Week 47 - ITF ($10K) - Vallduxo, Spain Clay

Peter too · Tennis legend

Week 47 - ITF ($10K) - Vallduxo, Spain Clay

Peter too · Tennis legend

Q1: BLACKWELL, Mariella (GBR) UNR beat MADRONAL, Sonia (ESP) UNR 6-3 6-3

Q2: BLACKWELL, Mariella (GBR) UNR v PAULES ALDREY, Arianna (ESP) UNR

steven · Tennis legend

Jade Windley is the 4th seed and will play a qualifier in R1.

Peter too · Tennis legend

Q2: BLACKWELL, Mariella (GBR) UNR lost to PAULES ALDREY, Arianna (ESP) UNR 4-6 2-6

R1: WINDLEY, Jade (GBR) 4 497 v NEGRIN, Katharina (AUT) Q 1163

SMC1809 · All-time great

Jade and her doubles partner Sizikova are the top seeds and are through to the semi-final after a Bye in R1 and a 6-0 6-1 win in R2.

Peter too · Tennis legend

R1: WINDLEY, Jade (GBR) 4 497 beat NEGRIN, Katharina (AUT) Q 1163 6-4 6-2

steven · Tennis legend

R2: WINDLEY, Jade (GBR) 4 497 v LALAMI, Nadia (MAR) Q 1149

Lalami hit a career high of 322 only just over a year ago so might be dangerous.

PockyTastic · Futures level

Lalami defeated the then WR 24 Rezai to reach the QF of Fes last year which is how she achieved that career high. Clearly no slouch but let's see how things go...

insomniacfolder · Challenger level

PockyTastic wrote:
Lalami defeated the then WR 24 Rezai to reach the QF of Fes last year which is how she achieved that career high. Clearly no slouch but let's see how things go...

That's true, but that was in the period when all of the trauma's of Aravane's personal life were imploding, when she was finding it almost impossible to focus on tennis at all. She hardly won a match, falliing out of the top 100 within 4 months of that result, and inexorably down (one tournament, Dallas 2011, apart) to the ~160's where she now is. She's back playing mentally unencumbered now, and I wish her well - there was a good ITF interview with her at the Shrewsbury event.

All of which is a roundabout way of saying that Lalami's victory against WR24 might have more context to it, and not be as impressive as that headline suggests.

I (hope, and) expect for Jade to win in straights.

PockyTastic · Futures level

True Rezai was pretty bad that day, but my memory of watching that match includes Nadia putting in a decent performance. Given her form since I doubt that week in Fes is representative of her "normal" form, though her low ranking seems to be due to playing few matches this year which hints at an injury? Possibly... Though a double bagel loss to Peer early in 2012 suggests that her giant killing moment was a one off...... ANYWAY a very roundabout way of saying that Jade has a good chance of coming through, but Nadia has some game in there somewhere but will hopefully not find it when they meet.

steven · Tennis legend

Jade now plays this week's doubles partner:

QF: WINDLEY, Jade (GBR) 4 497 v SIZIKOVA, Yana (RUS) 8 624 (CH 566 last month)

-- Edited by steven on Thursday 22nd of November 2012 10:52:43 PM

korriban · Challenger level

R2: WINDLEY, Jade (GBR) 4 497 d. LALAMI, Nadia (MAR) Q 1149 6-2 6-2

insomniacfolder · Challenger level

Jade beat up on the Moroccan twice today, losing just 9 games in 4 sets. WD final is tomorrow.

WD SF: WINDLEY, Jade / SIZIKOVA, Yana (GBR/RUS) [1] defeated LALAMI, Nadia / FERNANDEZ-RABENER, Arabela [4] (MAR/ESP) 6-3 6-2
WD F: WINDLEY, Jade / SIZIKOVA, Yana (GBR/RUS) [1] vs. NEGRIN, Katharina / SHARIFOVA, Ksenija (AUT/RUS)

Mervatron · Masters Series Champion

Keep going Jade

Peter too · Tennis legend

Jade *3-4

recovering after 1-4

-- Edited by Peter too on Friday 23rd of November 2012 10:40:40 AM