Lucy and Samantha's defeat were pretty much expected. I had hoped Anna would win that match and have another good run here.

Really glad to see Amanda getting a win though, it has been too long and her confidence must have been low.

Thanks Peter, the rankings do put those results into context - e.g. suddenly the 2 & 2 defeat for Lucy doesn't look that bad!

I managed to get the day off today, and caught some of the matches. First off, Jade Curtis took the first set of her match and it was one all in the second when I had to leave so we might just have another playerr in R2. The Ren-Wong match was very close with Jennifer having bp's to lead in the first set and also breaking when Wong tried to serve out the match first time round, in the end she just came up short but looks to be improving. I was also surprised at how tall she is, i'm 5'9.5" and she looked to be about the same if not taller. Windley did a good job of clawing her way back into the match after being a set and a break down and showed some fine form even leading by a break twice in the first set. I also saw a little bit of Elliott's match were she looked like she barely broke sweat the match was over so quickly.

L32: Jade Curtis WR 489 beat Dia Evitmova (BUL) WR 412 7-5, 6-7(7), 7-5

L16: Amanda Elliot WR 319 v (8) Andrea Hlavackova (CZE) WR 248
L16: Jade Curtis WR 489 v (6) Anna Floris (ITA) WR 242

R1
BOFFA (SUI) / ELLIOTT (GBR) (1) BYE
BARBAT (DEN) / LEVOVA (BUL) defeated KHAN (GBR) / WINDLEY (GBR) 5-7 6-4 [10-5]
EWIJK (NED) / MEKEL (NED) (3) defeated BARTHEL (GER) / WEIDEMANN (GER) 7-6(5) 6-3
HABERKORN (GER) / HAWKINS (GBR) defeated SARGEANT (GBR) / VICKERS (GBR) 6-3 7-5
LYKINA (RUS) / PITER (POL) defeated GATER (GBR) / MCRAE (GBR) 7-5 6-2
BROWN (GBR) / CURTIS (GBR) (4) defeated MATHIS (AUT) / PARISH (GBR) 6-1 6-4
ANDREI (ROU) / BEGU (ROU) defeated TANI (EST) / WARBURTON (GBR) 6-0 6-1
FEDOSSOVA (FRA) / PICHET (FRA) (2) defeated REN (GBR) / REN (GBR) 6-3 6-1

QF
BOFFA (SUI) / ELLIOTT (GBR) (1) Vs BARBAT (DEN) / LEVOVA (BUL)
EWIJK (NED) / MEKEL (NED) (3) Vs HABERKORN (GER) / HAWKINS (GBR)
LYKINA (RUS) / PITER (POL) Vs BROWN (GBR) / CURTIS (GBR) (4)
ANDREI (ROU) / BEGU (ROU) Vs FEDOSSOVA (FRA) / PICHET (FRA) (2)

Andrea Hlavackova (Cze) bt Amanda Elliott (Gbr) 6-0 6-1

That'll be a no, then.

-- Edited by The Hoose at 13:29, 2008-10-23

L16: (6) Anna Floris (ITA) WR 242 beat Jade Curtis WR 489 6-4, 3-6, 6-2
 
So that's it then (in singles at least).

The Hoose wrote:

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Andrea Hlavackova (Cze) bt Amanda Elliott (Gbr) 6-0 6-1

That'll be a no, then.

-- Edited by The Hoose at 13:29, 2008-10-23

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Yeah in what i saw of Amanda's match it didn't look remotely close. I arrived just as she was being broken for 1-3 in the second and from there on Hlavackova cruised, not giving Amanda a chance to get back into the match. Jade's result is a real shame it seems to have been close, hopefully in the future she'll be able to squeeze through those kind of matches.