Will Tara Moore do an Evo and break into the top 100 singles rankings ?

philwrig · Hall of fame

Will Tara Moore do an Evo and break into the top 100 singles rankings ?

scottie1 · Futures level

On her grass court game at the moment the answer is yes! I have followed Tara's results for years and been disappointed she has never broke through. I think her CH is about 188 or so I can see that being surpassed easily she could be the next Jo Konta!

Mervatron · Masters Series Champion

She's always had the talent. Saw her as a 15year old and you could see the talent then and there. She'll need to keep producing this outside the grass season and there's no reason why not.

Let's see what happens after Wimbledon during the US hardcourt swing as I expect her to play that and should get into US open quallies now.

Jaggy1876 · Grand Slam Champion

She's certain to make US Open qualies now winning today was all that was needed

vohor · Grand Slam Champion

Live rankings have Tara up to 228; if she wins her QF today at about 192 with her CH within touching distance. She's on track for top 100 if she can keep this up...beating a top 70 player 2&2 shows the potential :D :D :D

indiana · Tennis legend

No idea really about top 100 ( Tara would prefer top 99 ) but following her journey looks like increasing in fun.

Plenty players can seemingly play well above their normal selves for periods, it's doing it over the longer term in differing environments. But she's always had real ability, been playing pretty well with a dodgy serve recently and now very well with a much more reliable serve. Certainly not impossible. She's up to #159 in the race.

Any info on this new coach she has? He seemed quite pleased! Is he a year round coach now? Surely expensive and at one point I heard mention of a "team".

Of course, she has a travelling / life companion. Maybe he does / could coach both Tara and Conny, Ah, Conny, one of many players Tara is surging past in the ranking this week ( not too long ago there was mention of hoping Tara could keep reasonably up so that their schedules fitted well together to go with their doubles ).

-- Edited by indiana on Friday 10th of June 2016 08:05:53 AM

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

indiana wrote:
( Tara would prefer top 99 ) [...]

Any info on this new coach she has? He seemed quite pleased! Is he a year round coach now? Surely expensive and at one point I heard mention of a "team".

The names quoted in commentary yesterday are the same as those on Tara's ITF profile: Tony Lekic & Chris Sordyl.

Tony Lekic is well known isn't he, he worked with Katy D, but he's the mental coach, and dabbles in things like NLP, which if they work, then, I guess, fine enough. (http://excellenteffects.com/#clients)

Chris Sordyl is from Ealing and if he still quotes the £40 an hour from his website, then at Tara's level, that'd be dirt cheap (http://www.ealingtennis.com/tennis-coaching.html).

Hopefully if Tara gets there she'll avoid landing on #100, to spare us the debate about whether that constitute in or out the top 'x'.

It's hard to say, as grass is such an unhelpful yardstick or the modern general tennis world. There were better signs on clay and hard, but nothing like the past fortnight, and we'll need to see what Tara can achieve on the surfaces that form the majority of the calendar. We've seen with Johann, that weakness on clay dried up the flow of points, and she remarked herself how she 'had scored hardly any points in the last few months' (albeit with a laugh).

So, if Tara can sustain and duplicate this form on other surfaces, then she certainly can go far. But we said exactly the same thing when she almost beat Mladenovic a few years back, and the hope just disappeared. Time will tell. At least she categorically has the potential, if she gets everything together for a prolonged period, it's a given.

NB: Just on the grass effect: this is why when considering the WC for Wimbledon, I don't consider grass form at all. It gives incentivise to the short termism and narrow focus of the grass season, even extended by the extra week as it now is. Being a grass specialist is not a smart way to be a well rounded, successful player in the modern game. So I would like to reward Amanda, for example for good achievement in tennis performance. The only crude measure we really have is the money from a SW19 WC. I don't care that she's not shown interest in the grass, or even is likely to lose that R1 match. The financial security of the one of reward on tennis merit is what is best for the overall state of GB tennis. No one ever reviews the WC at a tournament an says 'well, did they all come close to winning a match?". Even at a GS, no one cares; there's too much else going on. Do you remember what the WC did in Melbourne this year, or Roland Garros, or even who got them? Highly doubtful, and all the other GS use them as development,and so could we. If ew only reward the players with interest in, specialism in, or success in grass, then we breed, and have bred, crop after crop of grass specialists which is a probable detriment to their overall prospects of success in a career as a tennis professional. You've got to be able to compete about 25 weeks of the year, not just 4 (and almost no one plays al 4 grass weeks anyway).