Week 50 - ITF ($10K) - Potchefstroom, South Africa Hard

Peter too · Tennis legend

Week 50 - ITF ($10K) - Potchefstroom, South Africa Hard

insomniacfolder · Challenger level

Q2: CRAWFORD, Liberty (GBR) UNR defeated KRUGER, Jone (RSA) UNR 6-3 3-6 6-4

R1: [Q] CRAWFORD, Liberty (GBR) UNR vs. CASCINO, Estelle [7] (FRA) 891 (CH: 782 Feb, 2012) [H2H: 0-0]

R1: DEIGMAN, Laura (GBR) 1026 vs. ROBINSON, Casey (USA) 934 (CH: 912 Oct, 2012) [H2H: 0-0]

Cascino is a 16 year old who already made a $10K final, last month in Guimaraes, when ranked 1068.
Robinson is 21 and recently made a SF in the Mexico City $10K; in October , when ranked 1042.

Peter too · Tennis legend

R1: DEIGMAN(GBR)/PAUL(IND) 3 v LE ROUX(RSA)/SIMMONDS(RSA)

steven · Tennis legend

R1: DEIGMAN, Laura (GBR) 1030 beat ROBINSON, Casey (USA) 937 by 2 & 2 biggrin

I don't completely understand which conferences or colleges are better than others, but at first sight it looks like Robinson was pretty successful http://www.sjuhawks.com/sports/w-tennis/mtt/robinson_casey00.html - the fact that she is only just out of college partly explains the American's low rank and that plus her run to the semis in Mexico a few weeks ago (which IF mentioned above) suggest this is a really good win.

Laura plays the winner of Liberty's match in R2.

-- Edited by steven on Monday 10th of December 2012 10:55:03 AM

steven · Tennis legend

A good start for Laura - she is a break up *3-2

steven · Tennis legend

... and has now won the 1st set 6-2

Reeltime · Satellite level

A good win for Laura, and one that should see her fiish the year in the top 1000 :)

Reeltime · Satellite level

Ok, I take that back, she'll have to win the 2nd round to do that...

Peter too · Tennis legend

Laura and partner are 2-6 3-3 in R1 of the doubles

insomniacfolder · Challenger level

Reeltime wrote:
A good win for Laura, and one that should see her fiish the year in the top 1000 :) [...]
Ok, I take that back, she'll have to win the 2nd round to do that...

I think she is guranteed a new CH though.

Peter too wrote:
Laura and partner are 2-6 3-3 in R1 of the doubles

Laura's doubles got held over to be completed tomorrow. hmm

Liberty's singles is at 08:00 UK time tomorrow.

steven · Tennis legend

Cascino wins the 1st set with a bagel

steven · Tennis legend

0-6 *0-4 - Cascino has now won 22 games out of 22 against Brits in 10Ks (she double bagelled Jemma Buckler in September, though Tara Moore beat her 1 & 4 in a 25K last year)

steven · Tennis legend

Well, she did end up getting a game

R1: CRAWFORD, Liberty (GBR) Q UNR lost to CASCINO, Estelle (FRA) 7 894 by 0 & 1

R2: DEIGMAN, Laura (GBR) 1030 v CASCINO, Estelle (FRA) 7 894 (CH 782 in Feb)

insomniacfolder · Challenger level

insomniacfolder wrote:
Peter too wrote:
Laura and partner are 2-6 3-3 in R1 of the doubles
Laura's doubles got held over to be completed tomorrow.

Laura & partner eventually lost, 2-6 4-6

Chanel Simmonds was in the opposition though, so no surprise despite Laura's teams seeding of 3.

Laura's R2 singles is second up after 08:00 UK time tomorrow.

korriban · Challenger level

Break retrieved, but lost again at precisely the same point of set 2, as in set 1 (the "business end"). At least it's relatively competitive, but you can't exactly call her opponent a marquee player to be honest. Break points in the 10 game, so very tight.

-- Edited by korriban on Wednesday 12th of December 2012 11:09:21 AM