Week 14 - ITF ($15K) - Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt Hard

Peter too · Tennis legend

Week 14 - ITF ($15K) - Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt Hard

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

Suzy today, 1-0*
Emily tomorrow.

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

Suzy with a useful lead, up a set and a break, 6-3 *2-1

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

Well done Suzy, a third counter in 2017 guarantees a ranking for another year already.
Could face Emily's conqueror of last week, and the eventual tournament winner, Andrei, in the next round.

R1: Suzy LARKIN (GBR) 642 defeated (Q) Anhzelika ISAEVA (RUS) 745 6-3 6-2

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

That's a tidy win against someone with a similar ranking. Well done, Suzy.

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

Suzy & Dan Ni just missed 2 SP against the #2 seeds, 5-4*

indiana · Tennis legend

AliBlahBlah wrote:
Well done Suzy, a third counter in 2017 guarantees a ranking for another year already.
Could face Emily's conqueror of last week, and the eventual tournament winner, Andrei, in the next round.

R1: Suzy LARKIN (GBR) 642 defeated (Q) Anhzelika ISAEVA (RUS) 745 6-3 6-2

Interesting take, kind of like when a Premier League team reaches 40 points relatively early in the season and the manager declares that they are now safe from relegation when noone seriously considered them relegation candidates in the first place, but true nevertheless.

Given Suzy already had 16 counters in total I imagine her ambitions were rather more than getting 3 this year to retain her ranking

A full 16 counters of course means that she now needs to reach the QF of any 15K to add overall for now. 7 of her 16 counters coming into this week are one pointers and she has until June before any existing points drop off

It has been steady consistent progress that has produced all these counters and taken her up to WR 642 / GB 16 on 34 points and she can certainly go a fair bit higher in the next couple of months anyway.

Time probably though to spread her wings further afield and test herself in varied arenas as much as her resources allow and her ambition desires.

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

Good win for Suzy in the doubles
R16: Larkin/Wang (GBR/CHN) 1610 defeated Shroff/Tatachar Venugopal (IND/IND) [2] 756 6-4 6-1

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

Emily under way, 1-0*
Paul will be along in just a moment to take you through it

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

EWS 6-1 2-2*

PaulM · Tennis legend

Haha I actually had to do some work!

Em breezed through 61 62. Expected it to be much tougher than it was. Nice work.

Peter too · Tennis legend

R1: LARKIN, Suzy (GBR) 642 def ISAEVA, Anhzelika (RUS) Q 745 6-3 6-2
R1: WEBLEY-SMITH, Emily (GBR) 575 def BAVISETTI, Sowjanya (IND) 727 6-1 6-2

R2: LARKIN, Suzy (GBR) 642 v ANDREI, Laura-Ioana (ROU) 7 485 CH=280 2013
R2: WEBLEY-SMITH, Emily (GBR) 575 v SAMIR, Sandra (EGY) 5 465 CH=379 27/6/16

Strongbow · All-time great

No easy points for Emily or Suzy cry Good luck to both!

DF · Tennis legend

Emily and Suzy in action against higher ranked opposition

DF · Tennis legend

Emily 3-1

Suzy 1-4