Week 20 - ITF ($25K) - Goyang, Korea Hard

paulisi · Tennis legend

Week 20 - ITF ($25K) - Goyang, Korea Hard

RBBOT · Futures qualifying

It's a hard court tournament in clay season, so I'm not surprised it lacks high ranking players.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Great job, girls !

And the WC put out the third seed so Harriet now gets the Korean wildcard player.

Freya gets a 17 year-old who was JWR 35 and won a Grade 2 last October but has been playing only adult tennis really in the last 12 months and doing pretty well, making her way up nicely, but not spectacularly.

insomniacfolder · Challenger level

R1: Freya CHRISTIE, Freya (GBR) [4] 353 defeated Ye-Ra LEE (KOR) 528 5-7 6-1 6-3

R1: Harriet DART (GBR) 509 defeated Beatrice GUMULYA (INA) 650 7-5 7-5

R2: Freya CHRISTIE, Freya (GBR) [4] 353 vs. Bunyawi THAMCHAIWAT (THA) 564 (=CH - 17 yo, JCH 35 01/2016)
R2: Harriet DART (GBR) 509 vs. (WC) Yeong Won JEONG (KOR) 871 (CH 835 09/2015 - defeated the WR 350 #3 seed in last round.

vohor · Grand Slam Champion

Well done both :D

Mervatron · Masters Series Champion

Good starts. Hope they keep on winning. Nice time for Freya to win a title.

I forget if she's won a 25k yet?

indiana · Tennis legend

Mervatron wrote:
Good starts. Hope they keep on winning. Nice time for Freya to win a title.

I forget if she's won a 25k yet?

Freya's best 25K is runner up ( as a qualifier ) to Oceane Dodin at Shrewsbury last November.

Actually, as far as I can see, she's yet to win a senior ITF title, losing her two Sharm el Sheikh 10K finals last year.

-- Edited by indiana on Wednesday 18th of May 2016 04:47:15 PM

insomniacfolder · Challenger level

Mervatron wrote:
Good starts. Hope they keep on winning. Nice time for Freya to win a title.

I forget if she's won a 25k yet?

Steady on! She's not even won a $10K yet.
Building on what Indiana wrote above, posted whilst I ws typing:
Other than those players that additionally made the Top 100 (Annie K, Bally, Katie O'B, Naomi B, JoKo, Hev, Laura, Mel), very few Brits this millennium have won singles titles above $10K

I can think of:-
Tara Moore - $25K Surprise, 2013
Sam Murray - $25K Glasgow, 2012
Naomi Cavaday - 2x$25K, Orange 2007; Brescia 2010
Georgie Gent - $25K Nuriootpa 2006
Louise Latimer - 2x$25K, Surbiton 2000, Hull 2000
Lucie Ahl - 2x$25K, Dublin 2000, Welwyn 2000
Julie Hobbs (neé Pullin) - $25K Cardiff 2001, $50K Gifu 2002 (She also won a second $25K in 1998)

I think I've missed at least one confuse

They really are rarer than you suppose - Sam Smith only ever won one, her biggest title, in 1999, at Rockford

Lisa Whybourn hasn't won a $10K yet
Jade Windley managed 3 $10K
and so on...

Edit: Just out of interest here are the other players I checked, of those not still playing singles:
Lorna Woodroffe, Jo Ward, Rachel Viollet, Jane O'Donoghue, Amanda Keen, Sarah Borwell, Jocelyn Rae, Hannah Collin, Joanne Moore, Karen Cross, Abigail Tordoff, Amanda Elliott, Nicola Slater, Anna Smith, Rebecca Llewellyn

That seemed to be the most likely suspects covered, unless anyone else knows differently.

-- Edited by insomniacfolder on Wednesday 18th of May 2016 05:41:58 PM

Mervatron · Masters Series Champion

Oh i miss some of those girls.

Getting to the final of a 25k from a ranking in the 600's as a qualifier whilst still a junior (?) to me indicates someone who's likely to win a title or 2 at 25k or above.

wimdledont · Challenger level

Freya is WR22 for women still under 19yo...

live-tennis.eu/wta-ranking-under-19

... WR15 in the U19 Race...

live-tennis.eu/wta-race-under-19

...and if she'd got to Asia 2 weeks ago she might be a lot higher.

insomniacfolder · Challenger level

Freya under way. Tentatively.
0-1*

Tough going so far. 7 BP conceded in Freya's opening two service games despite 66% first serve in.
0-3*

Manages to finally break free from the young Thai's spell, but surely too late to salvage the first set.
*1-5

A first service hold sheds one more tiny chink of light on proceedings.
2-5*

Freya finding a groove now; a real match has broken out.
*3-5

OK, so the first set is gone
Just don't start the second as slowly as you did the opener! Broken 4 times in 5 services is a worry though; hard to win from there.
3-6

There is now, of course, a toilet break.

-- Edited by insomniacfolder on Thursday 19th of May 2016 03:27:45 AM

insomniacfolder · Challenger level

A more solid opening to the second set
3-6 *2-1

Just a break each in set 2, but now a hold is essential for Freya.
3-6 *4-5
Harriet starts very brightly
*4-1

Freya bows out, having never quite got to grips with the match. The young Thai put heavy, telling pressure on Freya's service for most of the match.
3-6 4-6

-- Edited by insomniacfolder on Thursday 19th of May 2016 04:19:39 AM

insomniacfolder · Challenger level

Only a light workout required for Harriet to power through her first set
6-1

There is a MTO at the end of the set, which, one would presume, is most likely for the local girl.

-- Edited by insomniacfolder on Thursday 19th of May 2016 04:32:16 AM

insomniacfolder · Challenger level

Unfazed by the time-out, Harriet keeps pressing home her advantage, despite spurning a large number of BP (4/11)
6-1 *2-0

And keeps chugging along; very firmly in charge now.
6-1 *4-0

Duly wrapping up a tidy mornings work in the bakery
6-1 6-0

-- Edited by insomniacfolder on Thursday 19th of May 2016 05:07:32 AM

insomniacfolder · Challenger level

R2: Freya CHRISTIE, Freya (GBR) [4] 353 lost to Bunyawi THAMCHAIWAT (THA) 564 3-6 4-6

R2: Harriet DART (GBR) 509 defeated (WC) Yeong Won JEONG (KOR) 871 6-1 6-0