Remarkable non-GB performances

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Remarkable non-GB performances

Spectator · All-time great

Two good performers there: the other being David Goffin, whom he beat, but who was also fighting for a top 10 place and a first Slam SF. Goffin is a 1990 like Dan Evans, Marcus Willis et al - and indeed is such a late 1990 (December ... very rare, that!) that he is still 25 himself.

indiana · Tennis legend

wimdledont wrote:
Kiki Bertens.

Turned up in Nurnberg qualifiers, ten days ago; won the tournament. Also won the doubles with Larsson.

Rewarded for this with a lousy draw at Roland Garros, against Kerber, she beats her. Then beats 2 more, including Kasatkina, and on a singles run of Played 10, Won 10.

The doubles run lasted for 6 unbeaten, until they drew the Williams sisters. Kiki+ just won that one too, 6-3, 6-3.

Kiki's singles winning run has now extended to 12. She's only gone and reached the RG SF vs Serena, beating Keys in the L16 and last year's semi finalist Bacsinszky in the QF. Timea's story is old hat

So far evidently up from WR 58 to WR 27, smashing past her CH 41. Up to #12 in the race.

Oh, lost her doubles QF but I think she'll live with that.

-- Edited by indiana on Thursday 2nd of June 2016 06:47:06 PM

Spectator · All-time great

Quite a run! And not a bad match in the SF, either, despite her injury.

Going back to the previous topic, the Austrians are, predictably, quite interested in Dominic Thiem's advance: I happened to be looking at the Salzburg paper for other reasons, and saw this: www.salzburg.com/nachrichten/diverse/kopf-des-tages/sn/artikel/tennis-guenter-bresnik-der-mann-hinter-dem-erfolg-von-dominic-thiem-199149/. May be of interest.

Spectator · All-time great

And Spain and France exhale! Les/los Lopez having knocked out Melo beat the Bryans in the final. An excellent result for them - congratulations to them! And while the Spanish are congratulating them and rejoicing in a fine day for Spanish tennis (congratulations to Muguruza, too - an extraordinary performance and surely the first of many Slams); the French are tweeting congratulations to Nicolas Mahut, who is the new doubles number one.

-- Edited by Spectator on Saturday 4th of June 2016 06:35:51 PM

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

Stefanie Tan
Won the $10K in Baku, Azerbaijan this morning.
As far as I can tell, that is the first professional tennis singles title that a female Singaporean has ever won.

Bei'er Ko did win the Toronto $10K in June 2002, but she was representng Canada at the time.

They had also previously won two $10K doubles events.
Wei-Ping Lee won in $10K Muzaffarnagar, India in January 2006 - where her team actually got a walkover in the final for the title!
Stefanie herself had previously won the $10K Fort Worth, USA in July 2014

So, congratulations to Ms. Tan, and Singapore too - I wonder if the STA know this?

Spectator · All-time great

In a similar vein, one all-NZ partnership and one half-NZ partnership won the two ATP doubles trophies last week: is that a first for NZ? Meanwhile among the French, the ITF has apparently said that Mahut and Herbert aren't eligible for Rio because they haven't played enough DC matches. Crazy, given that they've been available, just not selected. The FFT is appealing. There are some downsides to coming from a nation with a superfluity of strong players.

wolf · Tennis legend

That's crazy. I remember Herbert was the 5th man in the DC tie against us last year. There was even a video of him being there on the ITF wesbite IIRC.

indiana · Tennis legend

Bonkers !

Spectator · All-time great

Appeal apparently successful - as was Caroline Wozniacki's. Sense prevails.

-- Edited by Spectator on Thursday 30th of June 2016 02:26:24 PM

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

Hello Rebeka Masaraova, Swiss sixteen year old Junior world #3, and welcome to your first ever WTA matches, on a wild card in Gstaad.

First round: from a set down against second seed, current WR 27, and former world number one, Jelena Jankovic, comes back to win it 1-6 6-4 6-2
Round two: Another top 100 scalp, in three sets, downing WR 92, Anett Kontaveit, 7-6(2) 4-6 6-2
Quarter final: Another top 40 scalp in the form of fifth seed, WR 38, Annika Beck, who was dispatched easily, 7-5 6-2.

Into the semi-final of her first ever WTA event! Three top 100 scalps including a former world number one.

All the talk pre-event was about the wildcard for 37 year old Patty Schnyder, playing her first tour event for five years. But, it's her compatriots who have exceeded themselves with Masarova due to meet Viktorija Golubic (who will break in to the top 100 for the first time by virtue of her run) in the Semi-final and thus guarantee a home finalist.

The Swiss production line showing no signs of slowing down, it seems.

Spectator · All-time great

Well done to her. And interesting from a GB perspective, as this is the woman whom Gabi Taylor beat 6-1 6-1 in the 3rd round at Wimbledon juniors ....

-- Edited by Spectator on Saturday 16th of July 2016 12:02:18 PM

Spectator · All-time great

A moment of appreciation for Daniel Nestor, back into the top 10 (no 9) after reaching his most recent final. This is a man who first hit the top 10 in the year that Kyle Edmund was born. That's not a bad run.

emma · Strong Club Player

had to check again how old Daniel N is. he's 43 soon to be 44 at beginning of September. Fantastic

Spectator · All-time great

Came to this via Twitter - but it's fascinating. I tend to think of Stephane Robert as an all-time Brit-basher (there was some point on his way up - around 2008/9 - when he seemed singlehandedly to have taken over GB futures) - it's lovely to get a sense of another side to him: www.washingtonpost.com/news/dc-sports-bog/wp/2016/07/20/dostoevsky-and-tennis/ Sounds like quite a lot of fun to be around.