Week 17 - ITF ($50K) - Seoul, Korea - Hard

steven · Tennis legend

Week 17 - ITF ($50K) - Seoul, Korea - Hard

indiana · Tennis legend

I presume Joss is here also for the doubles. Time for Anna and Joss to hopefully start making progress above 25Ks as even 25K titles are becoming less and less rewarding rankings wise.

Be good, of course, to also see some singles success for Anna and co.

Mervatron · Masters Series Champion

Good luck girls

steven · Tennis legend

A bit of a Seoul shocker as Anna goes for Ah Song ... - I was so hoping to be able to avoid the first igmc and turn the other one round

QR1: Anna Smith WR 449 lost to (wc) Song Ah (KOR) UNR (CH 1130 a year ago) by 7-6(9) 7-5

Very little in it (Anna won 97 points to Song's 98) but Anna only held serve 4 times out of 12, though admittedly, she broke 7 times out of 12 too.

PaulM · Tennis legend

Oh dear Anna...

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Ouch for Anna.

Jade is playing, all on serve, but money-wise, the other girl is favourite .. . :(

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Jade has got the first set 6-4

TomTraubert · Futures level

nice swift work from jade advances 6-4 6-1

in QR2 plays ekaterina yashina WR458 - who beat luangnam surprisingly easily in her first match

steven · Tennis legend

QR1: (q1) Jade Windley WR 282 beat Susanne Celik (SWE) WR 447 (CH 444 in Mar) by 4 & 1

QR2: (q1) Jade Windley WR 282 v Ekaterina Yashina (RUS) WR 458 (CH 376 in 2012)

Mervatron · Masters Series Champion

Anna :lol:

Well Done Jade. Keep it going

insomniacfolder · Challenger level

So, 03:30 and a GB player is in action. This is more like it!
Jade is on court in her QR2 match.

I doubt anyone wants a full live score commentary on the match - I note with some sadness that these have rather disappeared for the most part from the forum, replaced by terse summations; "<player> won/lost ".

Suffice to say it's not been a great start with Jade at *0-2. Yashina converting on her 4th BP of the first game of the match.
Long way to go. I'll be brief.

After that opening break it was a very routine set.
Only three more BPs, Jade missed 2 and the Russian, in the last game of the set, took her only further one - and with it the set.

3-6
All to do.
Come on Jade!

-- Edited by insomniacfolder on Sunday 20th of April 2014 03:14:40 AM

insomniacfolder · Challenger level

Jade begins the second set as the Russian did the first. A break in the first game.
However, she then serves 3DF in her subsequent service game, and so, surrenders the advantage immediately.
3-6 1-1*

From that point on, Jade created one BP in game 5, 3 more in game 7, but could convert none of them.
She faced none herself until game 10. At *4-5, they were match points, two of them - both saved.
3-6 5-5*

Another chance for Jade slips away in game 11, so she must serve to stay alive for a second time, and force the second set TB.
3-6 *5-6

*0-30, but Jade recovers with 4 straight points.
Well done!
So, into the TB we go.

If Jade can just sneak this, I fancy her to win the match.

0-0*
*1-0
*1-1
1-2*
1-3*
*2-3
*2-4 dig deep at the change over!
2-5*
3-5*
*4-5 Yes!! Surge Jade, surge!
*5-5
5-6* Aaaaargh! Match point #3 against...
6-6* Phew! Come on!
*7-6 Oh yes! Please!?!

GUTSY!
3-6 7-6(6)

Wake up everyone, we're going the distance!

-- Edited by insomniacfolder on Sunday 20th of April 2014 04:25:58 AM

insomniacfolder · Challenger level

Any hopes and wishes that Jade could now power home, or that the Russian would have had her spirit broken by that second set, are quickly dashed, as Jade is broken in the opening game of the decider.
0-1*

What a fickle game tennis is.
0-3*

It will be a semi-mythical recovery if Jade can pull this one out. But, at least she gets on the board in set 3
1-4*

Nope. I am not going to get excited.
*2-4

The soaring high, then the crushing down. There is nothing else like tennis live score misery
2-5*

Jade saves 2 more match points (numbers 4 & 5) but it's not enough

We would have hoped, and possibly even expected, to get two more through to the main draw. In fact, we got none through to the final qualifier
For Jade today, the problem seems to have been, as with her match in Monterrey, a failure to convert the chances she created: 2/12 BP (Yashina was 6-13)

QR2: (q1) WINDLEY, Jade (GBR) WR 282 lost to YASHINA, Ekaterina (RUS) WR 458 3-6 7-6(6) 2-6

-- Edited by insomniacfolder on Sunday 20th of April 2014 05:09:09 AM

PaulM · Tennis legend

Oh Jade. That's poor.

Mervatron · Masters Series Champion

Oh Jade