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RE: Week 23 - ITF ($100K+H) - Nottingham, UK Grass


Amanda and Daneika down an early break against their seeded opponents (Amanda down 1-4* in fact)

Abi leads Charlotte 6-2 5-3 in the one match guaranteed to provide a British representative in the final qualifying other than Laura

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Abbi wins 6-2 6-4
Amanda loses the first set 1-6
Daneika 1*-3

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Abbi Wins 6-2 6-4. Amanda loses the first set 1-6 to Pliskova.

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PaulM wrote:

several of these girls should have been in Brum


Yes, and even if that's easy to say with hindsight, it surely wasn't entirely unforeseeable that with two 100-220K tournaments so close to each other that this might happen.

What's really frustrating is that with Nottingham qualifying sign in a day later than Birmingham qualifying sign-in and the two sites just over 50 miles away, the LTA could have suggested players turn up in Birmingham on the off-chance (I'm pretty sure they can hand out extra last-minute QWCs if there are actually empty spaces in the draw) - it's been pointed out by @gingertwit on twitter that if they have entered for Nottingham then pulled out to play Birmingham, they may get fined and/or lose points but I'm sure there were some players (e.g. those on the Q alt list for Nottingham) who could have played that system and benefited from it.



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Q1: BORTHWICK, Daneika (GBR) 957 beat WALKER, Alexandra (GBR) 1010 6-3 7-5
Q1: BANOS-GREGORIANS, Emilia (GBR) UNR lost to PADEGIMAITE, Lina (LTU) UNR 3-6 4-6
Q1: STEPHENSON, Francesca (GBR) 1007 lost to SADIKOVIC, Amra (SUI) 7 527 2-6 4-6
Q1: CRAVEN, Georgia (GBR) UNR lost to BOGDAN, Elena (ROU) 2 204 4-6 0-6
Q1: GIBSON, Aimee (GBR) UNR beat HORN, Pippa (GBR) UNR 6-4 1-6 6-4
Q1: LYMER-SULLIVAN, Grace Loia (GBR) UNR lost to MIRO, Isabela (BRA) 1128 7-5 2-6 3-6
Q1: DREW, Jazzamay (GBR) UNR lost to CZINK, Melinda (HUN) 6 282 0-6 0-6
Q1: SEABORNE, Ruth (GBR) UNR lost to ZHANG, Ling(HKG) 3 222 1-6 4-6
Q1: SOUTHALL, Emily (GBR) UNR lost to VUKOVIC, Ivana (CRO) UNR 6-7(5) 6-1 4-6
Q1: PHILLIPS, Charlotte (GBR) UNR beat RACA, Edita (GBR) UNR 6-4 6-4
Q1: MELROSE, Abbi (GBR) UNR beat HUBACEK, Alenka (AUS) 8 759 6-4 7-6(4)
Q1: ROBSON, Laura (GBR) 4 237 beat BOX, Emelia (GBR) UNR 6-1 6-1
Q1: LEWIS, Francesca (GBR) UNR beat MCMINN, Lauren (GBR) UNR
Q1: ELLIOTT, Amanda (GBR) 1050 beat RICHARDS, Holly (GBR) UNR 6-3 6-0

Q2: BORTHWICK, Daneika (GBR) 957 lost to LUZHANSKA, Tetiana (UKR) 1 190 2-6 2-6
Q2: GIBSON, Aimee (GBR) UNR lost to BOGDAN, Elena (ROU) 2 204 2-6 3-6
Q2: MELROSE, Abbi (GBR) UNR beat PHILLIPS, Charlotte (GBR) UNR 6-2 6-4
Q2: ROBSON, Laura (GBR) 4 237 beat LEWIS, Francesca (GBR) UNR 6-0 6-0
Q2: ELLIOTT, Amanda (GBR) 1050 v PLISKOVA, Kristyna (CZE) 5 248 1-6 1-6

Q3: MELROSE, Abbi (GBR) UNR v ZHANG, Ling (HKG) 3 222
Q3: ROBSON, Laura (GBR) 4 237 v PLISKOVA, Kristyna (CZE) 5 248


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I'm gingertwit btw Steve so u can call me plain old Paul!

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Laura is playing 1st on tomorrow 11am Ct 4

(Heather is playing same time in Brum, Centre Court - what a dilemma !!! On this occasion I'm choosing to go see Laura and trust that Heather will make an appearance later in the week )

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PaulM wrote:

I'm gingertwit btw Steve so u can call me plain old Paul!


Oops, I knew gingertwit = PaulM but thought you only posted on GBTG. BOTB-induced confusion! wink

Twitter wasn't really the place for an in-depth discussion about that - my guess is you were making very valid points but there would have been a way for at least some of the GB girls (maybe not the ones best placed to win matches, I agree) to take a chance of getting into Birmingham if there were places available with Nottingham as a fallback if they'd really wanted to plan for it. If they'd booked accommodation in Nottingham, they could even have commuted to Birmingham had they got in, it's close enough!



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Totally agree. Was worth a risk in my view. But I guess they wanted the security of knowing they'd get in to a tourney in the event that both Brum and Notts filled (however unlikely that was).

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Laura was average this morning but very good this afternoon. Probably better than last week.

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Laura has just won 14 of the first 20 points against last year's junior Wimbledon champion to take a 3-0* lead

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First set to Laura 6-3.

Pliskova not faring much better on Laura's serve than Box or Lewis yesterday

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Abbi Melrose took an unlikely *4-3 lead against 3rd seed Zhang. It is now back on serve *4-5 and deuce, so she is in danger of dropping the 1st set, but it seems like a pretty good performance against a top 250 player.



-- Edited by steven on Monday 6th of June 2011 11:18:18 AM

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Fightback from Pliskova, who is now serving for the 2nd set. Laura 6-3 3-5*

Abbi did indeed lose the 1st set 6-4 and is now 4-1* down in the 2nd.

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Second set to Pliskova 6-3. Frustratingly, Laura has converted only 1 of 10 break points so far.

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