Week 18 - ITF ($75K) - Gifu, Japan - Hard

Peter too · Tennis legend

Week 18 - ITF ($75K) - Gifu, Japan - Hard

PaulM · Tennis legend

RE: Week 18 - $75K Gifu, Japan Hard

Jaggy1876 · Grand Slam Champion

Jade lost in 3 sets and the lovely Em is a break up 2-0 in the 3rd

DF · Tennis legend

Em also lost in three sets.

paulisi · Tennis legend

Anna lost the first set 6-2

DF · Tennis legend

and the second the same way 6 - 2

Jaggy1876 · Grand Slam Champion

As expected sadly 3 defeats

paulisi · Tennis legend

Jade will drop down the rankings very quickly unless she sorts out that serve. Too many big points to defend soon.

Jaggy1876 · Grand Slam Champion

I fear sadly that Jade is overranked. I was surprised she managed to get as high as the 270s always thought her peak would be about 400. So I wouldn't say it's surprising.

paulisi · Tennis legend

Careful Jaggy - I got lambasted for saying the same thing.

The ground game is fine and she will be a better player on clay, but the serve is the big issue and I don't know if she has the coaching or funds to go and work on this straight away, but she will have difficulty winning matches regularly at 25k level until it is fixed.

indiana · Tennis legend

...and you need even more funds to get matches fixed to your advantage ! :)

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Jade is certainly the most vulnerable, just in terms of her points profile. It'll be very difficult not to have a big drop in rankings. The next few months are going to be very hard. She will have to do back to lower tournaments. However, she must have been under-ranked before i.e. when she was 400, as she didn't get to WR 285 or whatever by cheating or pure flukey wins so it must have been deserved.
But I don't remember her serve being so bad before i.e. last year.

steven · Tennis legend

It really wasn't a good day, was it though it looks like Emily pushed the 6th seed very close.

QR1: (q3) Jade Windley WR 283 lost to Akiko Yonemura (JPN) WR 597 (CH 208 in 2008) by 7-6(4) 4-6 6-2
QR1: Emily Webley-Smith WR 401 lost to (q6) Miki Miyamura (JPN) WR 310 (= CH) by 7-6(6) 4-6 6-4
QR1: Anna Smith WR 445 lost to Yuka Higuchi (JPN) WR 491 (CH 396 last Aug) by 2 & 2

-- Edited by steven on Sunday 27th of April 2014 09:41:59 AM

PaulM · Tennis legend

Disappointing but not surprising. Good effort from Em in particular, shame to see her come up just short.

PockyTastic · Futures level

Poor Em, it's sad to see her go out in qualies when just a few years ago she made the final of this tournament (albeit when it was a 50K). Here's hoping for good results in doubles for all three and good luck to Naomi, Tara and Sam in the main draw.