Week 13 - ITF ($10K) - Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt - Hard

PockyTastic · Futures level

RE: Week 13 - ITF ($10K) - Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt - Hard

TomTraubert · Futures level

like Lazarus way to pull that one out Emily!!!
Fantastic

great reward for sticking to the Journey maxim - dont stop believin

Peter too · Tennis legend

F: WEBLEY-SMITH, Emily (GBR) 2 417 beat PASHKOVA, Eugeniya (RUS) 3 443 7-6(7) 0-6 6-4

steven · Tennis legend

Some very wild swings in that match, very happy it turned out the right way

That's Emily's 3rd 10K singles title and 1st since 2009 (she played 25Ks and above for much of the intervening period) and will take her from GB no. 10 to GB no. 8 on Monday week, probably back inside the top 400

indiana · Tennis legend

While Emily going from GB no 10 to 8 ( and she would at least have gone to no 9 whatever this week ) is very largely because of the injured Lisa and Amanda steadily dropping back, it is still of course very good to see Emily bagging a title again.

It does look rather as if once she was quite behind in the second set she maybe just let it go. But the important thing is she was focussed for that final set. I hope this gives her some renewed confidence moving forward.

paulisi · Tennis legend

Em is playing Edgbaston 25K and then Dakar 15k, so plenty more points to be had. Dakar by the way only has 24 entries, so if anyone fancies following Em and signing in, they will get in the main draw.

Jaggy1876 · Grand Slam Champion

YES EM IS WONDERFUL

Just woke up to this news. Did I mention she is my favourite

Well done Ems!

Mervatron · Masters Series Champion

Wow amazing news. Well Done Em

PaulM · Tennis legend

Em saved break points at *4-4 as well. Really dug in deep. Great win.

Spectator · All-time great

Wonderful. Just wonderful.