Week 19 - Womens ITF (50K + H) - Jounieh, Lebanon

DUSTY DICK · Club Coach

RE: Week 19 - Womens ITF (50K + H) - Jounieh, Lebanon

Madeline · Admin:Moderator + Tennis Legend

Fantastic!

If Anne gets into the top 100 I might even start watching women's tennis. . .

Happycynic · Pro player

Yay. Could be near top seed in qualies for RG?

A 50K +H win is amongst her biggest, and to do it on clay is great.

Whatever the girls have in their water right now, can we put some in to the guys too?

wolf · Tennis legend

Fantastic, so pleased for the girl, and in such difficult circumstances as well!!!

Drew · May 10, 2008

Ditto to all the above congrats.....

Mervatron · Masters Series Champion

Great stuff Anne.

I think its shown how neglected the women have been under previous regimes at the LTA. All our top 5 have imporved. And another group of 4/5 are on their way to joining them aswell.

DUSTY DICK · Club Coach

Our Lads could certainly do with some of the girl's fortunes although it is quite nice to see the ladies taking centre stage for a change. Be great if Anne could qualify for the French Open. Does anyone know if she will get a direct entry into Edgbaston and Eastbourne?

DUSTY DICK · Club Coach

I think with the LTA it was all Henman and Rusedski for so long. The women didn't get a look in.

Tutu · Club Coach

Will be interesting to see where she'll be at the start of next week with pts off. I suspect that she'll be within the top 100.

Peter too · Tennis legend

SHe should be 103 with 338 ranking points. She will need about 342 to get into the top 100.

Tutu · Club Coach

Yeah, but I mean in that updated ranking thread, at the start of the week he always takes off the points which players are defending that week. Will be interesting to see where Anne is compared to the other players because it is likely that 3 players just above her are defending points which are in their best 17 (or 18, w.e) tours.

imoen · Admin: Moderator+Tennis Legend

Fantastic!

Silver · County player

DUSTY DICK wrote:

Our Lads could certainly do with some of the girl's fortunes although it is quite nice to see the ladies taking centre stage for a change. Be great if Anne could qualify for the French Open. Does anyone know if she will get a direct entry into Edgbaston and Eastbourne?

It gives her a feed-up into s'Hertogenbosch, which would probably be the better option for Anne. A good draw, some good points... she's not the GREATEST of grass-court players but she has won a round at Wimby once before (which does count for something) and she's often done well at Surbiton too so the only real problem is the cost; i.e. flight to and from Holland, accommodation, etc, etc.

She may not take it of course but I think she'd be better off doing so.

Happycynic · Pro player

Birmingham, a tier III usually has a DA cut off around 90-100. She might get in as a DA, but not very likely.

Eastbourne, being tier II, is around 60. No chance of being a DA.

I would hope that if she has earnt a DA into s'Hertgenbosch, she would not be given a WC to Eastbourne, so another player can use it!

Tutu · Club Coach

I remember in 2004 when Anne battered Pratt and was seriously challenging Sharapova til the rain come... She played some great grasscourt tennis then. She looks to be back up to that level and above and since Lexington, her whole career has really turned around for her. I hope she can make up these three places very soon so that the pressure is completely off Anne. She'll finally be able to re-adjust her goals and be even more ambitios. This is a really exciting time for Anne.