Week 22 - ITF ($50K) - Eastbourne, UK Grass

DF · Tennis legend

Week 22 - ITF ($50K) - Eastbourne, UK Grass

DF · Tennis legend

Tara and Connie have been given a w/o into the next round

DF · Tennis legend

Emily and Beth lose in the TB 5-7

DF · Tennis legend

Sam and Emily lose 1-6 0-6

wimdledont · Challenger level

Tara will climb above EWS in the doubles rankings. If Taco win the tournament, she'll overtake Heather and JoKo too.

Her 15 singles points is a best since last season on grass, when she clocked up 20 in both Wimbledon Qs and here. Winning another round would give her a best score since she was in the top 200, in 2013, and would return her to the top 300.

-- Edited by wimdledont on Tuesday 31st of May 2016 06:35:26 PM

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

QF: Murray/Webley-Smith (GBR/GBR) lost to Muhuammad/Sanchez (USA/USA) [1] 1 & 0
QF: Moore/Perrin (GBR/SUI) [3] def. Garcia-Perez/Terziyska (ESP/BUL) w/o
QF: Arbuthnott/Grey (GBR/GBR) lost to Yang/Zhang (CHN/CHN) [2] 0 & 6(5)

SF: Moore/Perrin (GBR/SUI) [3] v. Yang/Zhang (CHN/CHN) [2]

paulisi · Tennis legend

Kounosuke wrote:
Katy finally gets a game on the board, 0-6 1-2*

Alison Riske is a terrific grass court player and should not be playing 50ks. She has had really good runs at the Birmingham event in the past.

I will be very surprised if Alison doesn't win the whole thing without dropping a set.

indiana · Tennis legend

wimdledont wrote:
Tara will climb above EWS in the doubles rankings. If Taco win the tournament, she'll overtake Heather and JoKo too.
Her 15 singles points is a best since last season on grass, when she clocked up 20 in both Wimbledon Qs and here. Winning another round would give her a best score since she was in the top 200, in 2013, and would return her to the top 300.

-- Edited by wimdledont on Tuesday 31st of May 2016 06:35:26 PM

Very good to see from Tara all round.

In spite of my occasional mentioned thoughts on Slam MD WCs ( ) , accepting things are as they are, I really do hope that Taco get a Wimbledon MD doubles WC.

With Josanna due to drop 410 ranking points over the grass season who knows where Tara might be in GB doubles terms in the not too distant future. Though I do hope that her main priority remains singles.

indiana · Tennis legend

paulisi wrote:
Kounosuke wrote:
Katy finally gets a game on the board, 0-6 1-2*
Alison Riske is a terrific grass court player and should not be playing 50ks. She has had really good runs at the Birmingham event in the past.
I will be very surprised if Alison doesn't win the whole thing without dropping a set.

WR 93 and "a terrific grass court player", after her early exit from the French Open, I would have thought that it made a whole lot of sense for Alison to be playing this particular 50K, getting in early preparation for later grass events and for some possible nice ranking points.

The good news for the rest is that she is not down for the Surbiton or Ilkley 50Ks, no doubt having bigger fish to fry.

paulisi · Tennis legend

Tara has withdrawn from Surbiton, which would indicate she is playing Nottingham instead.

jb288 · Satellite level

Horrible weather in Eastbourne today, which was reflected in the standard of play overall tbh.

Lisa was very passive in the first set, not at all the hard-hitting player I remembered; when she started being aggressive towards the end of the set she did much better. She showed some good stuff throughout. The Spanish girl's serve was unbreakable at times, so she had a hard task on her hands.

Tara had a pretty easy match, but played well from what I saw, with nice depth.

Katy made a lot of errors, as the scoreline suggests; she has the makings of a very good defensive-type player - when the rallies were long and at the baseline, she did much better; she just struggled to get the rallies to last very long, more due to errors than Riske doing anything spectacular. I was impressed by her returning much more than her serving, which is kind of mid-pace, middle-of-the-box most of the time.

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

paulisi wrote:
Tara has withdrawn from Surbiton, which would indicate she is playing Nottingham instead.

Or 's-Hertogenbosch!

PaulM · Tennis legend

Perrin has sneaked into Notts qualies so suspect Tara has taken a qualies wc there. They might just about sneak into the doubles draw

indiana · Tennis legend

PaulM wrote:
Perrin has sneaked into Notts qualies so suspect Tara has taken a qualies wc there. They might just about sneak into the doubles draw

Even a MD WC ? Clearly she's outside the top 300 so miles down the list, but there aren't exactly many British candidates and Jo at least is no doubt straight in.

Conny might have a comment though to her if that did happen

-- Edited by indiana on Wednesday 1st of June 2016 10:27:02 AM

wimdledont · Challenger level

Tara is warming up

It looked like she would be the only one of ours to sneak into the MD at Surbiton, so her withdrawal should see us down to WCs only throughout the whole of the 50k grass season.