Just Katy avoiding the banana skin of underranked locals (unlike the top seed Ellen Allgurin). She plays one of the lower seeds next, who has had a mixed year, but did beat Eleanor Dean in the summer. Katy teams up in doubles with Australian Brooke Rischbieth, who was part of the team which won the Junior Fed Cup, and is particularly strong in doubles, winning 5 titles this year.

R1 (L64)

Mayu Sato (JPN) d. Verena Jane Scott (GBR) 6-3 7-5
Katy Dunne (GBR) d. Yukino Emi (JPN) 6-1 7-6(3)

R2

(14) Elke Lemmens (BEL) v Katy Dunne (GBR)

A good win for Katy, but she will need an even better one to progress further against the finalist in both the China Grade 2s recently

R3

Katy Dunne (GBR) v (4) Anna Tyulpa (RUS)

Ah, the polish giant Zuzanna next. She's almost as tall as Sharapova.

 

 

 

Chop her down, Katy.

Excellent win, and hopefully a watershed moment in her career with her first top 50 win. Looks like she'll need a stepladder for tomorrow's handshake - the Pole really towers above her coach. Mind you she's not the first Polish female six-footer. I remember Magdalena Grzybowska in the late 1990s was almost as tall.

A good run never the less. A QF appearance here is Katy's biggest single tournament points haul and she should be ranked around 90 as a result.