Week 28 - ITF ($50K) - Stockton, USA Hard

Peter too · Tennis legend

Week 28 - ITF ($50K) - Stockton, USA Hard

Rich · Lower Club Player

C'mon Naomi. Hope for a good week and a good start here.

Jaggy1876 · Grand Slam Champion

Naomi lost in 3 sets I'm afraid

Rich · Lower Club Player

Oh dear not the news we wanted against an unranked player.

Strongbow · All-time great

Maegan Manasse is a good US college player - her ranking is now 941. She played her first ITF in a year 2 weeks ago (25k) and got to the QF. Bit of a ringer.

Grachka · County player

Manasse appears to be a reasonably handy college player. She beat (another handy college player) Samantha Crawford a couple of weeks back.

Peter too · Tennis legend

Q1: CAVADAY, Naomi (GBR) 4 375 lost to MANASSE, Maegan (USA) WC UNR 4-6 6-3 4-6

Mervatron · Masters Series Champion

Hmmm. Still one you'd expect Naomi to win by now.

She seems to have stalled a bit this year and not made the same kind of progress. Hopefully just a blip before the next big surge.

Strongbow · All-time great

Rankings are only indicative if the player is playing WTA/ITF regularly. 6 months ago Katie Swan would have been UNR. The American college tennis is much stronger than in the UK and they have no problems transitioning to WTA/ITF.

paulisi · Tennis legend

Emily has drawn Hesse
Naomi is seeded 8 and has drawn a qualifier - given the standard of qualifiers that may be tough....

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

In the doubles, Naomi is playing with Amandine Hesse, second seeds.

And Em is playing with Hibino (JAP)

Oakland2002 · All-time great

Stockton may be a bit of dump although Dallas Brayden loves it. There are however two elite college tennis programmes within an hour or so drive.

Manasse is a bit more than a decent college player being all PAC 12 first team, a conference containg at least 4 elite tennis programmes at UCLA, USC, Stanford and Cal ( the later just round the corner and Manasse's college) and ranked 4 in the NCAA which is a different league to say Mitchel Franks on the men's side who this time last year was decent but does not have the same pedigree. He gave Liam Broady a pretty tough summer, skewing the seeding and on occasions knocking him out in the early rounds. So when put in that context Naomi s loss having presumably just flown in is not quite so bad.

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Peter too · Tennis legend

Q1: CAVADAY, Naomi (GBR) 4 375 lost to MANASSE, Maegan (USA) WC UNR 4-6 6-3 4-6

R1: WEBLEY-SMITH, Emily (GBR) 330 v HESSE, Amandine (FRA) 229 CH=183 8/9/14
R1: BROADY, Naomi (GBR) 8 225 v EL TABAKH, Heidi (CAN) Q 370 CH=146 2012
H2H 0-1
Fort Walton Beach 2009 2-6 3-6

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Naomi and Amandine won their doubles 6-3 6-3

PaulM · Tennis legend

What do we know about Amandine, CD?