Week 39 - ITF ($25K) - Clermond-Ferrand, France Hard

Peter too · Tennis legend

Week 39 - ITF ($25K) - Clermond-Ferrand, France Hard

Peter too · Tennis legend

Q2: WHYBOURN, Lisa (GBR) 1 314 v SCHAUL, Claudine (FRA) 15 797
Q2: MURRAY, Samantha (GBR) 5 388 v GIOVINE, Claudia (ITA) 10 530
Q2: WINDLEY, Jade (GBR) 7 449 v TOLJAN, Janina (AUT) 9 503

tony_orient · ATP qualifying

Having 16 seeds in a 25 woman draw seems a bit unnecessary.

Anyway hoping for a minimum of 2 through to the main draw with only one qualifying round to play.

indiana · Tennis legend

tony_orient wrote:
Having 16 seeds in a 25 woman draw seems a bit unnecessary.

Anyway hoping for a minimum of 2 through to the main draw with only one qualifying round to play.

I guess it's really more to do with the number of qualifiers, 8 in this case. it is traditional in ATP, WTA and ITF to have twice the number of seeds as qualifiers. i.e. you seed x to qualify for the x spots and another batch of x seeds to face them in final qualifying ( assuming that you have enough ranked players )

I don't know if they have to do it that way, but seems fine to me, even if here it then means the big majority of the draw are seeds.

steven · Tennis legend

Lisa beats former world no. 41 (in 2004) Schaul 1 & 4 to qualify

Samantha is serving for the 1st set again, now at *5-4

steven · Tennis legend

Samantha got a set point on her serve this time ... but got broken again

5-5*

steven · Tennis legend

Samantha stops the rot by breaking to lead *6-5, then gets broken when serving for the set for a 3rd time. D'oh!

She is now a mini-break up in the tiebreak *3-2

steven · Tennis legend

... she went on to lose it 7-5

and is now a break down in the 2nd.

SMC1809 · All-time great

She's now back on serve and leading 5-4*

SMC1809 · All-time great

And another break gives her the set 6-4

indiana · Tennis legend

Kristyna was the higher ranked last week, and wouldn't that be what the seeds were based on ?

Edit : Yes, just looked at the rankings in the draw. WR 104 is Kristyna from last week and it is she who is no 1 seed and facing Jade, and WR 113 from last week and no 2 seed is Karolina. Oh, and then noticed that the drawsheet actually lists the seeds' full names at the bottom. Trust the Pliskovas can work out which is which wink

-- Edited by indiana on Monday 24th of September 2012 08:53:16 PM

SMC1809 · All-time great

Sam now 3-1 ahead in the 3rd set.

SMC1809 · All-time great

Sam lost her break advantage but has just broken again so will serve for the match *5-3.

steven · Tennis legend

I'm really impressed with how she's got back into the match after what must have been a horrible 1st set to lose.

Unfortunately, she has just been broken serving for the match while I was writing the previous sentence though.

steven · Tennis legend

Sam breaks again ... and this time there's no need to serve it out! (phew!) She wins 6-7(5) 6-4 6-4