Week 38 - ITF ($75K) - Shrewsbury, Hard

indiana · Tennis legend

RE: Week 38 - ITF ($75K) - Shrewsbury, Hard

steven · Tennis legend

No, don't worry, misunderstanding - you didn't give the wrong impression and I certainly wasn't trying to have a go at you

gazzpash · Club Coach

Well done to both. Lets hope they will follow what Anne did rather than what Mel did.

djlovesyou · Strong Club Player

Well, we've lost Yung-Jan Chan and Darya Kustova from our list of threats now.

Hopefully Date-Krumm will join them in time, along with Ammunandurova a little bit later.

steven · Tennis legend

Date-Krumm has just beaten Hantuchova in 3 sets to reach the semis in Seoul, so she's still a threat.

jb288 · Satellite level

Just looked at Steven's list and Mel now has to defend 200 points up to the end of the year (i.e. nearly half her current total). With that in prospect, you wouldn't bet against her being overtaken by Naomi in the not-too-distant future (who has nothing to defend). I hope she can pull some good wins out of the bag to get herself back up where she should be by the year end...good luck Mel, it's gonna be tough!

djlovesyou · Strong Club Player

Ammunaradova won again (doh) Katie now down to provisional 100 and Elena to 97. Looks like Katie might have to win today because I can't see Dubois not making the final and there are plenty of other threats too.

steven · Tennis legend

de los Rios has gone out to (3) Dulgheru in St Malo but at the same tournament, Parra-Santonja is a set up on (4) Hercog.

wolf · Tennis legend

Mervatron wrote:

Just out of interest where were you standing for the Bally match?

Just trying to work out if i spotted you.

For most of it I was at the end on the balcony on the left, I was in a light blue/dark blue hoodie and jeans.

The day starts badly with Smith/Larsson taking a 3-6, 6-4, 10-7 loss to Barrois/Meusburger.

steven · Tennis legend

Thought I might as well put the table I've been working from since yesterday evening on the net:

http://www.britishtennis.net/gbtop25f/ebkob100.htm

I'm not sure why it's all repeated as continuous text at the bottom of the page, but when it's such a temporary table, it doesn't seem worth taking the time to find out!

-- Edited by steven on Friday 25th of September 2009 01:57:15 PM

djlovesyou · Strong Club Player

Nice table!

Parra has beaten Hercog today now, so things aren't going too great.

djlovesyou · Strong Club Player

Just looking at it, if Bally loses, a win for Katie will put Bally in a slightly precarious position.

steven · Tennis legend

Yes, that's true, they're provisional 98 and 100 now - it probably doesn't help that the media is jumping the gun either, e.g. http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/other-sports-news/elena-baltacha-breaks-into-world-s-top-100-1.921958, though I still expect at least one of them to hold on.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

(3) Kristina Barrois & Yvonne Meusberger (GER/AUT) WR 302 defeated Johanna Larsson (SWE) & Anna Smith WR 330 by 3-6 6-4 [10-7] cry

Close, but not quite close enough! hmm

They seem to have given the third seeds a bit of a run for their money, though.

philwrig · Hall of fame

Bally won per LTA twitter don't know score.