If Mel is do anything this year she has to qualify for this tournament for starters! 

Q1: BROADY, Naomi (GBR) 2 241 beat ADAM, Oceane (FRA) 742 4-6 7-6(5) 6-2

Q1: SOUTH, Melanie (GBR) 4 256 beat MELROSE, Abbi (GBR) WC UNR 6-2 1-6 6-1

Sam Murray v Koehler 4-6 0-1* (now on Bet365)

indiana wrote:

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RainDelay wrote:

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Naomi wins in 3 after being a set and 4-0 down.

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Maybe at that point Naomi suddenly rediscovered whatever suddenly seemed to go missing in the last couple of weeks 

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Her mojo?   Let's hope so!


-- Edited by Stircrazy on Sunday 20th of March 2011 07:42:10 PM

Leticia COSTAS-MOREIRA (ESP) (1) Vs Tara MOORE (GBR) (14)
Naomi BROADY (GBR) (2) Vs Karen BARBAT (DEN)
Melanie SOUTH (GBR) (4) Vs Francesca STEPHENSON (GBR)

philwrig wrote:

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Lisa in a mini crisis at the moment and it would seem the Broadster has just avoided a mini crisis by somehow recovering from a very poor position today.

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Not quite happening for Lisa at the moment, but apart from her heavy defeat to Sally Peers in the USA, her defeats this year have been quite narrow.  Last week she seemed fairly happy to the extent that she tweeted that she was "proud" of how she performed in losing what she said was a high quality match.

This week, again on the face it a bit disappointing to lose to a player quite a bit lower ranked, but interesting to sse if and how she comments. She comes across as pretty honest in her comments and if playing rubbish will say so.

I'd say very premature to be talking about a crisis, "mini" or otherwise.

Re Naomi, I'm just rather confused about the the last couple of weeks after her very encouraging start to the year.

-- Edited by indiana on Monday 21st of March 2011 02:14:23 AM

Lisa did fine in her first two events of the year, reaching the semis in both Glasgow and Wrexham. She lost to lower-ranked players each time, but she was the only player who took a set off Tinjic in Glasgow and the player who beat her in Wrexham (Fitzy) went on to win the title there too. In the US, she W 1 L 3, with two of the losses to top 200 players and the other to a fast-rising 16-year-old currently ranked just behind her, so no big shocks there, although the scorelines against Peers and Hardebeck (1&2 in each case) must have been a bit of a blow.

She then, as Indiana says, pushed the experienced Rüütel (top 160 two years ago) very close in a match where she thinks she put in a decent performance (and, again as Indiana says, she comes across as being disarmingly honest in her tweets), so this is her first really surprising loss to a player who's not in particulary good form. For all we know, she was one of those affected by the food poisoning - it sounds like for every player who got it bad enough to have to pull out, at least one other player got a milder version. 5 losses in a row always takes a toll mentally, I'm sure, but given the players most of the losses were against, not really a crisis.

Naomi's form is a lot more of a mystery, having gone from such a high at the start of the year to such a low. Whether she turned a corner yesterday remains to be see - Adam, whom she beat yesterday, was on a 4-match losing streak going into that match and all of those losses were in straight sets against players ranked much lower than Naomi. Similarly, the only player she beat last week (Larrière) is now 1-6 this year - her only win was against Nik Slater in Rancho Santa Fe quals.

Over the last couple of years, I've got the impression that Naomi and Lisa are two of the more consistent players among the Brits, so that probably just makes it all the more noticeable when they have a bit of a dip.

-- Edited by steven on Monday 21st of March 2011 11:00:53 AM