I was just looking at Eleanor's recent record. In combined Womens / Girls events, this is her 14th straight clay court tournament - she hasn't played on anything else since March. From what I remember from her televised matches at Wimbledon, I don't think it is the surface best suited to her game so i think we could see a big improvement to her ranking once she starts playing on all surfaces again.
-- Edited by RBBOT on Wednesday 21st of September 2011 07:34:07 PM
Reasonably encouraging again for the long-term, with another tight match against a strong player, but frustrating in the short-term, as Eleanor keeps losing at the stage before she can rack up additional points to propel her into the top 100
She's not playing Junior FedCup which I find a surprise.
In a sense a surprise decision, but one which has been obvious for a while, once she didn't withdraw from this tournament, which clashes with the team preparation (Beth Askew has taken her place).
Since she is short of women's ITFs and all but one of the major junior events left are on hard courts (the exception being the Dunlop Orange Bowl in December, which has moved to clay) Eleanor will have to break her spell of clay court events if she plays more tournaments before that.
