Week 18 - ITF ($10K) - Edinburgh, GBR Clay

indiana · Tennis legend

Week 18 - ITF ($10K) - Edinburgh, GBR Clay

SMC1809 · All-time great

Doubles final (LTA website)

Amanda ELLIOTT (GBR) / Jocelyn RAE (GBR) [1] v Timea BABOS (HUN) [2] / Tara MOORE (GBR)

SMC1809 · All-time great

This was the QF result:

BABOS (HUN) / MOORE (GBR) (2) defeated FITZPATRICK (GBR) / REN (GBR) 3-0 Retired

Makes more sense as Fitzy retired today too.

And SFs:

ELLIOTT (GBR) / RAE (GBR) (1) defeated COHEN (FRA) / MARCINKEVICA (LAT) (4) 6-1 6-4

BABOS (HUN) / MOORE (GBR) (2) defeated BROWN (GBR) / VICKERS (GBR) 6-2 7-5

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

SF: (8) Tara Moore WR 593 (5) defeated Alizé Lim (FRA) WR 527 by 0-6 6-4 6-4! biggrin

Final:

(3) Timea Babos (HUN) WR 511 vs (8) Tara Moore WR 593

Surely a title chance?

-- Edited by Stircrazy on Saturday 8th of May 2010 02:37:53 PM

johnnylad · Tennis legend

Stircrazy wrote:

SF: (8) Tara Moore defeated WR 593 (5) Alizé Lim (FRA) WR 527 by 0-6 6-4 6-4!

Final:

(3) Timea Babos (HUN) WR 511 vs (8) Tara Moore defeated WR 593

Surely a title chance?

Thanks for posting the result. Well done Tara!

Have you written her off for the final already?

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

johnnylad wrote:

Stircrazy wrote:

SF: (8) Tara Moore defeated WR 593 (5) Alizé Lim (FRA) WR 527 by 0-6 6-4 6-4!

Final:

(3) Timea Babos (HUN) WR 511 vs (8) Tara Moore defeated WR 593

Surely a title chance?

Have you written her off for the final already?

Nope. Merely copied & pasted one word too many in my excitement!

Serves me right, I suppose, for not previewing my original post before I submitted it, as I usually do. ashamed

Now duly amended. wink

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Doubles final:

(1) Amanda Elliott & Jocelyn Rae WR 601 defeated (2) Timea Babos (HUN) & Tara Moore by 7-6(5) 6-4

s Pity Tara had to be on the other side of the net! cry

philwrig · Hall of fame

Tara lost first set 6-2 and is down a break in the second.

RBBOT · Futures qualifying

Tara lost 6-2 6-2, but a good week with two finals. Interesting titbit from the LTA story on yesterday's men's final: Timea Babos & Tara Moore share the same coach and are regular practice partners.

Those waiting to see how Babos did the rest of the week before putting Eleanor Dean's first round effort into context may now proceed...

-- Edited by RBBOT on Sunday 9th of May 2010 02:36:35 PM

scottie1 · Futures level

I saw Eleanor against Babos and was mightly impressed by Eleanor. Eleanor has powerful ground strokes and was not in the least bit over awed by babos. Eleanor stood out by a mile compared to some of the other girls. With a kinder draw she would have progressed a couple of rounds, definitely one that i will be watching her progress

indiana · Tennis legend

Although it is a pity to see Tara lose the final and the tournament has been a bit disappointing overall for the British women after a pretty good Bournemouth, it has been really good to see Eleanor and Fran reinforce the positive impressions from Bournemouth.

Eleanor's first ranking point vs Ruth Seaborne last week and competitive scorelines vs Tara and Babos in successive weeks I find very encouraging for the future. I too will certainly be watching her future progress with much interest.

Fran, being more than a couple of years older than Eleanor, is maybe not quite such a prospect on the face of it, but still these 2 weeks have really shown that she has something about her and that was a very good scoreline vs Lisa this week.

Re Tara, hopefully getting these wins have given her a bit of confidence and the points from the last 2 weeks have been well timed. She now gained 23 points this year and has only 16 points to defend the rest of the year after this week, so hopefully can make upwards progress and at least aim to get herself back into the top 500. May be worth playing quite a few more 10Ks for the moment to continue to bulid more coinfidence, see how these go and the maybe step up again in a few months.

-- Edited by indiana on Sunday 9th of May 2010 06:25:27 PM

indiana · Tennis legend

Report on the final on the LTA site : http://www.lta.org.uk/News/All-news-items/2010-05-03/Moore-falls-to-Babos-in-Edinburgh/

Seems Tara was struggling a bit with a stomach injury in the final, which she said hurt on serve. It is described as "recurring" so I do hope it is not going to cause her any real ongoing problems.

After her 2 month absence with an ankle injury, Timea said that she was really tired and nervous in her first match ( vs Eleanor ) but after that she says she played really well.

-- Edited by indiana on Sunday 9th of May 2010 11:02:39 PM

scottie1 · Futures level

What Timea says may be true but eleanor should have won the first set had break points

philwrig · Hall of fame

Clearly Babos was below par for her match against Eleanor. Playing against a 14 year old with immense talent would cerainly not have been a pleasant experience. However the fact that Babos was so nervous is testament to the fact that Babos knew that Eleanor presented a very tricky opening match.

clayfan · Lower Club Player

Babos' match against Dean last week was a long drawn out affair. Played on the large centre court, they took ages to retrieve the balls between points. Babos looked very down and dispondant in the first set and looked like losing it easily to Dean, who was playing very well. It was puzzling at the time but understandable if it was her first match back after injury.

It is the mark of a great player that they hang on in and gradually she turned things around, winning the tie break in a set which had looked lost at one stage. A tense tie break in which both players had set points was eventually won by Babos 13-11. It seems to have perked her up and she did very well after that, dropping very few games in the rest of the week. She was an excellent junior and will surely be on the main WTA circuit in a year or two.

Eleanor seemed to have good power off the ground, which is not something a lot of British girls can manage on clay. She looks a real prospect for the future.