Week 11 - ITF ($10K) - Bath, UK Hard

indiana · Tennis legend

RE: Week 11 - ITF ($10K) - Bath, UK Hard

albino · Intermediate Club Player

Alas, not to be! Naomi loses 6-0 6-1

indiana · Tennis legend

Naomi loses 0 - 6 1 - 6 cry

seagull · Hall of fame

how is that possible?

indiana · Tennis legend

Naomi played a lot of matches early in the year with some really encouraging results. Then she takes a few weeks off, comes back, loses last week in the 2nd round of a 10K in France to Borecka, a Czech qualifier, and now this !

Whatever she's suddenly lost, I do really hope she finds it quickly. I know she lost twice before to Sirotkina in the last few months of last year, in 3 quite close sets in Madrid and 6 - 2 6 - 1 in Dubai, but still .....

confuse

-- Edited by indiana on Wednesday 16th of March 2011 02:26:47 PM

steven · Tennis legend

indiana wrote:

Naomi played a lot of matches early in the year with some really encouraging results. Then she takes a few weeks off, comes back, loses last week in the 2nd round of a 10K in France to Borecka, a Czech qualifier, and now this !

Whatever she's suddenly lost, I do really hope she finds it quickly. I know she lost twice before to Sirotkina in the last few months of last year, in 3 quite close sets in Madrid and 6 - 2 6 - 1 in Dubai, but still .....

Clutching at straws, perhaps Naomi is experimenting with new stuff in the 10Ks intending to peak for the next 25K. Hmm ...

indiana · Tennis legend

No, Naomi, you are better off right handed wink

indiana · Tennis legend

Josh has tweeted ( http://twitter.com/#!/futuresscores )

Tara lost 7 - 6 (9) 6 - 3 cry

Lucy won 6 - 7 (5) 6 - 2 6 - 2 smile

I had just tweeted the LTA to check if their tweeter was still alive.

Edit : Ah, they live and have confirmed above and that Murray is 4 - 4 in the final set.

-- Edited by indiana on Wednesday 16th of March 2011 03:37:47 PM

indiana · Tennis legend

Murray 5 - 5 final set ( saved a MP )

indiana · Tennis legend

From Josh :

"Murray 16 62 75 or something like that. She won anyway. Goodall eaton set down. Leaving again."

indiana · Tennis legend

That's 2 Brits through to the QFs from the top half as per the seedings.

Acually no seeds left in that half now, Naomi and Lisa lost cry

and Samantha and Lucy have beaten the other two seeds smile

( could of been a lock out if.... )

Would be really good if we can get one through in the bottom half as per seedings, just err Daneika rather than Tara.

SMC1809 · All-time great

indiana wrote:

Naomi loses 0 - 6 1 - 6

It was a bad scoreline, but I'd hold judgement until the end of the week. If I were a betting man, I'd put a few pence on Sirotkina.

philwrig · Hall of fame

Thought Sam could beat Falcon and its nice to see Lucy progress further( showed promise during Wimby qualies last year).
As for Naomi I'm hoping that these last two weeks have been about practice as the points on offer wouldn't really help her ranking. On the negative side it is possible that her purple patch was due to fast conditions at those venues which really helps her serve, we'll get a better idea next week.
Tara just coming back from injury fair enough and Lisa feels she played well in defeat so maybe her defeat yesterday was not as disappointing as first thought.

alex03maccy · Grand Slam Champion

Good stuff from Sam and Lucy :)

albino · Intermediate Club Player

Lesley KERKHOVE (NED) defeated Daneika BORTHWICK (GBR) 6-4 6-2

QF: Marta SIROTKINA (RUS) 392 Vs Samantha MURRAY (GBR) 962
QF: Margit RUUTEL (EST) 435 Vs Lucy BROWN (GBR) 882