Week 30 - ITF ($10K) - Bad Waltersdorf, Austria Clay

Peter too · Tennis legend

Week 30 - ITF ($10K) - Bad Waltersdorf, Austria Clay

Peter too · Tennis legend

Q1: WATTS, Anneka (GBR) UNR beat CHUBAROVA, Yulia (RUS) UNR 6-2 6-1
Q1: WATTS, Sophie (GBR) UNR v Bye

Q2: WATTS, Sophie (GBR) UNR beat WATTS, Anneka (GBR) UNR 7-5 6-3

Q3: WATTS, Sophie (GBR) UNR v MIKO, Zsofia (HUN) UNR

albino · Intermediate Club Player

I haven't come accross these two before - the ITF website tells me they are twins. Anyone know if they've been dubbed the "British Williams sisters" yet?

indiana · Tennis legend

albino wrote:
I haven't come accross these two before - the ITF website tells me they are twins. Anyone know if they've been dubbed the "British Williams sisters" yet?

I'm no expert on the girls, but had noticed them in Junior tournaments and given they will be 17 in September and I see have played a lot of ITF Junior tennis without startling success, I would rather suspect not

Anyway, good luck to them.

-- Edited by indiana on Saturday 23rd of July 2011 07:36:16 PM

steven · Tennis legend

albino wrote:
I haven't come accross these two before - the ITF website tells me they are twins. Anyone know if they've been dubbed the "British Williams sisters" yet?

I wouldn't be surprised LOL but I think the journalistic convention is that it's only if two tennis-playing sisters are black that the "British Williams sisters" label is slapped on them at the speed of light.

Journalists - not predictable at all, nooo ... doh (though I mustn't tar all journos with that brush!)

LordBrownof · Futures level

Those types of headlines are almost always determined by the Editor. You can imagine there thought process of how much more interesting they think the story will be to the average reader if the two are labelled the 'next Williams sisters'.

Peter too · Tennis legend

Q3: WATTS, Sophie (GBR) UNR beat MIKO, Zsofia (HUN) UNR 7-6(5) 6-3

steven · Tennis legend

Peter too wrote:
Q3: WATTS, Sophie (GBR) UNR beat MIKO, Zsofia (HUN) UNR 7-6(5) 6-3

Serves me right for tweeting a note based on this before checking it myself - not something I often do and there seems to be a cast-iron guarantee that the few times I do, it'll turn out to be wrong and someone with a lot of followers (Nino Severino in this case) will have retweeted it in the few minutes before I manage to correct it! cry ITF has this scoreline but says Sophie lost.

It does show what faith I have in Peter, who almost invariably reports this stuff correctly. Not sure whether you misread it or they have reversed the scoreline somewhere else, e.g. on TE?

Peter too · Tennis legend

That's a pity, i thought she was through to the main draw. I am pretty sure it was the other way round when I first saw it.

steven · Tennis legend

Peter too wrote:
That's a pity, i thought she was through to the main draw. I am pretty sure it was the other way round when I first saw it.

I believe you - since you see the name of the winner in the next column, it's very hard to mis-read who won and it wouldn't be the first time this week ITF have got the result the wrong way round (they had Alex Ward getting thrashed in Belgium when it was Alex who had handed out the thrashing!)

Peter too · Tennis legend

R1: WATTS, Sophie (GBR) LL UNR lost to SEPP, Veronika (AUT) 1037 2-6 1-6

indiana · Tennis legend

Ah, missed the LL bit at first and I'm like, oh, so Sophie really did win her FQR after all. Took over the no 1 seed's spot in the main draw, but to no avail.