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

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

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

indiana · Tennis legend

Singles :

QF: Harriet Dart WR 509 beat (7) Fatma Al Nabhani (OMA) WR 421 (CH 362 04/10/10) 6-2 6-1

SF: Harriet Dart WR 509 vs (2) So-Ra Lee (KOR) WR 254 (CH 247 23/11/15)

Doubles :

SF: (3) Freya Christie & Harriet Dart beat (2) Chieh-Yu-Hsu & Silvia Njiric (TPE/CRO) 6-3 7-5

F: (3) Freya Christie & Harriet Dart vs Anastasia Gasanova & Maddison Inglis (RUS/AUS) - who beat the South Korean #1 seeds in the QF and #4 seeds in the SF.

-- Edited by indiana on Friday 20th of May 2016 11:02:35 AM

indiana · Tennis legend

Yes, nice message from Katy. I saw Harriet in Glasgow lose rather easily to Katie Boulter on her comeback after a year out. Impressed as I was with Katie I was a bit worried re what Harriet offered on that day.

Incidentally the same day I saw Al Nabhani being quite awful in a 6-2 6-0 defeat to Maia Lumsden. I believe her form can be very variable.

All in all though, great to see from Harriet. That's the 14 points she was defending over the French Open fortnight more than covered, taking her back into the top 500 with not just anything more here but another couple of tournaments still to add.

insomniacfolder · Challenger level

Freya & Harriet have each made one doubles $25K final before, but neither cleared the final hurdle. Hopefully that obstacle will be surmounted this time, and we'll clean up all the titles this week, with Harriet the queen of Korea!

wimdledont · Challenger level

? Harriet won a 25k doubles in Indonesia last year?

insomniacfolder · Challenger level

wimdledont wrote:
? Harriet won a 25k doubles in Indonesia last year?

Indeed, she did! I could not see the $25K wood for all the $10K trees

Dangnabbit Harriet! Stop winning so many titles!

Ahem!
As I was saying... Harriet has of course won a $25K title before, but Freya never has. She made one final before but...

wimdledont · Challenger level

Harriet about to start...

wimdledont · Challenger level

18 points for reaching the SF already makes this the best week ever for Harriet; and it's getting better...

4-0 up

wimdledont · Challenger level

6-3 Harriet

steven · Tennis legend

Harriet has served for the match once (at *5-1) and is about to serve for it again - 6-3 *5-3 (there have been 9 breaks and just 8 holds in the match so far)

Edit: 2 bps down - having won 4 games in a row from *1-1 in the 3rd, she's at risk of losing 3 in a row.

1 bp saved, the 2nd taken. She'll 'receive for the match' for a second time ...

Edit: 4 games won in a row, 4 games lost in a row 6-4 *5-5

Edit: This time she holds easily - receiving for the match for the 3rd time 6-4 6-5*

-- Edited by steven on Saturday 21st of May 2016 05:08:55 AM

steven · Tennis legend

Harriet holds her nerve in the end, breaking to love to record one of her best wins to date

SF: Harriet Dart WR 509 beat (2) Lee So-Ra (KOR) WR 254 (CH 247 last Nov) by 3 & 5

30 points, her best single-week haul by far, and her first 25K singles final

This should take her into the top 450 (after allowing for 3 sets of points due off at the end of RG), though she's still some way off her career high of 345, which she achieved mainly from lots of good results in 10Ks.

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

one of Harriet's top 5 by rank and maybe best ever given the circumstances.

paulisi · Tennis legend

Wow.

DF · Tennis legend

Well done Harriet! GL in the finals!

steven · Tennis legend

FINAL: Harriet Dart WR 509 v (1) Han Na-Lae KOR WR 240 (CH 225 last Aug)

In the other semi-final, which has just finished, Han only just managed to edge the unseeded Thai who upset Freya earlier in the week.