Week 12 - ITF $15000 - Sunderland - Hard

Peter too · Tennis legend

Week 12 - ITF $15000 - Sunderland - Hard

paulisi · Tennis legend

9 GB girls in the main draw(4 x WC) and a much weaker tournament than last week. Mel made the main draw.

Qualifying draw:

http://www.lta.org.uk/NewWebsite/LTA/Documents/Fans%20News%20and%20Major%20Events/Results/2013/Sunderland/Women's%20qualifying%20singles.pdf

EWS and Jade should get through qualifying, Stevenson/DeVroome quarter looks tough

steven · Tennis legend

Sabrina took the 2nd set by the same score. There have been 16 breaks in 24 games so far ...

edit: see below

-- Edited by steven on Monday 18th of March 2013 01:26:47 PM

steven · Tennis legend

Danielle lost 4 & 0 to Jorovic (via Naomi Cavaday, who seems to be in the Serb's camp)

Naomi also says Jorovic is playing Roma tomorrow, so the Swede must have beaten Aimee too

-- Edited by steven on Monday 18th of March 2013 02:20:02 PM

RainDelay · Pro player

Lucy Brown wins by retirement

paulisi · Tennis legend

Sabrina Bamburac's form seems to have gone downhill recently and she has lost the first set 7-5 to Grace Dixon.

I think Grace took quite a few games off Alexandra Stevenson in the qualifiers last week.

korriban · Challenger level

paulisi wrote:
As expected the only British winners were Lucy and Sabrina

I know this is what the rankings say "should" have happened, and in that sense it is expected. But I'm sure all of us, and certainly all of the GB players involved will be hoping that some or all of them will be climbing the rankings at some point, and therefore we should expect some "unexpected" results from time to time. Or a strong performance; taking a set perhaps; or failing that getting to a tiebreak. Something. It didn't happen again today.

Today in the men's qualifiers Clay Crawford and Sam Hutt were not "expected" to win, but they did. They qualified for the main draw, beating higher ranked players. This sort of thing is happening week in week out on the men's side. Findel-Hawkins, Carter, Skupski and others.

Come on ladies. You CAN do it!!

-- Edited by korriban on Monday 18th of March 2013 07:34:43 PM

indiana · Tennis legend

I have now woken up enough to be aware that if the first two sets have been won 7-5, each player has broken the same number of times, so the total number of breaks in these 24 games is an even number.

Good tester though LOL

steven · Tennis legend

Amended. Though I think I may have been fooled by the ITF live scoring, which seems to be up to some odd tricks again. I'm pretty sure it did show 17 breaks at the end of the 2nd set (though that's no excuse for me not realising it made no sense!) but when Grace went *4-1 up in the 3rd with a double break, it showed 11 breaks for her cf 9 for Sabrina, yet while I was editing my earlier post, it changed back to 10 v 9 and now that Sabrina has got one of the breaks back, it still shows 10 v 9!

Looking at bet365, 10 breaks v 9 is correct (so I'd better re-edit to show 16 breaks by the end of set 2 ..) but the ITF app has been getting there in a very roundabout way! LOL

korriban · Challenger level

There's a funny moment in the middle of this very old Steve Martin video which left a big impression on me (look out for the Olympics swimming after about a minute, nothing else!)

Firstly, because its the first and only time I've ever watched anything by Steve Martin which was actually funny (the other 90% of the video are in line with his normal standards, and are therefore excruciating, so please ignore)

Secondly, because it reminds me of the sort of excuses that sportsmen often make to explain their iffy performances, and I've often used variations of this sketch to explain why I'm now so rubbish at tennis these days.

The only explanation I have for the fact there are already 25 DFs in the Bamburac/Dixon match and no aces (to accompany the 19 breaks of serve), whereas in the concurrent men's match there have been just 4 DFS and 17 aces - is that they have been allocated the court with the extremely "dense air particles".......bad luck girls, if only you'd got court 1 not court 2.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUlcD3IKAhc

korriban · Challenger level

Air particles becoming even more dense on Court 2 as Grace serves 3 DFs in her last service game to go down 4-6 in the decider. 29 DFs, no aces, 21 breaks of serve for the match.

Sorry! furious

Well done Sabrina! A win is a win. Good luck for the next round against the world ranked 428, Melander.

paulisi · Tennis legend

As expected the only British winners were Lucy and Sabrina

Peter too · Tennis legend

Q1: BROWN, Lucy (GBR) 14 684 beat BARANSKA, Agata (POL) 928 4-1 Ret.
Q1: BAMBURAC, Sabrina (GBR) 16 829 beat DIXON, Grace (GBR) UNR 5-7 7-5 6-4
Q1: WEBLEY-SMITH, Emily (GBR) 3 435 v Bye
Q1: ABDELAZIZ, Farah (GBR) UNR v GOLUBIC, Viktorija (SUI) 13 610
Q1: WINDLEY, Jade (GBR) 4 442 v Bye
Q1: GIBSON, Aimeee (GBR) UNR lost to ROMA, Sandra (SWE) 6 475 2-6 4-6
Q1: KONOTOPTSEVA, Danielle (GBR) 956 lost to JOROVIC, Ivana (SRB) 15 754 4-6 0-6
Q1: PETERSON, Nicole (GBR) WC UNR lost to STEVENSON, Alexandra (USA) 7 508 1-6 2-6
Q1: HORN, Pippa (GBR) UNR lost to DE VROOME, Indy (NED) 11 580 2-6 1-6
Q1: KAVINDE, Nataha (GBR) UNR lost to BOEYKENS, Elyne (BEL) 8 531 0-6 1-6
Q1: CRAVEN, Georgia (GBR) WC UNR lost to BOWTELL, Amy (IRL) 10 562 1-6 1-6

Q2: BROWN, Lucy (GBR) 14 684 v KAWA, Katarzyna (POL) 1 414
Q2: BAMBURAC, Sabrina (GBR) 16 829 v MELANDER, Hilda (SWE) 2 428
Q2: WEBLEY-SMITH, Emily (GBR) 3 435 v GOLUBIC, Viktorija (SUI) 13 610
Q2: WINDLEY, Jade (GBR) 4 442 v BELZUNCE-CROMPIN, Ana (ESP) UNR

scottie1 · Futures level

Forecast Emily and Jade only to win

paulisi · Tennis legend

scottie1 wrote:
Forecast Emily and Jade only to win

i think Lucy's game will be close - i think she has a decent chance