Week 42 - ITF ($25K) - Glasgow, Great Britain

philwrig · Hall of fame

RE: Week 42 - ITF ($25K) - Glasgow, Great Britain

Mervatron · Masters Series Champion

Happy for Heather, that could have been very tricky. Makes me a litte more excited about Heather having seen bartel play.

Stuart Fraser · Lower Club Player

Final two women's qualifying results:

Elliot beat Perkovic 6-4 4-6 6-0
Ruckert beat Vickers 7-6 (7-3) 4-6 6-3

Main draw is now out. British interest includes:

Patricia Mayr V Amanda Elliot
Jade Curtis (WC) V Iveta Gerlova
Anna Smith V Stephanie Gehrlein
Naomi Cavaday V Jade Windley (WC)
Selima Sfar V Heather Watson
Helen Parish (LL) V N Hofmanova
Emma Laine V Jocelyn Rae (WC)
Lisa Whybourn (WC) V Lenka Tvaroskova
Katie Ruckert V Melanie South

philwrig · Hall of fame

Much better from Mandy but no reward in main draw.
Good effort from Sam.
Decent draw for Heather eventhough Sfar is in half decent form at the moment.
Lisa has a good test but still with chances.
Tough for Jos Laine is playing well at the moment.
Should be a confidence booster for Mel.
I wonder what each section of the draw looks like.

philwrig · Hall of fame

Cav and Hev playing dubs together and a potential 2nd round matchup.

Stuart Fraser · Lower Club Player

Full draw:

P Mayr V Elliott
Curtis V Gerlova
Oprandi V E Mayr
Soler-Sola V Vongsouthi

Fedossova V Ozga
Vrljic V Boczova
Smith V Gehrlein
Cohen V Larsson

Cavaday V Windley
Sfar V Watson
Piter V Gronert
Parish V Hofmanova

Floris V J Mayr
Laine V Rae
Whybourn V Tvaroskova
Ruckert V South

jb288 · Satellite level

Not really the draw Mandy needed; gutted Jade's up against Naomi after such a good last week. Mel's half shouldn't be hard provided she can get past/avoid Laine this time. Good draws for Jade & Lisa who may fancy her chances again! Good luck to all.

indiana · Tennis legend

So no Katie in the draw after all.

Any news as to why ? Hope no real problem.

Stuart Fraser · Lower Club Player

indiana wrote:

So no Katie in the draw after all.

Any news as to why ? Hope no real problem.

Hearing Katie has a shoulder injury!

wolf · Tennis legend

indiana wrote:

So no Katie in the draw after all.

Any news as to why ? Hope no real problem.

Someone probably slapped her and made her see sense.

Either that or she forgot she entered and so forgot to withdraw.

philwrig · Hall of fame

I go along with Wolf that she forgot to withdraw and that her injury is minor.

alex03maccy · Grand Slam Champion

Doubles

L16: (1) SMITH/LARSSON (SWE) v COHEN/RUCKERT (USA)
L16: (WC) FARLEY/GIBSON v BOCZOVA/PITER (SVK/POL)
L16: CAVADAY/WATSON v (WC) HUME/VICKERS
L16: KHAN/PERKOVIC (GER) v (WC) BIRNIE/BROWN
L16: ELLIOTT/ANDERSON (RSA) v (4) FEDOSSOVA/SFAR (FRA/TUN)
L16: RAE/WINDLEY v SEABORNE/WHYBOURN
L16: (2) SOUTH/LAINE (FIN) v GERLOVA/TVAROSKOVA (CZE/SVK)

indiana · Tennis legend

Poor Mandy, mayr of a draw, especially with mayr players about that would have offered better prospects for her.

philwrig · Hall of fame

Nice interview in the Guardian with Heather. She seems to have a soft spot for Del Potro.

indiana · Tennis legend

Yes, I read it earlier today, good article. I've found a link to it :

http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/blog/2009/oct/20/heather-watson-turning-professional-donald-mcrae

I did enjoy the bits about Del Potro smile

, like at Flushing Meadows :

" Has she met him? "Nope. But, when I was in the cafeteria at Flushing Meadows he was there, eating, with his hood up and his head down. I walked very slowly then, just staring at him to see what he was eating and stuff. And then he looked up and saw me. I carried on walking then, fast, but on the inside I was going, 'Yesssss! He looked at me!'" "

Interesting to hear her say how close she was feeling after Wimbledon to maybe giving up on the dream of a professional tennis career if results didn't pick up and probably going to college instead.

She comes across overall though as a bubbly fun person, which is the impression I already had. She likes the 7:1 ratio of boys to girls at her school in Florida smile

I also get the impression that behind that light hearted exterior there is a determined young lady, who wants to go far in the game and thinks she might have a chance.

-- Edited by indiana on Tuesday 20th of October 2009 09:49:39 PM