kundalini wrote:

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Up to this event Tara had gained 73 points this season from 11 events. She was defending another 98 from the start of sept to the end of the year. She has 64 points from this week with the possibility of another 26 if she can win the final. Her highest points score from a single event this season had been 24.

I bet there were a lot of nerves in that contest. Well done Tara. A huge win for her. Let's hope she's inspired for the final.

18 year old Kateryna Kozlova beat the number 4 seed 6-3 7-6(5). She had a tough first round, requiring a 3rd set tiebreak, but straight set victories since then. 

Based on their respective results this season, Kozlova has to be the favourite. Despite losing to both Naomi and Laura, she has won a 25k (on clay), made 1 semi and numerous QF of 25Ks, with wins over a couple of players ranked about 150.

 

-- Edited by kundalini on Friday 17th of August 2012 01:35:00 PM

 

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Yes, this is absolutely tremendous pointswise for Tara, really getting her traditional late season surge going unprecedently.

As you say she just has 98 counting points to defend from 24 September on ( after 4 next week, due off 27 August ).  

Even better if she can continue this form and defend all or most of these remaining 102 points this year, she only has now 4 ( four  ! ) points to defend next year before 10th June ( due off 28 Jan ) so if she could for once get a realty decent start to a year..

In running with her 64 points  this week so far,  ( add another 26 if she wins the final ! ), her current split for total ponts and when to be defended :

In remainder of this year : Counting 102 from 8 ( in total 103 from 9 )

First five months of next year :           4 from  1 ( 6 from 3 ) 

June to now next year           :         131 from 7  ( 131 from 7 )

Total ponts in running  :   237,  equaivalent to WR 242 in the current rankings.

-- Edited by indiana on Friday 17th of August 2012 06:37:13 PM

Tara won 5-7 7-5 6-4 (from 5-7 3-5 down)

Sad how we're exited when one of ours beats a player ranked only two above her. No that I'm knocking it a W is better than an L

Ah, thanks, displaying my ignorance . That is exiting. Good luck to her!

Some folk seem to me so clever with such things  ( although generally come out and say it's easy really   )

Anyway. I found that interesting,  i.e  in no way "not interesting" and very easy to get a feel for the set-up, just look and there the spread is, so thanks for that. 

Yes, certainly rankingswise was a less strong draw, the rankings of all the seeds after the no 1 seed standing out  ( and a good pick ! ), but with such draws from the beginning or ones that open up, players still have to do the business and Tara certainly has this week. 

-- Edited by indiana on Friday 17th of August 2012 11:03:27 PM

This is certainly an event with a weak field relative to the $50k + H tournament strength, but well done to Tara for taking advantage.

You do get some pretty large variation in draw strengths across the year, and I'm sure there are a few players who target these tournaments to boost their ranking. Of course the softer tournaments tend to be in the more remote parts of the world - the Baku Cup International tournament this year was pathetically weak.

Ah pity but still a very good week's work from Tara  And yes almost certainly into the top 250.  Some may say not before time but it is good to see and hopefully she can at least maintain this to the end of the year although that will not be easy with the amount of points she has to defend before year end.

I do hope that she didn't feel discouraged to add another 26 points after all the split work I did in my previous post based on her now finalised total for the week of 237 ranking points ! 

Although Tara will stil be GB No 7, she has closed up a lot on Naomi and indeed is ahead of her on points won this year, indicating that Naomi has even more points than Tara to defend during the rest of the year.

-- Edited by indiana on Saturday 18th of August 2012 03:12:10 PM