Week 17 - ITF ($25K) - Brescia, Italy - Clay

steven · Tennis legend

Week 17 - ITF ($25K) - Brescia, Italy - Clay

indiana · Tennis legend

Err, quite a convincing win at that smile

DUSTY DICK · Club Coach

At least a decent win for Cav. It might fire up her believe.

murray_2k9 · Challenger qualifying

Not a bad start to the clay court season! Congrats Naomi.

JT · Junior player

Well done Naomi, hopefully after a few (albeit easy) matches last week she's a lot more comfortable on Clay now. Next match could be tough though.

Peter too · Tennis legend

R2: CAVADAY, Naomi (GBR) 194 v ARRUABARRENA-VECINO, Lara (ESP) Q 434

Smidster · Challenger level

Doubles

R1: (3) Cavaday/Pivovarova (GBR/ITA) def Barbieri/Grymmalska (ITA) 6-1 6-1

QF: (3) Cavaday/Pivovarova (GBR/ITA) v Dolehide/Sibille (USA/FRA)

-- Edited by Smidster on Wednesday 28th of April 2010 06:57:01 PM

steven · Tennis legend

Cav: "As if my string broke on match point.

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... but she doesn't say whether she actually won or lost!

steven · Tennis legend

Fortunately her coach has come to the rescue!

"Best performance if the year from Naomi to beat a very tough clay courter 6-1,6-4 in 2 hours (from 2-4 break point!). Must be my cooking!!!"

SMC1809 · All-time great

Her coach has clarified things.

She won 6-1 6-4 smile

steven · Tennis legend

She'll be playing a Q or a WC next, so a good chance of making the semis. She needs to reach the Final to get to a new career high though.

-- Edited by steven on Thursday 29th of April 2010 11:07:21 AM

wolf · Tennis legend

Only the second time Naomi has had back to back wins since last July.

She hasn't reached a semi-final since Feb 2009.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

steven wrote:

She'll be playing a Q or a LL next, so a good chance of making the semis.

Er, Steven, according to my copy of the DS, she'll play either the Italian qualifier, Verdiana Verardi (WR 629), or the WC, also Italian, Anna-Giulia Remondina (WR356), in the QF. wink

steven · Tennis legend

Stircrazy wrote:

steven wrote:

She'll be playing a Q or a LL next, so a good chance of making the semis.

Er, Steven, according to my copy of the DS, she'll play either the Italian qualifier, Verdiana Verardi (WR 629), or the WC, also Italian, Anna-Giulia Remondina (WR356), in the QF.

Oops, I meant WC not LL!

indiana · Tennis legend

Good to see Naomi getting a couple of vicories together in a 50K MD ( Nottingham last year was the last time she did that ).

Edit : And indeed Nottingham is still the last time, since SMC points out the reasonably relevant fact that this isn't a 50K event, duh

Re her career high, currently 183, that was achieved in March 2008, so it is high time ( and more ) that she was passing it.

I know some folk think some others give Naomi a bit of a hard time. But that is very often because we feel that she has the abilities to go much higher and showed such early promise as a professional, entering the top 200 before the end of the 2007 season while still aged 18.

Whatever the reasons for effectively seeming to plateau, and while the illness break was not that long comparately, maybe the effects have been longer, I think everyone here would be really happy if she could start to make a real step-up in performance and reach a higher level.

Need to repel these upstarts Smith, Robson, Broady and Watson smile

-- Edited by indiana on Thursday 29th of April 2010 11:59:56 AM