Week 29 - ITF ($50K) - Granby, Canada Hard

Julia Carrot · All-time great

RE: Week 29 - ITF ($50K) - Granby, Canada Hard

Julia Carrot · All-time great

tony_orient wrote:
Pretty sure none of those (now 10 dfs) were Laura's fault. She was either put off by her opponent or forced to go for it by Naomi's quality of returns
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Definitely

Julia Carrot · All-time great

smile smile smile smile smile smile smile smile smile

We have a win

Was that a semi or a quarter final ?

tony_orient · ATP qualifying

Robson/Routcliffe 7 - 6 7 - 5 Broady/Hesse

Laura clearly dominated the match, whereas Naomi was let down by her partner.

Julia Carrot · All-time great

tony_orient wrote:
Robson/Routcliffe 7 - 6 7 - 5 Broady/Hesse

Laura clearly dominated the match, whereas Naomi was let down by her partner.

I'm sure you're right

tony_orient · ATP qualifying

Julia Carrot wrote:
We have a win
Was that a semi or a quarter final ?

That was the semi-final. Their opponents haven't played yet though.

Spectator · All-time great

I suppose it's a good thing that there are so many GB v GB matches today (sign of success and all) ... well done to Ms Robson; hard luck to Ms Broady

-- Edited by Spectator on Friday 24th of July 2015 08:22:28 PM

Julia Carrot · All-time great

tony_orient wrote:
Julia Carrot wrote:
We have a win
Was that a semi or a quarter final ?
That was the semi-final. Their opponents haven't played yet though.

Well I bet they are very chuffed to be finalists. Apparently they only met the day before their first match.

Not sure if a link to this article has been posted here

http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/jul/24/laura-robson-comeback

philwrig · Hall of fame

In all seriousness, there's a good chance Routliffe is contributing to the DF count, she served 10 in her singles which didn't last very long.
She also reached the final of the doubles here last year, but had to scratch in the final.

philwrig · Hall of fame

Julia Carrot wrote:
tony_orient wrote:
Julia Carrot wrote:
We have a win
Was that a semi or a quarter final ?
That was the semi-final. Their opponents haven't played yet though.
Well I bet they are very chuffed to be finalists. Apparently they only met the day before their first match.
Not sure if a link to this article has been posted here
http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/jul/24/laura-robson-comeback

There's also a nice little video to go with the report.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMVYd6EMiKc&feature=youtu.be

Spectator · All-time great

Thanks for the link to the Guardian article - a nice piece and suggests that she's (no surprise) very grounded and ready to get back So glad they made the final.

Oakland2002 · All-time great

In a way it must be great just to be playing tennis week in week out, although one doesn't necessarily put the two together, she is the same age as Kedders and from the way she has been preparing her comeback seems to have a similar mindset. Stay fit, train well and play, the rest interns of performance and ranking will look after itself, should be a great journey to be part of over the next 18 months? Nice start, thanks for posting the link!

insomniacfolder · Challenger level

QF: Johanna KONTA (GBR) [1] 126 defeated Naomi BROADY (GBR) [7] 225 6-3 6-3

SF: Johanna KONTA (GBR) [1] 126 vs. Victoria RODRÍGUEZ (MEX) 323 (CH: 301 05/2015)
Last week Rodgríguez won the silver medal at the Pan-American Games in Toronto, defeating Sachia Vickery & Monica Puig along the way.

Doubles
SF: (WC) Laura ROBSON/Erin ROUTLIFFE (GBR/CAN) 1994 defeated Naomi BROADY/Amandine HESSE (GBR/FRA) [2] 296 7-6(4) 7-5

F: (WC) Laura ROBSON/Erin ROUTLIFFE (GBR/CAN) 1994 vs. Storm SANDERS/Jessica MOORE (AUS/AUS) 582

LordBrownof · Futures level

It's hard to not look grounded in that article! It's so funny that they write about her as if she was some Serena Williams type character - "Oh how AWFUL it must be that someone like Laura Robson is playing a 50K!". She has one ITF tournament win, guys.

But yes, much more importantly she's got the right attitude. She looks and sounds hungry to get back to the top and however frustrating it must be to know your game is good enough to beat Li Na, Kvitova, Clijsters et al but not be able to produce it yet, she's got exactly the right mental attitude and I hope, the right team around her to get back there.

Physically, she looks much stronger in the upperbody too which with her game is no bad thing.

Oakland2002 · All-time great

I don't think there was any suggestion that it's awful, just not the level that she was playing at before she was injured. Fortunately she was too good too quickly to make ITF tournaments particularly relevant in her development. The Wimbledon juniors win at 14 being a better marker of pedigree and of not playing too much ITF tennis.

Personally I think Wimbledon qualifiers would have been the pace to start but I can see that psychologically a decent showing in the first round main draw, just getting a feel for and wetting the appetite for big time tennis, had a lot of motivational merit. Just a bit of tennis coverage in a guardian full of the tour was sight for sore eyes, aren't cycling fans thugs, chucking urine at players wouldn't wash down the Den!