Week 38 - ITF ($25K) - Alice Springs, Australia Hard

steven · Tennis legend

Week 38 - ITF ($25K) - Alice Springs, Australia Hard

Mikeduke · County player

Doubles Result

P.Ozgen (TUR)/ M.South (GBR) [3] d J.Moriarty (IRL)/ C. Te Tai (NZL) 6-0 6-4

-- Edited by Mikeduke on Tuesday 21st of September 2010 07:29:45 AM

The Knight · Challenger qualifying

that doubles result has too many possible puns it fried my brain..

Smidster · Challenger level

R1: Q MORIARTY, Julia (IRL) WR 738 lost to CAVADAY, Naomi [2] WR 220 6-1 6-2

R2: (2) Naomi Cavaday WR 220 v Bojana Bobusic (AUS) WR 377

Mikeduke · County player

R2: P.Ozgen (TUR)/ M.South (GBR) [3] d B.bobusic (AUS)/ S.Letcher (AUS) 6-3 7-5

steven · Tennis legend

Bobusic lost to Mel in Cairns 6-0 in the 3rd.

gjr · Club Coach

According to #Alicespringsprotour twitter Mel won 6-2, 6-0

http://twitter.com/oztennisresults

steven · Tennis legend

... and will next play Daniella Dominikovic, who is unranked after being out (injured?) between March 2009 and September 2010 but had a CH of 324 in 2005 and has been impressive so far this week.

steven · Tennis legend

Seems like it's Mel's turn to fly the flag again in AUS this week - Naomi has been beaten by the Belgrade-born girl who lost to Mel in Cairns:

L16: (7) Mel South WR 263 beat (WC) Karen Filippou (AUS) WR 769 by 2 & 0

L16: (2) Naomi Cavaday WR 213 lost to Bojana Bobusic (AUS) WR 377 by 4 & 1 bleh

QF: (7) Mel South WR 263 v Daniella Dominikovic (AUS) UNR

Shhh · Challenger level

More good news to wake up to;

QF: Melanie South (GBR) [7] d Daniella Dominikovic (AUS) 6-3 5-7 6-1

steven · Tennis legend

QF: (7) Mel South WR 263 beat Daniella Dominikovic (AUS) UNR by 6-3 5-7 6-1

SF: (7) Mel South WR 263 v (1/Q) Sacha Jones (NZL) WR 184 or Pemra Ozgen (TUR) WR 416

Jones is still only 19 and has beaten EWS and Danielle Brown in the last 12 months, both 3 & 2. A year early she beat Naomi B 2 & 4 in Port Pirie before going out to Emily and she also beat Anna Smith in 2007 but lost to Anna Fitz in 2008. If you can draw any conclusions from all that, you;re way ahead of me!

Ozgen lost to Cav last week and Mel has a 2-0 H2H against her - Antalya 2004 in 3 sets and Vigo 2007 1 & 2.

Peter too · Tennis legend

SF: SOUTH, Melanie (GBR) 7 263 v JONES, Sacha (NZL) 184

SF:SOUTH/OZGEN lost to SEMA/SEMA 4-6 5-7

-- Edited by Peter too on Friday 24th of September 2010 10:06:21 AM

steven · Tennis legend

SF: (7) Mel South WR 263 lost to (1/Q) Sacha Jones (NZL) WR 184 by 5-7 6-4 6-3

Close ...

This means that over the first three weeks of their trip down under:

- Mel has reached SF/QF/SF, picking up 62 points (over 30% of her current total) c.f. 30 for a Shrewsbury QF in the same period last year

- Cav has reached R2/Final/R2, picking up 50 points c.f. 22 (14 for Shrewsbury R2 and 8 for Helsinki R2) in the same period last year

They now have a one week break before the Port Pirie 25K, where the only player above them on the entry list is Arina Rodionova.

Overall then, it seems to have been a good idea to go to Australia, though Naomi must be a bit disappointed that she only had one good week.

The Knight · Challenger qualifying

Naomi must be jealous of some of Mel's draws, i mean Mel this week beat one ranked player (769) and got a SF!