Week 18 - Womens ITF (50K) - Gifu, Japan

DavidC · Tennis legend

RE: Week 18 - Womens ITF (50K) - Gifu, Japan

Sheddie · administrator

what's mel is doubles now ? she used to be nearly top 150 at one point right ?

DavidC · Tennis legend

Mel's currently 191 with a career high of 157

DavidC · Tennis legend

...and Kimiko did stop Mel again (but lost the singles final narrowly to Tanasugarn)

Final

DATE-KRUMM (JPN) / NARA (JPN) defeated SOUTH (GBR) / THYSSEN (NED) (3) 6-1 6-7(8) [10-7]

Peter too · Tennis legend

GB players very nearly collected the third title of the week when Mel and her partner narrowly lost to the Japanese paring in Gifu.

Date-Krum/Nara (JPN) def South (GBR)/Thyssen(NED) 6-1 6-7(8) 10-7

Drew · May 4, 2008

David C / Peter thanks for the updates as usual !!!

DUSTY DICK · Club Coach

Still another good week for Mel though.

Mervatron · Masters Series Champion

Good week for Mel. Hopefully she can go 1/2 better next week.

Salmon · Tennis legend

Date-Krumm played her first proper match in 12 years and then reached a 50K final after qualifying at the age of 37???? I think I'll be less shocked than this if all sixteen wild cards at Wimbly go to Brits this year.

No wonder I hadn't heard of her before! God... you have to admire this sort of spirit. Does she plan to continue or was this something she played just for fun?

johnnylad · Tennis legend

From ITF site -

$50,000 Fukuoka update
In the second of Kimiko Date-Krumm's return to the ITF Pro Circuit, interest is as high as in the previous week. On Monday some 3800 spectators turned out in force to see her in the doubles event and at least 2000 attended her singles match today.

Unfortunately for Kimiko, she was not to repeat her success of the previous week where she won the doubles title as, partnered by Misaki Doi, she lost a close match in the opening round to the number 4 seeds 67(4) 75 [10-6].

In the singles event, Kimiko is now through to the quarter final stage where, just as in Gifu last week, she will face Aiko Nakamura, who is once again named the top seed.

Tournament organisers have expressed their delight at the number of spectators turning up and hope for more of the same for the remainder of week
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It seems the Japanese still love Kimiko!