Week 15 - ITF ($100K+H) - Johannesburg, RSA - Hard

SMC1809 · All-time great

RE: Week 15 - ITF ($100K+H) - Johannesburg, RSA - Hard

Silver · County player

Tiebreak!

SMC1809 · All-time great

0-1
0-2
1-2
2-2
2-3
2-4

SMC1809 · All-time great

2-5

2-6

SMC1809 · All-time great

Groth takes the tb 7-2.

steven · Tennis legend

Groth now a break up in the 3rd, 3-1* - this couple is such a pain!

Josh · Challenger level

Groth serving for the match up 5-4

Josh · Challenger level

3 match points, all over. Lost 6-2 6-7 4-6 cry

steven · Tennis legend

Ugh - that's 9/9 for Groth against Brits now and that's probably her best win against one of our girls.

It also means that all four of our top five girls who were in action this week have gone out at least 2 rounds earlier than they were seeded to. disbelief

Elena is still provisionally up 1 at WR 58, but could be overtaken by Vinci if she beats Dulgheru or Parra-Santonja in the Barcelona semis tomorrow (Vinci took out no. 2 seed Rezai in R1 and has benefited from the other bottom half seeds getting wiped out early there too) and by Kerber if she beats Hantuchova in Charleston later today.

murray_2k9 · Challenger qualifying

Groth is a very decent player, I remember being impressed when she played Serena in the Aussie Open. Still its dissapointing to see Bally lose, I think a lot of us fancied her for the title here and the points would have been very nice. All down to Laura to salvage the day

johnnylad · Tennis legend

I watched Jarmila Groth at Wimbledon last year. She's a tidy player and I can also see what Sam Groth saw in her. Very beautful and personable with the crowd too.

jb288 · Satellite level

Well whaddya know? Katie's conqueror, Bratchikova, has beaten Groth in three (Groth got 9 games to Katie's 17) to reach the final against Tanasugarn, having also beaten Dubois in straights in the quarters. Always nice to have context...

In another not-that-fair-but-that's-life tidbit, Jegiolka, who Naomi beat 1 and 2 in FQR got in as an LL and beat Kremer in R1, thereby bagging herself some tidy pointage. Gutted.

-- Edited by jb288 on Saturday 17th of April 2010 12:36:25 AM

steven · Tennis legend

Bratchikova beat Tanasugarn in the Final in straight sets - only one player other than Katie took a set off her this week and Katie got closest to beating her. Seems like she might be playing ok after all!

PaulM · Tennis legend

So a case of what might have been rather than a hideous loss. The russian must have liked the conditions.

Still a shame though, but hopefully down at 130 she can regroup and just maybe get something on the clay.

philwrig · Hall of fame

I have been following the three girls tweets who took part in this tournament with interest as they try to get home.

Bally who finished the tournament last has made her way to Dubai and is hoping to get to Rome shortly. Katie is stuck in Joburg indefinitely and there are fears that Naomi has been kidnapped by the local militia in Nairobi as there has been no communication made since Friday.