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Girls: French Open 2014, clay - Grade A (Weeks 22/23)


With Katie Boulter and possibly Isabelle Wallace (via a Special Exempt) in the main draw, Freya Christie is the only Brit in qualifying. Her opponent in the first of two rounds is ranked inside 800 WTA, but has a less than impressive record on European clay

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Freya Christie (GBR) v (14) Olivia Tjandramulia (AUS)



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Katie has just retired in her match in Croatia, leading 6-5.

Do so hope she's not injured and it's just precautionary/minor bug or something,

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Fingers crossed that it is precautionary - no tweet from Katie as yet. Freya meanwhile has advanced to final qualifying against an opponent who appears much stronger on clay than Olivia.

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Freya Christie (GBR) d. (14) Olivia Tjandramulia (AUS) 3-6 6-1 6-3

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(6) Natalia Vikhlyantseva (RUS) v Freya Christie (GBR)


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Unfortunately it was not to be for Freya:

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(6) Natalia Vikhlyantseva (RUS) def. Freya Christie (GBR) 7-6(2) 6-1

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The main draw is out and Izzy has indeed made it with an SE. She takes on a strong player (Varvara Flink WTA 313, winner of GA events) but a serial failure in Grand Slams for someone at her level (won 1 match in 7 attempts). Katie could have had far worse draws as an unseeded player, with the first seed she could encounter being Priscilla Hon of Australia.

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(SE) Isabelle Wallace (GBR) v (6) Varvara Flink (RUS)
Katie Boulter (GBR) v (Q) Raveena Kingsley (USA)

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Izzy is second on court 17 tomorrow

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Isabelle Wallace doing well against the 6th seed, defended the first set when her opponent was serving at 5-4 and held on the win that set 7-5 and is now 3-0 in the 2nd

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Isabelle beats 6th seed V. Flink (RUS) 7-5 6-2

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Hard to know what to make of that given Flink's abject record in grand slams. She is clearly good (beat a top 100 player in Miami qualifying for example) but seemingly can't cope with playing slams. Anyway great fillip for Izzy who now plays Tereza Mihalikova, one of the victorious Slovak World Junior Tennis team who edged out Maia and co in the final 2 years ago

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Cracking win for Isabelle. Flinks woeful record in JGS continues. It is very strange

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Good luck Team GBR in 2016!!!



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In doubles Katie resumes the partnership which took her to the Australian Open final. In singles if she wins tomorrow (first match on court 8 at 10am BST) she won't be playing the seeded Aussie but Ioana Loredana Rosca (not a surprise - the Romanian has a 20-1 record this year on clay)

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(3) Boulter/Jorovic (GBR/SRB) v Heinova/Komardina (CZE/RUS)
Samir/Wallace (EGY/GBR) v (2) Hon/Teichmann (AUS/SUI)

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Katie seems to be good form winning the first set 6-1.

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Katie's lost the second set 3-6

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Katie won the match 6-1 3-6 6-3

The next round will be very tough

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Well done Katie. smile



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