Week 18 - ITF ($10K) - Antalya, Turkey - Hard

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

RE: Week 18 - ITF ($10K) - Antalya, Turkey - Hard

Jaggy1876 · Grand Slam Champion

Loses 3-6 5-7. Shame but can't be expected to win every match.

steven · Tennis legend

L16: Eleanor Dean WR 922 lost to (1) Olga Doroshina (RUS) WR 395 (CH 389 earlier this month) by 3 & 5

Pity, but 6 wins in a row then losing to a top 400 player on the way up still makes this a very encouraging fortnight for the young Brit.

philwrig · Hall of fame

As steven says losing to a top 400 player on the up is no disgrace.
I suspect Doroshina will go onto win the title.

indiana · Tennis legend

Ah, pity, but decent showing, so no worries.

I said that this matchup against the top seed would be interesting ( being deliberately non commital ) and it seems to have been. Looks to have been a good competitive encounter, and maybe an indicator ( as much as one match can add anything ) of where Eleanor is at. All things considered, a pretty good place I'd say, with in time surely much more to come.

paulisi · Tennis legend

The matches Eleanor has played so far this year suggests she is playing to a level around the 350-400 mark. Quite impressive.

Mervatron · Masters Series Champion

Shame she lost but agree Eleanor would seem to be at the 350-400 mark ish at the moment which is great. Barring injury i would expect her to be higher than that at the end of the year

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Semi-Final

Alona FOMINA (UKR) / Pei-Chi LEE (TPE) [2] def. Eleanor DEAN (GBR) / Saray STERENBACH (ISR) 6-3 6-1