Week 11 - ITF ($15K) - Gonesse, France Clay

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

Week 11 - ITF ($15K) - Gonesse, France Clay

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

R32: (Q) Maia LUMSDEN (GBR) 700 v. (Q) Priscilla HEISE (FRA) 702 (CH 671, Oct. 2016)

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

Maia under way. She's a perfect 4-0 against France in 2017, so hopefully that continues now, *2-2

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Priscilla Heise (born 1990) won her first 10k a couple of weeks ago.

She's only really just decided to give tennis a proper go, played very little really in previous years.

So nothing amazing in her locker, so to speak, but a bit unknown....

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

Maybe Heis(e) is German, becasue from 2-4 down she was too hot for Maia, and came back to claim that first set.
Maia with work to do, 4-6

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

Erk! 4-6 0-5*

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

Quite a surprise, considering how well Maia has been performing. Surely just a blip though.
R32: (Q) Maia LUMSDEN (GBR) 700 lost to (Q) Priscilla HEISE (FRA) 702 4-6 1-6

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

We are in danger of having no one left standing past Wednesday on the womens side!

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Expected the second set to be closer than it was.....

Just to note, for 'name-watchers', young Guilia Morlet (born 2002), who made the quarters last week, has won her first match again, beating the WTA 593 in two sets.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

NB But Soumeya and Natasha are leading 4-0 in their doubles !

They make me smile to watch them play, so go team !

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Nice one - Soumeya and Natasha win 6-0 6-0

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

The qualifier, Priscilla Heise, who put out Maia, and is rather an 'unknown', having only recently decided to give tennis a real go, at age 26 or so, has just put out the top seed (in two sets) and made the semis.
So obviously a fair but under-ranked....

indiana · Tennis legend

Result from Wednesday so no we didn't have any women quietly progressing to the weekend !

QF: Anane / Hillyer CR 2460 lost to (4) Negreanu / Zimmerman (ROU/BEL) CR 873 6-3 6-4

indiana · Tennis legend

Coup Droit wrote:
The qualifier, Priscilla Heise, who put out Maia, and is rather an 'unknown', having only recently decided to give tennis a real go, at age 26 or so, has just put out the top seed (in two sets) and made the semis.
So obviously a fair but under-ranked....

Priscilla Heise ended up losing the final to the #2 seed in a final set TB. This follows up her maiden 15K title of a few weeks ago.

I think we can let Maia off with this one !