Week 6 - ITF ($10K) - Sunderland, UK Hard

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

RE: Week 6 - ITF ($10K) - Sunderland, UK Hard

DF · Tennis legend

Play has restarted in Katie S's match 3-3

DF · Tennis legend

Katie S lost 4-6 4-6

brendan · Strong Club Player

next match on court 1 is already under way so Katy D obviously did it in 2 sets

Grachka · County player

Not entirely surprised by Katie Swan losing - I've seen Kathinka Von Deichmann play before and she can be very handy, but streakiness anchors her ranking a bit.

Maia has started

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tony_orient · ATP qualifying

DF wrote:
Katie S lost 4-6 4-6

Disappointing result on paper but unsurprising in context. She would have anticipated these being her first competitive matches of the year when doing her scheduling and instead it ended up being just a few days after the biggest matches of her senior career to date. Katie is not the first British woman in recent times to find that playing in a tournament the week after Fed Cup is challenging.

WavenNarsam · Lower Club Player

DF wrote:
Katie S lost 4-6 4-6

Katie just wasn't getting enough of a look in on von Deichmann's serve. Very solid throughout. One positive Katie can take however is every service game she had break points, she broke. I would imagine it's more than likely that the medical timeout was for her, so hopefully there isn't too much of an issue and she can challenge deep into the draw next week at the Wirral.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Well done, Katy D.

Would hope that Maia would win today but as I hoped harriet would win yesterday and she didn't, that might be putting the mockers on her so I'll just say: have a good match !

Emily app's match has also finished but, given the time lag, there's a high chance there was a third set so who knows.....

-- Edited by Coup Droit on Thursday 11th of February 2016 12:16:20 PM

DF · Tennis legend

Maia takes the first set 6-3

indiana · Tennis legend

Hopefully Katie B can get a third counter in Egypt next week to get her ranking back. Indeed hope she goes far.

philwrig · Hall of fame

Totally understandable loss for Katie S, having watched her yesterday. Today was a stepup and her opponent has quality having taken care of one of our top juniors comfortably yesterday, and only being beaten by the eventual winner last week. When Katie's schedule was put together they would have assumed that the Fed Cup experience would have just been a training week, of course instead it turned into one of the best weeks of her tennis life. Hopefully with a few days rest she can reenergise herself for next week. Katie's team will have set targets ranking wise for this year, but at the same time they're not going to push it too hard, as Katie hopefully has a long and very succesful tennis career in front of her.

brendan · Strong Club Player

now next match on court 2 has started - surely Arcangioli couldn't have won that set and another in that time so looks like a fantastic win for Emily

indiana · Tennis legend

Hopefully Emily has won, but she was 4-4 in the second set when contact was lost so I would think a third set was possible.

Grachka · County player

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vohor · Grand Slam Champion

DF wrote:
Katie S lost 4-6 4-6

No bad thing maybe so she doesn't "overdo it" with that injury niggle