Week 49 - ITF ($10K) - La Habana, Cuba Hard

steven · Tennis legend

RE: Week 49 - ITF ($10K) - La Habana, Cuba Hard

HossTheBoss · Strong Club Player

British No 1 next year.

murray_2k9 · Challenger qualifying

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/tennis/article6955161.ece

Streak is mentioned in the times ;)

seagull · Hall of fame

Also a report in the Times about Wardy - he is hitting with Nadal in Majorca!

Says he is playing ATP qualification and Aus Open so thats good news

indiana · Tennis legend

murray_2k9 wrote:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/tennis/article6955161.ece

Streak is mentioned in the times ;)

I like the first paragraph :

Saving the best of the year until last, Lancashire's Naomi Broady secured what is thought to be the longest winning streak of any British woman in contemporary tennis history when she won her third title in succession, in Cuba this weekend.

Now if Steven had fully researched this, that bit I've put in bold would have been unneccessary

seagull · Hall of fame

Exactly what I thought!!

indiana · Tennis legend

I see the LTA steadily have more to say about Naomi on their site after the glaring omissions, particularly during Naomi's initial comeback 25K title run.

Gawd, they even have a picture on their main news page.

Now how about moving on and producing funding to help this huge talent be all she can be.

( and yes, I know I agreed with the LTA over their arguable sanctions re the junior boys and applecoregate, but I have also heard of proportionality )

So, time to do the right thing !

Anyway, here is what they had to say, which counts as a massive spread compared to previous coverage :

"Naomi Broady has claimed her third ITF event title in as many weeks and her fourth of the year at the $10k La Habana tournament in Cuba. Broady, seeded No.1 for this event, defeated Valentine Confalonieri (ITA) 6-2, 6-2 to secure the win following on from her $10k title in La Habana last week and victory at the $25k event in Puebla (MEX).Victory over the No.5 seed in the final crowned an impressive week for the British No.7, who only dropped one set on the way to her fourth ITF title of 2009."

-- Edited by indiana on Monday 14th of December 2009 02:32:40 PM

steven · Tennis legend

indiana wrote:

murray_2k9 wrote:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/tennis/article6955161.ece

Streak is mentioned in the times ;)

I like the first paragraph :

Saving the best of the year until last, Lancashire's Naomi Broady secured what is thought to be the longest winning streak of any British woman in contemporary tennis history when she won her third title in succession, in Cuba this weekend.

Now if Steven had fully researched this, that bit I've put in bold would have been unneccessary

LOL

I do like the way he worded it though - "contemporary" could mean last couple of years, last decade (which I'm confident it is a record for) or last quarter century. I wish I'd thought of that word!

steven · Tennis legend

Just noticed on http://www.naomibroady.co.uk/:

"Naomi won the 2nd La Habana tournament with a straight sets 6-2,6-2 victory over the 5th seed Valentine Confalonieri of Italy. This win gives Naomi the longest winning streak of any British female player since the modern era began and should be very close to taking her into the top 300 which will be a new career high when the ranking table is updated on Monday 21st December. Our thanks once again to the team at Mouratoglou Tennis Academy who were prepared to believe in Naomi's potential and thanks also to Dave & Roxanne Sammel for there professionalism during the last month in Mexico and Cuba."

Do they read this board too (it's dated Saturday, so before the Times article) or have they come up with this independently and know for sure that it's the longest streak, I wonder.

DUSTY DICK · Club Coach

Congratulations Naomi. Hope also that the LTA will provide more funding and get behind her to fulfill her talent.

wolf · Tennis legend

The stat is also mentioned in the MCTA twitter - http://twitter.com/McTa

Been a phenominal few weeks for Naomi.

Mervatron · Masters Series Champion

Great stuff from Naomi.

Heres hoping for an injury free 2010 and a run towards the top 200/100 and beyond

steven · Tennis legend

wolf wrote:

The stat is also mentioned in the MCTA twitter - http://twitter.com/McTa

Been a phenominal few weeks for Naomi.

Despite hedging my statement with a very strong caveat, I'm going to be very embarrassed if all of these claims have their root on here and it turns out to be wrong ashamed

LOL Nice to see the Times and MCTA making it clear it's not 100% too though.

I wonder if the ITF would know - they keep records of the global top 10 men's streaks in Futures, but only count main draw wins and if a player goes Future-Future-Challenger-Future, they ignore what happens in the Challenger as far as this stat goes, so their streaks aren't worked out on quite the same basis as ours.

It's the kind of thing you'd expect the LTA to know really ... not! wink

philwrig · Hall of fame

The unbeaten run by Naomi on paper appears exceptional but after winning the first tournament the other two wins would be the equivalent of Andy winning a top level challenger event. The only thing that could have stopped Naomi was mental or physical tiredness.
I firmly believe putting together Naomi's schedule will be critical next year.
A player who clearly plays her best tennis when fresh.
This year after a hectic first six months she complained of being worn out during the grass court.
In fact the injury layoff came as a blessing in disguise giving her time to recharge the batteries.
IMO players shouldn't schedule more than two consecutive tournaments at a time unless of course they don't expect to go very far. This may be an ideal scenario but if you look at the top players on the ATP and WTA tours they never schedule a 3 week run.

jb288 · Satellite level

To be fair though, points are so easy to come by in higher events (per win) that they don't have anywhere near the same pressure as most of our players to compete every week. When you're playing 10ks, you need to play a huge number in order to progress, even if you're reaching QFs.