Week 13 - ITF ($60K) - Croissy-Beaubourg, France Hard

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

Week 13 - ITF ($60K) - Croissy-Beaubourg, France Hard

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

Serving to take things to the MTB, but there is an MTO... 6-7(3) *5-4

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

They resume, and, in to the MTB we go, 6-7(3) 6-4

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

And that wraps up a miserable day in the Paris suburbs

QF: Rae/Smith (GBR/GBR) [1] 191 lost to Arcangioli/Frech (FRA/POL) 759 6-7(2) 4-6

QF: Robson/Marcinkevica (GBR/LAT) 437 lost to (WC) Leonard/Terziyska (FRA/BUL) UNR 6-7(3) 6-4 [9-11]

scottie1 · Futures level

AliBlahBlah wrote:
And that wraps up a miserable day in the Paris suburbs
QF: Rae/Smith (GBR/GBR) [1] 191 lost to Arcangioli/Frech (FRA/POL) 759 6-7(2) 4-6
QF: Robson/Marcinkevica (GBR/LAT) 437 lost to (WC) Leonard/Terziyska (FRA/BUL) UNR 6-7(3) 6-4 [9-11]

i don't follow doubles but can anyone explain why Anna Smith gave up playing singles

Jaggy1876 · Grand Slam Champion

scottie1 wrote:
AliBlahBlah wrote:
And that wraps up a miserable day in the Paris suburbs
QF: Rae/Smith (GBR/GBR) [1] 191 lost to Arcangioli/Frech (FRA/POL) 759 6-7(2) 4-6
QF: Robson/Marcinkevica (GBR/LAT) 437 lost to (WC) Leonard/Terziyska (FRA/BUL) UNR 6-7(3) 6-4 [9-11]
i don't follow doubles but can anyone explain why Anna Smith gave up playing singles

As with nearly all Doubles players simply because she was realistic to accept she wasn't good enough at singles to make a living and play at a high enough level.

blob · All-time great

Re Anna: She was making really good progress in to 2010, inside the top 300, and looking to kick on.
Then came her horrible injury, and 2 whole years out - I think many (me included) thought that was it for her.
But, she came back, and did pretty well on return, some great preformances in Sweden $10K's in her first outings back, really gutsy epics.
But, wasn't able to cover the courts well enough to resume her full singles form.
Joss was in a very similar situation, and they just seemed to fit together, with doubles allowing them to continue by saving them each half the court.