Week 9 - ITF ($10K) - Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt Hard

PockyTastic · Futures level

Week 9 - ITF ($10K) - Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt Hard

SMC1809 · All-time great

QF: Naomi BROADY (GBR) / Ana VESELINOVIC (SRB) beat Anja PRISLAN (SLO) / Jasmin STEINHERR (GER) [1] 6-3 ??? (They were in a second set tie-break, and are now playing the SF, but didn't see the score)

SF: Naomi BROADY (GBR) / Ana VESELINOVIC (SRB) v Chloe PAQUET (FRA) / Laetitia SARRAZIN (FRA) [4]

blob · All-time great

SF: Naomi BROADY (GBR) / Ana VESELINOVIC (SRB) defeated Chloe PAQUET (FRA) / Laetitia SARRAZIN (FRA) [4] 6-2 6-4

Sincerely hope reaching a final (any final will do right now) can herald better times for Naomi. That first single step towards a renaissance - still has the talent...

indiana · Tennis legend

As was asked earlier, anyone know who Naomi's training with ?

The whole LTA business is rather sad, and whatever the rights or wrongs, I doubt it's exactly helped her career.

korriban · Challenger level

True, but if Liam can come back into the fold.....there must have been a rapprochement sufficient to allow Naomi back.

Problem is I'm not sure she has the same potential. I know this seems peverse, having already been well inside the top 200, but in my opinion, there are sufficient technical gremlins with her game that it may be hard for her in the LTA set-up: it would be a re-build job, and that probably wouldn't work for either side

indiana · Tennis legend

Might not have been so many gremlins if she had been part of a more stable coaching structure and / or had more support over the last few years. But her / the Broadys choice.

As I said, rather sad.

scottie1 · Futures level

Naomi is still a good player with potential seen her play a few times. On her day she can be really good. I wonder if it is a confidence thing with her. Last thing we want is another Amanda Elliott who had one good season that struggled and is nowunranked

indiana · Tennis legend

PockyTastic wrote:
RE: Naomi's coaching situation. I believe she is still at least loosely connected to the Mouratoglou Academy (along with Pavlyunchenkova and Serena Williams, though I'm not sure she's training with them). She has a profile on their site: http://www.mouratoglou.com/players/noami-broady?lang=en

I'm not sure whether she has a travelling coach or that she just trains there intermittently.

EDIT: Just looked at their website more closely. Naomi is part of the "Groupe Martina Hingis" along with Daria Gavrilova, Alize Lim, Julia Glushko and Sachia Vickery.... Now I'm even more confused by her slump

-- Edited by PockyTastic on Friday 1st of March 2013 03:03:48 PM

Interesting. Thanks for that.

blob · All-time great

PockyTastic wrote:
RE: Naomi's coaching situation. I believe she is still at least loosely connected to the Mouratoglou Academy (along with Pavlyunchenkova and Serena Williams, though I'm not sure she's training with them). She has a profile on their site: http://www.mouratoglou.com/players/noami-broady?lang=en

I'm not sure whether she has a travelling coach or that she just trains there intermittently.
EDIT: Just looked at their website more closely. Naomi is part of the "Groupe Martina Hingis" along with Daria Gavrilova, Alize Lim, Julia Glushko and Sachia Vickery.... Now I'm even more confused by her slump

Thanks for the info. I find it quite encouraging knowing this setup is in place for Naomi (and I see Luke is also on the list - maybe that was well known, but not to me).

Also, posted mainly for the Malagasy name
F: Naomi BROADY (GBR) / Ana VESELINOVIC (SRB) vs. Ilka CSOREGI (ROU) / Zarah RAZAFIMAHATRATRA (MAD)
The Romanian/Madagascan duo (obviously!) had a walkover into the final.

NB: On the ITF page, the pairs R2 match against the #1 seeds is annotated as: 6-3 7-6(5) Played & Abandoned confuse

briteny · Intermediate Club Player

whoever her coach is, he/she needs to do something otherwise, change a new coach and training centre is not a bad option.

DF · Tennis legend

Naomi and partner one set down

DF · Tennis legend

5 - 7: 3 - 6
in the end