Week 29 - Womens ITF ($50K) - Lexington, USA Hard

Peter too · Tennis legend

RE: Week 29 - Womens ITF ($50K) - Lexington, USA Hard

The Knight · Challenger qualifying

must have got the score wrong!

Peter too · Tennis legend

Taking the score from twitter is very risky.

The Knight · Challenger qualifying

if the twitter says north, we can assume it means south

steven · Tennis legend

Hopefully this is a similar mistake to "Fink def Paliivets 3-6, 0-6, 6-2" - but I hope they'll correct this one so we don't have to wonder for too long!

steven · Tennis legend

I'd set up a twitter account for pick 'ems (long story, whether I'll end up using it or not, I don't know) so I've messaged them to ask what's going on.

jb288 · Satellite level

Mel's own site is saying she lost. But then it's presumably run by a family member who may be following the same twitter feed (ever the optimist!)...fingers crossed.

Smidster · Challenger level

Mel's website confirms she lost 6-4 7-5

philwrig · Hall of fame

I think the twitter message meant M.South up in second set after A Riske won 1st set 6-4.

jb288 · Satellite level

Hmm, I guess that could make sense...damn these crazy americans and their ridiculous grammar!

philwrig · Hall of fame

Mel is in poor form so not a surprise I think it is fair to say that the only British girl on the upward curve at the moment of the top five is Elena. Here's to that changing shortly.

steven · Tennis legend

philwrig wrote:
I think the twitter message meant M.South up in second set after A Riske won 1st set 6-4

That first message said:

"L. Lee-Waters up on R. Marion 6-4 after set 1, M. South up on A. Riske 6-4 after first set"

... and a later message said that Lee-Waters won 6-4 6-4, so on that basis Mel won the 1st set too. However, if her site says she lost, I assume they checked with Mel

philwrig · Hall of fame

I think it's fair to say it's a bit of a mystery and the guy doing the score updates needs a lesson in providing clear scores.

jb288 · Satellite level

Acc to Mel's website, she picked up an injury, struggled to play through it and has now pulled out of Stanford. Sad to hear, it's really not a good year for Mel so far, is it? If she's not careful, she's going to be overtaken by Georgie soon :(

steven · Tennis legend

Oh dear, what a nightmare cry

- after taking all that time away from the tour for the big training block too, I always wondered if that was a good idea, but you'd at least have hoped it would have helped with injury prevention.