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

wimdledont · Challenger level

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

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

Mandy's third double digit points haul in her last three events

wolf · Tennis legend

Win the whole thing, Mandy. That will show them.

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

The Taking of Pelham 3-(2)-3

indiana · Tennis legend

Yay

Up to 211 ranking points on Monday week, likely good enough for 230s in the rankings.

Got to keep going though if she wants to be somewhere at the end of May.

wimdledont · Challenger level

Amanda wins 6-3, 2-6, 6-3

On the other court, Arconada is looking likliest SF opponent.

Amanda up to around WR235, another significant CH, and just inside the top 200 in the race.

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

Mandy has now also scored more points in 2017 to date than Ms. Robson, from 2 fewer tournaments.

indiana · Tennis legend

AliBlahBlah wrote:
Mandy has now also scored more points in 2017 to date than Ms. Robson, from 2 fewer tournaments.

Yes, but is she any good on clay

Though Mandy at least has a chance to play the 60K tournament next week, which could yet be vital for her French Open qualifying ambitions.

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

indiana wrote:
AliBlahBlah wrote:
Mandy has now also scored more points in 2017 to date than Ms. Robson, from 2 fewer tournaments.
Yes, but is she any good on clay
Though Mandy at least has a chance to play the 60K tournament next week, which could yet be vital for her French Open qualifying ambitions.

She has at least played on clay. None of our 3 possible singles players have played a single match on it this year (partly due to the time of the year.
At least backup Katie S played in weeks 2 & 3 on clay in Daytona and Orlando - though she only won one match, and lost each time to a lower ranked player.

Peter too · Tennis legend

QF: CARRERAS, Amanda (GBR) 2 253 def DABROWSKI, Gabriela (CAN) 8 349 6-3 2-6 6-3

SF: CARRERAS, Amanda (GBR) 2 253 v ARCONADA, Usue Maitane (USA) 4 309 CH=307 20/2/17

PaulM · Tennis legend

Nicely done!

Michael D · All-time great

AliBlahBlah wrote:
indiana wrote:
AliBlahBlah wrote:
Mandy has now also scored more points in 2017 to date than Ms. Robson, from 2 fewer tournaments.
Yes, but is she any good on clay
Though Mandy at least has a chance to play the 60K tournament next week, which could yet be vital for her French Open qualifying ambitions.
She has at least played on clay. None of our 3 possible singles players have played a single match on it this year (partly due to the time of the year.
At least backup Katie S played in weeks 2 & 3 on clay in Daytona and Orlando - though she only won one match, and lost each time to a lower ranked player.

Yes, for me there is no contest between who I would rather have on clay at the moment - Mandy or Laura. However, as Indy notes, Mandy is probably better off staying here next week and playing in a 60k on the maybe, just maybe off chance...

-- Edited by Michael D on Thursday 13th of April 2017 07:19:10 PM

paulisi · Tennis legend

Peter too wrote:
QF: CARRERAS, Amanda (GBR) 2 253 def DABROWSKI, Gabriela (CAN) 8 349 6-3 2-6 6-3

SF: CARRERAS, Amanda (GBR) 2 253 v ARCONADA, Usue Maitane (USA) 4 309 CH=307 20/2/17

Tough draw. Arconada top junior and flying up the senior rankings.

vohor · Grand Slam Champion

Great win for Mandy :D
GL in the SFs :)

indiana · Tennis legend

paulisi wrote:
Peter too wrote:
QF: CARRERAS, Amanda (GBR) 2 253 def DABROWSKI, Gabriela (CAN) 8 349 6-3 2-6 6-3

SF: CARRERAS, Amanda (GBR) 2 253 v ARCONADA, Usue Maitane (USA) 4 309 CH=307 20/2/17
Tough draw. Arconada top junior and flying up the senior rankings.

Arconada, JCH 5 at age 16 and now 18, was WR 443 at the end of the 2015 season and WR 345 at the end of the 2016 season and been playing a lot of senior tennis. So I would question her "flying" over the last year or so.