Week 12 - ITF ($25K) - Bath, Great Britain - Hard

Josh · Challenger level

RE: Week 12 - ITF ($25K) - Bath, Great Britain - Hard

philwrig · Hall of fame

I have to say I have been disappointed with Katy's progress over the last 18 months. At that time she looked like someone who was likely to have a decent senior career, now I have serious doubts about that original assessment.

steven · Tennis legend

Nicola's win will lift her about 100 places to about WR 750. Let's hope taking advantage of such a kind draw in a 25K inspires her to further moves up the rankings and we don't see her still at 750 when the points are about to come off next year.

philwrig · Hall of fame

Jade lost after 3hr and 40 mins 7-6 in third, great effort but at the same time a heartbreaker.

indiana · Tennis legend

Great to see this year's real ( ? ) Naomi back with us with a very good win. You actually begin to wonder if she was trying something different ( as I recall someone suggested ) and err it wasn't working and she's reverted back.

Great effort for so little reward by Jade cry

As Steven says hopefully Nicola will kick on. That's a tremendous boost she has just been given to her rankings. I hope Katy can begin to kick on again, but she has still only recently turned 16, so still an element of time on her side to develop her game further before I'd feel more comfortable about trying to judge her future prospects I'm not sure how much of a prospect even Heather was viewed as at just past her 16th birthday.

-- Edited by indiana on Tuesday 22nd of March 2011 06:17:25 PM

philwrig · Hall of fame

Heather though was still making progress, and if Katy was making any sort of progress I wouldn't have made the comment.
Still though time on her side but its running out if she wants to a top pro.

SMC1809 · All-time great

philwrig wrote:

Heather though was still making progress, and if Katy was making any sort of progress I wouldn't have made the comment.
Still though time on her side but its running out if she wants to a top pro.

Katy, just turned 16 in her first senior event and time is running out. Isn't that being a bt hasty?

philwrig · Hall of fame

Maybe it is too critical, just my gut feel though. You know I'd love to be wrong !

philwrig · Hall of fame

Big big win for Mel over Barthel, so happy for her 4-6 6-2 6-4

steven · Tennis legend

A big win indeed, avenging her defeat ot Barthel in Nottingham - and Mel plays Naomi in R2, so we will have a quarter-finalist here

H2H 2-1, Mel won two 3-setters in 2008 but Naomi beat her 4 & 4 in Tallinn last year.

This is also a battle for the GB no 7 spot - Naomi held it on Monday but Mel is 5 points ahead once PTDs are taken off.

-- Edited by steven on Tuesday 22nd of March 2011 06:44:36 PM

Spectator · All-time great

There were a fair number of (non-British) people who looked better than Heather did at an earlier age and are now nowhere near her in the rankings. I think it's pretty perilous to judge likelihood of senior success at 16. Hope Ms Dunne finds the experience helpful as she journeys onwards.

SMC1809 · All-time great

(1)Klemenschits/Pavlovic (AUT/FRA) v BYE
Elliott/Windley (GBR) v Domachowska/Piter (POL)

(3)Giovine/Sirotkina (ITA/RUS) v Bergot/Kostova (FRA/BUL)
Feuerstein/Vrljic (FRA/CRO) v Barbat/Dunne (DEN/GBR)

Arruabarrena-Vecino/Soler-Espinosa (ESP) v Brown/Stephenson (GBR)
(4)Georgatou/Ungur (GRE/ROU) v Borthwick/Whybourn (GBR)

Moore/O'Brien (GBR) v Babos/Kremer (HUN/LUX)
(2)Laine/South (FIN/GBR) v BYE

Lucy & Fran have received a walkover into R2. Nice work if you can get it!

indiana · Tennis legend

Spectator wrote:

There were a fair number of (non-British) people who looked better than Heather did at an earlier age and are now nowhere near her in the rankings. I think it's pretty perilous to judge likelihood of senior success at 16. Hope Ms Dunne finds the experience helpful as she journeys onwards.

Yes, and even if katy has seemingly plateaued a bit ( and I haven't been following her junior results enough to really know about that ) there could be a whole host of reasons why that might happen for a little while to a young female tennis player of about that age. It's where she is and where she can still go that matters much more than some sort of linear progress line.

philwrig · Hall of fame

Spectator wrote:

There were a fair number of (non-British) people who looked better than Heather did at an earlier age and are now nowhere near her in the rankings. I think it's pretty perilous to judge likelihood of senior success at 16. Hope Ms Dunne finds the experience helpful as she journeys onwards.

I think everyone is missing my point. I'm just saying that Katy has made no progression over the last 18 months, which concerns me. Yes she may put in another spurt shortly but I was just raising my concerns. If I'm not right Katy has given up full schooling so should be progressing at a faster rate than she is.

SMC1809 · All-time great

Didn't she win a couple of tournaments at the end of last year?