Week 4 - ITF ($25K) - Sunderland, UK (Hard)

TomTraubert · Futures level

RE: Week 4 - ITF ($25K) - Sunderland, UK (Hard)

TomTraubert · Futures level

better so far in set 2 sort of
danielle is 3-3
manisha retired 2-1 up in the second set

hope shes OK

despite serving 7 DF jade takes the 1st set v joko 6-3
jade 1/2 BP, Jo 0-6

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

C'mon Tara - or we're going to have only one player in the second round (singles) - which is a bit sad . . .

wolf · Tennis legend

JoKo retires against Jade 3-6 1-2 down.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

wolf wrote:
JoKo retires against Jade 3-6 1-2 down.

What a shame for her. cry . Anyone up there or knows what's wrong?

(But at least a Brit gets the benefit . . . .)

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Jade has 4 points on the 2 Feb and then nothing to come off at all until May (!). And four 1 pointers to be knocked off.

This is going to be her 'money' months, time to really capitalise before the horrors of all those points to defend in summer. She should make a significant rise up the rankings without even doing too much.

wolf · Tennis legend

Coup Droit wrote:
wolf wrote:
JoKo retires against Jade 3-6 1-2 down.

What a shame for her. . Anyone up there or knows what's wrong?

(But at least a Brit gets the benefit . . . .)

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Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Thanks, Wolf. :)

wolf · Tennis legend

Tara quickly went 4-0 up and according to Phil playing some "sublime tennis". She has now taken the first set 6-3.

steven · Tennis legend

What a thrashing by Tara

L32: Jade Windley WR 303 beat (1) Jo Konta WR 114 by 6-3 2-1 ret.

L32: (WC) Jasmine Asghar UNR lost to (Q) Anna Danilina (KAZ) WR 541 (CH 334 in Feb) by 0 & 3

L32: (WC) Anna Smith WR 468 lost to (Q) Sviatlana Pirazhenka (BLR) WR 474 (CH 461 in Nov) by 4 & 3

L32: (WC) Danielle Konotoptseva WR 736 lost to (8) Carina Witthöft (GER) WR 207 (CH 178 in Sep) by 0 & 3

L32: (Q) Manisha Foster WR 742 lost to Margarita Gasparyan (RUS) WR 282 (CH 207 in 2012) by 6-2 2-1 ret.

L32: Tara Moore WR 212 beat (7) Richèl Hogenkamp (NED) WR 202 (CH 173 in Oct) by 3 & 0

L32: (WC) Sarah Beth Askew WR 1242 lost to Pemra Özgen (TUR) WR 224 (CH 209 in Sep) by 1 & 2

L16: Jade Windley WR 303 v Renata Voracova (CZE) WR 209 (CH 74 in 2010) or Valeria Savinykh (RUS) WR 229 (CH 99 in 2012)
L16: Tara Moore WR 212 v Pemra Özgen (TUR) WR 224 (CH 209 in Sep)

Jade H2H 0-2 v Voracova, who reached the FQR at the AO and beat Jade in straight sets in Edgbaston and Loughborough in 2010; 0-0 v Savinykh

Tara H2H 1-1 - Tara won 2 & 4 at Felixstowe in 2008 but Özgen edged her 12-10 in a final set tiebreak in the Woking final last year

TomTraubert · Futures level

great outing from tara 6-3 6-0

hope we hear something positive about joko - my belief in her talent is still absolutely unwavering. best wishes joko

wolf · Tennis legend

R1: [non-GB] (1) Arantxa Rus & Stephanie Vogt (NED/LIE) WR 271 bye
R1: Johanna Konta & Tara Moore WR 499 v Jocelyn Rae & Anna Smith WR 524
R1: [non-GB] (4) Demi Schuurs & Eva Wacanno (NED/NED) WR 479 v Lenore Lazaroiu & Anastasia Putilina (ROU/RUS) UNR
R1: Anna Danilina & Sviatlana Pirazhenka (KAZ/BLR) WR 785 v Manisha Foster & Jessica Ren WR 1885
R1: Agnes Bukta & Viktoriya Tomova (HUN/BLR) WR 904 v Sarah Beth Askew & Katy Dunne WR 1840
R1: Martina Borecka & Tereza Malikova (CZE/CZE) WR 484 v (3) Ulrikke Eikeri (NOR) & Jade Windley WR 474
R1: Tereza Martincova & Tereza Smitcova (CZE/CZE) WR 904 v Jasmie Amber Asghar & Danielle Konotoptseva UNR
R1: Farah Abdelaziz & Elyne Boeykens (BEL) UNR v Cagla Buyukakcay & Pemra Ozgen (TUR/TUR) WR 353

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Think that Manisha and JoKo have withdrawn (ie and their partners too, of course) so Joss and Anna go through.

philwrig · Hall of fame

Didn't see what happened to Manisha, but JoKo situation is a big worry. No obvious injury, but visibly upset afterwards, IB wouldn't elaborate about it afterwards, so fingers crossed, its nothing too important.

I only started watching her match against Jade at the beginning of the second set. She lacked her usual firey on court demeanour, which is very untypical, as she is always pumped up on court. I don't want to take anything away from Jade though who played very very well. She herself is having to deal with a back issue, which isn't serious but is still causing her a bit of pain.

Tara was on fire, but her opponent was out of sorts, so we'll see how she progresses the rest of the week.

tony_orient · ATP qualifying

Great to see such a convincing result from Tara - going through from the qualies last week and getting loads of matches in seems to have worked well. With JoKo retiring today and Laura still an injury doubt Tara might have a significant role to play in the Fed Cup too.