Week 37 - ITF ($25K) - Lubbock, TX, USA - Hard

paulisi · Tennis legend

Week 37 - ITF ($25K) - Lubbock, TX, USA - Hard

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

SF: Freya CHRISTIE (GBR) [5] 333 defeated (Q) Ashley KRATZER (USA) 652 7-6(2) 6-2

F: Freya CHRISTIE (GBR) [5] 333 v. Viktoria KUZMOVA (SVK) [2] 303 (CH 290, Aug. 2016)
> H2H: *2-0
> 2015 Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt - ITF $10K - Hard - Final - Kuzmova by 7-6(4) 7-5
> 2014 US Open Juniors* - Hard - R64 - Kuzmova by 4 & 2
*Junior result

Oakland2002 · All-time great

Ashley looked a solid all round player, on the bubble between going pro and going to college, after this week she will have her pick. If Texas Tech recruit her it will have been an excellent piece of work this week. Freya's weight of shot is in a different league. Great to see her come through although not at all surprised and wish her well for tomorrow.

Shame I didn't get to see Kuzmova play but from the head to head it looks like Texas Tech will host a storming final between a couple of potential futures stars.

Strongbow · All-time great

Very well done Freya

Mervatron · Masters Series Champion

Great week for Freya. Would love to see her lift the title.

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

Under way. Early of breaks to the Slovakian, 0-1*

Julia Carrot · All-time great

Not sure if anyone has said this, but they are playing indoors.

DF · Tennis legend

First set 0-6

indiana · Tennis legend

Freya had a SP at 5-4* 40-30* but lost the next 3 points.

0-6 *5-5, one break each in the second set.

indiana · Tennis legend

Broken to 15, 5-6*

indiana · Tennis legend

Pity. From having come back from that first set bagel to have a SP in the second set, she then lost 11 of the last 12 points.

F: (5) Freya Christie WR 333 lost to (2) Viktoria Kuzmova WR 303 (CH 290 last month) 6-0 7-5

Still, clearly all in all, a very good week for Freya. And overall we had a finalist and had 4 in the QFs.

-- Edited by indiana on Monday 19th of September 2016 12:34:22 AM

steven · Tennis legend

indiana wrote:
Welcome to the top 300 Freya. Let's do it in real style.

I thought she was certain to be top 300 when the Lubbock points went on too (it would put her close to 290 on last Monday's list) but she's actually ended up missing out by 1 place / 1 point, up 34 at 301 today

I haven't looked into exactly how it happened but 8-10 more players must have moved into the top 300 than left - not unheard of, but very unusual for the split to be that extreme unless there happen to be a lot more 50Ks and above on the previous week and/or 25Ks and below the week before that.