Week 23 - ITF ($10K) - Adana, Turkey Clay

Peter too · Tennis legend

Week 23 - ITF ($10K) - Adana, Turkey Clay

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Mirabelle has the first set 6-1

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

And won the next set 6-1 too.

Strongbow · All-time great

R1: NJOZE, Mirabelle (GBR) 1018 def PAYKOC, Deniz (TUR) WC UNR CH=1184 2013, 17yo JCH=798 6-1 6-1

R2: NJOZE, Mirabelle (GBR) 1018 v FLOOD, Emma (NOR) WC 537 CH=483 (04/05/2015)

Good point for Mirabelle but now a real test!

Strongbow · All-time great

Mirabelle+ through to doubles SF smile

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Mirabelle has the first set 6-2

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Strongbow wrote:
R1: NJOZE, Mirabelle (GBR) 1018 def PAYKOC, Deniz (TUR) WC UNR CH=1184 2013, 17yo JCH=798 6-1 6-1

R2: NJOZE, Mirabelle (GBR) 1018 v FLOOD, Emma (NOR) WC 537 CH=483 (04/05/2015)
Good point for Mirabelle but now a real test!

and Mirabelle says, "Nah, give me a REAL test...." smile

Mirabelle Njoze wins 6-2 6-2

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Beating the fourth seed here will get Mirabelle (who turned 18 a couple of months ago) into the top 1000, about WR 950.

And the 7th seed was knocked out by Cengiz, who also scraped her next match, leaving Mirabelle to play 15 year-old local girl, Cengiz (TUR), WR 944 and junior ITF WR 100, in the quarters

TennisLover · Strong Club Player

Great win for Mirabelle. Looks like her training block work is slowly kicking in based on info gathered from Barnstaple appearance.

She has to maintain her focus with next opponent. Juniors are notoriously very tricky "customers" to play. "You make the play and they feed on it."

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

She's been playing League tennis during the whole of May (and winning easily) so it hasn't been a classic training block.

But her whole year seems nicely planned, as a follow-on from last one - she's got a path and she's following it, with a good club behind her.

And technically she still's a junior herself, so Cengiz might be saying the same re trickiness .... :)

TennisLover · Strong Club Player

Coup Droit wrote:
She's been playing League tennis during the whole of May (and winning easily) so it hasn't been a classic training block.

But her whole year seems nicely planned, as a follow-on from last one - she's got a path and she's following it, with a good club behind her.

And technically she still's a junior herself, so Cengiz might be saying the same re trickiness .... :)

Thanks for further info CD. From what I hear, she is an aggressive offensive player.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Yes, I believe so - haven't seen her play live for a long time but caught some livestream last year and it hasn't changed.

I know one of the UK coaches, though, said she was very tricky to play because she's unpredictable, rushes the net when you wouldn't expect it, goes for clean winner off back off the court balls - certainly sprays a lot of the balls all over the place, from what I can remember, but that's part of the process.

Never heard of the Turkish girl so it'll be interesting; with a vocal home crowd behind her, I imagine, it'll be some match :)

PaulM · Tennis legend

Do you get vocal home crows in 10ks....?

But great win for Mirabelle

Peter too · Tennis legend

R2: NJOZE, Mirabelle (GBR) 1018 def FLOOD, Emma (NOR) 537 6-2 6-2

QF: NJOZE, Mirabelle (GBR) 1018 v CENGIZ, Berfu (TUR) 944 CH=933 13/4/15, 15yo JCH=100

Strongbow · All-time great

PaulM wrote:
Do you get vocal home crows in 10ks....?

But great win for Mirabelle

They might give her the bird wink

Mirabelle + lost their doubles SF to the top seeds 3-6 4-6 cry