Week 37 - ITF ($10K) - Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt Hard

Peter too · Tennis legend

Week 37 - ITF ($10K) - Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt Hard

Spectator · All-time great

Any information on the Merovingian, CD? (Clothilde - however it is spelled - is one of those names that I can't quite separate from its history)

-- Edited by Spectator on Monday 12th of September 2016 07:09:28 PM

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Spectator wrote:
Any information on the Merovingian, CD? (Clothilde - however it is spelled - is one of those names that I can't quite separate from its history)

-- Edited by Spectator on Monday 12th of September 2016 07:09:28 PM

Clothilde is from Corsica, and very proudly so ! Not sure she cares too much about old Frankish dynasties, although I might be wrong smile

Although she's WR 839 or so now, her CH is WR 276 from a year ago (she's still only 21). But has barely won a match this year - don't know what's been going on.....

NB Mirabelle's opponent is the college girl who beat both Mirabelle and Suzy last week......

-- Edited by Coup Droit on Monday 12th of September 2016 09:10:30 PM

Strongbow · All-time great

Not an easy draw for either Brits. Mirabelle's opponent beat Suzy last week and eventually lost in the SF despite being a qualifier and unranked. No previous but can obviously play a bit.

Suzy's Merovingian opponent had a rough 12 months up to Aug (injury ??), hence the low ranking, but was SF last time out. Had previously won a quite a few 10k titles, so no mug.

All in all could have been a lot better draw - no easy points here.

steven · Tennis legend

Strongbow wrote:
Not an easy draw for either Brits. Mirabelle's opponent beat Suzy last week and eventually lost in the SF despite being a qualifier and unranked. No previous but can obviously play a bit.

It's worse than that - James, a decent US college player, beat Mirabelle herself in straight sets in R1 last week as well as beating Suzy in the QFs. So much for the early round 'protection' of being 4th seed last week and 2nd seed this week

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

Mirabelle is struggling against Ms. James again

4-6 0-3*

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

AliBlahBlah wrote:
Mirabelle is struggling against Ms. James again 4-6 0-3*

And that's as good as it got 4-6 0-6

Strongbow · All-time great

Mirabelle loses 6-4 6-0 cry

PaulM · Tennis legend

Mirabelle seems to have played 14 weeks in a row? That's insane!

Far too much and her form is tailing off. Hope she has a non-competition block coming up

indiana · Tennis legend

She has been in the same place for the last 12 weeks and not exactly going deep each week.

But still maybe these are clues for change ...

A potentially exciting player going a bit stale ?

-- Edited by indiana on Tuesday 13th of September 2016 07:39:06 PM

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Suzy and partner have won their R1 dubs match.

PS Yep - no idea really what Mirabelle is up to......it's a mystery .....

Strongbow · All-time great

Don't understand what's happening with Mirabelle cry

Another point to improve Suzy's doubles ranking after last weeks final smile

Another typo confuse

-- Edited by Strongbow on Tuesday 13th of September 2016 09:12:51 PM

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

Suzy was slow to start, and couldn't get going before the first set ran out, 2-6

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

Suzy sunk in Sharm.
R1: Suzy LARKIN (GBR) 876 lost to Clothilde DE BERNARDI (FRA) [8] 839 2-6 3-6

Strongbow · All-time great

Drat cry