Week 12 - ITF ($25K) - Naples, FL - US - Clay

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Week 12 - ITF ($25K) - Naples, FL - US - Clay

Peter too · Tennis legend

Week 12 - ITF ($25K) - Naples, USA Clay

Peter too · Tennis legend

Week 12 - ITF ($25K) - Naples, FL - US - Clay

scottie1 · Futures level

Ali is from Dunblane and is highly thought of by Judy Murray

Mervatron · Masters Series Champion

Anyone know why she got the WC?

DF · Tennis legend

Got a wc in doubles as well but although showing on livescore it is the only match where there is no score

DF · Tennis legend

DF wrote:
Got a wc in doubles as well but although showing on livescore it is the only match where there is no score

Found the result. Ali+ won 6-2 0-6 10-8

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

scottie1 wrote:
Ali is from Dunblane and is highly thought of by Judy Murray

She's an exciting player. Saw her at Roehampton.

She's at the Sanchez-Casal place in Florida now. Can only be to the good.

insomniacfolder · Challenger level

DF wrote:
DF wrote:
Got a wc in doubles as well but although showing on livescore it is the only match where there is no score
Found the result. Ali+ won 6-2 0-6 10-8

That seems a rather good win. Jamie Loeb is a good player and has shown good form of late.

R1: (WC) Collins/Emma (GBR/USA) defeated Loeb/Marand (USA/USA) 6-2 0-6 [10-8]
QF: (WC) Collins/Emma (GBR/USA) vs. Solovyeva/Zanevska (RUS/UKR) [4]

Peter too · Tennis legend

R1: COLLINS, Ali (GBR) WC UNR v GRYMALSKA, Anastasia (ITA) Q 330 CH=213 2014

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Ali was 0-2 down, but broke back.

Now *1-2

Spectator · All-time great

Agreed - that's a really nice doubles win. Hope singles can go well, too.

DF · Tennis legend

Ali lost the first set 1-6

DF · Tennis legend

No fairy tale ending -lost 1-6 0-6

wimdledont · Challenger level

These unexplained wildcards...

First Freya, as I understood it, got a wildcard bought for her by the LTA, for a 25k tournament in Australia. That seemed fair enough, as the previous week she skipped a 75k to warm an LTA bench at the Fed Cup. Though this was the first I'd heard that wildcards to overseas tournaments could be bought...

So is Ali's WC here awarded to her because the USTA had no available suitable candidates? Or because the LTA bought it?

No offence to Ali, but I'd suggest that it would be better to invest LTA funds in staging 25ks in te UK, and getting more UK women competing for points and prizes; rather than a committee deciding that Ali deserves the only shot at it, as she's from Dunblane.