Great to see Tara coming through these tough matches, backing up the big win against Brengle and continuing her hex over Pavlovic.  I agree that Chirico must be getting tired, but having already played 6 matches here and won 4 of them from a set down, the fact that she didn't wilt having gone a set down against the top seed and managed to win from a set down for the 5th time means she must be remarkably fit, physically and mentally, so who knows ...

Tara is now likely to be in the top 220 on Monday week. She will also finish 3rd in the 'most WTA points by a Brit in the first 8 weeks of 2013' list behind Heather (290) and Laura (193), with 86 points to JoKo's 85 (though Jo added a few week 9 points with her QR1 win today, of course)

Final is 2nd up after 19:00 UK

amazing! Well done Tara I must admit I expected the Brengle run of form to overcome Tara's!

Good chance for the Final. Amazing to see Tara's improvements this year. I do hope we're seeing the early stages of Tara's breakthrough year here!

Interesting Steven's stats on ranking points to week 8 so far. After Heather and Laura, and then Tara and JoKo 3rd and 4th on 86 and 85 points, there is quite a drop to Lisa and Emily, 5th and 6th with 21 and 18 points. Anne K is 7th on just 12 points.

It is very possible that these top 4 will become the overall GB rankings top 4 after the Indian Wells fortnight, especially if Tara wins the final here, with Anne and Bally having quite a lot of points coming off.

Could be an interesting next Fed Cup team, for on current form and fitness, Anne and Bally, so long the stalwarts, are not in GB's top 4.

Oh, re the jury that I had out as to whether this start to the year really represented the best period we'd ever seen from Tara, I hear that the jury is close to reaching a verdict, just wants to consider one "final" piece of evidence.

Tara Moore


Came through a tough draw, beating three seeds, with true ninja skill.

Fantastic Tara well done.

"I think this could be the beginning of a beautiful friendship..."

-- Edited by blob on Sunday 24th of February 2013 09:42:09 PM

paulisi wrote:

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Peter too wrote:

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At present the Mexico 25K has 9 top 200 players entered, including Anne so Tara will have to raise her game again to get into the later stages. Bath is my nearest venue so I hope to go along and get some photographs.

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Two challengers cancelled that week, so the field for Bath will probably be very strong.

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 There are only three top 200 players entered for the Bath 15K so far but there are so many middle ranked entries that Naomi, Mel, Jade and Emily are in the Alternates list. One unusual name for a GB event is Amanada Carreras in the Q list.

-- Edited by Peter too on Sunday 24th of February 2013 10:24:01 PM