last two blogs http://www.lusciousmontenegro.com/sarahmore.php?id=45 and http://www.lusciousmontenegro.com/sarahmore.php?id=46 Sarah has written jocularly about Mel, particularly picking up the "Mel flu", so expect further comment after their match today.

mjd · Challenger qualifying

Sarah's last sentence sums up how difficult it is to get by in tennis if you dont make top 100 or so -

"..... By the way, just to let you know how much I won in the doubles event, after beating someone 50 in the world and someone who used to be as high as 35, £210 !!! What a glamorous life!...."

Silver · County player

Mel beat Sarah 76 (6) 75 and Naomi also won 62 75

Mel now plays Pandzic, whilst Naomi has Solero-Fromwalls (sorry, SOLER-ESPINOSA. I've just had dinner...)

Well done girls!

Mervatron · Masters Series Champion

MD is out. Katie plays Gagliardi and Anne plays a qualifyer/ll

Hope Naomi and Mel can join them both in the MD.

A good week here could see Anne a direct entrant to RG, winning Patras would have been better for her but a qf/sf here might do it. Shes also around 40 points from the top 100 so thats on teh cards between now and august.

DavidC · Tennis legend

Here is the main draw, with a tough opener for Katie, who plays late tomorrow, though Anne beat Gagliardi in the Fed Cup. There are 2 LL spots, should Naomi or Mel fail to qualify tomorrow (Mel has a particularly tough opponent)

[1]OSTERLOH, Lilia USA vs WICKMAYER, Yanina BEL
QUALIFIER vs KEOTHAVONG, Anne GBR
QUALIFIER vs KLEPAC, Andreja SLO
[WC]BOU NOGUEIRO, Rebeca ESP vs [5]KLOESEL, Sandra GER

[4]CAMERIN, Maria Elena ITA vs QUALIFIER
BREMOND, Severine FRA vs SUAREZ NAVARRO, Carla ESP
[WC]VINCI, Roberta ITA vs OZEGOVIC, Nika CRO
GAGLIARDI, Emmanuelle SUI vs [6]O'BRIEN, Katie GBR

[7]SANCHEZ, Olivia FRA vs FEDOSSOVA, Youlia FRA
MARTINEZ SANCHEZ, Maria Jose ESP vs QUALIFIER
QUALIFIER vs YAKIMOVA, Anastasiya BLR
MANASIEVA, Vesna RUS vs [3]OBZILER, Tzipora ISR

[8]ANI, Maret EST vs VORACOVA, Renata CZE
QUALIFIER vs [WC]PARRA SANTONJA, Arantxa ESP
BACHMANN, Angelika GER vs KVITOVA, Petra CZE
[WC]CABEZA CANDELA, Estrella ESP vs [2]ERAKOVIC, Marina NZL

Drew · Apr 6, 2008

If Bally wanted to play here she could have made the MD right ? just not enough time I suppose.

DavidC · Tennis legend

Bally did not enter - she normally only plays a couple of tournies in consecutive weeks because of her long-standing liver problem. If she had entered she would have probably just missed out automatically on ranking - but would have been given a Special Exempt because of Torhout.

PockyTastic · Futures level

Mixed results in the final round of qualifying:

Jelena Pandzic (CRO) (205) def. Mel South (GBR) [2] (158) 6-1, 6-0

Naomi Cavaday (GBR) [5] (198) def. Silvia Soler-Espinosa (ESP) (252) 6-0, 6-2

At least Mel is in doubles, and could nab a LL spot if any come available...

-- Edited by PockyTastic at 17:06, 2008-04-07

johnnylad · Tennis legend

Given Mel's performances this year that seems a very odd score. Hope she's not gone the way of webley-Smith and Scarfi!

Naomi

Tough main draw but these days no one will want to face our girls!