Week 5 - ITF ($15K) - Glasgow, UK Hard

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

Week 5 - ITF ($15K) - Glasgow, UK Hard

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

4-2*
*4-3
*5-3
5-4* Augh!
5-5*
5-6* MP against...
Oh no

Lost the last points

Eleanor 2-6 6-7(5)

Down to Maia then.

wimdledont · Challenger level

Maia is streamed

Jaggy1876 · Grand Slam Champion

Come on Maia be good to see another Scot in action tomorrow when I go.

tennischamp · Intermediate Club Player

Maia's down 4-3* first set.

tennischamp · Intermediate Club Player

Maia down 5-3
She is serving game #9

tennischamp · Intermediate Club Player

Maia loses the first set 6-4.
She's hitting some really nice shots however.

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

Keeping pace in the second set, 4-6 3-2*

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

A third set point, and Maia hits back, to force the decider, 4-6 6-3

indiana · Tennis legend

Come on Maia !

I'm a bit surprised Eleanor lost with the tennis she was playing yesterday, though I know nothing more about the Anerican girl than the basic info that has been posted. But at the moment it is just so good to see her out on court and hopefully able to really build things going forward.

-- Edited by indiana on Thursday 2nd of February 2017 04:19:50 PM

tennischamp · Intermediate Club Player

Maia unfortunately lost in the end 4-6 6-3 0-6.
Maia will be playing with Ali later against Joss and Anna, who are seeded #1.

(GBR/GBR) vs (GBR/GBR)

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

Figuratively, Maia fell off a cliff in the decider, 4-6 6-3 0-6

And GB singles interest is over before the QF of a home $15K.

Only Mandy and Naomi left to give us interest amongst the ladies into Friday, let alone, hopefully, the weekend.

indiana · Tennis legend

Pity, but while one hopes for players to play up a level when at home, realistically we only had one direct entry here and Maia just scraped in. Three into R2 was about as best we could hope for.

All these girls who would in theory have been much more competitive chose higher grade events ( including focussed stints well away from home in the case of the Oz girls ) over this home relatively very strong 15K.

Peter too · Tennis legend

R2: LUMSDEN, Maia (GBR) 720 lost to SCHOOFS, Bibiane (NED) 463 4-6 6-3 0-6
R2: SAINSBURY, Laura (GBR) WC 945 lost to WACHACZYK, Julia (GER) 3 368 2-6 4-6
R2: DEAN, Eleanor (GBR) WC UNR lost to BEKTAS, Emina (USA) 529 2-6 6-7(5)

wimdledont · Challenger level

It was bad enough that Rae/Smith played a UK 10k last year when they were in the Fed Cup team, robbing up and coming players of a chance of pocket money and ranking points. As they will not form the FC doubles team, I see their presence here as entirely negatiive for British tennis; I'm sorry they won today and I hope they lose in the next round.

If this is the Fed Cup UK team's doing, I wouldn't be at all surprised. I thought that singling out Joss alone, when one of their strengths has been the longevity and continuity of the partnership, was a particularly dumb move. Sending them here to knock their compatriots out of a competition that is meaningless to Jossanna, smacks of idiocy.