Week 12 - ITF ($25K) - Jersey, Great Britain Hard

SMC1809 · All-time great

RE: Week 12 - ITF ($25K) - Jersey, Great Britain Hard

philwrig · Hall of fame

Naomi on her way out here.
2-4 15-30

SMC1809 · All-time great

Looks that way. Hogenkamp serving for the match.

wolf · Tennis legend

Hogenkamp wins 7-5 6-2.

-- Edited by wolf on Tuesday 23rd of March 2010 01:53:36 PM

albino · Intermediate Club Player

If she is losing games like this its a good job they didn't waste a wild card on her...
wink

steven · Tennis legend

That's a shocker, I thought Naomi was good enough to qualify here without too much trouble.

indiana · Tennis legend

I did think Naomi would win.

But philwrig did point to Hogenkamp as a possible difficult opponent in the FQR, and I suggest a look at her record in 2009 since she started playing seniors ( don't know why she seems to be have been out until now in 2010 ) would suggest it isn't really a shocker.

Her 9 tournaments ( only 9 senior tournaments on her activity so far ) were :

First 4 10Ks : QFs, Title, Title, Title

Then 5 25Ks, qualifying in each, and L16, L32, QF, L16, SF

In the last, she beat Rogowska WR 148 and also beat WRs 244 & 281 in other tournaments.

She's a pretty decent 17 yo !

-- Edited by indiana on Tuesday 23rd of March 2010 01:44:36 PM

steven · Tennis legend

Ah ok, fair enough. Rubbish draw then!

indiana · Tennis legend

Maybe even a bit of a nightmare

( re my slight arguement with philwrig earlier in thread when I tried to say hey, relax, the draw's kool smile

)

Young Miss Hogenkamp will be a heck of a higher ranked before long.

-- Edited by indiana on Tuesday 23rd of March 2010 01:50:14 PM

philwrig · Hall of fame

I'm not hugely surprised by this loss but still very disappointed. I thought yesterdays performance was a below par one at the time. A very rusty Lisa shouldn't have caused Naomi as many problems as she did in the first round. Allbeit as I pointed out when the draw was made Hogenkamp is a talented up and coming junior whom is likely to end up with a higher career high ranking than Naomi.

After Naomi's first six tournaments of the year you now have to conclude that her performance levels in her comeback win in Mexico at the end of last year were not indicative of her future form. I suspect the additional energy she had from being so happy to be back on tour or the fast conditions were responsible for her higher performance levels that week.

Looking forward I think our expectations for Naomi's future ranking prospects should be lowered. I was looking for top 200 by the end of the year but now I would say top 250 would be a fair reflection of her current playing level.

philwrig · Hall of fame

Embittered wrote:

philwrig wrote:

That would be the logical conclusion assuming they are in Jersey.
Is it possible either Anna or Naomi were asked if they wanted the last two wild cards and declined ?
I doubt it.

It's up to Anna and Naomi to ask: http://www.lta.org.uk/Resources/Competition/Female%20Wild%20Card%20Information%20Pack_.xls (I've got to get going soon, so I've quoted that without rereading it, so apologies in advance if...). That's rather academic for the matter at hand, of course.

Naomi got one here last year, and some better ones in the grass court season. It's entirely possible the political situation has deteriorated still further in the intervening period, I guess. Hard to think what Anna's offence might be unless she's finally decided her Fed Cup future lies with her mother's kin and is in transition to a new nationality, so I'm tempted to think she didn't ask or is saving up credit for the summer.

So in other words you have to request one in the first place in order to be awarded one later on. Ah well that may well explain the strange selection of wild cards for this tournament.

SMC1809 · All-time great

Anna Smith 4-2 up in the first set.

steven · Tennis legend

SMC1809 wrote:

Anna Smith 4-2 up in the first set.

That's from 0-2 down as well!

Now *5-2

philwrig · Hall of fame

I don't know what happened at 2-0 down but Anna has won 24 out of the last 29 points to take the first set 6-2. Even more impressive given she was beaten 2 and 2 by the same girl just last week.

philwrig · Hall of fame

The second set seems like the first set all over again but not as dominant.

6-2 *3-2