Wimbledon Qualifiers

paulisi · Tennis legend

RE: Wimbledon Qualifiers

Peter too · Tennis legend

Q2: MOORE, Tara (GBR) WC 382 lost to SASNOVICH, Aliaksandra (BLR) 22 136 6-2 2-6 3-6
Q2: DUNNE, Katy (GBR) WC 315 lost to HOGENKAMP, Richel (NED) 13 123 2-6 5-7
Q2: SWAN, Katie (GBR) WC 866 lost to PASZEK, Tamira (AUT) 3-6 3-6

PaulM · Tennis legend

Tara and Nik broken serving for the set

Peter too · Tennis legend

Tara & Nic take it on their opponents serve, at I think the 5th set point.

PaulM · Tennis legend

Miss four individual set points at 6-5*, but take the fifth!!

7-5 *0-0

C'mon!

Katy and Harriet lost the first set 6-1 but are an early break to the good in the second.

indiana · Tennis legend

Pity re the singles, but tough asks as they say.

Still, 20 points useful to all 3, with provisionally on points to date for the post Wimbledon rankings :

Katy D : 129 points, approximately WR 312, GB no 4

Tara : 98 points, approximately WR 365, GB no 8

Katie S : 33 points, approximately WR 620, GB no 13

Tara's general game seems to have been operating reasonably well again for some time. If she could just sort out that serve !!

-- Edited by indiana on Wednesday 24th of June 2015 05:07:07 PM

PockyTastic · Futures level

Not impressed with the BBCs reporting of today's action at Roehampton. Instead of highlighting Evans' win they have elected to pick Katie Swans defeat as a headline. Looking forward to players "crashing out" at Wimbledon next week.

tony_orient · ATP qualifying

PockyTastic wrote:
Not impressed with the BBCs reporting of today's action at Roehampton. Instead of highlighting Evans' win they have elected to pick Katie Swans defeat as a headline. Looking forward to players "crashing out" at Wimbledon next week.

Not the first time the BBC have seemingly left the tennis reporting to the most miserable person in the office.

Babfive · Satellite level

Tara and Nicola lost 7-5 4-6 2-6 cry

Harriet and Katy lost 1-6 3-6 cry

Oakland2002 · All-time great

The BBC have just reported the facts, I don't think they have been critical at all of Katy just said she did well yesterday beating a player just outside the top 100 and lost today to an even better player with a Wimbledon main draw pedigree. Dans success is acknowledged as is his past achievements and present predicament pretty fair really.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Brief résumé:

If Katie Swan were an experienced 24 year-old, ranked 200 in the world, one might make comments like "missed too many first serves on key moments" or "second serve too soft" or "didn't play the break points well" or whatever. Because she had her chances and, purely tennis wise, it was actually pretty close.

But given she's 16, practically unranked and with almost zero experience in adults, the girl played brilliantly, there's only praise. A great debut, Katie.

Katy D looked a little lightweight against Hogenkamp which, again, is only to be expected given the ranking difference. But, in Katy style, she hussled and managed to get some momemtum in the second, constructing some nice points round her forehand. The result was never in doubt (in my view) but Katy Did Good.

Tara again showed some great stuff on court. And seemingly she'd hurt (even broken?) her finger - didn;t actually notice it, although I did see that she was slicing nearly all her backhands (but thought that was out of choice as it was quite effective). It was a good fight. Certainly the DFs don't help - although, for instance, she served 3 in one game in the first set which made no difference - lost the game but won the set easily. The other girl also served some shocking DFs on key points. It was all very close and tunred, really, at 3-3 in the third when Tara had lots of points to win that game, and didn't make it, and that really switched the tide. You couldn't call it a match that got away. But Tara was well up to the level and it was a good game, with lots of positive stuff for tara to take from it.

Re the doubles, Harriet still looks lost on a doubles court (as she did at Surbiton), Katy not hugely better - the girls got a bit of court time and hit some nice singles shots but it wasn't a contest. Tara and Nik did well (not sure why tara was on the BH if her finger was stopping her BH, and Nik missed quite a lot of FH returns of serve) - but proper doubles, Larsson played very well, a good game by all.

Happycynic · Pro player

Nik S was talking about Tara's broken finger on twitter.

Spectator · All-time great

Thanks so much to all for the commentary and scores - but especially to CD ... really lovely. One feels as if one were there (and given insights one wouldn't have oneself!)

Oakland2002 · All-time great

Did anyone see Paszek play today, I hear she lost a tiebreak from 6-1 up in the second set. Looks like Katy got her on a good day!

TennisLover · Strong Club Player

Oakland2002 wrote:
Did anyone see Paszek play today, I hear she lost a tiebreak from 6-1 up in the second set. Looks like Katy got her on a good day!

Did not see her play but I know she is on the comeback trail after a long spell out due to injury. That's why I thought Katie had good odds against her. She probably got her on a day when she could put some of her game together.