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

Peter too · Tennis legend

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

Josh · Challenger level

philwrig wrote:

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.

I saw Lisa when I was out tonight and although it probably wasn't the best time to get an accurate response as to how her match went so claimed she "tried her best" so I guess it was just a 50-50 match which either girl could have won but unfortunately Lisa came out on the wrong side.

steven · Tennis legend

Well, Samantha Murray managed to take 3x as many games off Sirotkina as Naomi B did, but the russian won 3 & 0

meaning she has lost just 7 games in 3 matches. She has also won three of her last four 10K events, starting with the one in Spain where she beat Emily in the SFs and Naomi in the Final, so it loks like she made a big improvement during last summer and is not someone you want to meet in the early rounds any more.

Josh · Challenger level

Lucy Brown won 7-5 in the 3rd. Think the full score was 6-7 6-2 7-0. When I got there Ruutel was serving for the match at *5-4 although I didn't see too much of it as I was watching Boggo v Evans mostly.

SMC1809 · All-time great

Another 3 set match for Brown. Another fighter.

alex03maccy · Grand Slam Champion

Great work Lucy!

RBBOT · Futures qualifying

Peter too wrote:

So the only GB girls to get through to the QFs were qualifiers.

In all tournaments this week.

indiana · Tennis legend

Really well done by Lucy smile

Now her turn to take on Sirotkina !

SMC1809 · All-time great

Sirotkina beaten by a Brit in Bath!

SF: LAINE (FIN) / MOORE (GBR) (2) defeated KERKHOVE (NED) / SIROTKINA (RUS) 6-4 6-2 smile

F: GATTO-MONTICONE (ITA) / GRYMALSKA (ITA) (4) Vs LAINE (FIN) / MOORE (GBR) (2)

Tennis36 · Masters Series Champion

2 bp's for double break...

steven · Tennis legend

LTA report Lucy lost to Sirotkina 1 & 4

though of course that's the best anyone has done against the Russian in singles this week!

steven · Tennis legend

... and it continued to be the best anyone did, because Sirotkina won the Final by w/o.

SMC1809 · All-time great

SMC1809 wrote:

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.

Shame I didn't find a bookie offering decent odds. I could've had a few more pence by now.

PockyTastic · Futures level

Sirotkina won several 10ks last year on a variety of surfaces, and would be ranked much higher if she hadn't struggled last year to transfer her good form into wins at 25k level and above.