Week 29 - ITF ($25K) - Wrexham, Hard

Tennis36 · Masters Series Champion

RE: Week 29 - ITF ($25K) - Wrexham, Hard

Maza1987 · Challenger level

thx for update.
comon naomi. fight through

philwrig · Hall of fame

Final singles update from flooded Wrexham: Naomi wins 6-4 in third, Tara wins 6-4 6-0, Emily loses straight sets 6-3 in second was 0-5 in second, Mirza, Laine and Rogowska also through from top half of draw.

seagull · Hall of fame

All Brits in bottom half!

Maza1987 · Challenger level

so did they play indoors then, phil?

Also, who's your money on, everybody?

Heather
Naomi
Tara
Lisa

-- Edited by Maza1987 on Thursday 22nd of July 2010 02:29:00 PM

philwrig · Hall of fame

Maza1987 wrote:

so did they play indoors then, phil?

Also, who's your money on, everybody?

Heather
Naomi
Tara
Lisa

-- Edited by Maza1987 on Thursday 22nd of July 2010 02:29:00 PM

They certainly did, the weather has been horrendous here. Should be dry tomorrow fingers crossed. Heather said she prefers outdoors as it enables her to use her variety of shot to the max.I"d pick Heather and Lisa. Lisa may then cause an upset in the semis if Heather doesn't raise her level. Mirza overall though the most impressive so far, but she's not unbeatable.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Full second round results round-up:

(1) Sania Mirza (IND) WR 132 defeated Daniela Scivetti (AUS) WR 497 by 0 & 2
Tammi Patterson (AUS) WR 527 defeated Emily Webley-Smith WR 444 by 4 & 3 bleh

(3) Olivia Rogowska (AUS) WR 229 defeated (Q) Isabella Holland (AUS) WR 480 by 1 & 5
(8) Emma Laine (FIN) WR 334 defeated (Q) Mara Nowak (GER) WR 919 by 3 & 3
(5) Naomi Broady WR 281 defeated Emelyn Starr (AUS) WR 588 by 6-3 3-6 6-4
(4) Heather Watson WR 250 defeated Anna Fitzpatrick WR 594 by 2 & 3
(7) Lisa Whybourn WR 318 defeated Stamatia Fafaliou (GRE) WR 874 by 2 & 1
Tara Moore WR 604 defeated (LL) Manisha Foster UNR by 4 & 0

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Quarter-final line-up:

(1) Sania Mirza (IND) WR 132 vs Tammi Patterson (AUS) WR 527
(3) Olivia Rogowska (AUS) WR 229 vs (8) Emma Laine (FIN)
(5) Naomi Broady WR 281 vs (4) Heather Watson WR 250
(7) Lisa Whybourn WR 318 vs Tara Moore WR 604

So, a guaranteed Brit finalist... biggrin

indiana · Tennis legend

Well done to Lisa, QF points here ( 14 ) should take her comfortably into the top 300 in the rankings, maybe about 288. That's really good progress and probably beyond most folks' expectations at this time.

Tara too picking up good points whilst making the most of what has worked out a very kindly draw.

With their QF meeting, Lisa can move further up the top 300 or Tara can move back within the top 500.

Interesting matches to come in the bottom half. I'd take Heather to come through as finalist.

Anyway, hope it much drier tomorrow, for the players and Phil smile

steven · Tennis legend

indiana wrote:
Well done to Lisa, QF points here ( 14 ) should take her comfortably into the top 300 in the rankings, maybe about 288. That's really good progress and probably beyond most folks' expectations at this time.

Yes, that's about right I think - so that's another hastily-raised target ticked off

and she has no points due to come off until the end of the USO.

Heather and Naomi are on the edge of new career highs and the winner of their match tomorrow will definitely get one, while a win for Tara tomorrow would take her to the edge of a new CH, but she'd have to get to the Final to make sure of it.

Heather - old CH 249, now likely to be c. WR 252 or c. WR 244 (new CH) if she wins tomorrow
Naomi B - old CH 267, now likely to be c. WR 268 or c. WR 260 (new CH) if she wins tomorrow
Lisa Wh. - old CH 318, now likely to be c. WR 288 (new CH) or c. WR 279 if she wins tomorrow
Tara Mo. - old CH 482, now likely to be c. WR 533 or c. WR 488 if she wins tomorrow

The USO qualifying cut-off last year was 223 initially, ending up at 234.

-- Edited by steven on Thursday 22nd of July 2010 05:23:37 PM

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Doubles round-up - Mirza faring better this week in tandem with Laine than she did last week with Laura:

QF: (1) Sania Mirza & Emma Laine (IND/FIN) WR 276 defeated Daneika Borthwick & Liz Thomas UNR by 1 & 1
QF: (4) Isabella Holland & Daniela Scivetti (AUS/AUS) WR 955 lost to Nicola George & Lisa Whybourn WR 1684 by 3 & 4 biggrin

QF: Tara Moore & Francesca Stephenson UNR defeated (3) Tammi Patterson & Olivia Rogowska (AUS/AUS) WR 785 by 5 & 3 biggrin

QF: Anna Fitzpatrick & Jade Windley WR 1004 defeated (2) Jos Rae & Emelyn Starr (AUS) WR 525 by 4 & 5 biggrin

SF: (1) Sania Mirza & Emma Laine (IND/FIN) WR 276 vs Nicola George & Lisa Whybourn WR 1684
SF: Tara Moore & Francesca Stephenson UNR vs Anna Fitzpatrick & Jade Windley WR 1004

At least one guaranteed Brit pair in the final... Wouldn't it be good to have both? wink

Pretty

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* What's with all the Aussie girls over here at the moment? confuse

indiana · Tennis legend

Stircrazy wrote:

* What's with all the Aussie girls over here at the moment?

Well, it's winter in Aus. So they've maybe come to enjoy the nice British summer

philwrig · Hall of fame

Heather won 6-2 6-3 ( Heather stepped it up a level and was impressive today ) Lisa won 7-6(3) 1-6 6-4 ( Tara probably should have won being 4-1 up in the first and 3-1 in the third but in a high quality match and spurred on by a partisan home crowd Lisa stayed the tougher mentally winning the bigger points) Mirza won very easily and Laine won as well.

The Knight · Challenger qualifying

would have preferred the reverse results, but who cares, two Brits in the semis, can't complain about that!

Heather you would expect to make her first 25K final

Josh · Challenger level

Would these points go on the rankings on Monday or is there a week delay like Futures for the men?