Well done Maia - one win away from avoid having to qualify for the Wirral 10K

Well done Maia. That was an excellent win.

Maia doesn't take career best ranking scalps by halves does she - that's the third time in a row she's taken a career best ranking scalp in straight sets with one of the sets being a bagel!

Happily, Maia stopped quite a rare occurrence.
Has she not won, the top 4 seeds would have made the SF. As it is, only three got through because of our spoiler

I remember that last year several people pondered about Maia (re the top 10 predictions) but - as with the others - wondered how much adult and junior tennis she was going to play, what split she'd go for.

She's not down for any of the junior events that I can see and, unlike Ema, is not in the LTA camp so doesn't have her schedule made up for her (and is also almost a year older, being Jan. and Ema being Dec.).

So there's a good chance that she is going 100% (or almost) for adult tennis. Rather like Freya last year, keeping her toe in the water of juniors, for Wimbly etc., but not much more.

It's been a brilliant start to the year. And with such a good team, and family, around her, it's exciting times.

DF wrote:

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Maia wins 6-0 6-4
SHE WAS ON FIRE ESPECIALLY IN THAT FIRST SET!

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YAY, well done Maia :D