Week 5 - ITF ($10K) - Glasgow, UK Hard

Mervatron · Masters Series Champion

RE: Week 5 - ITF ($10K) - Glasgow, UK Hard

indiana · Tennis legend

Great stuff overall by Maia and Katie.

Maia, clearly concerned about Katie striding straight back into the top 25 table, has taken herself out of the potential relegation spot and dropped Manisha to current #25 for Monday week, in spite of Manisha's own well earned point this wee ( Emily App, holding a watching brief at #23 decided she better get a point too ).

All this to and froing should be helping us towards soon hopefully having all our top 25 back in the top 1000, with Maia, Katie, and indeed Manisha headed for much higher ground.

Would be great to have a Maia vs Katie final. C'mon girls!

-- Edited by indiana on Friday 5th of February 2016 06:03:29 PM

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Mervatron wrote:
Great stuff. Would be great to have an all British final.

Surely Katie B will have an injury protected ranking?

Seemingly not.

Some clever person said somewhere a few pages back (or another thread) that protected rankings only apply to people in the top 300, which Katie B wasn't when she got injured (or ever, in fact). Hence, no protected ranking for her.

insomniacfolder · Challenger level

Just to confuse the focus for GB fans this morning, both SF's are now in the warm up.
Best of luck to Ms. Boulter & Ms. Lumsden for an all GB final.

wimdledont · Challenger level

The semi-finals are about to start, with Maia and Katie hoping to make it the first all-Brit final at women's 10k level since, er, the last time we put on one of these.

DF · Tennis legend

Maia starting well 2-0 up

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Never heard of Maia's 18 year-old Roumanian opponent - who doesn't have a stellar junior history (made JWR 101) - and with an adult ranking that is based almost solely on one good run to the final in a Sharm 10k - Maia must be the favourite.....

DF · Tennis legend

Maia 5-2
Katie 1-3

DF · Tennis legend

First set to Maia 6-2

DF · Tennis legend

Katie lost her first set 3-6

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Katie's opponent seems to be a different kettle of fish from Maia's - a 24 year-old who has played a seriously large amount of tennis, caught in that trap of hovering between 10ks and richer events, playing a good mixture of both but not quite confirming the move up.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Great job, Maia - winning 6-2 6-3

Bet younger brother was shouting loud

wimdledont · Challenger level

Maia wins 6-2, 6-3, and will hopefully now get lots of positive local attention, in her home tournament final.

paulisi · Tennis legend

Excellent win for Maia. Not looking too good for Katie B though.

insomniacfolder · Challenger level

Maia cruised, but one step too far for Katie in an otherwise highly encouraging return.

SF: (WC) Katie BOULTER (GBR) UNR lost to Anna ZAJA (GER) [6] 501 3-6 2-6

SF: (WC) Maia LUMSDEN (GBR) 1037 defeated (Q) Karola Patricia BEJENAR (ROU) 971 6-2 6-3

F: (WC) Maia LUMSDEN (GBR) 1037 vs. Anna ZAJA (GER) [6] 501 (CH 312 02/2013)