(4)Ekaterina Dranets (RUS) v BYE (11)Yasmin Clarke (GBR) v Jodie Williams (GBR)
(7)Katharina Brown (GBR) v BYE (13)Janina Toljan (AUT) v (wc)Lalatiana Randriamanantena (FRA)
Katie O'Brien and Amanda Elliott should be in the main draw here, and then hop over to Reunion for the following week. By joining the two tournaments they should have a full complement of players in the Reunion main draw - something which they failed to achieve last year.
(11)Yasmin Clarke (GBR) d. (4)Ekaterina Dranets (RUS) 6-2 1-6 6-2
7) Katharina Brown (GBR) d. (13)Janina Toljan (AUT) 6-4 7-5
Now the bad news:
MD
(3) Katie O'Brien (GBR) v Amanda Elliott (GBR) Chloe Babet (FRA) v Camila Giorgi (ITA) Lisa Marshall (RSA) v Marinne Giraud (MRI) Samantha Schoeffel (FRA) v (5) Lenka Tvaroskova (SVK)
(6) Irena Pavlovic (FRA) v Arantxa Parra-Santonja (ESP) Katarina Baranova (SVK) v Yasmin Clarke (GBR) Nicole Riner (SUI) v Katharina Brown (GBR) Palma Kiraly (HUN) v (4) Carmen Klaschka (GER)
Katie and Amanda join forces in the doubles, as do Kat and Yasmin. Yasmin's draw is very good, Kat also has a chance of progress. Look out also for the top 2 seeds (Yakimova and Mayr) who are competitors to Mel for the Australian Open main draw.
Wow. Amanda has lost twice to Katie in the last six weeks for the loss of just three games. And she can't have been injured as she returned to partner Katie in the doubles.
I think JL's smileys say it all. I didn't see the double bagel coming! Yasmin has done really well to take advantage of her draws and pick up 5 points here
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