Week 7 - ITF ($15K) - Wirral, UK - Hard, Indoor

paulisi · Tennis legend

Week 7 - ITF ($15K) - Wirral, UK - Hard, Indoor

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

Laura D. started well against Schmiedlova Jr. 4-1*

PaulM · Tennis legend

Missed a point for a double break and promptly falling apart (although Scmiedlova has stopped hitting the back wall every third shot, which has rather a lot to do with things)

*4-4

PaulM · Tennis legend

Schmiedlova is absolutely atrocious. Some of these errors are hilarious.

That miss on set point was ludicrous, she practically framed a basic short ball!

Well, I'm sure Laura will take the assistance. First set in the bag 7-5.

wimdledont · Challenger level

Alicia leads Tan 4th seed, 3-0, for the loss of 2 points, with 2 breaks...

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

Alicia with a flying start!
Laura D. 7-5 2-3*

-- Edited by AliBlahBlah on Tuesday 14th of February 2017 11:30:58 AM

PaulM · Tennis legend

Alicia has a habit of starting quick then getting reeled in. Frustrating.

Suzy was up an early break, loses the set 6-4.

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

Two promising starts vanished into nothing
Laura D. lost 5-7 2-6 2-6

Akicia lost 5-7 1-6

Suzy also lost 4-6 1-6

Jodie Anna *0-1
Lauryn 0-0*

indiana · Tennis legend

Eleanor takes the first set 6-2. That in spite of serving issues in that she has had no aces and 6 DFs ( that's 6 from 13 second serves ), though not broken. Things looking good once the ball is in play.

Beth has broken back for *4-4 against the third seed ( 2 breaks apiece ).

indiana · Tennis legend

Earlier Jodie lost 6-7(2) 4-6 and Lauryn lost 6-3 4-6 1-6.

So we now have left Eleanor and/or Beth to add to the winner of Maia vs Olivia.

scottie1 · Futures level

Looking at results over last few weeks only Maia and Eleanor show promise sorry if that's brutal I was going to Glasgow a few weeks ago but was too ill to attend
Are any of the others likely to break through?

indiana · Tennis legend

Eleanor won 6-2 6-3 and is ranked again. She will take our total of ranked women to 37 on Monday week.

Beth lost 6-7(4) 0-6

Speaking of players breaking through I think Jodie ( still of course a junior and joining the rankings on Monday ) should move fairly speedily up these rankings. I notice that she had a close match with the 7th seed today.

I think, looking further forward, with our other younger juniors, there are more going to break through than guys though we look to have a decent 2001 born crop of guys.

The actual depth in GB rankings has been moving towards the women already in the last year if you look at say players in the top 1000 or 25th ranked Brit. But naturally it is those with real potential to reach higher echelons ( WR 500 and above ) we most look out for. And yes I'd say for the foreseeable that is relatively limited with both the girls and guys.

-- Edited by indiana on Tuesday 14th of February 2017 05:50:19 PM

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Yes, Emily App, Jodie and Lauryn are obviously three 1999-ers who are well capable of having a 'break-through' (more so than Maia, in my opinion). Although studies will be a factor in their playing schedules.

We've also got a group of women who could most certainly be ranked 200-300 places higher but I'm not sure you'd call that a breakthrough....

indiana · Tennis legend

Maia beat Olivia 6-4 6-3 to be our second and final player in to R2 to join Eleanor.

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

R32: (WC) Eleanor DEAN (GBR) UNR defeated Sara CAKAREVIC (FRA) 500 6-2 6-3
R32: Maia LUMSDEN (GBR) 806 defeated (WC) Olivia NICHOLLS (GBR) 1183 6-4 6-3
R32: (Q) Jodie Anna BURRAGE (GBR) UNR los to Marie BENOIT (BEL) [7] 411 6-7(2) 4-6
R32: (Q) Alicia BARNETT (GBR) 1107 lost to Harmony TAN (FRA) [4] 372 5-7 1-6
R32: (Q) Lauryn JOHN-BAPTISTE (GBR) 1070 los to (Q) Nina STADLER (SUI) 718 6-3 4-6 1-6
R32: (WC) Laura DEIGMAN (GBR) 945 lost to Kristina SCHMIEDLOVA (SVK) 496 7-5 2-6 2-6
R32: (WC) Sarah Beth GREY (GBR) 734 lost to Julia WACHACZYK (GER) [3] 386 6-7(4) 0-6
R32: Suzy LARKIN (GBR) 675 lost to (Q) Mia Nicole EKLUND (FIN) 976 4-6 1-6

A chance for Eleanor to avenge the Glasgow meeting

R16: (WC) Eleanor DEAN (GBR) UNR v. Emina BEKTAS (USA) 524 (=CH)
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> 2017 Glasgow, UK - ITF $15K - Hard, Indoor - ED(WC) - R16 - Bektas by 6-2 7-6(5)
> » In R32, Bektas defeated top seed, Stokke (who lost her opening match for the second consecutive week)
R16: Maia LUMSDEN (GBR) 806 v. Marie BENOIT (BEL) [7] 411 (CH 272, Feb. 2016)