Girls: Junior Fed Cup finals, Spain, clay - Grade C (Week 39)

vohor · Grand Slam Champion

RE: Girls: Junior Fed Cup finals, Spain, clay - Grade C (Week 39)

tony_orient · ATP qualifying

Deciding set not going well 0-3, and there is now a time out whatever that means

tony_orient · ATP qualifying

The doubles team lose 4-6 6-4 2-6 cry

Can still qualify but will need a win against Canada, and hard to work out where we can get a second win from in that tie.

TheTraveller2 · Lower Club Player

tony_orient wrote:
The doubles team lose 4-6 6-4 2-6
Can still qualify but will need a win against Canada, and hard to work out where we can get a second win from in that tie.

We have to beat Colombia first who pushed Canada very hard.

DavidC · Tennis legend

The timeout was for Ali receiving treatment on her left leg and "in obvious discomfort throughout" according to the informative ITF blog, with photos, interviews etc. - www.itftennis.com/news/215308.aspx

DavidC · Tennis legend

As we were the only seeded team to lose we end up in the one clash between seeds tomorrow - playing Canada, but not on a streamed court.

philwrig · Hall of fame

Surely Katie has to play doubles, for us to have any chance here. The other 2 are good young players, but a little outclassed at this level.

tony_orient · ATP qualifying

philwrig wrote:
Surely Katie has to play doubles, for us to have any chance here. The other 2 are good young players, but a little outclassed at this level.

It seemed like a strange decision yesterday not to play Katie, and even more so when the doubles team lost. If Ali is injured then there won't be any choice but to play her today but even so beating Canada will be very difficult. Even Katie's match is 6v7 in the world so could go either way.

tony_orient · ATP qualifying

Jodie is playing the 2v2 singles today, and she has made a good start taking the first set 6-3

tony_orient · ATP qualifying

Second set tie-break coming up...

Canada take the tie-break 9-7 cry

Great effort by Jodie so far though.

Canada win 3-6 7-6 (7) 6-1.

Apparently Jodie has 5 match points during the second set, so it was a heartbreaking defeat, even though it was a great effort to be so close given the rankings difference.

-- Edited by tony_orient on Wednesday 30th of September 2015 01:37:11 PM

TheTraveller2 · Lower Club Player

Line up for today in OOP shows Katie and Jodie playing doubles (if that point becomes important I guess).

Great effort from Jodie!

-- Edited by TheTraveller2 on Wednesday 30th of September 2015 01:21:25 PM

paulisi · Tennis legend

It might do as Katie is serving for the opening set.

tony_orient · ATP qualifying

Katie 6-3 4-5 having just broken to stay in the second set.

paulisi · Tennis legend

Katie serving for the match

Japan v Columbia is 1 tie each

tony_orient · ATP qualifying

Katie completes the second set comeback and wins 6-3 7-5

Good to see our junior No.1 following in the footsteps of our senior No.1 with that second set comeback from 2-5!