and then there was one GB player remaining...

DF wrote:

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paulisi wrote:

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and then there was one GB player remaining...

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 when none was expected!

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Well when none was seeded. Overall in this home 10K, with the field as it is, I certainly expected at least one, probably more.

But taking last week and this week together it's been a pretty good two weeks.

the addict wrote:

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indiana wrote:

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Bah, loses 6-3 5-7 6-3

But of course she will be back on her court in a little while for doubles.

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 Tailed right off in the last 3 games :(

Overall lost 8 breaks to 6, 109 points to 87

Could really do with a bit of rain now ............

-- Edited by the addict on Wednesday 28th of September 2016 03:39:43 PM

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Beth didn't tail off. It was that Huber was just that little bit better. Just when she needed to be.

Beth was very solid, in level, from the start of the third to the end. But Huber upped it, just a tad, when she needed to.

The problem is that Beth does not seem to have the belief.

I didn't believe that she was going to win. Because she didn't seem to believe it. Just the same as at Surbiton when she had a very tight third set, where she was also leading at one point (for what it's worth), against a higher ranked player. Which she also lost. Beth looks like a rabbit in the headlights. There's a certain inevitability about the whole thing. Which is a real shame because, as mentioned before, she's made huge progress in her tennis in the past couple of years.

Thanks for the info CD - I was only going by the momentum and stats on the ITF live scoring. I had intended to go today, but work got in the way.
I've seen Beth play a couple of times this year, and Alicia once, and from what I have seen, your comments are right on the nail.

I'll be interested to see how Alicia does against Margot Y today.

I don't expect Alicia to win, and wish I could go and watch, as scores are often so misleading.

But I'd never seen Margot play before and was disappointed.

It's true she didn't have to do much to beat Eden R, who made it easy for her. And she's young and improving. So it might not have been very representative of her level.

But it's a very generic, French female tennis game that she has - well-honed but no different from a whole heaps of others. Top 200 potential, in the years to come, but I'd expected to be more excited.

Alicia loses 6-4 6-2

Hope it was a good match.

Victoria Larriere has just beaten Margot Y 6-3 6-2

Larriere was a player majorly on the up, getting to WR 170 or so, at age 21 or so, when she suffered a horrible wrist injury that took three years or so to heal properly.

She went off to uni during those years, and got a degree in Pharmacology, and then qualified as a Pharmacist.

She's only recently come back to playing, first domestically and now on the international circuit. In fact, she only signed in for a quali in Tunisia at last minute early this year because she was there supporting her younger brother (also a tennis player, WR 1400 or so). And then did really well.