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korriban


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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.

I agree with you Jaggy, but unfortunately the LTA sees things rather differently

 "The success of Andy Murray, Laura, Heather... and others, is a fantastic beacon... driving media coverage," says Mr Long. "We are lucky to be on the cusp of golden era of British tennis". This from a BBC interview with LTA Commercial Director Simon Long just over a month ago.

"This is a really exciting time for the women's game in this country," said Roger Draper, chief executive of the LTA.

This from a BBC interview with LTA CEO Roger Draper a few weeks ago.

Does any of this ring true to you Jaggy? Or to anyone else out there? In a world where the genuine success of one British man who works outside the LTA set-up, and 2 British women who have merely reached the top 50 at this point heralds "a golden era for British tennis" and "exciting times for the women's game", perhaps WE are all midunderstanding the situation. I wish Simon and Roger were correct, I really do, but methinks a degree of hyperbole, delusion or indeed deliberate misinformation may have crept in somewhere!



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Yez, I quite agree with jaggy about Anna Smith being the only one out there just now that shows real prospects of joining ( rejoining in her case ) the top 500 in the short to medium term, and making up that chasm in rankings after Jade Windley ( GB no 13 and WR 442 ). I said as much a couple of weeks ago.

It is a pity about Eleanor Dean. All the indications before her injuries were that she would easily break into the top 500 and go higher. I really hope she can still come through.

Others such as Lucy Brwon and Katy Dunne I have doubts about. Harriet Dart seems to have something about her to at least be top 500 in time and the USA uni girls might provide one or two that at least reach that level.

For any other prospects of good top 500 players, I think we will have to wait and see how some of the younger junior ITF players develop.

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Look compared to where we were 10 years ago we are in a golden age of women's tennis, but clearly there is still ongoing work to be done.

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Women's tennis is certainly looking much better overall than the very low basepoint of about 10 years ago, and of course two young stars have emerged in Heather and Laura.

But indeed, still much to be done, and more generally Draper and Long deserve to be lampooned for their OTT ( indeed sometimes just weird ) comments, often of a very selective nature

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Peter too wrote:

R1: PETERSEN, Nicole (GBR) Q UNR v VOGT, Stephanie (LIE) 1 215
R1: RACA, Edita (GBR) Q UNR v KREJSOVA, Petra (CZE) 719
R1: KONOTOPTSEVA, Danielle (GBR) WC 956 v SCHOLTEN, Nina-Isabella (GER) Q UNR
R1: SOUTH, Melanie (GBR) 4 390 v DE VROOME, Indy (NED) 580
R1: SILVA, Eden (GBR) WC 1165 v BOWTELL, Amy (IRL) 562
R1: BAMBURAC, Sabrina (GBR) 829 v DEIGMAN, Laura (GBR) WC 1015
R1: COVINGTON, Dominique (GBR) Q UNR v MELNIKOVA, Marina (RUS) 392
R1: WINDLEY, Jade (GBR) 8 442 v BARANSKA, Agata (POL) Q 928
R1: HORN, Pippa (GBR) Q UNR v PIRAZHENKA, Sviatiana (BLR) 695
R1: SMITH, Emily (GBR) WC UNR v BORECKA, Martina (CZE) 596
R1: FITZPATRICK, Anna (GBR) 788 v OZGEN, Pemra (TUR) 3 289
R1: BROWN, Lucy (GBR) 684 v MENDO, Chiara (ITA) 800
R1: SMITH, Anna (GBR) Q 986 v BOEYKENS, Elyne (BEL) 531

 Is Emily Smith not Emily Webley-Smith? I've seen it on a couple of drawsheets.



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No, definitely different people.



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Danielle won 4-6 6-4 6-3
Pippa lost 3-6 4-6

Doubles wins for:
Fitzpatrick/Windley
Smith/South


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R1: PETERSEN, Nicole (GBR) Q UNR lost to VOGT, Stephanie (LIE) 1 215 2-6 1-6
R1: RACA, Edita (GBR) Q UNR lost to KREJSOVA, Petra (CZE) 719 1-6 0-6
R1: KONOTOPTSEVA, Danielle (GBR) WC 956 beat SCHOLTEN, Nina-Isabella (GER) Q UNR 4-6 6-4 6-3
R1: SOUTH, Melanie (GBR) 4 390 lost to DE VROOME, Indy (NED) 580 4-6 7-6(5) 3-6
R1: SILVA, Eden (GBR) WC 1165 lost to BOWTELL, Amy (IRL) 562 3-6 6-4 3-6
R1: DEIGMAN, Laura (GBR) WC 1015 beat BAMBURAC, Sabrina (GBR) 829 6-0 6-3
R1: COVINGTON, Dominique (GBR) Q UNR lost to MELNIKOVA, Marina (RUS) 392 2-6 3-6
R1: WINDLEY, Jade (GBR) 8 442 beat BARANSKA, Agata (POL) Q 928 7-5 6-3
R1: HORN, Pippa (GBR) Q UNR lost to PIRAZHENKA, Sviatiana (BLR) 695 3-6 4-6
R1: SMITH, Emily (GBR) WC UNR lost to BORECKA, Martina (CZE) 596 6-3 2-6 3-6
R1: FITZPATRICK, Anna (GBR) 788 lost to OZGEN, Pemra (TUR) 3 289 0-6 2-6
R1: BROWN, Lucy (GBR) 684 beat MENDO, Chiara (ITA) 800 6-3 6-1
R1: SMITH, Anna (GBR) Q 986 beat BOEYKENS, Elyne (BEL) 531 7-6(4) 6-2

R2: KONOTOPTSEVA, Danielle (GBR) WC 956 v LEHNERT, Katharina (PHI) 7 422
R2: DEIGMAN, Laura (GBR) WC 1015 v MELNIKOVA, Marina (RUS) 392
R2: WINDLEY, Jade (GBR) 8 442 v PIRAZHENKA, Sviatiana (BLR) 695
R2: BROWN, Lucy (GBR) 684 v MORATELLI, Angelica (ITA) 6 398
R2: SMITH, Anna (GBR) Q 986 v WITTHOEFT, Carina (GER) 2 227

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Witthoeft beat Vekic in the Wrexham final last year if I remember correctly, so would be a massive scalp for Anna.

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How many games would the world #392 get off an Azarenka or a Bartoli or even a Martic? Not many, I'd suggest. The gap is that big.

So if the world #392 is able to thrash Laura Deigman by 1 and 0 today, where does that leave Sabrina B? Sabrina lost to Laura yesterday by 0 and 3 - itself a complete thrashing. At #18, Sabrina is ranked well inside the GB top 25 table, which is scary.

How many GB players entered the qualifiers for this small $10k GB tournament, and how many were in the MD either automatically or as WCs? By the way, the answer is 34!!! I hope it doesn't happen, but it is entirely possible that we won't have a single player in the QFs.

Can someone do a fact-based memo to Roger and Simon at the LTA please!

Come on Danielle, Lucy and Anna - your country needs you!

 



-- Edited by korriban on Thursday 7th of March 2013 01:52:04 PM

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hopfully this Heather & Laura 5 years wave ride will see some maybe juniors catch up after...

See any junior good talented so far??



-- Edited by briteny on Thursday 7th of March 2013 05:27:35 PM

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Pics from yesterday (via ITF), includes most of the main draw players:

http://tinyurl.com/cd2alwd



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Jade lost the 1st set to Pirazhenka 6-3 but won the 2nd by the same score and has just broken in the 1st game of the 3rd.

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R2: WINDLEY, Jade (GBR) 8 442 lost to PIRAZHENKA, Sviatiana (BLR) 695 by 6-3 3-6 6-3 bleh



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Anna S 3-6 1-3

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