Week 26 - ITF ($10K) - Brussels, Belgium - Clay

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Week 26 - ITF ($10K) - Brussels, Belgium - Clay

tony_orient · ATP qualifying

Good luck to Helen Parish in her first ITF tournament in over 3 years - especially as she comes from just down the road from me!

insomniacfolder · Challenger level

tony_orient wrote:
Good luck to Helen Parish in her first ITF tournament in over 3 years - especially as she comes from just down the road from me!

I heartily second this sentiment. A wonderful testament to her resolve to just be playing at all.

Strongbow · All-time great

QR1: PARISH, Helen (GBR) UNR beat SALAS, Emmanuelle (FRA) UNR (CH 1026 Dec. 2014) age 17 (just) 6-1 2-6 6-4 biggrin
QR1: (WC) WILLIAMS, Zainab (GBR) UNR lost to SCHEPERS, Celine (BEL) UNR, age 17 1-6 2-6 cry

QR2: PARISH, Helen (GBR) UNR v ENGELMANN, Jil Nora (GER) (5) 1098= CH 1012= (03/11/2014)

TennisLover · Strong Club Player

Don't know Helen, but very good win for her. Salas no pushover.

tony_orient · ATP qualifying

Well done Helen!

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Brilliant job, Helen.

Agree with TennisLover, Salas is certainly no pushover: very solid youngster.

Do hope Helen manages to recuperate well. Bravo !

Peter too · Tennis legend

TennisLover wrote:
Don't know Helen, but very good win for her. Salas no pushover.

Helen compiles the lists of best ever wins by British players on Steven's statistics site.

insomniacfolder · Challenger level

As well as the invaluable CH scalp list that Peter mentioned - so good, that I used to click to it the second the final shot if a match was complete to confirm if it was a CH, only to find that the table was already updated in that nanosecond! - Helen still maintains a website, though it's very sparse these days: http://www.helenparish.co.uk/
She used to keep an excellent blog too. I have some of those pages saved, but as she has now deleted it, I won't post them here.
It's just good to see her be able to at least give it a go again. If she still plays anything like she used to, she's a real talent.

Edit: wrong URL

-- Edited by insomniacfolder on Saturday 27th of June 2015 06:06:18 PM

TennisLover · Strong Club Player

Thanks all for the info on Helen. All the best to her.

Peter too · Tennis legend

Q2: PARISH, Helen (GBR) UNR lost to ENGELMANN, Jil Nora (GER) 5 1098 0-3 Ret.

tony_orient · ATP qualifying

Helen's bad luck with injuries continues cry

Hopefully nothing too serious

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

tony_orient wrote:
Helen's bad luck with injuries continues
Hopefully nothing too serious

Unlikely it was an injury - way more probable that it was her ME playing up, which is very difficult, I think, to manage and often leaves her absolutely empty.

philwrig · Hall of fame

Yes I would agree CD, it's an illness that needs managing, so hopefully just a reminder to maybe rein in her ambitions a tad, I mean she has done absolutely brilliantly to get as far as she has in the recovery process, as many don't even make any sort of recovery.