Week 2 - ITF ($25k) - Pinggou, China - Hard

SMC1809 · All-time great

Week 2 - ITF ($25k) - Pinggou, China - Hard

SMC1809 · All-time great

L16: CHAN (TPE) / CHEN (TPE) 3 v MOORE (GBR) / MUKHAMETOVA (RUS)

philwrig · Hall of fame

Tricky one, I really hope she can get the win here as another loss might start to erode the confidence she gained from last year.

steven · Tennis legend

R1: MOORE, Tara (GBR) WR 347 beat (q) ABDURAIMOVA, Nigina (UZB) WR 467 by 3 & 1

Very convincing

steven · Tennis legend

R2: MOORE, Tara (GBR) WR 347 v (2) ZHANG, Ling (HKG) WR 229 or (WC) YANG, Zhaoxuan (CHN) WR 1068

Zhang (since I imagine that's who it will be) beat Anna Smith and EWS last year but has lost to Katie and Mel in the past. Very tough, but Tara has a habit of playing way above her ranking when she is on form in the same way that she plays way below it when she isn't.

Peter too · Tennis legend

R2: MOORE, Tara (GBR) 347 v ZHANG, Ling (HKG) 2 229

Peter too · Tennis legend

In the doubles Tara Moore and partner just missed out 6-7 7-6 10-12 to the 3rd seeds.

philwrig · Hall of fame

Happy with that, now the real test for Tara.

philwrig · Hall of fame

Great win for Tara 5-7 7-5 6-3.

steven · Tennis legend

Excellent - I thought on form she might do it and the thrashing she handed out to Abduraimova in R1 suggested she might be back on form again.

Reeltime · Satellite level

Superb. Justwhat the doctor ordered for Tara. Hopefully she can kick on from here and find some consistency

Peter too · Tennis legend

R2: MOORE, Tara (GBR) 347 beat ZHANG, Ling (HKG) 2 229 5-7 7-5 6-3

QF: MOORE, Tara (GBR) 347 v LU, Jia-Jing (CHN) WC 4 591

SMC1809 · All-time great

Peter too wrote:

R2: MOORE, Tara (GBR) 347 beat ZHANG, Ling (HKG) 2 229 5-7 7-5 6-3

QF: MOORE, Tara (GBR) 347 v LU, Jia-Jing (CHN) WC 4 591

The ranking and player may be correct, but Tara isn't playing the number 4 seed. However, if Tara wins the QF, she may then face the number 4 seed Jing Jing Lu, sister of Jia-Jing Lu.

indiana · Tennis legend

That's a very good win from Tara and hopefully she can at least reach the semis smile

I read various comments about Tara's consistency and that certainly has been a problem in the past. But to me, resultswise from the end of July last year she had a very consistent final few months of the season. Her one particularly bad week was in the Sunderland 10K and she lost to Samantha Murray in R2 ( Samantha looks a decent prospect but shouldn't be beating Tara ) after a sticky R1. On that one I would say that she left little doubt beforehand that she wasn't feeling great going into the tournament and although at the time her coach kind of wasn't letting her off with it, that appeared maybe to me more like "tough love" and was probably related to how she was indeed feeling. I believe philwrig witnessed that match.

In general as I say, she has more lately been impressively consistent and to my mind needs to keep that up while working hard to steadily raise her level.

steven · Tennis legend

Tara had that very consistent run of 6 consecutive tournaments where she picked up a dozen or more ranking points between late July and late October (one 10K win for 12, 3 25K QFs for 14-15 each, two 75K L16s for 14 each) before tailing off a bit in Nov/Dec and in her first event this year. It's very nice to see her back in double figures again

She has 9 points to come off from this tournament last year (Q+L16) at the end of the AO, so today's win ensures she will move up.

-- Edited by steven on Thursday 13th of January 2011 03:08:44 PM