Week 10 - ITF ($10K) - Sutton, UK Hard

RainDelay · Pro player

RE: Week 10 - ITF ($10K) - Sutton, UK Hard

paulisi · Tennis legend

Good win for Lucy Brown 6-3 6-1

paulisi · Tennis legend

Eden Silva has taken the second set against Amy Bowtell 6-3 4-6

Emily Smith is punching well above her ranking and is in a third set against Borecka

Jaggy1876 · Grand Slam Champion

Anna F heading for a double bagel defeat oh dear....

Jaggy1876 · Grand Slam Champion

Double bagel saved (just from 15-40) down at 0-4

paulisi · Tennis legend

Both Silva and Smith but up fights but in vain losing in 3 sets

Anna F lost 6-0 6-2

Mel South in a real struggle a set down and serving to force a tie break

Anna Smith in a tight game 6-5* first set

paulisi · Tennis legend

Both Mel and Anna won their tie breakers to go 1-1 and 1 up respectively.

Jade Windley took the first set 7-5 and is a break up in the second

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Doubles in full (Brit interest only):

R1: Katharina Lehnert & Carina Witthöft (PHI/GER) WR 1346 defeated Dominique Covington & Kyria Dunford UNR by 1 & 0

R1: (3) Anna Fitzpatrick & Jade Windley WR 632 defeated Amy Bowtell (IRL) & Lucy Brown WR 974 by 6-3 5-7 [10-0]

R1: Aimee Gibson & Emily Smith UNR defeated Regina Husak (NED) & Beatrice Kight UNR by 2 & 1

R1: Sabrina Bamburac & Angelica Moratelli (ITA) WR 1160 defeated Agata Baranska (POL) & Laura Deigman WR 1340 by 4 & 4

R1: (4) Martina Borecka & Petra Krejsova (CZE/CZE) WR 671 "defeated" Molly Reed & Rebecca Smaller UNR by a walkover

R1: Anna Smith & Mel South WR 1218 defeated Cornelia Lister & Chiara Mendo by 2 & 1

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QF: (3) Anna Fitzpatrick & Jade Windley WR 632 vs Aimee Gibson & Emily Smith UNR

QF: Sabrina Bamburac & Angelica Moratelli (ITA) WR 1160 vs (4) Martina Borecka & Petra Krejsova (CZE/CZE) WR 671

QF: Anna Smith & Mel South WR 1218 vs (2) Marina Melnikova & Sviatlana Pirazhenka (RUS/BLR) WR 533

-- Edited by Stircrazy on Wednesday 6th of March 2013 10:45:47 PM

RainDelay · Pro player

Anna Smith serving for match 7-6 5-4
Mel 3-2 up final set on serve
jade wone 7-5 6-3

paulisi · Tennis legend

I think the ITF scoreboard has fallen over - nothing updated for a while.

SMC1809 · All-time great

Anna Smith won 7-6(2) 6-4 (from 1-4 in the second)

blob · All-time great

Top job Anna again. KO's Bowtell last event, now WR531 this.
Hopefully when she gets into MD without Q she can really show her quality.
Surprised she had to Q .

Decent efforts from Eden Silva & Emily Smith to take a set each against much higher ranked opponents

Jaggy1876 · Grand Slam Champion

Anna S is the only female ranked lower down that I can see getting anywhere near the too 500. Anna F and Mel are spent forces. Pretty depressing for women's tennis if you take out our top 6 strength in depth wise.

paulisi · Tennis legend

Danielle K 1-1 and a break up in the final set.

paulisi · Tennis legend

Jaggy1876 wrote:
Anna S is the only female ranked lower down that I can see getting anywhere near the too 500. Anna F and Mel are spent forces. Pretty depressing for women's tennis if you take out our top 6 strength in depth wise.

Depends how short term you are looking. Eleanor Dean if she ever gets fit and back to the standard when she won a 10K has possibilities and Katie Dunne may have the ability. I'm sure there may be a few at uni in the states, otherwise i probabaly agree in there is very little to shout about.