steven wrote:

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Michael D wrote:

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This is a great win for Gabi, and I note, her first 25k final reached. I've just been looking at her record this year, as I thought she had been performing much better this year, yet her points tally shows she is only +11 on the year so far. However she has reached 2 25k QFs and 1 25k SF in Australia, and now her first 25k F in Korea. The first three results earned her only 36 points, so getting another 30 for reaching this final (and 50 if she was to win it), is the real pay off so far for an improving season. These four tournaments so far now provide her with 66 points of what will be an approx 130 total, depending on how she does in the final. In her points to come off soon Gabi has just one 25k QF, due off 12 June, and then her Wimbledon Q1 wind. Then she had a series of 3, 10k RUs in Nov 16 in Greece.

So the short of it is that Gabi has had just a marginally better year so far than last, albeit with seemingly better results in 25k events (though I don't know what the 25 points were that have come off), but now with this weeks points she is well positioned to go considerably higher in the rankings once the grass season starts. I'm not sure if she has a CH so far this year, but her 30 points min from this week will take her comfortably to one once they are added in 10 days time. She should be up to about 320 then and into the Brit top 10.

 

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Fantastic day for Gabi - I was still awake when she won the QF and didn't really think she'd win the SF too, so that was a very nice surprise to wake up to

To answer the bit in bold, 31 points have come off so far (with another 4 due off from Monzon 10K SF when these go on), the vast majority of them (24) from her 25K+H SF in Irapuato in March 2016, when she got 24 points - 2 for qualifying and 22 more for making the SFs (c.f. 1 + 18 for a standard 25K without H) 

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 This is good to know, thanks Steven. So this was indeed her first 25k Final, as well as the win. And in terms of points to come off for the remainder of the year for her, it is just the 20 points for Wimbledon Q1 win that is a significant number, so I really hope she can now build on her good start to the year and kick on significantly higher now. She should just break the 300 barrier in a week's time... then she needs another 125 points to break into the top 200. That's well within the reach of her current ability level, but well for now, hope she just enjoys celebrating this win, and stays fit and healthy for the grass court season...