Week 30 - ITF ($10K) - Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt Hard

Peter too · Tennis legend

Week 30 - ITF ($10K) - Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt Hard

DF · Tennis legend

Mirabelle's match is under way

Jaggy1876 · Grand Slam Champion

It seems a lot of those who would have been playing in Turkey signed into qualifying Melis Selzer being a 400 ranked player and a few others meaning Mirabelles plans for easy points and a walk to the semis have been scuppered and she ll have to fight for points here. The field was very weak prior to entry. Can see forthcoming weeks at Sharm being like this. Glad that most of our Brits on the way up have passed this level now otherwise it may have been tougher.

DF · Tennis legend

Mirabelle never finds ''easy points'' here!

Jaggy1876 · Grand Slam Champion

Last week was an easy 4, luck with the draw for a change she's been unlucky. And it seems luck
Short lived given what I said above.

DF · Tennis legend

Mirabelle takes the first set 7-5

Strongbow · All-time great

Loses the 2nd 2-6 so into a decider.

DF · Tennis legend

Strongbow wrote:
Loses the 2nd 2-6 so into a decider.

Never easy for Mirabelle wink

indiana · Tennis legend

It was easy plenty of times last year for Mirabelle, certainly against lower ranked and unranked players. She developed a bit of a reputation for serving up bakery products in double quick time. Then tended to get stuck at the QF stage ( had a wonderful collection of 2s on her ranking counter list, indeed still quite largely has ).

-- Edited by indiana on Tuesday 26th of July 2016 06:07:17 PM

DF · Tennis legend

Odd. The next match after Mirabelle's is ''warming up'' already and her match has not finished yet !!

Jaggy1876 · Grand Slam Champion

I think the problem with Mirabelles draws last year was that she had a couple of easy rounds then ended up playing top 400 players and the difference in quality was a lot higher. She seemed to always get the top seeds in the quarters.

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

The Sharm events are generally more competitive than those held in turkey or other eastern European countries, both in strength of field and ranking of winners, the ITF have a report that sort of shows this www.itftennis.com/media/225803/225803.pdf
They don't draw any conclusions, but roughly comparing the data is easy enough.
Didn't ISF do a thing on it? or relative field strengths somewhere?

DF · Tennis legend

Mirabelle into TB in final set

DF · Tennis legend

Mirabelle wins 7-5 2-6 7-6(6)

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

indiana wrote:
It was easy plenty of times last year for Mirabelle, certainly against lower ranked and unranked players. She developed a bit of a reputation for serving up bakery products in double quick time. Then tended to get stuck at the QF stage ( had a wonderful collection of 2s on her ranking counter list, indeed still quite largely has ).

-- Edited by indiana on Tuesday 26th of July 2016 06:07:17 PM

I remember those happy days of 'Mirabelle the Merciless' too.....

Unfortunately, that seems to have got lost in the wash....

Well done on the win today but 7-6(6) in the third set is hardly like the days of olde....