Week 17 - ITF ($25K) - Chiasso, Switzerland Clay

wimdledont · Challenger level

Week 17 - ITF ($25K) - Chiasso, Switzerland Clay

Michael D · All-time great

Whilst Mandy's first serve is metronomic, she does tend to roll them in, and second set it's clear that Ruse has decided to attack Mandy's serve - and has done so successfully. Mandy's first serve points won has dropped from 75% to 31.6% and she's been broken three times. Ruse serving for the set 6-4 2-5*

...which she duly holds, 6-4 2-6. Mandy is going to need to do something more in the third set herself to hold Ruse off.

-- Edited by Michael D on Saturday 30th of April 2016 11:30:19 AM

wimdledont · Challenger level

Samesame but opposite in set 2, as Mandy broke for 2-0, and loses the set 2-6...

6-4, 2-6, ?-?...

wimdledont · Challenger level

Mandy has been rash enough to break Ruse early in the third, 2-0.

wimdledont · Challenger level

So this is now the best week of her professional career.

Mandy 6-4, 2-6, 6-2

-- Edited by wimdledont on Saturday 30th of April 2016 12:06:32 PM

DF · Tennis legend

Yey ! Well done Amanda 6-2 in the third. The final here we come !

Michael D · All-time great

Whoopee! Really wonderful come back there from Mandy in the third set, regained her first serve winning percentage. biggrin

A wonderful 30 points so far in the week for Mandy, and a final to come! smile smile

Michael D · All-time great

SF: (Q) Amanda Carreras WR 385 beat (Q) Elena Gabriela Ruse (ROU) WR 370 (CH 369 last week), aged 18, JCH 7 6-4 2-6 6-2

F: (Q) Amanda Carreras WR 385 vs (5) Isabella Shinikova (BUL) WR 225 (= CH)

Strongbow · All-time great

Well done Amanda

indiana · Tennis legend

Very well done, Amanda

While most of Ruse's recent run has been in 10Ks against no particularly higher ranked players than Amanda and most much lower, she has got very used to winning and had stepped up this week. Well done !

cakj1234 · Lower Club Player

Brilliant. I believe top 300 if she wins final.

indiana · Tennis legend

cakj1234 wrote:
Brilliant. I believe top 300 if she wins final.

No, won't be that high, probably about WR 310 - 315. She has 15 points coming off on Monday and 3 a week on Monday when her potential 51 points would go on.

Monday 02.05 : 93 - 15 + 1 = 79

Monday 09,05 : 79 - 3 + 31 or 51 = 107 or 127

Still great to see.

-- Edited by indiana on Saturday 30th of April 2016 07:31:27 PM

wimdledont · Challenger level

Unfortunately, Mandy is due to drop 15 points from this time last year, so she started the week on 79 points, ironically level with Laura Robson. Her net 30 points for winning 6 matches here now equates, in the parrallel reality of the WTA computer, with Laura's match win in Morroco; so they are tied again on WR341. If Mandy wins tomorrow, she'll move to WR312, but only 4 points short of the top 300, with nothing much to defend in May.

A win tomorrow would be her 250th career ITF main draw win. She has never played a main draw WTA match, having never been offered a WTA main draw wildcard. If fact, just 2 WTA q wildcards AFAICT, both at Wimbledon.

She has reached an ITF 25k final before, in 2012, but not by coming through qualifying.

Shinikova, the other finalist, was the stand-out player in ITF 10ks in 2015, with 8 singles titles. But Mandy was not so far behind, with 4.

www.itftennis.com/procircuit/players/player/profile.aspx

Michael D · All-time great

wimdledont wrote:
Unfortunately, Mandy is due to drop 15 points from this time last year, so she started the week on 79 points, ironically level with Laura Robson. Her net 30 points for winning 6 matches here now equates, in the parrallel reality of the WTA computer, with Laura's match win in Morroco; so they are tied again on WR341. If Mandy wins tomorrow, she'll move to WR312, but only 4 points short of the top 300, with nothing much to defend in May.

A win tomorrow would be her 250th career ITF main draw win. She has never played a main draw WTA match, having never been offered a WTA main draw wildcard. If fact, just 2 WTA q wildcards AFAICT, both at Wimbledon.

She has reached an ITF 25k final before, in 2012, but not by coming through qualifying.

Shinikova, the other finalist, was the stand-out player in ITF 10ks in 2015, with 8 singles titles. But Mandy was not so far behind, with 4.

www.itftennis.com/procircuit/players/player/profile.aspx

Considering Mandy has played virtually all her career on clay, it was very surprising last year to see she reached the Surbiton 50k QF with her first foray onto grass for some time - and then that she didn't play in any further grass tournaments before the Wimbledon QF. It will be interesting to see if she does a little more on the surface this year. I'd also love to see her break finally into the actual 200s!

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

I saw Mandy play on grass twice last year and, although she plays as a clay player, she actually (in my view) has certain skills on it - she keeps low (as clay courters do, and she's not that tall) so the low bounce doesn't undo her (as it does some of the tall girls) - and she's lithe and nimble, so reacts well to the speed, with good reflexes - net, net, she's never going to be a good grass courter (she won her first round at Surbiton against Fran which, honestly, was not a great match), but she's not useless - and her performance at the Wimbly qualifiers was very respectable - she played the hardest QR1 match, in my opinion, against a very able Mandy Minella.