Week 3 - ITF ($10K) Glasgow, UK Hard

steven · Tennis legend

RE: Week 3 - WTA ($10K) Glasgow, UK Hard

RBBOT · Futures qualifying

Shock retirement there.

clayfan · Lower Club Player

Anna Smith played quite well in her match with Mme Larriere despite loosing. Hopefully she can continue her comeback and get back to beating these higher ranking players.

Interesting to see Alexandra Stevenson, however she didn't seem too animated. She was ahead at the beginning of the match but Lucy turned it round to win the set, then the American suddenly retired, early in the second. I can only assume she had a niggling injury which prevented her playing to her potential and did not want to aggrevate it.

Another injury scare for Tara Moore in her match with Jessica Ren. She was lying on court for a while before the trainer came and after a lengthy time out she was thankfully able to continue. A pity because Jessica was just getting a comeback going and it would have been nice to see what transpired without the time out and injury worries. But well done to Tara for perservering and having the courage to continue and win.

I have been very impressed with Danielle Konotoptseva. She seems to play with a great degree of freedom and has had 2 good main draw wins here after a good win in the last round of qualifying. She has a good build for tennis and is certainly one to watch.

Disappointment for Fran Stephenson and Alannah Griffin, although Alannah was up against the October finalist here. Fran's loss to the improving Irish girl was more disappointing but the other girl was higher ranked. Anna Fitzpatrick made a good comeback to level against Lisa Whybourn, but in the final set Lisa dominated. Her match with Van Uytvanck tomorrow will be a very good test for her. As will Bowtell's match with Tara, Lucy's match with Mme Georges and Danielle's match with Victoria Larriere. Is it too much to expect some more giant killing from Danielle?

Peter too · Tennis legend

QF: MOORE, Tara (GBR) 4 266 beat BOWTELL, Amy (IRL) 497 6-4 6-3

QF: KONOTOPTSEVA, Danielle (GBR) Q 1153 lost to LARRIERE, Victoria (FRA) Q 2 216 1-6 1-6

-- Edited by Peter too on Friday 18th of January 2013 04:57:06 PM

SMC1809 · All-time great

QF: WHYBOURN, Lisa (GBR) 5 292 lost to VAN UYTVANCK, Alison (BEL) 1 200 6-3 6-1 cry
QF: BROWN, Lucy (GBR) 741 lost to GEORGES, Myrtle (FRA) 3 253 6-3 7-5 cry

SF: VAN UYTVANCK, Alison (BEL) 1 200 v MOORE, Tara (GBR) 4 266

SMC1809 · All-time great

Doubles:

R1: Tara MOORE (GBR) / Melanie SOUTH (GBR) [1] BYE

R1: Anna FITZPATRICK (GBR) / Katie RUCKERT (USA) beat Jessica GINIER (FRA) / Victoire MFOUMOUANGANA (FRA) 6-1 6-4 smile

R1: Lucy BROWN (GBR) / Angelica MORATELLI (ITA) [3] BYE

R1: Anna SMITH (GBR) / Francesca STEPHENSON (GBR) 6-2 6-7(7) [10-6] Patricia HAAS (AUT) / Chiara MENDO (ITA) 6-2 6-7(7) 10-6 smile

QF: Tara MOORE (GBR) / Melanie SOUTH (GBR) [1] beat Anna FITZPATRICK (GBR) / Katie RUCKERT (USA) 6-2 6-4 smile cry

QF: Lucy BROWN (GBR) / Angelica MORATELLI (ITA) [3] beat Charlotte VAN DER MEIJ (NED) / Monique ZUUR (NED) 6-2 6-0 smile

QF: Anna SMITH (GBR) / Francesca STEPHENSON (GBR) beat Malou EJDESGAARD (DEN) / Lina STANCIUTE (LTU) [2] 6-3 6-1 smile

SF: Tara MOORE (GBR) / Melanie SOUTH (GBR) [1] beat Anna SMOLINA (RUS) / Malin ULVEFELDT (SWE) 4-6 6-3 10-3 smile

SF: Anna SMITH (GBR) / Francesca STEPHENSON (GBR) beat Lucy BROWN (GBR) / Angelica MORATELLI (ITA) [3] 6-3 3-6 10-6 smile cry

F: Tara MOORE (GBR) / Melanie SOUTH (GBR) [1] v Anna SMITH (GBR) / Francesca STEPHENSON (GBR)

clayfan · Lower Club Player

Well one out of four is better than none. Eventually some class French girls and the top seed put paid to the rest. Good week for Konotoptseva though and Tara is more than capable of beating Van Uytvanck, but it will be difficult.

steven · Tennis legend

Yes, I wouldn't say any of the four did worse than expected and two of them did better - Danielle in particular more than doubling her points total by reaching her first 10K QF.

Tara has played AvU once before, the Belgian winning the 2011 Sunderland Final 4 & 1. Hopefully Tara has more of a chance this time around.

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

One thing, in the topic title, is this not an ITF event, rather than the WTA indicated?

steven · Tennis legend

Week 3 - ITF ($10K) Glasgow, UK Hard

steven · Tennis legend

AliBlahBlah wrote:
One thing, in the topic title, is this not an ITF event, rather than the WTA indicated?

Yes, it is - amended

Peter too · Tennis legend

F: Tara MOORE (GBR) / Melanie SOUTH (GBR) [1] beat Anna SMITH (GBR) / Francesca STEPHENSON (GBR) 7-6(5) 6-3

-- Edited by Peter too on Saturday 19th of January 2013 03:46:34 PM

steven · Tennis legend

Jade Windley radio interview on now http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbclincolnshire

P.S. I know she wasn't playing here but I needed to post the link fast and this seemed the most obvious place to post it.

It should be available on iPlayer later - started at 15:47 (which will be about 1:47 in on the recording) and lasted about 4 minutes.

-- Edited by steven on Saturday 19th of January 2013 03:52:43 PM

Peter too · Tennis legend

steven wrote:
AliBlahBlah wrote:
One thing, in the topic title, is this not an ITF event, rather than the WTA indicated?
Yes, it is - amended

An interesting feature of this system. I originally listed it as WTA and very quickly corrected it. However on pages 2 and 3 it remains as a WTA event, despite being corrected for a 2nd time.

steven · Tennis legend

The all-French semi here went much like the all-French match at the Aus Open, albeit not quite as long, but with the same failures to serve it out, etc. It ended in a 3rd set tiebreak a minute or two after Simon beat Monfils:

FI: MOORE, Tara (GBR) 4 266 v GEORGES, Myrtille (FRA) 3 253

Their only previous meeting was in a Final - Loughborough 2011, where Tara won 7-6(5) 5-7 6-4