Week 11 - ITF ($15K) - Heraklion, Greece - Clay

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

Week 11 - ITF ($15K) - Heraklion, Greece - Clay

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

Week 11 - ITF ($15K) - Heraklion, Greece - Hard

Oakland2002 · All-time great

She may well get stunga

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

Interrupted schedule here today.
Seeminlgly quite an unfortunate collapse in form from Lauren after her first set. Chelsea May still yet to play; now scheduled very early tomorrow.
QR1: Dominique COVINGTON (GBR) UNR defeated Simona IONESCU (ROU) UNR 7-6(3) RET
QR1: Alicia BARNETT (GBR) [q9] 1101 v. Bye
QR1: Sofie WOON (GBR) UNR lost to Emma LIOI (ITA) UNR 2-6 1-6
QR1: Chelsea May SAMWAYS (GBR) UNR v. Valentina LIA (ITA) UNR [TBC]
QR1: Lauren MCMINN (GBR) UNR lost to Aleksandra DRAGANOVA (BUL) UNR 6-0 1-6 3-6

QR2: Dominique COVINGTON (GBR) UNR v. Teodora STINGA (ROU) [q1] 879 (=CH)
QR2: Alicia BARNETT (GBR) [q9] 1101 v. Kennedy WICKER (USA) UNR (=CH, JCH 1321, Jan. 2015)

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

Results here today leave GB women as a whole in 2017 like this:

Byes & w/o excluded; GB vs. GB match counts as two matches (there have been 22 all GB ties, so 317 unique matches if you prefer)

the addict · Tennis legend

According to the ITF website, this is a clay court tournament.

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

Week 11 - ITF ($15K) - Heraklion, Greece - Clay

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

edit: I can't even say 'ditto' because my post was so inferior smile

But well done to Chelsea May Samways anyways !

-- Edited by Coup Droit on Monday 13th of March 2017 01:00:19 PM

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

the addict wrote:
According to the ITF website, this is a clay court tournament.

Maybe they're telling little white ones.... smile

Aren't they with the men?

THey'll certainly needs tons of bags of new dirt, if not, what with the weather they've been having - it's all be washed away and with huge pot-holes.

-- Edited by Coup Droit on Monday 13th of March 2017 01:11:16 PM

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

Coup Droit wrote:
the addict wrote:
According to the ITF website, this is a clay court tournament.
Maybe they're telling little white ones....
Aren't they with the men?

THey'll certainly needs tons of bags of new dirt, if not, what with the weather they've been having - it's all be washed away and with huge pot-holes.

I thought this in previous weeks this year, when they also stated it was clay. Last years events were certainly hard courts for the ladies.
However, they definitely have clay courts on site: https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Lyttos+Beach+Hotel/@35.335516,25.3537051,112m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x2757d0263dbec7e2!8m2!3d35.335166!4d25.352309

So, there's no reason why not. And, on the ITF event page, the OP is clearly delineated with Mens matches scheduled to hard courts, and womens matches to caly. So, it's probably true. But, still a bit perplexing.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Yep. I just noticed on the order of play, too, that it specifically has clay courts written on five of the courts.

So I hereby take back all scepticism !

Chelsea trains in France, I believe, or did, and down south, so she'll be used to red clay, no problem.

Doubt Alicia has had much experience of it though. And it'll be really slow, given all the rain.

the addict · Tennis legend

I was looking at the location yesterday, trying to see if they had any indoor courts, as the mens dubs was playing. I was expecting it to be hardcourt for this week.

From the hotel website "In Lyttos Beach, there are a total of 22 tennis courts: 11 Hard Court, 6 Artificial Clay, 4 Artificial Grass, 1 Training Ground."

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Artificial clay makes a LOT more sense !

DF · Tennis legend

They all lost
Dominique 3-6 6-1 4-6
Alice 2-6 7-6(5) 3-6
Chelsea 1-6 1-2 ret

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

Profitable use of a WC
R16: (WC) Covington/Eklund (GBR/FIN) 1973 defeated (WC) Bencova/Pokova (CZE/CZE) UNR (UNR + UNR) 6-1 6-1