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Week 48 - ITF ($10K) - Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt - Hard


GREAT result for Manisha, beating the Russian 6-3 in the third - she doesn't half fight till the end, our Manisha .. . .

And Em currently going along nicely 1*-4

 

NB That should get manisha back to about her CH of WR 732



-- Edited by Coup Droit on Thursday 28th of November 2013 11:11:43 AM

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Just trying to confuse us again by putting Heinova's score first, CD LOL

Fortunately your "going along nicely" helped out, confirmed by bet365.

Emily saved break back points and now leads 5 - 2 *

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Hard luck to Katie. it was so close. And congrats to Manisha. Great fight from both.



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Sorry, Indiana ! Yep, reading it back, about as clear as mud . . .

But Emily WINS the first set 6-2 (and deservedly so, definitely playing better than her opponent at the moment).



-- Edited by Coup Droit on Thursday 28th of November 2013 11:25:20 AM

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Very good win by Manisha. Pity for Katie, although really just confirming that she is relatively underranked and there should be a big upside to her ranking as she plays more tournaments quite apart from steadily becoming more experienced anyway.

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Emily currently racing through the second set.

So nice to see her using her excellent physique and athletic skills to actually take on the ball and play aggressively as opposed to scuttling all over the court and chipping everything back.

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Emily wins far more convincingly than many of us probably dared to expect to set up an all-GB QF

L16: Katie Boulter WR 855 lost to (6) Elena-Teodora Cadar (ROU) WR 578 (CH 552 in Aug) by 5-7 6-1 7-5
L16: Manisha Foster WR 817 beat Liudmila Vasilyeva RUS WR 756 (= CH) by 3-6 7-5 6-3
L16: (2) Emily Webley-Smith WR 431 beat (Q) Simona Heinová (CZE) UNR (16yo junior WR 98) by 2 & 0

QF: (2) Emily Webley-Smith WR 431 v Manisha Foster WR 817



-- Edited by steven on Thursday 28th of November 2013 11:45:14 AM

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Beaten by 12 seconds no

 



-- Edited by Peter too on Thursday 28th of November 2013 11:47:04 AM

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Sorry wink - for once I actually watched the end (though with no scores, I was following on bet365 and that showed the win first) and with so few tournaments on this week, I've got all the matches on one sheet (which seems to be making it easier to tweet without some of my more common errors), so it was all too easy to post.



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Much better day than i thought - excellent wins for Manisha and Em, good performance for Katie to push her opponent so close.

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Manisha and her dubs partner lost their match 6-3 6-2

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Nicely done on the singles front.



-- Edited by Spectator on Thursday 28th of November 2013 07:53:44 PM

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the young French girl is taking Cadar apart - it's a shame Katie B didn't manage to come through yesterday, the romanian really doesn't have much of a game apart from a bit of leftie swing going on.

If Salas carries on, it will be an interesting semi - youngsters blow hot and cold and, if Em wins the quarter, her game will almost certainly be something that Salas is not used to. (Manisha would probably be a more 'standard' contest).

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QF: WEBLEY-SMITH, Emily (GBR) 2 431 beat FOSTER, Manisha (GBR) 817 6-2 6-0

SF: WEBLEY-SMITH, Emily (GBR) 2 431 v SALAS, Emmanuelle (FRA) Q UNR (15 year old in her 4th tournament)

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For anyone who's interested, 15 year-old Emmanuelle Salas is an interesting player as she's always been in the French spotlight (she won the U-12 national championships) but she's not really in the system.

Her parents are both tennis monitors and they own a club in the middle of nowhere in the south of France. So she's very much a product of them (her dad claims that schlepping her to all the training centres would take way too long).
She's home-schooled (by correspondence) and her dad is full-time her coach.
They put huge emphasis on the pleasure of playing and the irrelevance of ranking (but the importance of winning) i.e. that playing a tournament to get points for a ranking is completely the wrong approach but playing a tournament to win it (or to get to a certain place, depending on the level) is what the aim should be.
They also are very against young players using racquets that are way too heavy for them - which lots of girls do because it gives them a more powerful shot. (Although she's grown a bit now, it's also true that Emmanuelle was a tiny, slender little girl). And also very against over-training. They are very concerned about long-term injuries.
Salas is supported by the Sport for Life foundation, as well as sponsored by a local consultant company, as well as Tecnifibre.



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