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

Peter too · Tennis legend

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

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Wow - way to go, Savannah !!!!

So Alex loses out and Savannah comes through - all's fair in love and war

Congrats and best of luck in the MD.

paulisi · Tennis legend

Sorry, but that score is not the score on the ITF site.

Savannah lost 6-2 6-2 - that result was Savannah's win over Serena....

Main draw is out.

Lucy got in as a lucky loser and drew the girl she lost to
Harriet got Katie B
Generally a rubbish draw for the Brits.

Grachka · County player

(1) Fatma Al-Nabhani OMA vs. WC Maia Lumsden GBR
Q Manisha Foster GBR vs. Tess Sugnaux SUI
Katharina Hering GER vs. Q Mia Nicole Eklund FIN
Julie Gervais FRA vs. (7) Magdalena Frech POL

(3) Katharina Lehnert PHI vs. Francesca Stephenson GBR
Emma Flood NOR vs. LL Yixuan Li CHN
Q Karola Patricia Bejenaru ROM vs. Q Theo Gravouil FRA
Q Amelie Intert GER vs. (8) Natalija Sipek SLO

(5) Klaartje Liebens BEL vs. WC Eden Richardson GBR
WC Emily Appleton GBR vs. Anna Klasen GER
Luisa Marie Huber GER vs. Kimberley Zimmermann BEL
WC Katie Boulter GBR vs. (4) Harriet Dart GBR

(6) Anna Zaja GER vs. Nina Stadler SUI
LL Lucy Brown GBR vs. Q Nikki Luttikhuis NED
Q Charlotte Klasen GER vs. Yukun Zhang CHN
Q Deborah Chiesa ITA vs. (2) Kathinka Von Deichmann LIE

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Aw shucks - sometimes when something looks too good to be true - it IS too good to be true.

PeterM - I blame you for getting me all excited for Savannah ! (Not really,

, hey - it felt nice for a while.....)

And, yes, that's a pretty grim draw.....

paulisi · Tennis legend

I'll predict two GB girl singles winners

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

paulisi wrote:
I'll predict two GB girl singles winners

Well, one is a given smile

But who are you going for? In terms of the other. Or who's most likely?

It's got to be Manisha, I'd have thought, who has the biggest chance. And Lucy may well manage to get her own back (it often seems to happen when people play twice in a row like that).

I don't know the foreign opponents so hard to say but I can't see Fran or Emily App or Maia or Eden causing an upset - the draw has not been kind.

Strongbow · All-time great

Another well organized disaster for British tennis. Most of the girls who might score a point would have done a lot better elsewhere. cry

Why can't they run a 10k at the same time as the 50ks etc so the hopefulls have a decent chance of getting some points.

Sorry for this being a bit of a rant, but I don't see we are benefiting from this.

indiana · Tennis legend

So 4 of our 7 non seeds get drawn again seeds 1, 3, 4 and 5. That could have come out better.

Interesting to see how the match between the returning Katie B and Harriet goes.

Peter too · Tennis legend

A few stats about the UK entries and their opponents:-

R1: LUMSDEN, Maia (GBR) WC 1037 v AL NABHANI, Fatma (OMA) 1 383 CH=362 2010
H2H 1-0
Glasgow 2012 6-3 6-0

R1: FOSTER, Manisha (GBR) Q 1030 v SUGNAUX, Tess (SUI) 616 CH=456 13/4/15
H2H 0-1
Glasgow 2014 3-6 7-6(11) 1-6

R1: STEPHENSON, Francesca (GBR) 736 v LEHNERT, Katharina (PHI) 3 438 CH=389 2013
H2H 0-1
Sharm El Sheikh 2015 5-7 6-7(3)

R1: RICHARDSON, Eden (GBR) WC UNR v LIEBENS, Klarte (BEL) 5 463 CH=295 16/2/15
R1: APPLETON, Emily (GBR) WC 970 v KLASEN, Anna (GER) 625 CH=426 6/4/15
R1: BOULTER, Katie (GBR) WC UNR v DART, Harriet (GBR) 446
R1: BROWN, Lucy (GBR) LL 875 v LUTTIKHUIS, Nikki (NED) Q 1089 CH=1070 28/9/15

paulisi · Tennis legend

Manisha is my best bet. Don't write off Maia though.

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

Lucy as LL is drawn against the girl that beat her in FQR.
Time to engage the sweet irony machine with a corrective win then.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

paulisi wrote:
Manisha is my best bet. Don't write off Maia though.

Well, that head to head is absolutely convincing ! (although a few years back now).

Wouldn't it be great?

Going to be interesting to see how Maia juggles adult and junior tennis this year (but I love her set-up - assuming she's still largely over in the Netherlands? - and her coach - she seems in a 'happy' place with her tennis).

But, yes, I had Manisha as top pick, too.

(Didn't realise that Fran had played the German/Philippines girls so recently too, and it had been so close).

BradMarx90 · County player

We had one of our guys on site who watched Alexandra Hunter's FQR match. Makes a good read if you fancy it, she did very well.

britennis.com/2016/02/03/plucky-hunter-falls-just-short-in-quest-for-glasgow-main-draw/

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Brilliant. Thanks Brad.

She's only 15 - fitness and stamina will be an issue on a like-for-like basis (although Theo is only 17, but two years can make a big difference at that age).

Appreciate the read.