5 guaranteed GB qualifiers.
Will be interesting to see if Grace Dixon's good showing last week will continue.
Louie McLelland (recent BT tour winning 15 year-old) is playing an unranked Italian but who has a CH of 1117 so that'll be a tall order.
Georgie was in great form before going off to uni (which I don't think has been plain sailing) so that'll be interesting too.
Play is underway in Loughborough and Grace Dixon taking a beating of a beating from Jasmine (based on the scoreline only, points could in fact be very closely fought of course).
Rona Berisha 6-2 Dominique Covington
Natalie Wall 2-4 Nicola George (good to see Nicola back playing)
Jasmine Amber Asghar 6-1 Grace Dixon
Georgia Lawson 3-2 Sabrina Federici
Looking at her ITF page, she retired from a match in USA in June of last year and hasn't played since so I'm guessing an injury has been at the root of her absence?
Well done Sabrina on getting through that QR1, one of her more successful days of late !
Thank heavens I didn't write that because I'm sure someone would have accused me of being overly negative, not getting behind our players, etc!
I wish I'd thought of it first though. Spoilsport!
Just looking at all those classic middle-class first names in the qualies draw and thinking how many of them went to/go to comprehensive schools? 1 or 2 I'm sure, but it's not exactly screaming mainstream sport yet on the girls' side. Much work to be done still.