Week 31 - ITF ($100K) - Vancouver, Canada - Hard

Sally · Grand Slam Champion

RE: Week 31 - ITF ($100K) - Vancouver, Canada - Hard

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

All with a decent chance now to qualify - well done and hopefully all three will get through to join our other representatives in the main draw.

steven · Tennis legend

Thanks Sally

Sally wrote:
Clean sweep for the girls in QR2!
QR2: WEBLEY-SMITH, Emily (GBR) 8 421 beat BLAJKEVITCH, Khristina (CAN) UNR 6-1 6-2
QR2: (q5) Jade Windley WR 348 beat Krista Hardebeck (USA) WR 471 (CH=279 Sep 2012) 5-7 6-2 6-2
QR2: (q1) Naomi Broady WR 305 beat Nicole Rottmann (AUT) WR 433 (CH=307 Jul 2012) 6-4 4-6 7-5
And the QR3 match-ups:
QR3: (8) Emily Webley-Smith WR 421 v Sherazad Benamar FRA WR 493
QR3: (5) Jade Windley WR 348 v (WC) Robin Anderson USA WR 640
QR3: (1) Naomi Broady WR 305 v (7) Miki Miyamura JPN WR 369

Another confidence boosting win for Emily She has played Benamar twice before, each of them winning one match in straight sets, but both matches were back in 2007. Perhaps more to the point, Benamar upset Naomi in Granby a couple of weeks ago, so it won't be easy.

A very convincing last two sets from Jade, by the looks of it - she has now won the last five times she has recovered from a set down to level the match at 1 set all. Having beaten one under-ranked college player in Hardebeck (at Stanford), she will play another in Anderson, who is at UCLA and beat the 2nd seed today.

It looks like Naomi made a bit of a meal of her match (again) and even the odds suggested she was favourite to lose the 3rd set when it got there ... but that also makes it all the more impressive that she pulled through. Not much to add about Miyamura - a quick skim through her results makes it look like her ranking tells a true story.

Jaggy1876 · Grand Slam Champion

When was the last time 6 girls made a 100k outside the UK?

WD40 · Club Coach

The biggest problem with any of the girls qualifying is that the open spots in the MD are, one against the 4th seed Julia Glushko and another 2 against either Sam or Tara cry

steven · Tennis legend

AliBlahBlah wrote:
All with a decent chance now to qualify - well done and hopefully all three will get through to join our other representatives in the main draw.

That would (in the absence of lucky loser places) imply at least one all-GB match in R1.

Btw when I thanked Sally, I meant to add the following, though please ignore what follows, Sally, if what I suggest would be a lot more hassle or or if this suggestion gets shouted down before you see it!

When it becomes clear that you are the only person posting updates on the match, I wonder if it would be better to do something like one or two posts per set and keep editing them (I know someone on this forum does it like that, can't remember who at the moment) - the advantages from the reader's point of view are that the match all ends up on 1 or 2 pages, making it easier to take in what happened later on. Also, it would make any other information that people post during the match (like next opponent details) easier to find later - though I realise that you made the effort to collate all the results and give us the FQR draw at the end in this case.

Obviously, as soon as it becomes clear that other people are getting involved, the advantages of doing a new post each time start to outweigh the disadvantages, but when that isn't happening ... well, it's just a thought from this reader's point of view.

steven · Tennis legend

Jaggy1876 wrote:
When was the last time 6 girls made a 100k outside the UK?

I'll try to find out ... but only if it gets close to happening tomorrow! (and even then, I probably won't dare say anything unless/until it does! wink )

WD40 · Club Coach

steven wrote:
AliBlahBlah wrote:
All with a decent chance now to qualify - well done and hopefully all three will get through to join our other representatives in the main draw.
That would (in the absence of lucky loser places) imply at least one all-GB match in R1.
Btw when I thanked Sally, I meant to add the following, though please ignore what follows, Sally, if what I suggest would be a lot more hassle or or if this suggestion gets shouted down before you see it!
When it becomes clear that you are the only person posting updates on the match, I wonder if it would be better to do something like one or two posts per set and keep editing them (I know someone on this forum does it like that, can't remember who at the moment) - the advantages from the reader's point of view are that the match all ends up on 1 or 2 pages, making it easier to take in what happened later on. Also, it would make any other information that people post during the match (like next opponent details) easier to find later - though I realise that you made the effort to collate all the results and give us the FQR draw at the end in this case.
Obviously, as soon as it becomes clear that other people are getting involved, the advantages of doing a new post each time start to outweigh the disadvantages, but when that isn't happening ... well, it's just a thought from this reader's point of view.

I concur with this suggestion as I have trouble scrolling through pages of what for me are too many posts that I don't read as I am following the matches on LS anyway.

philwrig · Hall of fame

Wow that's a tough draw for JoKo, Jo loves playing the orthodox flat hitting asian players, but unfortunately her opponent doesn't play in that style. Saw quite a bit of their match at Eastbourne and although competitive Hsieh Su-Wei just had too much in her locker. Hopefully Jo can close the gap this time, but ultimately it will probably depend on which Hsieh Su-Wei turns up.

WD40 · Club Coach

FQ : Johanna KONTA (GBR)/Tara MOORE (GBR) [1] beat Rosie JOHANSON (CAN)/ Alexis PROKOPUIK (CAN) (WC) 6-1 6-4

L16 : Johanna KONTA (GBR)/Tara MOORE (GBR) (Q) v Nicole ROTTMANN (AUT)/ Lenka WIENEROVA (SVK)

L16 : Naomi BROADY (GBR)/ Emily WEBLEY-SMITH (GBR) v Venise CHAN (HKG) / Keren SHLOMO (ISR) (Q)

-- Edited by WD40 on Tuesday 30th of July 2013 01:53:18 PM

-- Edited by WD40 on Wednesday 31st of July 2013 02:25:44 AM

Sally · Grand Slam Champion

Jade just started. RA held for 1-0*

If anyone wants my updates, they'll be more sporadic than usual but I'll try to update every 15 minutes or so

-- Edited by Sally on Tuesday 30th of July 2013 05:19:45 PM

Sally · Grand Slam Champion

steven wrote:
AliBlahBlah wrote:
All with a decent chance now to qualify - well done and hopefully all three will get through to join our other representatives in the main draw.
That would (in the absence of lucky loser places) imply at least one all-GB match in R1.
Btw when I thanked Sally, I meant to add the following, though please ignore what follows, Sally, if what I suggest would be a lot more hassle or or if this suggestion gets shouted down before you see it!
When it becomes clear that you are the only person posting updates on the match, I wonder if it would be better to do something like one or two posts per set and keep editing them (I know someone on this forum does it like that, can't remember who at the moment) - the advantages from the reader's point of view are that the match all ends up on 1 or 2 pages, making it easier to take in what happened later on. Also, it would make any other information that people post during the match (like next opponent details) easier to find later - though I realise that you made the effort to collate all the results and give us the FQR draw at the end in this case.
Obviously, as soon as it becomes clear that other people are getting involved, the advantages of doing a new post each time start to outweigh the disadvantages, but when that isn't happening ... well, it's just a thought from this reader's point of view.

Good suggestion and I will start doing that going forwards!

Sally · Grand Slam Champion

Jade takes the first set 6-2

Emily 5-5* - Broken while serving for the set

Naomi loses the first set 6-4

-- Edited by Sally on Tuesday 30th of July 2013 06:02:32 PM

Sally · Grand Slam Champion

Jade 6-4

Naomi 6-2 in the third (full result edited in later post)

Emily 3-1

-- Edited by Sally on Tuesday 30th of July 2013 07:31:00 PM

Sally · Grand Slam Champion

Emily, Jade & Naomi are all up first on various courts.