Week 21 - ITF ($10K) - Raanana, Israel Hard

Peter too · Tennis legend

Week 21 - ITF ($10K) - Raanana, Israel Hard

steven · Tennis legend

Yaz won 3 & 1

- this was her first ITF match outside the UK since Telde in 2009.

PockyTastic · Futures level

Good on her. Hopefully she has put all the drama behind her and is ready to let her tennis do the talking.

alex03maccy · Grand Slam Champion

L32: FOSTER, Manisha def. (WC) MOR, Noy (ISR) 6-2 6-3

L16: CLARKE, Yasmin WR 1010 v (6) SKRIPNIK, Margarita-Greta (ISR) WR 802
L16: FOSTER, Manisha WR 833 v (2) VERHAMME, Valerie (BEL) WR 557

alex03maccy · Grand Slam Champion

Doubles

L16: (3) CLARKE/RIGOZZI (AUS) def. SMIRNOVA/VALETOVA (RUS) 6-3 6-1
L16: (ALT) FOSTER/SUGIHARA (JPN) def. (WC) GITMAN/HAVA (ISR) 6-1 6-3

QF: (3) CLARKE/RIGOZZI v SHLOMO/ZIMMERMAN (ISR)
QF: (ALT) FOSTER/SUGIHARA (JPN) v LANKRI/PATIUK (ISR)

steven · Tennis legend

Brilliant day for the Brits in Raanana

L16: CLARKE, Yasmin WR 1010 beat (6) SKRIPNIK, Margarita-Greta (ISR) WR 802 by 6-4 4-6 6-0 biggrin
L16: FOSTER, Manisha WR 833 beat (2) VERHAMME, Valerie (BEL) WR 557 by 6-1 4-6 6-4 biggrin

... and it means an all-GB QF:

QF: FOSTER, Manisha WR 833 v CLARKE, Yasmin WR 1010

They played twice in qualifying for ITFs in the UK last year, Yaz (who, btw, will be back in the top 1000 and on the GB Top 25 table after a long absence after today's win) winning both in 3 sets.

Jajon · Strong Club Player

Manisha seems to be doing really well at 10k level and she's young what do you think of her prospects?

RBBOT · Futures qualifying

Well, she's won at least 2 matches at all 4 tournaments she's played in the last 12 months (with a bit of help from an LL in one case) - it will be interesting to see how she progresses. I doubt there's many others that have.

As I mentioned on the other thread, she'd make a good QWC for the 100K at Nottingham - she'd probably be high enough to make the cut anyway if they used next week's rankings.

LordBrownof · Futures level

She's at the Justine Henin Academy. Any idea how long she's been there - seems to be helping!

steven · Tennis legend

The 6th sense academy in Limelette has only been around since 2007 and there's a press report from 2008 saying Manisha was training in Edgbaston at that stage, so it can't have been more than a couple of years. IT may be very recent indeed because I don't remember seeing reports about her on the Limelette site from before this year, but then again it's only this year that she's started winning matches regularly in ITFs.

I've only been able to find one video of her in action - and she's doing something I'm actually very 'good' at LOL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FS4j6VWO3Lw (I'm pretty sure it is her, comparing with the pics on the Limelette site)

albino · Intermediate Club Player

Manisha won the battle of the Brits 6-4 6-2. Next up:

SF: Valeria PATIUK (ISR) 933 Vs Manisha FOSTER (GBR) 833

LordBrownof · Futures level

Could she enter Junior Wimbledon? Would be fun to see how she compares at 17.

RBBOT · Futures qualifying

Maisha lost 6-0 6-4 but another good run.

DavidC · Tennis legend

LordBrownof wrote:
Could she enter Junior Wimbledon? Would be fun to see how she compares at 17.

Manisha has entered Roehampton, despite not having played juniors for a year. That's a good sign that she wants to play Junior Wimbledon. She'll need a wildcard for both, and I expect one will be forthcoming given that we are rather short of girls with the sort of results that give a strong case for a main draw wildcard at present.