Week 43 - ITF ($50K+H) - Tampico, Mexico Hard

DF · Tennis legend

RE: Week 43 - ITF ($50K+H) - Tampico, Mexico Hard

Julia Carrot · All-time great

Phew

indiana · Tennis legend

Yay, the towel remains unthrown

Nice turnaround from last week.

tony_orient · ATP qualifying

Well done Katie!

Julia Carrot · All-time great

indiana wrote:
Yay, the towel remains unthrown

Nice turnaround from last week.

Yup, but I am not going to miss sleep tonight following any other matches that I might be tempted to check up on Going to leave my phone downstairs so no chance. I have been wrecked today LOL

Oakland2002 · All-time great

Nice win for Miss Swan, hopefully reflecting an opportunity to work out her opponent develop and deliver her a plan to beat her.

Shame Laura is struggling, hopefully only a matter of time before everything clicks again.

DF · Tennis legend

Katie S on a roll winning her doubles match,with partner American Usue Maitane Arconada , as well

6-2 6-3

indiana · Tennis legend

Katie S teams up with Laura's conqueror and the 17 yos obtain a comfortable win.

R1: Usue Maitane Arconada (USA) & Katie Swan UNR (1030+UNR) beat Guiliana Olmos & Nazari Urbina (MEX/MEX) CR 1425 (766+659) 6-2 6-3

Those 18 points so far will take Katie to 27 points and a ranking in the low 800s

Oakland2002 · All-time great

They also teamed up at Lubbock, Katie often had a US partner while based out there as a junior including CiCi Bellis and Sofia Kenin but not Usue until recently. Let's hope they make some progress this week.

paulisi · Tennis legend

Pleased for Katie - had a torrid year with injuries and a lack of form. Good to see an impressive scoreline.

steven · Tennis legend

Excellent win for Katie S

Freya's Tuesday evening match here still hadn't started by the time Katie's Wednesday morning match in Australia finished but it's now an even bigger deal because the winner will play the winner of a match between two lucky losers.

steven · Tennis legend

Freya won the 1st set 6-2 then went 2-4 down in the 2nd but hit back to win the last four games

The win will probably see her break into the WTA top 300, and if she can beat the winner of that battle between two unranked lucky losers, it'll make sure of it

Spectator · All-time great

R1: CHRISTIE, Freya (GBR) 304 d TOTKA, Naomi (HUN) Q 530 CH=363 14/12/15 6-2 6-4

R2: CHRISTIE, Freya (GBR) 304 v Andrea Renee VILLARREAL (MEX) LL UNR

Well done, Ms Christie. Ms Villareal handled her opponent quite neatly (6-3 6-0) and appears recently to have left university (Southeastern Louisiana, according to Google). So perhaps slightly more interesting than the simple string of letters after her name would suggest.

And hurrah to Ms Swan. That's a nice win.

Edit: Snap!

-- Edited by Spectator on Wednesday 26th of October 2016 03:37:48 AM

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

As others have said, so good to see Katie get a good win, after a really difficult year.

Can't be easy for her seeing Cici doing so well. either, while you're struggling with injuries and everything.

And always nice to see a JE being put to good use

indiana · Tennis legend

R1: Freya Christie & Laura Robson CR 805 (308+497) lost to (1) Mihaela Buzarnescu & Elise Mertens (ROU/BEL) CR 344 (264+80) 6-4 6-1

Looked tough and clearly was.

That's all the British Wednesday action from Mexico with no doubt Freya & Katie S's R2 singles on Thursday plus possibly Katie S's QF doubles.

-- Edited by indiana on Thursday 27th of October 2016 12:35:04 AM