Week 17 - WTA International ($250K) - Marrakech, Morocco - Clay

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

Week 17 - WTA International ($250K) - Marrakech, Morocco - Clay

Peter too · Tennis legend

Joss and Anna are on third after an 11am start so around 2pm.

vohor · Grand Slam Champion

At least a decent shout in R1 this week albeit the #1 seeds lie in wait; GL Girls :)

paulisi · Tennis legend

Joss and Anna about to start - ranked at 90 today.

PaulM · Tennis legend

Drop the first set 6-4 on a sudden death deuce point after being 3-1* up (lots of deuce games in that set, very close)

4-6 *3-0 now though

-- Edited by PaulM on Monday 27th of April 2015 02:26:49 PM

PaulM · Tennis legend

4-0* becomes *4-3

PaulM · Tennis legend

Broken to 15 serving for the set

5-5*

paulisi · Tennis legend

tie break and about to force a MTB

PaulM · Tennis legend

Take the tiebreak 7-1

4-6 7-1 *0-0

PaulM · Tennis legend

Scoreboard does some funny tricks, first showing the girls as quadruple match point down at 5-9*, then eventually re-jigging to *7-8, but after missing a match point at 9-8* they go out 6-4 6-7(1) 11-9

I know it's clay and it's tough for them, but they do seem to have hit a bit of a wall on the Tour . All very well cleaning up ITFs but they need to be winning these matches now, they're not making the progress as a pair I was hoping/expecting so far in 2015, losing to a few iffy pairs and getting whalloped by those which are established. With 42 points coming off next Monday they are precariously close to dropping back out side the top 100.

-- Edited by PaulM on Monday 27th of April 2015 03:30:15 PM

philwrig · Hall of fame

Another heartbreaking loss, after looking out of it 8-5 down in the MTB getting to MP. Ah well, I wonder where they will play next, maybe Strasbourg, not high enough ranked for RG.

PaulM · Tennis legend

philwrig wrote:
Another heartbreaking loss, after looking out of it 8-5 down in the MTB getting to MP. Ah well, I wonder where they will play next, maybe Strasbourg, not high enough ranked for RG.

France for the 100k then 50k+H? Then Strasbourg as you say before a week training on the grass during the first week of the French?

With some big scores to come off in July, the grass is an important time of year. Plenty of great opportunities for them too though.

paulisi · Tennis legend

They are clearly too good to be playing 10/25k ITF and not consistent enough to play WTA events regularly, so need to focus on 50-100k events. The only issue is that there aren't that many of them around(scheduling is horrendous)

PaulM · Tennis legend

I think thats the exact issue Paulisi. They are slightly in no mans land at the moment but hopefully they can find a way.

They could have sneaked this one, but 2 doubles in a MTB is a big giveaway. Very small margins in that match.

indiana · Tennis legend

Joss and Anna should hold onto top 100 spots until June even with no additions.

But in the two months from their 115 Nottingham 75K title points coming off on 08/06 they are defending a little matter of 500 points.

Given that next Monday they will have 790 points in total ( 817 - 42 + 15 ) that's quite a whack over a pretty short period.

So hopefully they can step it up again over the coming weeks and into the grass season.