Week 20 - ITF ($50K) - Kurume, Japan Grass

Peter too · Tennis legend

Week 20 - ITF ($50K) - Kurume, Japan Grass

DF · Tennis legend

Katy+ won 6-0 6-2

wimdledont · Challenger level

Nice win for Katy overnight should see her very close to the top 300 again.

7-5, 6-2

paulisi · Tennis legend

Excellent stuff. A couple more wins on this trip and the CH may go.
Katy should be seeded next week.

paulisi · Tennis legend

Katy plays the 7th seed, who is ranked very similarly, so a decent draw and a chance to progress.

insomniacfolder · Challenger level

R1: Katy DUNNE (GBR) 316 defeated Miyabi INOUE (JPN) 379 7-5 6-2

R2: Katy DUNNE (GBR) 316 vs. Makoto NINOMIYA (JPN) [7] 300 (CH 280 02/2016)

insomniacfolder · Challenger level

Following success with Sam in Sharm, Despina has perhaps become Anglophilic in teaming up with Katy to winning effect.
Next round a doubles with 4 players who probably hoped to be elsewhere this week.

R1: Dunne/Papamichail (GBR/GRE) defeated Ayukawa/Tanaka (JPN/JPN) 6-0 6-2

QF: Dunne/Papamichail (GBR/GRE) vs. De Vroome/Inoue (NED/JPN)

vohor · Grand Slam Champion

Nice work so far; decent shout in singles R2 :)

insomniacfolder · Challenger level

An exchange of breaks for Katy
*1-1

First set tucked away; one less BP, but one more break.
6-3

-- Edited by insomniacfolder on Thursday 19th of May 2016 04:11:45 AM

insomniacfolder · Challenger level

Katy also trades breaks to start set 2.
6-3 1-1*

And, once more, breaks are exchanged. This set, despite serving over 66% each, both players are only winning 46.2% of first serve points.
6-3 3-3*

Another break, gives Katy a chance, if she can back it up with a hold, to open clear daylight, and really put pressure on the Japanese Seeds service to stay in the match.
6-3 *4-3

But, as only a quarter of all service games had been held in the match that far, the odds were not with Katy. And so it proved. Level again. 4/17 games held now.
6-3 4-4*

The pattern continues, as Katy one again shreds the Japanese serve. But needs to hold herself to close. Stranger things have happened, but not often.
6-3 *5-4

Broken to love
6-3 5-5*

Almost farcical now, as Katy also breaks to love. Come on Katy! Just one hold. Just one. One. Go on! Please?
6-3 *6-5

Katy from *0-40 gets it back to deuce... and a fourth straight point means Adv and MP... doh!... another... gone... but a third...
Right when it mattered, Katy bucks the trend of the match to hold - 22 games, 5 holds of serve. 35 BP in the match, 16 taken.
GSM Dunne
6-3 7-5

-- Edited by insomniacfolder on Thursday 19th of May 2016 05:05:51 AM

kundalini · Specialist Reporter + Intermediate Club Player

In the context of the match, holding to win from 0-40 was both highly unlikely and impressive too.

insomniacfolder · Challenger level

A familiar foe awaits, and a H2H needs re-balancing.
R2: Katy DUNNE (GBR) 316 defeated Makoto NINOMIYA (JPN) [7] 300 6-3 7-5

QF: Katy DUNNE (GBR) 316 vs. Nigina ABDURAIMOVA (UZB) [2] 219 (CH 144 09/2014)
Senior H2H 0-1
2016 Port Pirie, Australia - ITF $25K - Hard - NA [4] - R32, NA won 6-2 3-6 6-4
Junior H2H 0-2
2012 Junior Wimbledon - Grade A - Grass - KD (WC), NA (Q) - R32, NA won 6-2 7-5
2010 Nazmi Bari Cup - Grade 4 - Hard - KD [5], NA [1] - FR, NA won 7-5 6-4

paulisi · Tennis legend

Good - well inside top 300.

Not much to defend for a while, so the CH will almost certainly go over next few weeks.

DF · Tennis legend

Katy + lost 5-7 2-6

tony_orient · ATP qualifying

Good win - and nice to see the top 300 increasingly populated with GB players