Boys & Girls: 23rd Sarawak Chief Minister's Cup, Malaysia, hard - Grade 1 (Week 11)

DavidC · Tennis legend

Boys & Girls: 23rd Sarawak Chief Minister's Cup, Malaysia, hard - Grade 1 (Week 11)

DavidC · Tennis legend

Lewis and Rhett took full advantage of their draws. Katie and Freya face tricky round 2s - in Katie's case against a player she beat 6-4 in the third set last week, whilst Freya's opponent pushed Sirotkina (WTA 165) in the Australian Open qualifying

Boys R1 (L64)

Lewis Roskilly (GBR) d. Andrew Li Hei Yin (HKG) 6-1 6-4
Rhett Purcell (GBR) d. (Q) Siu Chuen Lam (HKG) 6-1 6-4

R2

(10) Chan-Yeong Oh (KOR) v Lewis Roskilly (GBR)
(13) Djurabeck Karimov (UZB) v Rhett Purcell (GBR)

Girls R2

Maddison Inglis (AUS) v (14) Freya Christie (GBR)
Morgane Michiels (BEL) v (3) Katie Boulter (GBR)

DavidC · Tennis legend

Both Freya and Katie came through their challenges to face Chinese opposition in round 3. Freya lost 7-5 in the third to her opponent in Australia earlier in the year. Last week's winner Simone Heinova retired from her singles, and also gave a walkover to Katie & Freya in the doubles.

R2

(10) Chan-Yeong Oh (KOR) d. Lewis Roskilly (GBR) 6-4 4-6 7-5
(13) Djurabeck Karimov (UZB) d. Rhett Purcell (GBR) 6-2 4-6 6-3

Girls R2

(14) Freya Christie (GBR) d. Maddison Inglis (AUS) 6-2 7-6(6)
(3) Katie Boulter (GBR) d. Morgane Michiels (BEL) 6-3 4-6 6-0

R3

(4) Xiaodi You (CHN) v (14) Freya Christie (GBR)
(15) Qiu Yu Ye (CHN) v (3) Katie Boulter (GBR)

paulisi · Tennis legend

Katie won, but Freya lost - However Katie got to the final last year and the grade 1 next week. So needs to match or improve otherwise her ranking will drop back.

DavidC · Tennis legend

Frustrating for Freya to lose 7-5 in the third again. Katie's next opponent is ranked inside 900 WTA

R3

(4) Xiaodi You (CHN) d. (14) Freya Christie (GBR) 7-6(7) 4-6 7-5
(3) Katie Boulter (GBR) d. (15) Qiu Yu Ye (CHN) 6-3 6-3

QF

Vendula Zovincova (CZE) v (3) Katie Boulter (GBR)

KK · Club Coach

Katie has won her next two matches and is in the final, so defending her points from last year.

steven · Tennis legend

I thought it was one singles match and two doubles matches she won today - has she won the singles SF already too?

KK · Club Coach

Sorry - I must have misread it. She has just won her QF 7-5, 6-3 - so far.

-- Edited by KK on Friday 14th of March 2014 02:09:35 PM

paulisi · Tennis legend

One more singles win and Katie will increase her ranking points again. She had no points to defend in the doubles rankings this week.

Next week Katie has 100pts to defend in singles and 50pts in doubles.

DavidC · Tennis legend

Katie's next opponent has had a strong week here losing no more than 5 games in any match, handing out breadsticks to the seeded Sara Tomic. The doubles final is a repeat of last week - let's hope for a different result

QF

(3) Katie Boulter (GBR) d. Vendula Zovincova (CZE) 7-5 6-3

SF

(3) Katie Boulter (GBR) v Tami Grende (INA)

Doubles Final

(4) Buayam/Kim (THA/KOR) v (2) Boulter/Christie (GBR)

steven · Tennis legend

Worrying news from Malaysia (especially with all those points to defend coming up) - Katie lost the 1st set tiebreak 9-7, went 1-4 down in the 2nd and then had to retire

However, they won the doubles final 6-7(3) 6-2 10:8

(and I assume that was played afterwards, but I don't know for sure)

steven · Tennis legend

Apparently Katie's retirement was due to mild heat sickness after playing for 5 hours in the heat yesterday then playing again today - i.e. no fun but nothing to worry about longer-term.