Week 16 - ITF ($25K) - Santa Margherita Di Pula, Italy - Clay

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

RE: Week 16 - ITF ($25K) - Santa Margherita Di Pula, Italy - Clay

indiana · Tennis legend

AliBlahBlah wrote:
Kamila Kerimbayeva - Santa Margherita Di Pula $25K, 27th March.
Lost final round of qualies, lost first round of MD as a LL.
Ranking Points awarded: Zero

Tess Sugnaux - at the same $25K
Lost final round of qualies, lost second round of MD as a LL.
Ranking Points awarded: Five

So, it seems Emily now needs to win a match to earn any points here. She will not get the single point for R32 participation.

Thank you for that. Just go and win that R1 match then, Emily.

DF · Tennis legend

Emily's match has started.

Broken already. 0-1

DF · Tennis legend

Followed by another break 1-1 smile

DF · Tennis legend

Emily a set down 1-6

Although she is against a qualifier the ranking difference is immense 787 to 477

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

Much better in the second set, 1-6 4-4*

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

Emily breaks, and can serve for the second set, 1-6 *6-5

DF · Tennis legend

Emily only needs to hold on to her serve to win the second set 1-6 6-5 smile

DF · Tennis legend

Emily does it!!!!7-5

Now for the deciding set evileye

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

4 blown set points, including all three from *40-0
Then saves 3 BP, and, then... takes a fifth set point

1-6 7-5

the addict · Tennis legend

DF wrote:
Emily only needs to hold on to her serve to win the second set 1-6 6-5

Which she does - on the 5th set point, with 3 break points saved as well - phew !

Mervatron2 · Challenger qualifying

Good stuff Em. Keep it up.

indiana · Tennis legend

Well done to Emily, taking her 5th set point of the game as she served for it and initially went 40-0 up.

I would have thought it looked a very decent chance of a 25K MD win, that basic ranking difference referred to not taking account of Emily being still a junior, presumably improving relatively quicker, still playing junior tournaments and with only half the maximum senior ranking counters.

22 yo Kovalets has 66 points from a full 16 counters with some to spare. 17 yo Emily has 20 points from just 8 counters.

Go Emily !

indiana · Tennis legend

Emily bagelled in the third set, loses 6-1 5-7 6-0.

So not really at all clever looking first and third sets. Pity after getting that LL spot.

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

Ms. Appleton seems to be getting better, slowly, match by match so far this year, but it's a slow process, and little tangible reward so far from three events played.
R32: (LL) Emily APPLETON (GBR) 787 lost to (Q) Sofiya KOVALETS (UKR) 477 1-6 7-5 0-6