Week 49 - ITF ($10K) - Cairo, Egypt Clay

Peter too · Tennis legend

Week 49 - ITF ($10K) - Cairo, Egypt Clay

Peter too · Tennis legend

Q1: NUNEZ, Isabella (GBR) UNR lost to ARAFAT, Rowan (EGY) WC UNR 5-7 2-6

R1: NUNEZ, Isabella (GBR) LL UNR v MURTA, Ines (POR) 3 551
R1: LARKIN, Suzy (GBR) 5 734 v JI, Xiangruyi (CHN) UNR 17yo JCH=702

Miriambee · Futures level

Suzy 1 set up, 6-1 against Ji

DF · Tennis legend

Suzy wins 6-1 6-4

DF · Tennis legend

Isabella and partner lost 1-6 1-6 in their doubles

Strongbow · All-time great

Another point for Suzy - no doubles this week - sholud take her up to about 700 smile

Spectator · All-time great

Quiet, steady progress. And by now, she must be very familiar indeed with Egypt, too, having spent (with appropriate breaks, perhaps to come and go for visa purposes?) the better part of four and a half months there. Indeed, as someone who has spent the better part of half a year in the Middle East, she must have a fascinating perspective right now. And as a tennis player, too. UNR to about 700 in six months is quite impressive!

DF · Tennis legend

14 yr old Isabella lost 1-6 0-6

scottie1 · Futures level

Spectator wrote:
Quiet, steady progress. And by now, she must be very familiar indeed with Egypt, too, having spent (with appropriate breaks, perhaps to come and go for visa purposes?) the better part of four and a half months there. Indeed, as someone who has spent the better part of half a year in the Middle East, she must have a fascinating perspective right now. And as a tennis player, too. UNR to about 700 in six months is quite impressive!

yes Suzy has been picking up points and he ranking is steadily improving I think the tournaments in Egypt are not very strong Dasha Konoptsova gained many points over there too and she never pushed on I feel Suzy should play some European tournaments now

Peter too · Tennis legend

R1: NUNEZ, Isabella (GBR) LL UNR lost to MURTA, Ines (POR) 3 551 1-6 0-6
R1: LARKIN, Suzy (GBR) 5 734 def JI, Xiangruyi (CHN) UNR 6-1 6-4

R2: LARKIN, Suzy (GBR) 5 734 v STARODUBTSEWA, Yulia (UKR) LL UNR 16yo JCH=687

indiana · Tennis legend

scottie1 wrote:
Spectator wrote:
Quiet, steady progress. And by now, she must be very familiar indeed with Egypt, too, having spent (with appropriate breaks, perhaps to come and go for visa purposes?) the better part of four and a half months there. Indeed, as someone who has spent the better part of half a year in the Middle East, she must have a fascinating perspective right now. And as a tennis player, too. UNR to about 700 in six months is quite impressive!
yes Suzy has been picking up points and he ranking is steadily improving I think the tournaments in Egypt are not very strong Dasha Konoptsova gained many points over there too and she never pushed on I feel Suzy should play some European tournaments now

Without admittedly particularly analysing it my general impression is that the Egypt tournaments, particularly the almost weekly Sharm tournaments, are fairly average in depth and quality, just maybe having dipped for a period after the air disaster.

I agree though that it would be good to spread her wings much more next year, but more particularly for variety.

DF · Tennis legend

These tournaments in Egypt are not usually weaker than other 10k tournaments around the world but this one is indeed weaker with a Ll taking the place of the second seed.

Let's hope that Suzy seeded 5 here takes advantage. Mirabelle is usually seeded but has not been getting the results that we would expect.

DF · Tennis legend

Suzy is through to the QF winning 6-1 6-1

Peter too · Tennis legend

R2: LARKIN, Suzy (GBR) 5 734 def STARODUBTSEWA, Yulia (UKR) LL UNR 6-1 6-1

QF: LARKIN, Suzy (GBR) 5 734 v MIROSHNICHENKO, Veronica (RUS) Q 923 CH=798 3/10/16

Suzy is now the top seed in the bottom half of the draw.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

No shame in losing against the top seeds. Well done both:

Semifinal

Vlada EKSHIBAROVA (ISR) / Ekaterina YASHINA (RUS) [1] def. Lauryn JOHN-BAPTISTE (GBR) / Eva SISKA (USA) 6-3 6-4