The series of Iberian 25Ks moves from Spain to Portugal and picks up extra British interest. Georgie Stoop and Anna Fitzpatrick should be in the main draw, whilst a raft of British players are in qualifying (3 rounds, starting Saturday).
QR1
Ester Masuri (Isr) v Jade Windley (winner plays Emelyn Starr (Aus,16)) (2) Anna Smith v bye (plays Karen Barbat (Den) or Tyra Calderwood (Aus) ) Olivia Scarfi v Sasha Khabibulina (Blr) (winner plays Stefania Boffa (Sui, 3) Carlota Cartes-Andres (Esp) v Natasha Khan (winner plays Vera Campos-Molina (Esp,5)) Olivia Lukaszewicz (Aus) v Anna Hawkins (winner to play Jade Curtis (Gbr,12)) Charlotte Pires (Por) v Jocelyn Rae (winner to play Leonie Mekel (Ned, 7))
Anna Hawkins and Jade Curtis are the only Brits in the same qualifying section.
Q2: WINDLEY, Jade (GBR) 917 defeated STARR, Emelyn (AUS) 16 645 6-3 7-6(5) Q2: SMITH, Anna (GBR) 2 370 lost to BARBAT, Karen (DEN) UNR 6-2 6-2 Q2: SCARFI, Olivia (GBR) 798 lost to BOFFA, Stefania (SUI) 3 396 6-2 6-2 Q2: KHAN, Natasha (GBR) 833 lost to CAMPOS-MOLINA, Yera (ESP 5 425 6-1 3-6 6-1 Q2: CURTIS, Jade (GBR) 12 581 defeated HAWKINS, Anna (GBR) UNR 6-4 6-2 Q2: RAE, Jocelyn (GBR) 777 lost to MEKEL, Leonie (NED) 7 454 7-5 7-6(6)
The only real success of the day was Jade Windley (though obviously it is also great to see Jade Curtis go through as well, but she was seeded to defeat Anna so...).
Jessica MOORE (AUS) (1) Vs Rebeca BOU-NOGUEIRO (ESP) Rita VILACA (POR) Vs Elitsa KOSTOVA (BUL) Jade CURTIS (GBR) (Q) Vs Heidi EL TABAKH (CAN) (Q) Diana BRUNEL (FRA) (Q) Vs Irena PAVLOVIC (FRA) (8)
Neuza SILVA (POR) (4) Vs Stefania BOFFA (SUI) (Q) Jade WINDLEY (GBR) (Q) Vs Nicole THYSSEN (NED) Anna FITZPATRICK (GBR) Vs Julia PARASYUK (RUS) Nudnida LUANGNAM (THA) Vs Liana-Gabriela UNGUR (ROU) (7)
Nina BRATCHIKOVA (RUS) (6) Vs Montinee TANGPHONG (THA) Sara DEL BARRIO-ARAGON (ESP) Vs Frederica PIEDADE (POR) Olga BROZDA (POL) Vs Leonie MEKEL (NED) (Q) Kristina BENASHVILI (UZB) Vs Agnes SZATMARI (ROU) (3)
Estrella CABEZA-CANDELA (ESP) (5) Vs Pauline WONG (NED) Nikola FRANKOVA (CZE) Vs Paula FONDEVILA-CASTRO (ESP) (Q) Claire FEUERSTEIN (FRA) Vs Georgie STOOP (GBR) Laura THORPE (FRA) (Q) Vs Johanna LARSSON (SWE) (2)
Georgie retiring in her doubles match after winning the first set 6-4 doesn't look good, both her and her doubles partner play singles today so we will see how that pans out.
"Stoop was beating Thorpe easily with not many games going to deuce. Thorpe didn't seem like she knew what she was doing there that's all i can say...[Georgie] was speaking perfect english with a girl that i think was Hawkins (who was complaining about the fact that the OOP wasn't out till like 10.45PM in the day before)"