Week 15 - ITF ($25K) - Pelham, USA Clay

indiana · Tennis legend

RE: Week 15 - ITF ($25K) - Pelham, USA Clay

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

Top seed MLDB went out today.

R32: Amanda CARRERAS (GBR) [2] 253 defeated (Q) Frances ALTICK (USA) UNR 6-2 6-4

R16: Amanda CARRERAS (GBR) [2] 253 v. (SE) Sophie CHANG (USA) 743 (CH 564, May 2016)
Chang defeated WR406 Morgina in R32

indiana · Tennis legend

Chang is a SE because of reaching the final in the Jackson, MS 25K last week.

Strongbow · All-time great

Well done to Mandy and Aljaz keeping the flag flying smile

TheTraveller2 · Lower Club Player

Strongbow wrote:
Well done to Mandy and Aljaz keeping the flag flying

and Sam and Katie

Strongbow · All-time great

TheTraveller2 wrote:
Strongbow wrote:
Well done to Mandy and Aljaz keeping the flag flying
and Sam and Katie

smile smile

Michael D · All-time great

Mandy and Sophie Chang are going to know each other's game much better by the end of today. They are playing each other twice, both singles and doubles...

Michael D · All-time great

And Mandy has started her singles now... rather promisingly by winning 8 of the first 9 points, so now 2-0*

DF · Tennis legend

She takes the first set 6-3

Michael D · All-time great

Hmm yes, but much less convincingly than it seemed she would. Mandy was 5-1 up, but then lost two games, before winning the set on her 4th break, but having won only 2 of her 4 service games... and she has promptly lost her serve again at the start of the 2nd set, which is not particularly promising. So score now 6-3 0-1*

Michael D · All-time great

Awful start to the second set. Broken twice and is now 0-4 down in it, meaning that of the last 7 games Mandy has won only 1.... I'm assuming that Sophie has stepped up a gear, since Mandy is usually fairly consistent, so now she needs to step up further too...

DF · Tennis legend

Amanda answering Michael D's challenge.

Although she lost the second set 1-6 she is 3-1 up in the deciding set.

Peter too · Tennis legend

R2: CARRERAS, Amanda (GBR) 2 253 def CHANG, Sophie (USA) SE 743 6-3 1-6 6-3

Mervatron2 · Challenger qualifying

Good stuff.

Michael D · All-time great

Whew, I had to go out for a while and at that stage Mandy was 0-5 down in the second set and I was having severe doubts as to whether she would come back again in the third, so I'm delighted to see she did!

At the moment Gabriela Dabrowski (WR 349) has just grabbed the first set from Cagla Buyukakcay (WR 108) 6-4, so who Mandy plays next is still very much up in the air. But whoever it is, the QF is likely to require a step up from Mandy....