Week 40 - ITF ($25K) - Toowoomba, Australia - Hard

paulisi · Tennis legend

Week 40 - ITF ($25K) - Toowoomba, Australia - Hard

Spectator · All-time great

Nice win!

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Peter too wrote:
QF: DUNNE, Katy (GBR) 347 def RODIONOVA, Arina (AUS) 5 186 6-3 6-4

SF: DUNNE, Katy (GBR) 347 v GLUSHKO, Julia (ISR) 3 178 CH=79 2014

What an excellent 'perf', as the French would say.

Great result, Katy !

indiana · Tennis legend

Well done Katie, that's a good win

In the breakathon she held service twice to Rodionova's once in each set.

Rather good on winning BPs, 8/9, though Rodionova wasn't too shabby at 5/7, even allowing for the fact that they were generally winning most other return points.

Mervatron · Masters Series Champion

This has been a nice surprising week for Katy. Good to see her get some wins in.

wales1994 · County player

Is Katy going to be another Katie O'Brien? I can see her having a similar career.

PaulM · Tennis legend

Great week. Lovely to see

steven · Tennis legend

Katy has now gone two rounds further than I dared hope ... and hasn't dropped a set in the last two rounds, beating the two highest ranked players she has beaten all year!

SF: Katy Dunne WR 347 beat (3) Julia Glushko (ISR) WR 178 (CH 79 in 2014) by 4 & 4

FINAL: Katy Dunne WR 347 v (7) Dalma Gálfi (HUN) WR 251 (CH 250 in Sep)

H2H 0-3 - Galfi won from a set down in the final of a junior event in Hungary in 2012 and then twice in straight sets in a QF and SF in Australia last year.

This will be Katy's 3rd 25K singles final - she lost 2 & 2 to Em's friends Ankita Raina in Pune in 2014 and 4 & 4 to Golubic in Woking last year, though she has won all of her other four finals (a 15K and 3 10Ks)

paulisi · Tennis legend

Fantastic to see an F next to Katy's name. This has been a fantastic week.

We know how good Galfi is, so the final will be tough, but it would be nice if Katy became a 25k winner for the first time.

Etienne · Club Coach

Dunne ha obviously not had much tennis since getting injured at the British Tour event, so she probably just needed the first couple of wins to get some match play behind her.

goldfish · Futures qualifying

Getting to a final with such high quality wins - brilliant work from Katy this week.

Strongbow · All-time great

Good to see Katy getting back to her best

indiana · Tennis legend

Etienne wrote:
Dunne ha obviously not had much tennis since getting injured at the British Tour event, so she probably just needed the first couple of wins to get some match play behind her.

To be fair Katy has kind of been marking time for quite a long time now.

This week is very good to see

steven · Tennis legend

I haven't got time to watch it properly (to much else to do before I go to sleep) but in case anyone else is still up, bet365 has a live stream for the final - Katy said earlier in the week that it was very windy and it sounds like it's blowing a howling gale, which might be one reason why there have been so many breaks of serve this week.

Katy had 15-30 in the first game (not sure if she then had a bp) but Galfi ended up holding through deuce and Katy has just been broken to love in her own service game

steven · Tennis legend

ITF live scores have reappeared. No break point in that first game and Galfi has only had the one she took in the second game. It's now *1-4