Week 22 - Womens ITF ($50K) - Nottingham

seagull · Hall of fame

RE: Week 22 - Womens ITF ($50K) - Nottingham

seagull · Hall of fame

Not sure how Smith was trailing 5-6 in the second set

seagull · Hall of fame

Rae/South lost 1st set

steven · Tennis legend

If my calcs on the updates top 25 table are correct, that one win alone should lift Rae almost 100 places, while Jade will rise to around 340

alex03maccy · Grand Slam Champion

very nice jade and joc. good job mel. hard luck tara.

wolf · Tennis legend

Brilliant wins for Joss and Jade today.

Decent efforts from Anna and Tara and as expected Mel cruised against Amanda.

R1: (3) Kudryavtseva/Wickmayer (RUS/BEL) beat Rae/South 6-3, 6-4 cry

R1: (WC) Baltacha/Elliot beat Brianti/Camerin (ITA) 6-4, 6-3 biggrin

R1: (4) Borwell/Haynes (USA) beat Cavaday/Boffa (SUI) 6-3, 6-4 smile

R1: Curtis/Smith v Klemenschits/Krauth (AUT/ARG)
R1: (Q) Stoop/Brengle (USA) v Glatch/Grandin (RSA)
R1: (WC) Broady/Thomas v (2) Ditty/Gullickson (USA)

jb288 · Satellite level

There's a quote from Bally on the LTA site saying they lost...think that score must be the wrong way round.

seagull · Hall of fame

They deffo lost 1st set so it is wrong

jb288 · Satellite level

It does irrationally annoy me that Jade got 6 points for her win over Grandin yesterday whereas if Mel had beaten her in that Oz final last year she'd've got 50...I know that's stupid, but still! Couldn't there be a rankings-gap supplement for points? E.g. 5 points extra for a 100-gap, 10 for 200 etc. That'd be a great way for really talented young players (or the injured) to move swiftly up to their true standard, surely? I'm sure there are lots of potential problems though...

daisy · County player

Seagull - thanks for posting the score updates.

Sorry for the confusion on the Smith/Glatch score.
When I arrived I couldn't find the LTA 'tent' so went in search in the main building at Notts.
A helpful chap offered to go and find out what had happened with the Ladies singles and returned with the scores filled in and names of winners ringed..... so I passed on the info believing it to be right.

Seems it wasn't.
evileye

What with the errors yesterday I suppose I shouldn't be surprised.

Looks as though you've had lots of updates from others too - it's all good.

Having watch Rae in the doubles I'm a bit surprised at her win over Gullickson.
Hey ho.

Tutu · Club Coach

JB, there used to be quality points where you were awarded extra points according to the rank of your opponents but they were ditched at the end of 2006.

Go Naomi tomorrow!

jb288 · Satellite level

Thanks Tutu, I'm fairly new to all this - that's interesting; do you know what the rationale behind ditching them was? Maybe it wasn't as effective as I imagine....or maybe the high-ranked players just didn't like their rankings being more fluid?

Smidster · Challenger level

I never knew they had such a system - interesting.

I would guess they were ditched because people didn't understand the system (Or more likely those in power didn't think the public understood the system) and as we have seen on the ATP side they enjoy messing yp the rankings in the name of 'simplification'

steven · Tennis legend

We'll have to hope Katie as recovered from her shopping injury - see http://www.lta.org.uk/Articles/Katie-OBrien-blogs/01062009---Shopping-is-a-dangerous-business/ (also the previous week, she talks about her RG LL place at http://www.lta.org.uk/Articles/Katie-OBrien-blogs/27052009---A-week-as-a-lucky-loser/)

murray_2k9 · Challenger qualifying

The quality points were ditched mainly on the basis that it wasnt fair. A player could win a slam, beating all the players in front of them, and getting significantly less points. The point is that a player can only beat the players put in front of them, its not their fault if the top ranked players dont fulfill their seeding.

Its nicer this way IMO, its fairer and simpler.