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

briteny · Intermediate Club Player

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

Jaggy1876 · Grand Slam Champion

Without wanting to be too harsh none of today's results surprise me. The simple fact is that the players we have below Emily aren't good enough and I can't see any of them ever breaking the top 400. As has been discussed previously there are many reasons for this the main one being the fact the LTA are happy to ride the wave of success Laura and Heather will bring over the next 5 years which in the next 5 yr group there isn't anyone else and that doesn't seem to matter. The two Katy's Eleanor and Harriet might suffer because of this. Those 4 apart the talent isn't there at the moment.

korriban · Challenger level

Jaggy1876 wrote:
Without wanting to be too harsh none of today's results surprise me. The simple fact is that the players we have below Emily aren't good enough and I can't see any of them ever breaking the top 400. As has been discussed previously there are many reasons for this the main one being the fact the LTA are happy to ride the wave of success Laura and Heather will bring over the next 5 years which in the next 5 yr group there isn't anyone else and that doesn't seem to matter. The two Katy's Eleanor and Harriet might suffer because of this. Those 4 apart the talent isn't there at the moment.

Katie lost today in the L16 of a G1 in Thailand along with Isabelle Wallace. Harriet lost yesterday in the L16 of a G1 in Paraguay to a lower ranked player, 6-1 6-0 in sets 2 and 3. I'm not sure if Katy has played since the AO Juniors, where she and Harriet were our only representatives, since there were no boy juniors there. Eleanor was injured on and off throughout the whole of 2012, and must have aggravated things aginst at the pre-AO G1 warm-up in January, as she hsan't played since.

Pretty much ALL of our next generation juniors, male and female, are in action in Grade A, Grade 1 and Grade 2 tournaments this week and for the following 2 weeks, so we should learn a lot at the end of this stretch. Luke Bambridge is still going in Thailand (QF), but he's sort of limped through so far and needs to beat a good player to match his seeding.

I DO believe there is some talent around, it's just the numbers are painfully low.

briteny · Intermediate Club Player

Everybody develop their games differently, 5 years time after we may see a different picture.

Reeltime · Satellite level

Alt+0246 should give you ö

Alt+0214 gives Ö

-- Edited by Reeltime on Friday 8th of March 2013 02:52:27 AM

indiana · Tennis legend

All rather disapppinting, but not hugely surprising.

With our two seeded players going out, as Steven indicstes there is then such a ranking drop off after the GB top 13 that for any others to reach say a QF place here was always likely to mean overcoming a very big rankings gulf.

Actually Lucy Brown, the GB no 14, seems to have put in a very decent performance, but she had almost a 300 rankings gap to overcome.

The problem there is that lack of depth and not having other players hovering just outside the seedings that have a decent chance of knocking a seed out.

indiana · Tennis legend

I notice that Lucy has 6 points to defend in the Miami fortnight so could well drop out of the top 700, hopefully not.

But it could mean GB not having a single woman ranked between 450 and 700.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Doubles results, which don't seem to have been picked up yet:

QF: (3) Anna Fitzpatrick & Jade Windley WR 632 defeated Aimee Gibson & Emily Smith UNR by 2 & 0

QF: (4) Martina Borecka & Petra Krejsova (CZE/CZE) WR 671 defeated Sabrina Bamburac & Angelica Moratelli (ITA) WR 1160 by 4 & 3

QF: (2) Marina Melnikova & Sviatlana Pirazhenka (RUS/BLR) WR 533 defeated Anna Smith & Mel South WR 1218 by 7-6(7) 6-4

*****

SF: (1) Pemra Ozgen (*) & Stephanie Vogt (TUR/LIE) WR 482 vs (3) Anna Fitzpatrick & Jade Windley WR 632

(*) Bloody activeboard won't let me reproduce the Umlaut over the "O". furious

paulisi · Tennis legend

Mel South and Anna Smith losing is a huge suprise - given both have won doubles titles at a much higher level. Am i right in saying Anna Smith with Anne K got to a WTA tour doubles semi final?

Peter too · Tennis legend

Jade and Anna are through to the final after their opponents retired at 6-6 in the 1st.

-- Edited by Peter too on Friday 8th of March 2013 07:31:53 PM

PockyTastic · Futures level

paulisi wrote:
Mel South and Anna Smith losing is a huge suprise - given both have won doubles titles at a much higher level. Am i right in saying Anna Smith with Anne K got to a WTA tour doubles semi final?

Yep they did in Copenhagen.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Reeltime wrote:
Alt+0246 should give you ö
Alt+0214 gives Ö

After years of needing to type foreign accents as a technical translator (French, German, Italian & Spanish), I know the codes, thank you. In fact, "ö" is even less complicated than you suggest (Alt+148) & activeboard allows that to appear without a problem. It seems, however, to have a problem with the O Umlaut, at least on my computer (I've just tried it again & it simply will not work! ) ...

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

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Final: (3) Anna Fitzpatrick & Jade Windley WR 632 defeated (4) Martina Borecka & Petra Krejsova (CZE/CZE) WR 671 by 4-6 7-6(4) [12-10] smile

blob · All-time great

Congratulations to Anna & Jade

Reeltime · Satellite level

Well done :)