Week 18 - ITF ($25K) - Bukhara, Uzbekistan Hard

Peter too · Tennis legend

Week 18 - ITF ($25K) - Bukhara, Uzbekistan Hard

SMC1809 · All-time great

R1: Kateryna KOZLOVA (UKR) defeated Lisa WHYBOURN (GBR) (6) 4-6 6-1 3-0 Retired cry
R1: Naomi BROADY (GBR) (4) defeated Marina KACHAR (SRB) 6-4 6-7(5) 6-4 smile

R2: Ekaterina YASHINA (RUS) WR 712 vs Naomi BROADY (GBR) (4) WR 273

steven · Tennis legend

I had hoped the fact that three players retired in R1 today might mean there was just some temporary bug going around, but Lisa says: "I had an injection in my knee last week but already bought flight ticket so thort may as well try,at 3.2 in 1st set my quad went :("

Very unlucky but she did very well to win the 1st set if that was the case, hopefully the fact that she managed to carry on for that long means it wasn't too serious and she eventually stopped before she did any much extra damage. No fun when you've bothered to travel that far though.

Yashina won two 10Ks recently, so she could be a potential banana skin.

-- Edited by steven on Tuesday 3rd of May 2011 03:18:57 PM

Peter too · Tennis legend

R2: BROADY, Naomi (GBR) 4 273 beat YASHINA, Ekaterina (RUS) Q 712 7-5(5) 6-4

Naomi won but make what you will of the score in the 1st set as given on her website.

Madeline · Admin:Moderator + Tennis Legend

I'd guess at 7 6(5)

Peter too · Tennis legend

R2: BROADY, Naomi (GBR) 4 273 beat YASHINA, Ekaterina (RUS) Q 712 7-6(5) 7-5

QF: BROADY, Naomi (GBR) 4 273 v HOLLAND, Isabella (AUS) 8 296

philwrig · Hall of fame

Interesting, Holland has been playing alot better recently, so will probably just about start favourite.

-- Edited by philwrig on Wednesday 4th of May 2011 05:12:42 PM

steven · Tennis legend

Holland won the Karshi 25K last week, hopefully she's getting a bit knackered by now!

Peter too · Tennis legend

QF: BROADY, Naomi (GBR) 4 273 beat HOLLAND, Isabella (AUS) 8 296 5-3 Ret.

SF: BROADY, Naomi (GBR) 4 273 v HOFMANOVA, Nikola (AUT) 5 282

philwrig · Hall of fame

NB must be close to securing the allimportant top 250 spot now.

indiana · Tennis legend

Yes, Naomi joining Emily in an assault on the top 250 ( Laura too but somehow I don't think that's really an immediate issue for her smile )

Current WR 250 is on 218 ranking points.

Naomi's 24 points so far here would take her to 210 points in the rankings on a week Monday, currently equivalent to WR 257 and just behind Emily who in running is currently standing on 215 ranking points.

Re Wimbledon, after this week the only points they have to defend by 6th June ( the cut-off re the 250 target ) are points on 6th June itself ( 10 for Naomi and 4 for Emily )

One more win for Emily this week should do the business. One more win for Naomi not so, since she would add 10 further points but still has that 10 to come off on 6th June. The title here would probably do the business for her though smile

-- Edited by indiana on Thursday 5th of May 2011 01:03:46 PM

murray_2k9 · Challenger qualifying

Brill from Naomi! Would love to see her play at Wimbledon , keep going!

Jajon · Club Coach

steven wrote:
Holland won the Karshi 25K last week, hopefully she's getting a bit knackered by now!

she did retire aha!

SMC1809 · All-time great

SF: Nikola HOFMANOVA (AUT) (5) defeated Naomi BROADY (GBR) (4) 6-1 7-5 cry

Hofmanova will face our friend Sirotkina in the final after she beat the top seed in 2 sets.