Week 45 - ITF 50k - Ismaning, Germany

Mervatron · Masters Series Champion

RE: Week 45 - ITF 50k - Ismaning, Germany

Drew · Nov 6, 2008

Great day so far...well done Bally !!

DavidC · Tennis legend

A comfortable if expected victory. What puzzles me is the fact that Bally was quoted last year as saying that she would only play a couple of tournaments at a time because of her chronic liver condition, and has done so, with the exception of the grass court season. Yet here she is playing her 5th tournament in a row with 2 more lined up. I hope this means that there has been improvement in her condition, rather than a gamble with her health to try to make the Australian Open main draw (about 60 more points required to have a realistic shot - which is possible with a run similar to February/March)

DavidC · Tennis legend

Bally plays first match at 1pm GMT against the German 4th seed Julia Goerges, who swatted Katie aside in Nantes last week en route to the semis.

Peter too · Tennis legend

QF: BALTACHA, Elena (GBR) 7 140 lost to GOERGES, Julia (GER) 4 108 3-6 6-7

DavidC · Tennis legend

Doubles QF:

Görges / Siegemund d. Hawkins / Klemenschits 6:2 / 6:3

DavidC · Tennis legend

Bally has withdrawn today from next week's tournament in Minsk, but remains on the list for Odense (w/c Nov 17th), so hopefully this is due to 'condition management' as explained above, rather than having picked up an injury today. She will have to win Odense (strong 100K, so a tall order) to make the AO main draw (probably).