Week 14 - Womens ITF (100K+H) - Torhout, Belgium

Mervatron · Masters Series Champion

RE: Week 14 - Womens ITF (100K+H) - Torhout, Belgium

alex03maccy · Grand Slam Champion

i think she's playing in Barcelona next but i couldn't be sure.

DavidC · Tennis legend

alex03maccy wrote:

i think she's playing in Barcelona next but i couldn't be sure.

I didn't think Katie would play a clay court tournament without suitable preparation on the surface (Barcelona is next week) but it looks like you are right, as the players section of the Barcelona website lists her, illustrated with some of the most unflattering photos they could find of Katie.

alex03maccy · Grand Slam Champion

lol at the photos part. i'm sure she'll have a word if she sees them. is it a challenger or a satellite event?

djlovesyou · Strong Club Player

http://www.sonyericssonwtatour.com/tournaments/profiles/barcelona.asp

It's an old tier IV.

Katie does have an interesting array of 'effort' faces, haha.

steven · Tennis legend

Poor Katie (see http://www.bcnwta.com/wta/index.php?menu=2&continguts=jugadoras), she does tend to look like she's going through the agonies of every Katiecoaster when she's out on court. smile

I remember seeing an off-court pic of her looking great recently, which I was going to link to in order to redress the balance, but I can't find it now. What I did find when looking for it was a story about her 85-year-old grandmother watching the AO FQR on live scores at 4 am. Clearly this live score madness is not something people grow out of! wink http://www.thisishullandeastriding.co.uk/news/Tennis-star-Katie-true-Yorkshire-gritarticle-623417-details/article.html

Anyway, she can look as scary as Conchita Martinez for all I care if she can get into the top 100! smile

-- Edited by steven on Friday 10th of April 2009 12:20:38 AM

djlovesyou · Strong Club Player

Just noticed she's playing the 100k in Joburg on the 27th. At the moment she's 8th seed, compared to the 100k in Cagnes-sur-Mer the same week where she would barely be seeded to qualify, haha. Even better as Joburg is Hard and the French one is clay.

Here's a nice one of Katie to help redress the balance.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/tennis/7970136.stm

-- Edited by djlovesyou on Thursday 9th of April 2009 10:35:07 PM

Josh · Challenger level

Nice pivtures away from tennis, with sarah and fitzy then sarah and georgie.

PaulM · Tennis legend

where are those photos from?

there were some good photos from Minsk taken by a person who went to the event where she was looking in good shape. I think Katie has always been pretty good with her fitness tho, she really stepped it up last year.

Along with Bally and Anne Katie looks extremely athletic now.

djlovesyou · Strong Club Player

In fairness, Katie has always been pretty athletic. It's her head that's let her down a lot of the time.

She seems to be doing a whole lot better this year.

alex03maccy · Grand Slam Champion

i think all of the top brit women have been stronger mentally this year, they've always had the skill but only now are they starting to believe in themselves.

murray_2k9 · Challenger qualifying

djlovesyou wrote:

Just noticed she's playing the 100k in Joburg on the 27th. At the moment she's 8th seed, compared to the 100k in Cagnes-sur-Mer the same week where she would barely be seeded to qualify, haha. Even better as Joburg is Hard and the French one is clay.

Here's a nice one of Katie to help redress the balance.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/tennis/7970136.stm

-- Edited by djlovesyou on Thursday 9th of April 2009 10:35:07 PM

Sorry to bump, but does anybody know what these events feed up to?

djlovesyou · Strong Club Player

Strasbourg and Birmingham.

murray_2k9 · Challenger qualifying

Wow, great, thanks for the reply. Would be nice to see a Brit get it ;)