Week 45 - ITF ($10K) - Casablanca, Morocco Clay

paulisi · Tennis legend

RE: Week 45 - ITF ($10K) - Casablanca, Morocco Clay

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

Getting close, 6-0 5-5*

steven · Tennis legend

Mirabelle breaks but is 15-40 down serving for the match

steven · Tennis legend

1 bp saved - 30-40
another - deuce

now another bp though
also saved
match point!

steven · Tennis legend

Mirabelle follows up her first WTA point with a career best ranking scalp

L16: (Q) Mirabelle Njoze UNR beat (6/WC) Rita Atik (MAR) WR 954 (CH 759 in Apr; 17yo junior WR 200/CH 143 in Feb) by 0 & 5

QF: (Q) Mirabelle Njoze UNR v Valentina Kulikova (RUS) WR 1142 (= CH; 17yo)

Kulikova upset the 4th seed in R1

Peter too · Tennis legend

duplicate

-- Edited by Peter too on Thursday 6th of November 2014 01:59:17 PM

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

That's very impressive, previous best was a win against WR 1230, which is about the very end of the women's rankings.

Well done Mirabelle!

paulisi · Tennis legend

that's another winnable match.

The Optimist · ATP qualifying

paulisi wrote:
I notice that as Mirabelle is unranked and is low down on the domestic rankings(probably as she is based overseas) she will always get tough draws in qualifying.

Will these ranking points boost her domestic ranking?

I think each WTA point held by a player converts into 250 domestic open ranking points.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Yippee !

(NB thanks for that about the domestic ranking, The Optimist, - had no idea how any of that works . .. )

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

Doubles
R1: Njoze/Rhallab (GBR/MAR) lost to Murta/Parres Azcoitia (POR/ESP) [1] 3-6 2-6

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Poor Mirabelle had quite a few break points early on. Didn't/couldn't take them. And is now getting royally trounced . . . :(

6-0 1-0 to Valentina . . ..

steven · Tennis legend

Mirabelle came down to earth with a bit of a bump, sadly:

QF: (Q) Mirabelle Njoze UNR lost to Valentina Kulikova (RUS) WR 1142 (= CH; 17yo) by 0 & 0