Week 9 - ITF ($25K) - Beinasco, Italy, Indoor Clay

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

RE: Week 9 - ITF ($25K) - Beinasco, Italy, Indoor Clay

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

Saved!
*9-9

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

Yes, MP for... 10-9*

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

Holy cow that was close!
A volley winner from Anna closes out a very close run thing in the end.
The streak continues

6-1 2-6 [11-9]

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

You can see a bit why Anna might be struggling somewhat in singles, she is coming over the FH and it tends to float and sit up quite a bit.

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

This will be their eighth consecutive final together. 5 x $25K, 3 x $10K
They're 23-1 since November (plus 3 w/o)

Currently on a 16 match run undefeated.

-- Edited by AliBlahBlah on Thursday 27th of February 2014 05:38:31 PM

The Optimist · ATP qualifying

Brilliant !!

paulisi · Tennis legend

I think Anna and Joss need to be a bit more ambitious and have a go at 50k, 75k, 100ks now - 10k and 25k are too easy.

WD40 · Club Coach

paulisi wrote:
I think Anna and Joss need to be a bit more ambitious and have a go at 50k, 75k, 100ks now - 10k and 25k are too easy.

I think Anna & Joss will be entering some of these events, but if you check the calendar, these events tend to be fewer in number i.e. 18 in the next 3 months (of which only 5 are in Europe, so travel becomes an issue). As a result of this I believe they will still be playing mainly 25ks to fill their schedule with possibly the odd 10k as well.

DF · Tennis legend

Brilliant. Enjoyed your commentary AliBlahBlah !

TomTraubert · Futures level

ever onwards

think joss defo get dubs CH when all points go on and inside top 200 for first time

indiana · Tennis legend

Certainly will be a new CH for Joss, all based on results in the last 6 months.

Would be good to see the girls in higher company even if the results here have not been "too easy". I guess still pretty good with this being on clay.

tony_orient · ATP qualifying

I definitely think it would be good to see how Anna and Joss get on in higher ranked events in the near future. Maybe playing a mix of the more local 50-100k events with 25k tournaments in between where Anna can also play singles. They don't have much to gain from 10k events at their current ranking.

indiana · Tennis legend

Indeed, they no longer have any points at all to gain rankingswise from playing 10K doubles, not that as you suggest 10K title points would add much anyway even if relevant.

When this week's points are added, Joss's 11th ( final ) counter will be 12 ( equivalent to a 10K title ). Anna's is now this week's 18 points and will become 24 if they reach the final here ( in which case only futher 25K finals would help her ). They have, even in Anna's case, more than 3 months before defending any of these counters.

WD40 · Club Coach

The only reason I mentioned "the odd 10k" is because Anna is entered for the 10k in Greece on the 17th March and I would expect her to play in the doubles with Joss, if only for the practise wink

Edit: There is only 1 25k that week and it's in the USA.

-- Edited by WD40 on Friday 28th of February 2014 01:26:37 AM