Week 38 - Womens ITF (25K) - Madrid, Spain Hard

Peter too · Tennis legend

Week 38 - Womens ITF (25K) - Madrid, Spain Hard

Peter too · Tennis legend

Q1: LAWTON, Maria (GBR) UNR lost to SANTIAGO, Esther (ESP) UNR 2-6 2-6
Q1: KHAN, Natasha (GBR) 14 789 beat APAOLAZA-MIRADEVILLA, Laura (ESP) UNR 7-6(4) 7-6(8)
Q1: BALL, Elliesa (GBR) UNR lost to BOROVNICA, Bojana (SCG) UNR 1-6 4-6

Q1: KHAN, Natasha (GBR) 14 789 v LOPEZ-RUEDA, Carmen (ESP) 911

R1: OBRIEN, Katie (GBR) 141

DavidC · Tennis legend

Q2:

Estelle Guisard FRA [4] d. Linda Fritschken GER [WC] 6-2 7-6(8)
Natasha Khan GBR [14] d. Carmen Lopez-Rueda ESP 6-3 5-7 6-4

Q3:

Estelle Guisard FRA [4] v Natasha Khan GBR [14]

wolf · Tennis legend

Tash either won or got in as LL.

L32: Katie O'Brien WR 141 v Sara Del Barrio-Aragon (Esp) WR 348
L32: Natasha Khan WR 789 v Vivian Segnini (Ita) WR 346

DavidC · Tennis legend

Q3:

Natasha KHAN (GBR) (14) d. Estelle GUISARD (FRA) (4) 63 62

Main Draw: 4th Quarter

(6)Estrella Cabeza-Candela (ESP) v Caroline Maes (BEL)
Vivian Segnini (BRA) v (Q)Natasha Khan (GBR)
(Q)Justine Ozga (GER) v (Q)Ana Salas-Lozano (ESP)
(2)Katie O'Brien (GBR) v Sara Del Barrio-Aragon (ESP)

This is an important tournament for Katie, who has not won back to back matches since April, and has not won 3 in a row all year. On paper this looks like a good opportunity to change this pattern.

djlovesyou · Strong Club Player

Natasha KHAN (GBR) defeated Vivian SEGNINI (BRA) 6-1 3-6 6-3
Sara DEL BARRIO-ARAGON (ESP) defeated Katie O'BRIEN (GBR) (2) 6-1 6-3

Great result for Natasha, simply diabolical for Katie.

She needs to sort things out.

DavidC · Tennis legend

Without meaning to sound cruel I hope that Katie was ill or carrying an injury which heals soon - otherwise that's an awful result. The only crumb of comfort I can think of is that she had a similar embarrassment in the only other 25K she has played this year (Tanja Ostertag), and that didn't alter her general level of performance in higher events for long.

Well done Natasha - one of her best wins for a long while. She plays the 6th seed Estrella Cabeza-Candela (ESP) on Thursday, who defeated Caroline Maes (BEL) 7:6(1), 6:7(5), 6:4

steven · Tennis legend

It looks like Katie saw the suggestion yesterday that Wardy's loss could be voted GB loss of the year and decided that she wasn't going to let him win that competition without a fight.

She must have been under the weather to go down that badly, surely.

DavidC · Tennis legend

Doubles R1:

KHAN (GBR) / PERKOVIC (GER) defeated DE LA TORRE-SANCHEZ (ESP) / SANTOS-BRAVO (ESP) 6-3 6-3

QF:

BEYGELZIMER (UKR) / POLTORATSKAYA (RUS) (2) defeated KHAN (GBR) / PERKOVIC (GER) 7-6(5) 6-2

wolf · Tennis legend

R2
Estrella CABEZA-CANDELA (ESP) (6) defeated Natasha KHAN (GBR) 6-0 6-2