Week 10 - ITF ($25K) - Clearwater, USA Hard

philwrig · Hall of fame

RE: Week 10 - ITF ($25K) - Clearwater, USA Hard

philwrig · Hall of fame

Naomi takes the first set 6-3. She lost the second set last week.

Tennis36 · Masters Series Champion

wtf, bet365 covering qualifying of this, why, this match? must be doing it all week

Maza1987 · Challenger level

cool.
keep us updated.

philwrig · Hall of fame

6-3 4-2* 40-40 after being 4-1 up in second set.

Danjn · Lower Club Player

Serving for the match:

6-3 *5-2

philwrig · Hall of fame

Quite a struggle with alot of deuce games. A spurt of 4 straight games in the second set set up the victory for Naomi which became a breakathon set by the finish. Overall easier than last week so positives for main draw where all the matches will be difficult given the strength of the field.

Maza1987 · Challenger level

well done naomi

DavidC · Tennis legend

Good stuff from Naomi winning 6-3 6-3 in the end. I'm amazed that Bet365 deemed it worthy of their effort. The match was on the Stadium court, with Heather playing Georgie on an outside court at the same time, so that will not be covered.

Tutu · Club Coach

Bet 365 have randomly started covering ITF 25k matches. Last week it was Minsk and Sydney.

Tutu · Club Coach

Well done to Naomi by the way, lol.

Tutu · Club Coach

Stoop won 6-3 6-0 LOL. Congrats Georgie and hopefully this will give her confidence for the rest of the year but I guess this must be a mix of inexperience and fatigue on Heather's part. The great news is that Heather has a chance to redeem herself as a LL, I just hope that this loss doesn't blow her confidence too much.

-- Edited by Tutu on Monday 8th of March 2010 10:07:50 PM

RBBOT · Futures qualifying

(6)Georgie Stoop (GBR) d. Heather Watson (GBR) 63 60

But Heather got a LL:

Anna Tatishvili (GEO) v (LL)Heather Watson (GBR)
(6)Kurumi Nara (JPN) v Yi-Miao Zhou (CHN)

Corinna Dentoni (ITA) v Arina Rodionova (RUS)
(4)Shuai Zhang (CHN) v (Q)Naomi Broady (GBR)

(5)Monique Adamczak (AUS) v (Q)Noppawan Lertcheewakarn (THA)
(wc)Julie Ditty (USA) v (Q)Georgie Stoop (GBR)

philwrig · Hall of fame

I thought they gave the LL spots to the highest ranked losers in qualies very strange.
Heather earlier before the match suggested she wasn't looking forward to playing a good mate in a match hopefully that was the reason for the bagel in the second set because I always had Heather as a consistent performer. As for Georgie she appears more and more to be a hot/cold performer and today she was pretty hot. No doubles this week for the Brits.

No Mel back home in London now so no show here.

Tough draw especially so for Naomi.

steven · Tennis legend

philwrig wrote:

I thought they gave the LL spots to the highest ranked losers in qualies very strange.
Heather earlier before the match suggested she wasn't looking forward to playing a good mate in a match hopefully that was the reason for the bagel in the second set because I always had Heather as a consistent performer. As for Georgie she appears more and more to be a hot/cold performer and today she was pretty hot. No doubles this week for the Brits.

That's only in ATPs/ATP Challengers/WTAs, in ITFs and slams it's done by a random draw from all the fqr losers. Anyway, it's great that Georgie got the win but Heather got into the main draw too