Week 3 - ITF ($25K) - Lutz, USA Clay

PockyTastic · Futures level

Week 3 - ITF ($25K) - Lutz, USA Clay

PockyTastic · Futures level

Mandy Carreras has defeated Evtimova (last Spring in Turkey) but on clay the Bulgarian is a tough opponent, she has reached the final of a 50K on the surface, so if Dani were to win it would be an astounding result.

Scholl has not win a main draw match since August so might be short of confidence, but she has beaten Johanna before in the second round of qualies in Westende last summer 3-6 6-4 7-6(3). Hopefully Jo can reverse this result.

Last year Janowicz qualified for a couple of 10Ks in America, but otherwise has done little. She's ambidextrous and a 1991 girl...

jb288 · Satellite level

Jade & Dani lost, Jo won, don't know scores. Jade was put on centre court, which might indicate the organisers think Janowicz has something special (could just be local girl though) - if not, a bit worrying. Though I cannot imagine clay being really suitable for Jade. Oh well, that's the last clay tournie, we'll see what happens.

Smidster · Challenger level

Q1: Danielle BROWN 550 lost to Dia EVTIMOVA (2) 271 6-0 6-2
Q1: Johanna KONTA (13) 363 def Chichi SCHOLL 666 (same quarter as Dani) 6-0 6-1
Q1: Jade CURTIS (9) 332 lost to Olivia JANOWICZ unr 7-6 6-2

Q2: Johanna Konta (13) 363 v Chanelle Van Nguyen (UNR) USA

steven · Tennis legend

QR2: (q13) Johanna Konta WR 363 beat Chanelle Van Nguyen (USA) UNR by

FQR: (q13) Johanna Konta WR 363 v (q2) Dia Evtimova (BUL) WR 271

L32: Georgie Stoop WR 262 v (WC) Sachia Vickery (USA) UNR

Vickery is a 14-year-old who is at the Mouratoglou Academy and has just made it into the junior top 100. In her one previous senior outing last July, she qualfied for a 10K then reached the semi-finals. Scary prospect, but Georgie should have far too much for her at the moment. However, the winner is likely to face top seed Maret Ani in R2.

Still if you think that's a bad R2 draw, former (1999) Wimbledon semi-finalist Mirjana Lucic is here too and in R2 she could face double former grand slam semi-finalist Nicole Vaidisova, who is the no. 4 seed!

-- Edited by steven on Monday 18th of January 2010 11:29:20 PM

philwrig · Hall of fame

Playing Ani in the second round again will provide a good guide as to the progress that Georgie has made from last week. Should have way too much for Vickery.

indiana · Tennis legend

steven wrote:

QR2: (q13) Johanna Konta WR 363 beat Chanelle Van Nguyen (USA) UNR by

I know women can achieve quite a lot by smile but pretty impressed that it apparently works for Konta against a fellow female in tennis.

Maza1987 · Challenger level

indiana wrote:

steven wrote:

QR2: (q13) Johanna Konta WR 363 beat Chanelle Van Nguyen (USA) UNR by

I know women can achieve quite a lot by but pretty impressed that it apparently works for Konta against a fellow female in tennis.

This forum is getting worse

steven · Tennis legend

indiana wrote:

steven wrote:

QR2: (q13) Johanna Konta WR 363 beat Chanelle Van Nguyen (USA) UNR by

I know women can achieve quite a lot by but pretty impressed that it apparently works for Konta against a fellow female in tennis.

Ah, I worked out she'd won from the OoP for tomorrow because the result wasn't up and put by score TBA, but put the last two words in > < brackets, forgetting that this forum suppresses anything in brackets like that (which is why I've reversed the order here)

Peter too · Tennis legend

Q2: KONTA, Johanna (AUS/GBR) 13 363 beat VAN NGUYEN, Chanelle (USA) UNR 6-2 6-1

johnnylad · Tennis legend

Smiling Assasin

Mervatron · Masters Series Champion

Georgie plasy Sachia Vickery, should be an interesting one, hope she gets the win

jb288 · Satellite level

Hmm, Jade's withdrawn from Rancho Mirage (which is rather strong for a 25k) - given that she's got a rest week the week before anyway, maybe she's hoping for a Sutton WC (she'd've made MD there, whereas she'd have to win through the 64 qualies field at RM)?

-- Edited by jb288 on Tuesday 19th of January 2010 06:07:01 PM

philwrig · Hall of fame

Lots of good news to be reported here.

Jo won FQR 6-4 2-6 6-2. Possibly looks back to her best after along drought and has a decent draw against a fellow qualifier.

Georgie won 1st round after a blowout first set 1-6 6-2 6-3 and will not play Ani but will play Minella of Luxembourg. Hopefully Georgie can win a few rounds here now that the no1 seed is out.

indiana · Tennis legend

Bit of a battle for Georgie there but good to see her get the win. Minella aranked 245 and presumably in pretty good form if she's beaten the no 1 seed, but guess better than the no 1 seed in really good form. smile

Good to see Jo get into MD and yes would be good to see her start putting a few wins together again, early days yet though.