Week 18 - ITF ($25K) - Chiasso, Switzerland - Clay

steven · Tennis legend

Week 18 - ITF ($25K) - Chiasso, Switzerland - Clay

philwrig · Hall of fame

Hopefully Laura can draw one of the easier qualifiers and the overall draw could have been much tougher.

Mervatron · Masters Series Champion

Good decision to start the clay with a 25k. I hope it works out, even just a couple of wins here would be good

tony_orient · ATP qualifying

Will be interesting to see how Laura gets on in this event given I only remember her playing once on red clay in the last 3 years.

Julia Carrot · All-time great

Mervatron wrote:
Good decision to start the clay with a 25k.

I dunno. I thinks it's very suss !! There must be some other reason as well to get her in Switzerland right now. Some favourite band of hers playing or something? biggrin

philwrig · Hall of fame

Robbo's partner for the doubles not exactly out of the top draw. Unranked local Swiss player didn't even play in the singles qualifying.

Helen40 · Grand Slam Champion

Julia Carrot wrote:
Mervatron wrote:
Good decision to start the clay with a 25k.

I dunno. I thinks it's very suss !! There must be some other reason as well to get her in Switzerland right now. Some favourite band of hers playing or something?

Yeah, I thought the same. Sponsor, appearance money?

Maza1987 · Challenger level

Singles Main Draw

(1)Laura Robson (GBR) v (Q)Kateryna Kozlova (UKR)
Anna Floris (ITA) v (Q)Irina Khromacheva (RUS)

play was cancelled today apparently due to rain.

Maza1987 · Challenger level

Helen40 wrote:
Julia Carrot wrote:
Mervatron wrote:
Good decision to start the clay with a 25k.

I dunno. I thinks it's very suss !! There must be some other reason as well to get her in Switzerland right now. Some favourite band of hers playing or something?
Yeah, I thought the same. Sponsor, appearance money?

Hehe. I'm not sure if you're being facetious here, Helen?

LordBrownof · Futures level

Maybe she wasn't planning to play doubles but then at the last minute decided the extra game time on the clay was worth it?

steven · Tennis legend

That sounds more likely! I don't think there's much appearance money on offer at 25Ks with free entry to spectators!

philwrig · Hall of fame

Maza1987 wrote:
Singles Main Draw

(1)Laura Robson (GBR) v (Q)Kateryna Kozlova (UKR)
Anna Floris (ITA) v (Q)Irina Khromacheva (RUS)

play was cancelled today apparently due to rain.

Kozlova is a month younger than Laura and her best surface is clay but should be beatable if Laura puts up a par or better performance.

Helen40 · Grand Slam Champion

Maza1987 wrote:
Helen40 wrote:
Julia Carrot wrote:
Mervatron wrote:
Good decision to start the clay with a 25k.

I dunno. I thinks it's very suss !! There must be some other reason as well to get her in Switzerland right now. Some favourite band of hers playing or something?
Yeah, I thought the same. Sponsor, appearance money?
Hehe. I'm not sure if you're being facetious here, Helen?

Abit facecious, but more just scractching my head as to why she'd want to play a 25k

Miriambee · Futures level

At the back end of last year I heard the tennis pundits discussing Laura, after an interview with her, and they pointed out that her schedule was badly planned or not planned.

So I think it's more likely that there's some last minute booking with thinking more along the lines of ... 0h the clay season is coming where can we get you in some practice quickly? there's a 25k in europe where you'd get in as a DA, if you play doubles with someone, doesn't matter who, then a bit more practice.

wolf · Tennis legend

Laura and partner lost in doubles 4-6 5-7.