Week 33 - ITF ($10k) - Westende, Belgium Hard

Peter too · Tennis legend

Week 33 - ITF ($10k) - Westende, Belgium Hard

The Knight · Challenger qualifying

hope they enjoy the bright lights of the Westende

Peter too · Tennis legend

Q1: MCMINN, Lauren (GBR) UNR lost to JANSSEN, Emma (BEL) UNR 3-6 2-6
Q1: BAMBURAC, Sabrina (GBR) UNR beat SCHELENZ, Desiree (GER) UNR 6-4 6-3
Q1: JANBAKHSH, Ines (GBR) UNR lost to MAIETTI, Melanie (FRA) UNR 3-6 3-6
Q1: BRACKETT, Christie-Ann (UNR) lost to COPPOLA, Claudia (ITA) UNR 2-6 1-6

Q2: BAMBURAC, Sabrina (GBR) UNR v MOURA, Margarida (POR) UNR

PockyTastic · Futures level

Disappointing draws with Jennifer Ren drawing Naomi, and Sabrina drawing Jo-Ko. Jess Ren has a good chance to get another win on paper, though in round 2 she faces the winner of Bamburac and Konta...

R1: Naomi BROADY (1) 280 vs Jennifer REN 942
R1: Jessica REN 1017 vs Ineke MERGAERT BEL UNR WC
R1: Johanna KONTA (2) 305 vs Sabrina BAMBURAC Q UNR

Q2: BAMBURAC, Sabrina (GBR) UNR defeated MOURA, Margarida (POR) UNR 1-6 7-5 6-1

steven · Tennis legend

R1: Naomi BROADY (1) 280 leads Jennifer REN 942 4-1 susp.

R1: Jessica REN 1017 beat Ineke MERGAERT BEL UNR WC 6-1 3-0 ret.

R1: Johanna KONTA (2) 305 beat Sabrina BAMBURAC Q UNR 6-4 4-1 cry

(well Konta is still technically AUS!)

R2: Johanna KONTA (2) 305 v Jessica REN 1017

-- Edited by steven on Tuesday 17th of August 2010 09:17:16 PM

SMC1809 · All-time great

R1: Naomi BROADY (GBR) (1) defeated Jennifer REN (GBR) 6-1 6-4 smile

SMC1809 · All-time great

R2: Naomi BROADY (GBR) (1) WR 279 Vs Nicky VAN DYCK (BEL) UNR

Doubles:

L16: KONTA (AUS) / LALAMI (MAR) (2) BYE

QF: FEBER (BEL) / VAN DYCK (BEL) Vs KONTA (AUS) / LALAMI (MAR) (2)

-- Edited by SMC1809 on Wednesday 18th of August 2010 05:21:37 PM

Peter too · Tennis legend

R2: BROADY, Naomi (GBR) 1 284 lost to VAN DYCK, Nicky (BEL) UNR 5-7 6-1 3-6

johnnylad · Tennis legend

indiana · Tennis legend

Wow, Naomi what's that ? cry

Results recently may not have been that great recently, but I didn't think she had totally gone off form or was expecting anything like that.

-- Edited by indiana on Wednesday 18th of August 2010 10:09:04 PM

murray_2k9 · Challenger qualifying

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Won Against Jen 61 61. Back On For My Next Match In About An Hour, Playing Nicky Van Dyck Frm Belgium

Maybe the sucessive matches affected her? Id really hoped for Broady to have kicked on to GS qualifying level, sorta like Georgie Gent pre-injury. Hope she can be by the Aussie.

-- Edited by murray_2k9 on Wednesday 18th of August 2010 09:49:05 PM

indiana · Tennis legend

Naomi's actually in a liitle danger of going backwards rather than forwards overall rankingwise by the end of the year.

She's got a few months now with nothing to defend and really wants to be cracking on past her CH ( WR 267 from April ) and into the top 250 before she has the 74 points to defend from her great 3 tournament run in Mexico and Cuba at the end of last year.

steven · Tennis legend

That's the most shocking result I've seen from a Brit for some time - from the scoreline, it looks like it was a competitive match (i.e. not affected by illness/injury) but I can't see anything in van Dyck's past record to suggest she should have had any chance against Naomi at all.

seagull · Hall of fame

Georgie Gent/Stoop...what happened to her?

murray_2k9 · Challenger qualifying

She has an ankle injury and is currently recovering. She should be back fairly soon hopefully! The reason she chose now to change her name was because the injury meant she wasnt travelling so it was simpler.

Naomis loss is somewhat worrying but if she just had a total mindblank then these things happen to the best. It does make me more uncertain of whether her 6-4 6-4 win vs Mel was in anyway a good score for Mel...