Week 32 - ITF ($25K) - Gatineau, Canada Hard

Peter too · Tennis legend

Week 32 - ITF ($25K) - Gatineau, Canada Hard

Peter too · Tennis legend

R1: MURRAY, Samantha (GBR) 579 v IVANOVA, Dasha (USA) Q 781 CH=750 20/7/15
R1: DUNNE, Katy (GBR) 6 290 v ROUTLIFFE, Erin (CAN) WC 638 CH=591 2012

scottie1 · Futures level

Sam has lost the first set 5-7

DF · Tennis legend

Sam down a break already in the second set to the qualifier

PaulM · Tennis legend

Served for it at 5-3 and now a break down in the second

5-7 *1-3

DF · Tennis legend

She lost 5-7 2-6

indiana · Tennis legend

Pity. Sam definitely seems to have lost her upward momentum after the grass season and her non Wimbledon WC. Some surprising results.

DF · Tennis legend

Definitely looks like the correct decision now

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

Fourth seeded Sam, and Mana Ayukawa, going much better than in the singles, 6-1 *3-0

indiana · Tennis legend

DF wrote:
Definitely looks like the correct decision now

At the time I don't think it was.

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

R1: Murray/Ayukawa (GBR/JPN) [4] d. Auger-Alliassime/Lagarde (CAN/FRA) 6-1 6-3

vohor · Grand Slam Champion

indiana wrote:
DF wrote:
Definitely looks like the correct decision now
At the time I don't think it was.

Agree; Sam had real momentum which the decision patently undermined cry

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

vohor wrote:
indiana wrote:
DF wrote:
Definitely looks like the correct decision now
At the time I don't think it was.
Agree; Sam had real momentum which the decision patently undermined

Agree too. It's a real chicken and egg thing. Do Sam's relatively poor results now justify the decision then? Or are Sam's relatively poor results now a result (at least partially) of the decision then?

Sam deserved the Wimbly QWC then and only didn't get it because of her age and not being part of the LTA favoured few (very few), to be pushed through.

However, there's no point crying over split milk and Sam has to get herself together and try and work out what's not quite working at the moment and get it fixed.

Good luck to her.

Mervatron · Masters Series Champion

At the end of the day as much as we thought Sam deserved that WC with some good wins, nobody has a right to a WC.

The best thing for Sam to do now is to prove the selectors wrong by winning matches and titles.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

There's a difference between 'deserving' a wildcard and 'having the right' to a wildcard.

Sam deserved it. Above some others. On practically all unbiased criteria. But no one had or has a right to it.

And, yes, as said, it's all history now and irrelevant for Sam going forward. Even proving the selectors wrong is irrelevant and basically impossible - after all, the selectors were not the LTA but the AELTC - they were only selecting for Wimbledon 2016 itself, not for potential going forward. So we'll never know if the Wimbly 2016 results would have been better or not, if Sam had been selected. (Although, of course, the LTA is instrumental in 'advising' which is done on a more big picture and in-crowd basis).