Week 33 - ITF ($10K) - Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt - Hard

steven · Tennis legend

RE: Week 33 - ITF ($10K) - Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt - Hard

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Harriet's lost the first set 6-3

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

BP conversion the story in that set.
Harriet 0/4, Strakhova 1/4.

steven · Tennis legend

FINAL: Harriet Dart WR 796 lost to (5/WC) Valeriya Strakhova (UKR) WR 523 (= CH) by 3 & 3

Harriet couldn't stop Strakhova from winning her 4th title in a row here, but nevertheless a very good week and she should break into the WTA top 700 for the first time on Monday week

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

Pretty straightforward for the Ukrainian in the second set, sadly.
Taken overall, GB Women are having a pretty dis-spiriting year all told. The top 3 mask this rather, along with Katy & Ellie to a lesser extent.

I like Harriet though, she needs more 'oomph' (technical term) in her game though.

Edit: had score, Steven was in 6 seconds before though

-- Edited by AliBlahBlah on Sunday 17th of August 2014 04:39:19 PM

BeefyDeedz · Pro player

Well done to Harriet, and very well done to Strakhova. That's a solid achievement. Now if only she could take a little vacation..:)

Peter too · Tennis legend

BeefyDeedz wrote:
Well done to Harriet, and very well done to Strakhova. That's a solid achievement. Now if only she could take a little vacation..:)

Strakhova does not appear on the acceptance list for next week. However four other players have appeared who are higher ranked than Strakhova.

-- Edited by Peter too on Sunday 17th of August 2014 05:09:53 PM

indiana · Tennis legend

...hopefully though not in as good form as Strakhova, who herself will be quite a lot higher ranked once these two latest titles are added in.

Good week for Harriet.

And overall, I feel much better about the British women's year than AliBB appears to, mainly due to how the youngsters have been performing plus as said the top 3, most notably Heather.

Yes, purely on rankings quite a number of the more experienced players have not had a good year, but a lot of that is injury related, which while yes a bit dispiriting in itself makes it more understandable.

If such as Laura, Sam, Jade and Lisa return to much better fitness and form ( difficult to know what the fitness / form relationship has been for Sam and Jade ) and the younger players continue their progression I think we could be looking at a relatively pretty good few years.

In the short term, we are at risk of having only 3 or 4 players in the top 300, but such a headline figure , which on the face of it does look pretty bad, to my mind would actually hide a much more healthy position.

philwrig · Hall of fame

The medium term looks pretty positive, I'd like to think in 3 years time we'll have at least 7 top 200 players, with 3 being top 100.