Week 37 - ITF ($10K) - Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt Hard

Peter too · Tennis legend

Week 37 - ITF ($10K) - Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt Hard

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Sabrina and Madrie won their first round doubles match, 6-0 6-2

Next, up against each other in the singles.

Strongbow · All-time great

Still. Sabrina is picking up pts more regularly. smile

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Sabrina lost her singles, 3 & 3

Peter too · Tennis legend

R2: CHRISTIE, Freya (GBR) 3 682 v KAZIONOVA, Ekaterina (RUS) WC 980 =CH, 16yo JCH=76

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Freya's match has just started.

It'll be interesting to see how these couple of weeks go.

The fields in Egypt are pretty poor (weaker than usual - surprised more aren't out there - the 15k men's event is feeble and points waiting to be given away).

Good chance for Freya to make some decent inroads and amass some points and wins.

However, she's drawn a good junior (on a par with Freya's best junior ranking) who's also made the final of a 10k a few weeks back.

Etienne · Club Coach

Lots of breaks, with Kazionova winning a surprising amount of points off Christie's first serve. But Christie takes the set 6-4.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Freya lost the the second set. Overall practically equal on all stats.

And it was 4-4 in the third, with the last game going on for over 20 mins by my reckoning.

But Freya got it in the end, so now receiving for the match.

add: now 5-5

add: and into a tie-break....

-- Edited by Coup Droit on Thursday 17th of September 2015 06:34:59 PM

Etienne · Club Coach

Six straight points from 1-3 in the tie break. Good win.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

lordy, that was close..... right up to 3-3 in the third set TB. When suddenly Freya put together 4 points and too the TB 7-3

And now onto the doubles - I think she's going to need some extra calories tonight.

Well done, Freya.

Etienne · Club Coach

Her doubles partner has knocked out the top seed, and the 6th seed has withdrawn. I know seedings are a bit random at this level, but it does seem to be opening up a bit.

TennisLover · Strong Club Player

Well done Freya for pulling through that tricky one. Keep it up.

Peter too · Tennis legend

R2: CHRISTIE, Freya (GBR) 3 682 def KAZIONOVA, Ekaterina (RUS) WC 980 6-4 3-6 7-6(3)

QF: CHRISTIE, Freya (GBR) 3 682 v LE ROUX, Madrie (RSA) 8 953 CH=543 2014

Strongbow · All-time great

Good 2 pts for Freya smile

Sadly Sabrina+ lost their doubles so only 1 doubles pt for Sabrina cry

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Freya and partner also won their doubles, 6-3 6-2.

They play an unseeded pair who got a walkover against the second seeds.