Week 19 - ITF ($10K) - Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt - Hard

steven · Tennis legend

RE: Week 19 - ITF ($10K) - Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt - Hard

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Given the plethora of GB women there, lots of doubles action, most playing with foreign opponents which is a good idea, imho. Wins for Lucy, Katie, Fran and Aimee:

In the Quarters: Lucy+ will play Katie+ , and Fran+ will play Aimee+

So two teams to the semis

steven · Tennis legend

6th seed Katie wins 0 & 1

Eden is a set up 6-3

2nd seed Lucy is a set down to an unranked 15-year-old qualifier 2-6

-- Edited by steven on Wednesday 7th of May 2014 03:26:54 PM

paulisi · Tennis legend

Fran is running away with the first set - 5-0 up
Lucy is serving for the second set at 6*-5
Dasha has just started

steven · Tennis legend

Lucy survives to play a 3rd set

2-6 7-5

Fran bagels Antonia in the 1st

steven · Tennis legend

The 15-year-old qualfier from Montenegro upsets 2nd seed Lucy 6-2 5-7 6-3 - she actually beat Alice Balducci (ITA), then WR 459 and now WR 378, to qualify for a 25K at home in Podgorica last September but hadn't done much of note since and her junior career high is only just in the top 900, so who knows - maybe very erratic now but one to watch out for in the future.

Fran beat Antonia 0 & 4

-- Edited by steven on Wednesday 7th of May 2014 05:16:55 PM

paulisi · Tennis legend

Lucy's woeful form continues. There were some easy points this week.....

Jaggy1876 · Grand Slam Champion

Woeful from Lucy don't know where she goes from here.

steven · Tennis legend

It looks like rain in the desert, so I assume there will be no more play tonight: (Edit: Dasha's match now showing as a retirement)

L32: Eden Silva WR 1093 beat Ekaterina Tsiklauri (RUS) WR 1139 (CH 985 last Jun) by 3 & 2
L32: (7) Danielle Konotoptseva WR 772 beat Lara Rafful (ITA) WR 1027 (CH 651 in 2011) by 6-3 3-1 ret.
L32: (WC) Savannah Sills UNR lost to Chantelle Rigozzi (AUS) WR 1118 (CH 1099 last Nov) by 6-1 7-6(5)
L32: (WC) Aimee Gibson UNR beat (5) Ekaterina Klyueva (KAZ) WR 742 (= CH) by 2 & 4
L32: Francesca Stephenson WR 1101 beat (WC) Antonia Smallbone UNR by 0 & 4
L32: (6) Katie Boulter WR 714 beat (Q) Camila Aguirri (ARG) UNR by 0 & 1
L32: (2) Lucy Brown WR 640 lost to (Q) Tamara Bojanic (MNE) UNR (15yo) by 6-2 5-7 6-3

L16: (7) Danielle Konotoptseva WR 772 v Eden Silva WR 1093
L16: Francesca Stephenson WR 1101 v (8) Miyazaki or Peddi Reddy (whose R1 match has not yet started)
L16: (WC) Aimee Gibson UNR v Ekaterina Tretyak (RUS) WR 996 (= CH)
L16: (6) Katie Boulter WR 772 v (Q) Anastasia Tsyganova (RUS) UNR (15yo world junior no. 462)

-- Edited by steven on Thursday 8th of May 2014 06:03:14 PM

Jon · Junior player

steven wrote:
indiana wrote:
Yes, Jon, pretty sure.

As far as I am aware the only times where there is a rankings gap week in updates are for the Slams plus Indian Wells and Miami ( where the main draw gets going at the end of the previous week ).

The ATP rankings have been updated and I have been absolutely confident that the WTA rankings would be too. Though, err, taking their time !
Technical problems on the WTA site apparently. Though they've put up a weekly report which includes the first two pages of the pdf so why they can't just upload the whole pdf, I'm not sure - these days, they usually publish the pdf version a couple of hours before the main rankings pages get updated anyway. From the top 100 list in the report, I know that Laura has dropped one place to 63, but that's it for now.

Updated rankings on the site now. Obviously I was very wrong!

Good to see CHs for Katy, Katie and Eden.

steven · Tennis legend

Miyazaki beat Peddi Reddy and Katie got a walkover, so:

L16: (7) Danielle Konotoptseva WR 772 v Eden Silva WR 1093
L16: Francesca Stephenson WR 1101 v (8) Yuriko Miyazaki (JPN) WR 834 (CH 829 last Nov)
L16: (WC) Aimee Gibson UNR v Ekaterina Tretyak (RUS) WR 996 (= CH)
L16: (6) Katie Boulter WR 772 beat (Q) Anastasia Tsyganova (RUS) UNR by w/o

QF: (6) Katie Boulter WR 772 v Teodora Radosavljevic (SRB) WR 1212 (= CH)

The Serb beat the qualifier who upset Lucy fairly easily, 2 & 4.

-- Edited by steven on Thursday 8th of May 2014 06:02:33 PM

paulisi · Tennis legend

Aimee is a set and a break down

Eden is 5-2 up first set

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Eden has beaten Dasha 6-3 6-2 which is another 2 points for Eden and more confirmation that all is going in the right direction.

Aimee lost but the score was 6-3 6-4 which is respectable.

steven · Tennis legend

Fran lost the 1st set to Miyazaki but has taken the 2nd and is an early break up in the 3rd (hopefully significant - 'only' 3 breaks each so far in this match) 2-6 6-3 *1-0

steven · Tennis legend

... or not - Miyazaki immediately breaks back to love