philwrig wrote:

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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.

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Yes. Wise words from someone who was there. And, like Indy, I would hope/presume that Katie Swan was not injured or else why would she be playing? Although even a little 'tightness' can tip the balance, it's true.

And you've got to have a faint liking for a player from Liechtenstein !

Good job, Scottish lass. (And glad I didn't jinx you)

Shucks. I thought there had to have been a third set. And it didn't go our way. But great effort.

Em App lost to Manon Arc. 1-6 6-4 6-3

 

Well, as Indy would say, that's 2 through to the Quarters. Which is exactly as predicted by the rankings.

 

-- Edited by Coup Droit on Thursday 11th of February 2016 02:04:50 PM

Emily lost against the strong second seed.

Katy Swan's next important tournament is the ITF Junior World Masters...

www.itftennis.com/juniors/tournaments/itf-junior-masters.aspx

...where she can win herself much bigger opportunities than were available here, or next week in Wirral. These are just training weeks.

I presume she's saving her Junior Exempt Wildcards until after her 17th birthday on 24;3;16, so any results from them will count towards her ranking on her 18th birthday, when she can play a full adult schedule.

Only in the event of some minor catastrophe should she have to play any more 10ks after turning 17; she's restricted to playing a maximum of 16 tournaments, so she doesn't get far by grinding along and picking up a maximum of a dozen points per tournament. I am quite relieved, and pleased for her, that she lost today.

The Dartist is through to the semi finals of the doubles winning a MTB

Beth and Manisha are serving for the first set and the other two pairing are yet to start. GB interest in all four pairing in the semi final?

R2: DUNNE, Katy (GBR) 1 329 def BOULTER, Katie (GBR) WC UNR 6-1 7-5
R2: SWAN, Katie (GBR) 526 lost to VON DEICHMANN, Kathinka (LIE) 4 408 4-6 4-6
R2: LUMSDEN, Maia (GBR) WC 1039 def FRANCATI, Emilie (DEN) Q 792 6-3 6-4
R2: APPLETON, Emily (GBR) Q 970 lost to ARCANGIOLI, Manon (FRA) 2 352 6-1 4-6 3-6

QF: DUNNE, Katy (GBR) 1 329 v SUGNAUX, Tess (SUI) 622 CH=456 13/4/15
QF: LUMSDEN, Maia (GBR) WC 1039 v BOEYKENS, Elyne (BEL) 3 360 CH=343 7/12/15

At one point it looked strong favourite for all of our interests to get through, but in the end three out of four ain't bad!

QF: Dart/Arcangioli (GBR/FRA) [1] defeated Tan/Zimmerman (FRA/BEL) 3-6 6-2 [10-6]
QF: Deigman/Corning (GBR/USA) lost to Partaud/Sarrazin (FRA/FRA) [4] 7-5 1-6 [5-10]
QF: Askew/Foster (GBR/GBR) defeated Chiesa/Eklund (ITA/FIN) 6-4 7-5
QF: Arbuthnott/Francati (GBR/DEN) defeated Boeykens/Njiric (BEL/CRO) [2] 6-4 7-6(8)

SF: Dart/Arcangioli (GBR/FRA) [1] vs. Partaud/Sarrazin (FRA/FRA) [4]
SF: Askew/Foster (GBR/GBR) vs. Arbuthnott/Francati (GBR/DEN)