Beth 6-4 5-4
Myazaki to seve

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paulisi wrote:

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I was hoping for a little better from the Brits....

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 in which way?

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I was hoping we would have a few more GB winners against non-GB players. A little disappointed that Sam or Katie couldn't do anything this week. Well done to Beth though. When she is good she is very good and I suspect is most effective on grass.

Just got back from unconnected Europe to find that our Eastbourne quali tournament seems to be an Aussie domestic event.....

Four out of eight ??? Is that allowed ???

Well, congrats to them, I guess...... ()

And congrats to Beth who's made big progress, in my opinion, in the last six-nine-twelve months thanks (most probably) to her intensive sessions at Soto - have seen her play many times and noted it after Sutton - it's great to see the progress.

Emily Arb, no doubt, must have been pretty tired - she played four matches in three days, I think, finishing yesterday (at Felixstowe) - and won the whole shebang - which is an important event. Can't have been easy trying to get going again today. (NB Emily defeated Beth in the semis, and then Aimee in the final, which is probably what did for Aimee today too, and forced her to retire).

Well done, too, to Camille and Eden and Holly Hutchinson for getting a counter.

-- Edited by Coup Droit on Saturday 28th of May 2016 08:21:58 PM

Obviously SBG should easily beat her UNR opponent today- they're UNR.

Summary
Q1: Emily ARBUTHNOT (GBR) 668 lost to Eden RICHARDSON (GBR) UNR 3-6 6-4 3-6
Q1: Serena NASH (GBR) UNR lost to Eleni DANIILIDOU (GRE) 705 2-6 3-6
Q1: (WC) Lily GHODRATI, Lily (GBR) UNR lost to Alexandra STEVENSON (USA) [q8] 641 0-6 2-6
Q1: (WC) Megan DAVIES (GBR) UNR lost to Sanaz MARAND (USA) [q2] 315 2-6 0-6
Q1: (WC) Camille VERDEN ANDERSON (GBR) UNR defeated Katharina HERING (GER) 760 CH=721 6-2 4-6 6-2
Q1: Emma HURST (GBR) 1118 los to Samantha MURRAY (GBR) 882 5-7 3-6
Q1: (WC) Elise VAN HEUVELEN (GBR) UNR lost to Vivian HEISEN (GER) [q7] 546 5-7 1-6
Q1: Holly HUTCHINSON (GBR) UNR defeated Aimee GIBSON (GBR) 1221 6-2 2-0 RET
Q1: Sarah Beth GREY (GBR) 931 defeated Mia Nicole EKLUND (FIN) 898 6-2 6-4
Q1: Emily WEBLEY-SMITH (GBR) [q5] 499 lost to Yuriko Lily MIYAZAKI (JPN) 1263 4-6 4-6
Q1: (WC) Katarzyna PITAK (GBR) UNR lost to Alison BAI(AUS) [q4] 400 0-6 1-6
Q1: Katie BOULTER (GBR) 741 defeated Dominique COVINGTON (GBR) UNR 6-4 6-0
Q1: Holly HORSFALL, Holly (GBR) UNR lost to Sophia BURSULAYA, Sophia (USA) 1221 1-6 4-6
Q1: Lucy BROWN (GBR) 903 lost to Nakitha BAINS (AUS) [q6] 500 2-6 5-7

Q2: Eden RICHARDSON (GBR) UNR lost to Storm SANDERS (AUS) [q1] 284 2-6 3-6
Q2: (WC) Camille VERDEN ANDERSON (GBR) UNR lost to Sanaz MARAND (USA) [q2] 315 3-6 2-6
Q2: Samantha MURRAY (GBR) 882 lost to Vivian HEISEN (GER) [q7] 546 2-6 6-3 6-7(3)
Q2: Holly HUTCHINSON (GBR) UNR lost to Ashleigh BARTY (AUS) UNR 4-6 2-6
Q2: Sarah Beth GREY (GBR) 931 defeated Yuriko Lily MIYAZAKI (JPN) 1263 6-4 6-4
Q2: Katie BOULTER (GBR) 741 lost to Alison BAI(AUS) [q4] 400 3-6 4-6

FQR: Sarah Beth GREY (GBR) 931 vs. Ashleigh BARTY (AUS) UNR (CH 129 09/2013)

= Brit success

wimdledont wrote:

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With the exception of EWS, who appears to be injured, every one of our players who has played in a professional tennis match in the last 3 months won a match here.

This is what the LTA is inevitably going to get if they give up on 11 months of the year. They have put on 3 10ks in the last 6 months.

Good luck to Beth. It would be a fantastic result if she ccan beat Barty.

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Yes, it's what happens when you develop a strategy that has no input from the people it affects the most - the players themselves. You end up becoming too smart for your own good, or to put it another way, simply out of touch. 

As has been oft noting, it is now the Soto academy in Spain and others that is playing a more vital role in the development of our younger players than the LTA. It actually is quite amazing how you can get paid so much to be so out of touch. The gap we have in the women's tennis between the top 3, who've made it all on their own steam, and the next group, of which a couple are just entering the 200s (I'm excluding Laura) is a result of this. The gap is not one of ability, but much more one of opportunity. The fact that at Eastbourne we have 4 Australians vs 1 British player reaching FQR says it all. 

The LTA strategy now might look a fancy strategy for the grass court season - the 50ks are becoming 100ks next year, so even fewer British women will win any matches at all - but it's a shocking strategy for the development of British players. To not understand that says a lot about the walls within which the LTA confine their thinking. It's fine for British players to have to go abroad to earn some of their points and learn the rigours of travel, playing under tough conditions etc, but it shouldn't be the way you have to earn virtually all your points, apart from this small window, which really only benefits those who have managed somehow to remain competitive coming into the grass season.

Strong start...breaking Barty for an early lead.

Ashleigh Barty AUS 2-4* Sarah Beth Grey GBR