Week 36 - ITF ($25K) - Barnstaple, UK Hard

steven · Tennis legend

RE: Week 36 - ITF ($25K) - Barnstaple, UK Hard

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

steven wrote:
Manisha got thrashed 1 & 0 by Dodin

I know we couldn't realistically hope for a lot of winners today, but most of the scorelines have been worse than I expected

And there was me thinking that Aimee and Natasha had put up a pretty good show smile

No getting round that Tara's seems a real horror though . .. .

steven · Tennis legend

Coup Droit wrote:
steven wrote:
Manisha got thrashed 1 & 0 by Dodin

I know we couldn't realistically hope for a lot of winners today, but most of the scorelines have been worse than I expected

And there was me thinking that Aimee and Natasha had put up a pretty good show
No getting round that Tara's seems a real horror though . .. .

True, they did I was thinking more of the matches since, the ones where we had semi-realistic hopes of GB wins.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Lauren loses 6-3 7-5 which is a decent effort - :) - but unfortunately 'decent efforts' don't buy the breakfast cornflakes . . .

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

Lucy Brown lost 1-6 0-6

Charlie Pearce is currently *4-5

indiana · Tennis legend

Continued encouragement, certainly not making a proper Charlie of herself.

C'mon, Charlotte !

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

Charlotte, obviously distracted by someone shouting 'C'mon Charlotte! from the sidelines at a critical juncture, loses the first set 5-7

philwrig · Hall of fame

AliBlahBlah wrote:
Charlotte, obviously distracted by someone shouting 'C'mon Charlotte! from the sidelines at a critical juncture, loses the first set 5-7

Her twitter name is iCharliePearce, so maybe she prefers to be called Charlie.

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

philwrig wrote:
AliBlahBlah wrote:
Charlotte, obviously distracted by someone shouting 'C'mon Charlotte! from the sidelines at a critical juncture, loses the first set 5-7

Her twitter name is iCharliePearce, so maybe she prefers to be called Charlie.

Yes, I think she does.

iCharlottePearce would also be 1 character too long for a Twitter name.

Currently 5-7 *2-5

steven · Tennis legend

L32: Katy Dunne WR 318 beat (1) Sofia Arvidsson (SWE) WR 136 (CH 29 in 2006) by 0 & 3

L32: (Q) Aimee Gibson UNR lost to Klaartje Liebens (BEL) WR 359 (= CH) by 3 & 1

L32: (Q) Natasha Hillyer UNR lost to (5) Alizé Lim (FRA) WR 197 (CH 135 in May) by 3 & 2

L32: (WC) Naomi Cavaday UNR lost to (4) Indy de Vroome (NED) WR 195 (CH 177 in Jul) by 4 & 2

L32: (Q) Lauren McMinn WR 1222 lost to (Q) Lina Stanciute (LTU) WR 704 (CH 197 in 2009) by 3 & 5

L32: Tara Moore WR 272 lost to Jasmine Paolini (ITA) WR 481 (CH 454 last month) by 3 & 1

L32: (WC) Harriet Dart WR 677 lost to (6) Viktorija Golubic (SUI) WR 211 (CH 156 in Mar) by 3 & 1

L32: (Q) Charlotte Pearce UNR lost to Szabina Szlavikovics (HUN) WR 528 (CH 527 last month) by 5 & 4

L32: (WC) Manisha Foster WR 701 lost to (Q) Océane Dodin (FRA) WR 557 (CH 551 in Jul) by 1 & 0

L32: (Q) Jodie Anna Burrage UNR beat (WC) Francesca Stephenson WR 904 by 1-6 7-5 6-4

L32: (Q) Lucy Brown WR 873 lost to (2) Yuliya Beygelzimer (UKR) WR 167 (CHJ 83 in 2006) by 1 & 0

L16: Katy Dunne WR 318 v Klaartje Liebens (BEL) WR 359 (= CH)
L16: (Q) Jodie Anna Burrage UNR v (7) Diana Marcinkevica (LAT) WR 239 (CH 196 in Apr)

Katy v Liebens: 1-1 - Katy won 3&0 in a Sharm el Sheikh final late last year, Liebens won 2&4 in the Gloucester SFs in April

The Optimist · ATP qualifying

philwrig wrote:
AliBlahBlah wrote:
Charlotte, obviously distracted by someone shouting 'C'mon Charlotte! from the sidelines at a critical juncture, loses the first set 5-7

Her twitter name is iCharliePearce, so maybe she prefers to be called Charlie.

Not sure that's right. Think she's a Charlotte.

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

Charlie gives a decent showing (on paper) but the gulf in rankings told 5-7 4-6

So, 2 through, 1 more than was guaranteed, and what a one!

Quite a mixed bag amongst the losses veering from encouragement to borderline despair.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Tara's day gets worse - won the first set, well up in the MTB, but still ended up losing the doubles too:

Naomi C & Fran def. Tara & Harriet 4-6 7-6(2) 11-9

paulisi · Tennis legend

Tara is having a mare of a season, about to be re-located from the NTC and I suspect will lose some or all of her funding.

Nice to see so many younger players picking up ranking points - but in reality they should be playing 10Ks and not 25ks where they will be more competitive.

Jodie's run will end tomorrow. Katy is a 50/50 match, Liebens is solid, but nothing special.

Priesty · Challenger level

After her 1 and 3 thrashing by Gabbi in Wimbledon qualies and now this, Arvidsson must be wondering where all these talented young Brits have come from!