Week 15 - ITF ($10K) - Gloucester, UK - Hard

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

RE: Week 15 - ITF ($10K) - Gloucester, UK - Hard

steven · Tennis legend

Coup Droit wrote:
Great result Rona. Another girl who gives 100% on the court and is a pleasure to watch (not in the same way as Mollie, it's more conventional, but absolute effort and commitment).
Is that her best ever win?

It's her 3rd best ranking scalp but the other two were wins against Dasha last year, so you could argue that it is.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

steven wrote:
Coup Droit wrote:
Great result Rona. Another girl who gives 100% on the court and is a pleasure to watch (not in the same way as Mollie, it's more conventional, but absolute effort and commitment).
Is that her best ever win?
It's her 3rd best ranking scalp but the other two were wins against Dasha last year, so you could argue that it is.

smile smile smile

paulisi · Tennis legend

Draw is out - The top two seeds have very easy draws.

Katy Dunne should win her first main draw match since Mid Jan.

Freya, Jasmine and Rona have awkward matches.

steven · Tennis legend

L32: (WC) Nicola George UNR v (1) Hiroki Kuwata (JPN) WR 261 (= CH)
L32: Lucy Brown WR 643 v (Q) Fran Stephenson WR 1084
L32: (Q) Harriet Dart WR 1028 v (WC) Georgina Axon UNR
L32: (WC) Jasmine Amber Asghar UNR v (6) Sviatlana Pirazhenka (BLR) WR 427 (CH 417 in Mar)

L32: (Q) Rona Berisha UNR v (3) Bernarda Pera (USA) WR 381 (CH 354 in Oct)
non-GB: Josepha Adam (FRA) WR 664 (CH 641 in Oct) v Ivania Martinich (CHI) WR 718 (CH 692 in Nov)
L32: (WC) Eden Silva WR 1143 v Justine Ozga (GER) WR 548 (CH 259 in 2007)
non-GB: (5) Hilda Melander (SWE) WR 406 (CH 345 in Jan) v Yuriko Miyazaki (JPN) WR 834 (CH 829 in Nov)

L32: (Q) Freya Christie WR 1017 v (7) Klaartje Liebens (BEL) WR 431 (CH 424 in Mar)
L32: Manisha Foster WR 691 v Demi Schuurs (NED) WR 737 (= CH)
non-GB: Océane Adam (FRA) WR 815 (CH 677 in Oct) v (Q) Mariam Bolkvadze (GEO) WR 1197 (CH 1184 in Jan)
non-GB: (4) Anna-Giulia Remondina (ITA) WR 385 (CH 219 in 2011) v Lisa Sabino (SUI) WR 540 (CH 315 in 2008)

L32: (8) Katy Dunne WR 508 v (Q) Lauren McMinn WR 1217
L32: Katie Boulter WR 783 v Mia Nicole Eklund (FIN) WR 952 (CH 896 in Oct)
L32: (Q) Beth Askew WR 1217 v (LL) Nora Niedmers (GER) WR 1124 (CH 1117 in Mar)
L32: (2) Jade Windley WR 279 v (Q) Farah Abdelziz UNR

H2Hs

Lucy v Fran 1-1 - Fran won 0 & 1 in Bournemouth in 2011, Lucy 7-6(6) 6-4 in Edinburgh in 2012
Freya v Liebens H2H 0-1 - both last year, 3 sets and 2 close sets
Manisha v Schuurs H2H 1-0 - 3 sets, Sunderland earlier this year
Katy v Lauren H2H 1-0 - 0 & 1, Loughborough last year

-- Edited by steven on Monday 7th of April 2014 03:25:44 PM

paulisi · Tennis legend

Got a funny feeling that the bottom quarter could be an all GB second round - Katy v Katie and Beth v Jade.

Expect 6 British winners from the 12 GB matches

I see there is a GB girl in the doubles (very sparsely entered) that didn't enter the singles - Laura Sainsbury.

Jade and Katie will win the doubles.

Mervatron · Masters Series Champion

Would be nice to see Katy get her groove back here.

Good luck gals

PockyTastic · Futures level

Coup Droit wrote:
PockyTastic wrote:
Coup Droit wrote:
I don't know Olivia but I've seen Beth Askew play a couple of times - she's an athletic, correct player but there's not much more than that, imho.

I quite like Mollie Crouch too - I don't mean that she's going anywhere major with her tennis, and Laruen should win, but it's a different style and quite fun to watch.
Different style how? I've never seen Mollie play so I'm just curious

Just my impression so take with a pinch of salt but . . .:
Mollie is technically all a bit dodgy (grip, takeback, construction of shot) but that makes it a bit unpredictable which is curious in itself. And she has a way of often launching her whole bodyweight into the ball, literally throwing herself at the ball, which is fun and quite infectious when you watch. And she's a tall, powerful girl so it makes an impact. And it reflects the thing I noticed, which was that she seems to really enjoy her tennis, which also makes it nice to watch. There's a bit of the EWS going on, an enthusiasm that is enjoyable, if not a technically clean game.
Also, the last time I saw her she had a great 'look' - a bit 'street', rather in the Bethanie Mattek-Sands vein. Which also makes a quite a refreshing change. I wish her well.

Thanks for the info!

TomTraubert · Futures level

aw man

the girl rona beat today and then got in MD as LL

whats the betting that the german beats askew and gets a point whilst rona with the much harder MD tie loses and gets absolut zippo for her efforts

wolf · Tennis legend

R1: Jasmine Amber Asghar & Georgina Axon UNR or Katarzyna Pitak & Laura Sainsbury UNR

QF: (1) Lucy Brown & Hilda Melander (SWE) CR 832 v Farah Abdelaziz & Olivia Horn UNR
QF: (3) Harriet Dart & Sviatlana Pirazhenka (BLR) CR 1037 v Manisha Foster & Ivania Martinich (CHI) CR 2004
QF: (4) Sarah Beth Askew & Katy Dunne CR 1707 v Jasmine Amber Asghar & Georgina Axon UNR or Katarzyna Pitak & Laura Sainsbury UNR
QF: (2) Katie Boulter & Jade Windley CR 910 v Rona Berisha & Louise Ronaldson UNR

indiana · Tennis legend

Interesting to see all these girls getting a chance at competive matches in a home 10K after all these Naomi / Sam / Tara benefit 25Ks.

TomTraubert · Futures level

itf live score being ahem "sub-optimal" again
big leaps in scores and such - for those matches that are working at all

eden lost the first set 1-6

paulisi · Tennis legend

Eden lost 6-1 6-2

steven · Tennis legend

Rona lost 5 & 3

though given that she was playing the 3rd seed, that's quite impressive.

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

Nicola George just lost the first set against the top seed WR261: 5-7
There was only one total point difference between them in that set.

Harriet took the first set off Georgina: 6-4 *0-1

Lucy won the first against Fran: 6-3