Week 6 - ITF ($100K) - Midland, USA Hard

philwrig · Hall of fame

RE: Week 6 - ITF ($100K) - Midland, USA Hard

djlovesyou · Strong Club Player

I'm guessing Katie's match will be well underway by now.

Maza1987 · Challenger level

A good article on heather to keep us busy while we are twiddling our thumbs
http://ourmidland.com/articles/2010/02/09/sports/2412586.txt

-- Edited by DavidC on Wednesday 10th of February 2010 09:14:44 PM

indiana · Tennis legend

How good is it to have a tournament website streaming updates of results and even sets wins ?

Then having that, how frustrating is it when they do it so irregularly ?

RBBOT · Futures qualifying

Interesting read, although the author does seem to be somewhat geographically challenged when it comes to how far North various places are.

philwrig · Hall of fame

The home page is now saying hello to everyone in their native language and given up on providing latest scores. May be a long wait.

indiana · Tennis legend

I just emailed my above frustrations to the tournament executive director and got a very quick reply. If I known that he'd respond so quickly I would have asked for some results as well

Thank you it's a volunteer job. Next year we may hire out. Thank you for the input.

Smashingly,

Mike Woody, USPTA / PTR

Executive Director

Midland Community Tennis Center

philwrig · Hall of fame

I like the use of the word smashingly only an American could use such a word.

djlovesyou · Strong Club Player

I remember someone from this event kicking off on tennisforum when people were complaining about the lack of updates.

Guessing a few people must have complained again.

Tutu · Club Coach

Heather & Katie lost. Anne won. Hugely disappointed.

-- Edited by Tutu on Wednesday 10th of February 2010 10:02:36 PM

Maza1987 · Challenger level

oh for goodness sake heahter. katie i expected.
good fightback from anne though.

indiana · Tennis legend

Yes confirmation that Anne won and Heather lost is on Bally's twitter : http://twitter.com/ElenaBaltacha

That's a good win for Anne as she continues her comeback, but pity for Heather afterr being a set up.

Assuming Katie has indeed lost that is rather disappointing and I must say unexpected to me.

-- Edited by indiana on Wednesday 10th of February 2010 10:37:03 PM

philwrig · Hall of fame

That's a bit of blow for Heather as this was a huge opportunity for cheap points. The article above just shows the problems for up and coming players. I would have thought that Heather would have had a full time travelling coach with her but she doesn't and she is a junior grand slam champion. This is a critical period in her development because she really needs to be top 250 by the end of the year. Her approach at the moment is dare I say it slightly amateurish. I would have thought that paying for a full time coach would be very beneficial at this stage because the payback would surely outweigh any costs at this stage. Putting on my accountants hat this is basic cost benefit analysis. I'm just worried that deep down does she have doubts that she can sustain a professional career and by that I mean be a top 100 player for most of her career.
Great comeback win for Anne but it would have been a shock if she had lost.
Whereas Katie's result is a huge disappointment which makes the first round win at the Aussie open the absolute saviour for her start to the season.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Seems the people responsible for the live ticker are currently more interested in saying "hello" to Internet visitors in (if I've counted correctly) 16 different languages, including English, than announcing the results of the matches which are being played today! disbelief

What's the bloody point?

indiana · Tennis legend

Yes, Phil, Heather should be inside the top 500 when her Sutton points get added on Monday, but this was indeed on paper a very good chance to add 18 further points which would have probably taken her more than 50 further places up the ranking table.