Week 40 - ITF ($25K) - Esperance, Australia Hard

Peter too · Tennis legend

Week 40 - ITF ($25K) - Esperance, Australia Hard

steven · Tennis legend

The winners of the first two matches meet in R2. Emily beat the poor man's Hurricane Hev in Darwin, though hopefully it will be Lisa she meets in R2. Mel and Samantha are both in the same quarter and both will be looking to avenge 3-set defeats they suffered in Darwin to the same opponents.

steven · Tennis legend

All three GB matches went with rankings (Mel plays on Wednesday) but I'm guessing that Lisa must have survived at least one match point here!

R1: WHYBOURN, Lisa (GBR) 432 beat SANDERS, Storm (AUS) Q 752 by 2-6 7-6(8) 6-4
R1: WEBLEY-SMITH, Emily (GBR) 5 266 beat BILLETT, Erin (AUS) Q UNR by 3 & 3
R1: MURRAY, Samantha (GBR) 476 lost to ZANIEWSKA, Sandra (POL) 7 311 by 4-6 6-0 6-4

R2: WEBLEY-SMITH, Emily (GBR) 5 266 v WHYBOURN, Lisa (GBR) 432

H2H (at ITF level) 1-0 to Lisa, winning a 3rd set tiebreak in Woking last year.

-- Edited by steven on Wednesday 5th of October 2011 08:17:26 AM

SMC1809 · All-time great

Doubles draw:

L16: MURRAY (GBR) / WHYBOURN (GBR) 4 v TIAN (CHN) / ZHANG (CHN)

L16: SOUTH (GBR) / WEBLEY-SMITH (GBR) 2 v GIANOTTI (AUS) / JAMES (AUS)

Peter too · Tennis legend

I think there is a typo, Samantha lost to Zankeska. cry

-- Edited by Peter too on Tuesday 4th of October 2011 08:51:58 AM

SMC1809 · All-time great

L16: SOUTH (GBR) / WEBLEY-SMITH (GBR) 2 beat GIANOTTI (AUS) / JAMES (AUS) 7-6(4) 6-2. smile

QF: PATTERSON (AUS) / SHLOMO (ISR) Vs SOUTH (GBR) / WEBLEY-SMITH (GBR) (2)

-- Edited by SMC1809 on Tuesday 4th of October 2011 09:29:48 AM

SMC1809 · All-time great

L16: MURRAY (GBR) / WHYBOURN (GBR) 4 beat TIAN (CHN) / ZHANG (CHN) 6-4 6-3 smile

QF: L16: MURRAY (GBR) / WHYBOURN (GBR) 4 v LITVAK (USA) / SANDERS (AUS)

steven · Tennis legend

Another dire loss for Mel, I'm afraid - Litvak beat her 3-6 6-4 6-3

SMC1809 · All-time great

QF: LITVAK (USA) / SANDERS (AUS) defeated MURRAY (GBR) / WHYBOURN (GBR) (4) 6-2 6-2 cry
QF: SOUTH (GBR) / WEBLEY-SMITH (GBR) (2) defeated PATTERSON (AUS) / SHLOMO (ISR) 7-5 6-1 smile

SF: ADAMCZAK (AUS) / ZANIEWSKA (POL) (3) Vs SOUTH (GBR) / WEBLEY-SMITH (GBR) (2)

steven · Tennis legend

As at Woking last year, Lisa prevailed in 3 sets, but this time none of the sets were close:

R2: WHYBOURN, Lisa (GBR) 432 beat WEBLEY-SMITH, Emily (GBR) 5 266 6-1 1-6 6-0

Lisa will probably play top seed Sacha Jones (NZL) WR 228 (CH 157 last year) in the QFs, assuming Jones gets past Chinese qualifier Sun Ziyue today. Having said that, the unranked 15-year-old pushed former top 50 player Nakamura WR 221 to 7-5 in the 3rd in the final qualifying round at the Beijing 75K in August, so it's not a foregone conclusion.

-- Edited by steven on Thursday 6th of October 2011 06:17:22 AM

steven · Tennis legend

QF: WHYBOURN, Lisa (GBR) 432 v JONES, Sacha (NZL) 1 228 (CH 157 in 2010)

steven · Tennis legend

Btw Lisa says she had to save 4 MPs in that R1 match against Sanders!

SMC1809 · All-time great

SF: ADAMCZAK (AUS) / ZANIEWSKA (POL) (3) defeated SOUTH (GBR) / WEBLEY-SMITH (GBR) (2) 5-7 6-4 [10-6] cry

steven · Tennis legend

Lisa goes out, but she wasn't far off!

QF: WHYBOURN, Lisa (GBR) 432 lost to JONES, Sacha (NZL) 1 228 (CH 157 in 2010) 7-6(4) 6-7(3) 6-4