Week 17 - ITF ($10K) - Bournemouth, Great Britain - Clay

Silver · County player

RE: Week 17 - ITF ($10K) - Bournemouth, Great Britain - Clay

RBBOT · Futures qualifying

Very nice club
I'm not surprised - I reckon that area has the record for the most mansions with tennis courts in their back gardens for the whole of the uk!

SMC1809 · All-time great

Lisa Whybourn (Gbr) bt Jessica Ren (Gbr) 7-5 4-6 6-4

QF: Petra Sanduska (Pol) v Lisa Whybourn (Gbr)

-- Edited by SMC1809 on Thursday 29th of April 2010 12:49:47 PM

SMC1809 · All-time great

Alice Balducci (Ita) bt Amanda Elliott (Gbr) 6-4 6-4

philwrig · Hall of fame

SMC1809 wrote:

Lisa Whybourn (Gbr) bt Jessica Ren (Gbr) 7-5 4-6 6-4

QF: Petra Sanduska (Pol) v Lisa Whybourn (Gbr)

-- Edited by SMC1809 on Thursday 29th of April 2010 12:49:47 PM

Much closer than I would have expected although I suspect that the playing surface has something to do with that.

steven · Tennis legend

Lisa's win today will almost certainly be enough to take her into the top 500 on Monday week

- that'll give us 15 girls in the top 500 if nobody drops out - we haven't ended a calendar year with that many this century.

-- Edited by steven on Thursday 29th of April 2010 02:08:20 PM

Akhenaten · Pro player

Silver wrote:

Awwwww, Vickers and Windley not bringing it for the Lincolnshire supporters

*i.e. ME*

Me too! I'm from Lincolnshire. So there's at least two of us.
Though I now live 200 miles away..

murray_2k9 · Challenger qualifying

Not a bad display from Ren! Shame that losing in R2 of a 10k is actually an improvement for Elliott but it very much is..

alex03maccy · Grand Slam Champion

Francesca Stephenson (Gbr) bt Lena-Marie Hofmann (Ger) 6-1 7-5

Tara Moore (Gbr) bt Eleanor Dean (Gbr) 6-4 6-3

Lucy Brown (Gbr) bt Katerina Kramperova (Cze) 7-6 (7-5) 7-6 (7-3)

PockyTastic · Futures level

Great wins from Fran and Lucy (especially Fran over a seed). Strong scoreline from Eleanor, it would suggest she competed in that match, which is encouraging. Good to see Tara winning consecutive matches again - I have felt that she should have stepped down to 10ks for a while now, if only to boost her confidence before playing 25Ks and 50Ks agan.

philwrig · Hall of fame

Amazing wins for Fran and Lucy but unlike PockyTastic I thought Eleanor would get closer to Tara and take a set off her.

Peter too · Tennis legend

QF: WHYBOURN, Lisa (GBR) 506 v SANDUSKA, Petra (POL) 1 419
QF: STEPHENSON, Francesca (GBR) WC UNR v BALDUCCI, Alice (ITA) 710
QF: MOORE, Tara (GBR) 593 v BERGOT, Audrey (FRA) 7 404
QF: BROWN, Lucy (GBR) WC UNR v TABAKOVA, Romana (SVK) Q 915

indiana · Tennis legend

Yes, tremendous wins for Fran and Lucy, I didn't see these coming.

Also, I do think that's on the face of it another very decent performance from Eleanor. I imagined Tara would be too strong for her at this stage, even a Tara not on top form. For a girl that just turned 14 yo at the beginning of the year, the future looks really good for her.

Overall really really encouraging from the young ladies here. To have a representative in every QF here and Lisa being the oldest at 18 along with two 17 yos and a 16 yo, combined with Eleanor's performances, is great.

murray_2k9 · Challenger qualifying

The British womens game continues to go from strength to strength.

If Laura breaks the top 250, she would be about a month slower than current #2 Wozniacki, who did it at the age of (roughly) 16 & 3 months. Laura is about 16 & 4 months old, just to give some perspective!

RBBOT · Futures qualifying

Indeed it does. If Heather has a good week next week and Josh doesn't, we could be in a situation where the #10 girl is ranked above the #5 guy.