Week 29 - ITF ($25K) - Wrexham, UK Hard

steven · Tennis legend

RE: Week 29 - ITF ($25K) - Wrexham, UK Hard

steven · Tennis legend

... but Anna breaks and it's into a tiebreak!

chavkev · Intermediate Club Player

Looking at the next game, Naomi's opponent has a fantastic record. This could be a really hard game for her. I would go as far as making Naomi 2nd fav, despite what the rankings say.

steven · Tennis legend

... which sadly Akita takes 7-1

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

And she takes the second set by 6-1 to wrap up the match. cry

SMC1809 · All-time great

Mel tweeted to say she won 6 & 4, and Lucy won by w/o after Joko withdrew. Also Sam Vickers lost 6-2 6-2.

-- Edited by SMC1809 on Thursday 21st of July 2011 11:35:17 AM

steven · Tennis legend

That w/o win for Lucy will extend her 2-week rise in the rankings to around 200 places, taking her to a new career high by some distance around WR 600.

SMC1809 · All-time great

After 6 service holds, Naomi was then broken but broke straight back. *4-4.

steven · Tennis legend

Gulp! Muguruza Blanco takes the 1st set 7-5

steven · Tennis legend

Naomi goes down 5 & 2

Muguruza has now won 24 of her last 26 matches, most of them at 10K level before last week's 25K title in Caceres, but even so, what a nightmare draw for a no. 1 seed

SMC1809 · All-time great

chavkev wrote:
Looking at the next game, Naomi's opponent has a fantastic record. This could be a really hard game for her. I would go as far as making Naomi 2nd fav, despite what the rankings say.

Thanks for the info chavkev. I lost out on Anna Fitzy but made a bit more back on this one.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

R2: (WC) Sam Vickers WR 1120 lost to (2) Lenka Wienerova (SVK) WR 238 by 2 & 2

ITFTennis · Newbie

Why must she be fed up with Sirotkina? Marta is a class player and starting to make real progress. She is a great young lady and now trains in Ireland and has British and Irish sponsors (see www.martasirotkina.com) so deserves a bit of support from these shores. Fran did very well to hold her to 4 and 4. Marta is under-ranked relative to British players due to the fact that she has not had the financial and wild-card support that they get. Just look at her H2H with Naomi Broady (who is ranked about 50 places higher) to see the effect that support has on rankings relative to actual playing level:

http://www.itftennis.com/womens/players/headtohead.asp?player=100055075&opponent=100077670

Fran must be fed up of Sirokina!

indiana · Tennis legend

steven wrote:
Naomi goes down 5 & 2

Muguruza has now won 24 of her last 26 matches, most of them at 10K level before last week's 25K title in Caceres, but even so, what a nightmare draw for a no. 1 seed

Oh dear cry

After chavkev's post I did go off and look at Murguruza's record and although a very good win / loss record I must admit that I didn't see it as being as fantastic as he did. I thought she was a young ( will be 18 in October ), probably improving ( don't know if I put probably if Ratty yet accepts the word "improving" with tennis players wink ) player and was certainly underranked ( I forget if that one is quite allowed wink )

Before last week's excellent efforts ( beating 3 seeds in a top 400 player and then two top 300 players ), her really excellent win / loss record this year as Steven says basically came from futures and she had lost all 4 of her previous matches this year against top 400 players. She'd actually had a few better results rankingwise in the previous 2 years.

Basically, I must admit I still expected Naomi to win this, particularly as I understood we had significantly faster courts this wee, well certainly as compared to last week.

Alas...

It will be interesting to see how Murguruza does in the rest of the week.

-- Edited by indiana on Thursday 21st of July 2011 02:55:50 PM

SMC1809 · All-time great

ITFTennis wrote:
Why must she be fed up with Sirotkina? Marta is a class player and starting to make real progress. She is a great young lady and now trains in Ireland and has British and Irish sponsors (see www.martasirotkina.com) so deserves a bit of support from these shores. Fran did very well to hold her to 4 and 4. Marta is under-ranked relative to British players due to the fact that she has not had the financial and wild-card support that they get. Just look at her H2H with Naomi Broady (who is ranked about 50 places higher) to see the effect that support has on rankings relative to actual playing level:
http://www.itftennis.com/womens/players/headtohead.asp?player=100055075&opponent=100077670

Fran must be fed up of Sirokina!

Because of this:

R1: Lucy Brown & Fran Stephenson WR 1038 lost to (2) Ksenia Lykina & Marta Sirotkina (RUS/RUS) WR 543 by 1-6 6-7(4)

R1: STEPHENSON, Francesca (GBR) WC 979 lost to SIROTKINA, Marta (RUS) 3 263 4-6 4-6

I reckon I'd be glad to see the back of someone if they beat me twice in one day.