Week 11 - ITF ($10K) - Bath, UK - Hard

alex03maccy · Grand Slam Champion

RE: Week 11 - ITF ($10K) - Bath, UK - Hard

alex03maccy · Grand Slam Champion

Jade Windley (Gbr) bt Stephanie Cornish (Gbr) 1-6 7-5 6-3

Mara Nowak (Ger) bt Lisa Whybourn (Gbr) 7-5 3-6 6-1

Emily Webley-Smith (Gbr) bt Kyria Dunford (Gbr) 6-3 6-1

Lenka Jurikova (Svk) bt Irina Ramialison (Fra) 6-0 4-6 6-2

Anna Smith (Gbr) bt Appollonia Melzani (Bel) 6-0 6-4

steven · Tennis legend

That's five events in a row in which the GB no. 9 (Curtis) has failed to score a point, and this is the worst loss of the lot, I wonder what's wrong there. Great win for Alexandra, of course!

Mezak's win against the no. 2 seed must be good for Anna, who's the other seed in that quarter

Jade Windley was supposed to be playing the no. 1 seed Kuyanovich, so it looks like Cornish replaced her as a LL - not sure if we have anyone left in the top half of the draw who could take full advantage or this - perhaps Whybourn (who must be a bit rusty though, recently back from injury edit: which must be why she's already gone out to an unranked qualifier cry

) or Windley herself, maybe even Emily, who is also in the top quarter.

-- Edited by steven on Wednesday 17th of March 2010 04:31:16 PM

Josh · Challenger level

Or maybe not Whybourn, who lost to a qualifier. We'll be relying on EWS and Jade in the top half and Anna in the bottom half.

Embittered · Junior player

Lisa

Embittered · Junior player

Katarzyna PITER (POL) (6) defeated Holly RICHARDS (GBR) 6-1 6-2
Ellen BARRY (NZL) defeated Samantha VICKERS (GBR) 6-1 6-3

Margit RUUTEL (EST) defeated Jazzamay DREW (GBR) 7-5 6-1

p.s. As you see, I can't get the hang of this html text editing, giving away where I copied the results from.

-- Edited by Embittered on Wednesday 17th of March 2010 08:16:57 PM

-- Edited by Embittered on Wednesday 17th of March 2010 08:19:20 PM

Josh · Challenger level

L16: Jade WINDLEY WR 627 v (q) Mara NOWAK (GER) UNR
L16: Emily WEBLEY-SMITH WR 430 v Katarzyna PITER (POL) (6) WR 329
L16: (WC) Alexandra WALKER UNR v (q) Ellen BARRY (NZL) WR 787
L16: Anna SMITH (8) WR 350 v Elixane LECHEMIA (FRA) WR 508

philwrig · Hall of fame

Over the moon for Alex Walker a local girl who has found some decent form recently. Mind you beating Jade at the moment is not the scalp it would have been last year. I have spoken to a lady who knows her well at the Northumberland club where she trains and have been told she has a tremendous desire to make it in the professional game and works her socks off off the court to maximise her chances. Lovely girl as well always smiling and not at all acting above her station.

indiana · Tennis legend

steven wrote:

That's five events in a row in which the GB no. 9 (Curtis) has failed to score a point, and this is the worst loss of the lot, I wonder what's wrong there.

I wonder too. I heard some injury problems, but she's still played quite a bit and lost !

At the start of the year when possible top 300 players were being mentioned I felt Jade was being ignored a bit considering how she had pushed on last year. I certainly saw no reason not to expect her to push a bit into the top 300.

Watch Jade, says I. Hmm...