Week 45 - Women's ITF(10K) - Sunderland (new thread)

DUSTY DICK · Club Coach

RE: Week 45 - Women's ITF(10K) - Sunderland (new thread)

paddy3883 · Social player

Totally agree, I think potentially within twelve months there could be another three or four players in the top 100 if Mel, Katie and Laura all fulfil their potential, as well as other players like bally, naomi and Georgia Stoop that could be knockin on the door. Wish the same could be said for the men's game.

DUSTY DICK · Club Coach

Yes. Seems to be a big gap still with the men. you just don't get that same feeling about the progress being made as you do with the women. maybe it's just taking a little longer. But absolutely next year we could have 3 or 4 girls in the top 100. Anne has risen the level for them all to aspire to. She's shown that you can get there with hard work and determination.

mjd · Challenger qualifying

Women's Quarter-finals:

Jennifer Ren (Gbr) bt Katharina Brown (Gbr) 6-3 6-3

Tara Moore (Gbr) bt Pauline Wong (Ned) 7-6 (7-2) 6-1

stfletch · Junior player

Wow, fantastic wins for both Jennifer and Tara!

Now come on Laura and Sam.

Fun fact of the day, according to the ITF website Jennifer is exactly 1 year older than Laura (both born on 21st January). There was of course a similar coincidnce between Henman and Rusesdski and that worked out well!

-- Edited by stfletch at 14:01, 2008-11-07

Simmy26 · Lower Club Player

Is Jennifer Ren the real deal as well then?

Peter too · Tennis legend

QF: VICKERS, Samantha (GBR) Q 1052 beat GEUER, Nicola 877 6-4 6-4
QF: REN, Jennifer (GBR) Q 1081 beat BROWN, Katharina (GBR) 7 621 6-3 6-3
QF: ROBSON, Laura (GBR) 5 559 beat ANDREI, Laura-Ioana (ROU) 3 461 6-7(7) 6-4 7-5
QF: MOORE, Tara (GBR) 713 beat WONG, Pauline 2 421 7-6(2) 6-1

SF: VICKERS, Samantha (GBR) Q 1052 v REN, Jennifer (GBR) Q 1081
SF: ROBSON, Laura (GBR) 5 559 v MOORE, Tara (GBR) 713

Simmy26 · Lower Club Player

Wow, what a week at Sunderland!

steven · Tennis legend

Wow, you'd think the results were fixed if you didn't know better, wouldn't you LOL Brilliant

That's a 14-year-old (Laura), a 15-year-old (Jennifer), a 16-year-old (Tara) and a 17-year-old (Samantha) in the semis here.

-- Edited by steven at 15:28, 2008-11-07

stfletch · Junior player

Wow, amazing results! An all british SF lineup with four girls all under 18! smile

Could we be heading towards a golden era in British womens tennis? biggrin

steven · Tennis legend

Just noticed that even more amazingly than in the men's event, every single one of them beat a higher-ranked opponent today.

Mikeduke · County player

Wow, what a fantastic week. Its a shame no one could go down there!

When was the last time we had 4 british women in the semi finals?

Peter too · Tennis legend

Poor Kat she must feel left out of the party. I watched her play a marathon match in Bath earlier in the year against Amanda Elliott. Kat won that encounter but Amanda has moved on faster since then.

wolf · Tennis legend

Wow that it is brilliant news. For Laura I was kind of expecting it but she showed today that she can last the distance. Fantastic win for Tara over the Brit basher Wong and Sam just keeps surprising everyone! Never in a million years expected Jen to beat Kat so a great result for her.

The future looks bright!! biggrin

wolf · Tennis legend

SF
BROWN (GBR) / MOORE (GBR) defeated SKRIPNIK (ISR) / VINOGRADOVA (RUS) 4-6 7-5 [10-4]

Final
HARMSEN (NED) / KILSDONK (NED) (1) Vs BROWN (GBR) / MOORE (GBR)

There are reports on todays singles matches in the link below.

http://www.gbtennisgirls.com/messageboard.asp

-- Edited by wolf at 17:31, 2008-11-07