Week 23 - ITF ($75K) - Nottingham - Grass

steven · Tennis legend

RE: Week 23 - ITF ($75K) - Nottingham - Grass

indiana · Tennis legend

Intriguing...

PaulM · Tennis legend

I suppose Jade might still be injured, and Em seems to have other stuff going on judging by her social media (which may or may not be tennis related).

Need to wait and see

Deano13 · Social player

Considering Sirotkina is the top seed in qualies I think Broady might have got in direct then either Emily or Jade got her MDWC.

-- Edited by Deano13 on Saturday 31st of May 2014 09:23:09 AM

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Sophie Watts and jess Simpson have both lost their first sets.

( I wonder if Emily's deliberately vague tweets were indeed about a lack of wildcard)

steven · Tennis legend

I doubt they were about a lack of wild card (at least, not for this event) - at the time of the tweet in question, there were 5 Brits ranked above her who needed one (in reality 4, given that Amanda wasn't going to play) and it must have been pretty obvious that Katy would get one ahead of her too, given her young, up-and-coming status.

Don't get me wrong, I like Emily a lot and would be perfectly happy if she ends up getting a wild card here, I just can't see that she would have been shocked not to get one initially given the other players who also had a 'claim'.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Q1: WATTS, Sophie (GBR) 996 lost to SANCHEZ, Maria (USA) 252 (CH=107 2013) 6-2 6-3
Q1: SIMPSON, Jessica (GBR) 925 lost to KONTAVEIT, Anett (EST) 6 187 (=CH) 6-0 7-5

Mervatron · Masters Series Champion

No major shocks there

Mervatron · Masters Series Champion

Good to see Katie Swan in the qualifying draw

Mervatron · Masters Series Champion

Sam Murray up a break *3-2

PaulM · Tennis legend

Sam losrs the first set but had so many break points

steven · Tennis legend

Sam lost 3 & 1

- 11 break points each, Sam converted just 2, Eleni got 6.

Daneika lost 1 & 2 to Rodionova, Katie is a set down to Ozaki (2-6) and Harriet is a break up against Lauren.

Jaggy1876 · Grand Slam Champion

I was thinking about this earlier but I don't think Sam or Tara should get wild cards for Wimbledon. Their form is well off compared to last year and I don't think either of them have beaten a player ranked higher than them this year certainly not in recent months. Neither of them have any chance of winning unless they get lucky and get an out of form qualifier.

Be interesting to see I believe it's next week the first set of wild cards will be announced.

Peter too · Tennis legend

Katie Swan putting up a good fight having lost the 1st set 6-2 is 4-1 up in the 2nd and just got another break point.

Peter too · Tennis legend

Katie takes the 2nd set 7-5