Week 30 - ITF ($15K) - Dublin, Ireland Carpet

Peter too · Tennis legend

Week 30 - ITF ($15K) - Dublin, Ireland Carpet

Strongbow · All-time great

The draw is as good as it gets smile

vohor · Grand Slam Champion

Here's hoping all 4 make it to the QFs :)

The Optimist · ATP qualifying

I'll be interested to see how Laura D gets on. Julie Byrne, although unranked, might be a bit of a handful. She was a strong Irish junior who didn't play a whole bunch of ITF's but has had a very solid first year at Oklahoma with Serena Nash and Lily Miyazaki. She's strong in dubs and brings those skills onto the singles court so isn't a conventional always-bash-it-from-the-baseline player.

the addict · Tennis legend

Off to a good start with Beth showing the men how it's done with a 6-3 6-4 win. And Laura D is a set up 6-1

The Optimist · ATP qualifying

Julie B clearly not such a handful after all!! Keep it going Laura.

Michael D · All-time great

Interesting match Beth's since she won it by having the better 2nd serve, as the following stats show. Not that often that happens.

Grey, Sarah Beth Rodgers, Amanda
1st Serve in 62.4% 66.7%
1st Serve Pts Won 56.9% . 63.2%
2nd Serve Pts Won 57.1% 36.8%

the addict · Tennis legend

Laura D goes through 1 & 3 - and Jodie is a break up in the first

the addict · Tennis legend

Jodie makes it three out of three with a 3 & 3 win. Emily's match is not on the schedule for today.

vohor · Grand Slam Champion

Excellent; well done all 3 :D
Fingers crossed for Emily tomorrow :)

indiana · Tennis legend

Laura and Jodie, having each beaten seeds in R1 and made no mistake in R2, will now meet in the QF. Beth will play the #2 seed.

Oakland2002 · All-time great

The Optimist wrote:
I'll be interested to see how Laura D gets on. Julie Byrne, although unranked, might be a bit of a handful. She was a strong Irish junior who didn't play a whole bunch of ITF's but has had a very solid first year at Oklahoma with Serena Nash and Lily Miyazaki. She's strong in dubs and brings those skills onto the singles court so isn't a conventional always-bash-it-from-the-baseline player.

Monica Robinson likely to be more of a challenge could beat a brace of Collegiate Emily A's over 2 weeks in Ireland. At the very least Emily will get an idea of the standard of tennis required to play No. 1 in a power conference, although Vandy much deeper than "the Irish".

jb288 · Satellite level

I think this tournament is showing us why a few grass 15ks wouldn't go amiss.... love carpet as a surface, wish it was more used!

indiana · Tennis legend

Further to the discussions about the lack of British unranked players here with as said many playing county week, I was noticing how many fewer unranked players with any counters we currently have compared to the end of last year. This appears to be principally due to sparse grass season pickings compared to last year.

Currently we have 34 ranked players plus 13 unranked players with at least one cointer ( 5 with two counters, 8 with one )

At the end of 2016 ( thanks again to Steven for easily accessible info on this ) we had 35 ranked players plus 22 unranked players with at least one counter ( 7 with two counters, 15 with one ).

Of the 13 currently unranked players with counters only 4 have a counter this year and just 3 of these during the GB grass season ( Louise Holtum, Olivia Peet and Akeksandra Pitak with single points from Manchester ). Tiffany Williams has 2 points from a Portugal hard court 25K+H. The other 9 have no 2017 counters so come year end we may have relatively very few unranked players with any counters at all.

This Dublin week does look to have been one of the better opportunities to pick up the odd point ( with say qualification from an unranked qualifying field and a decent R1 draw - and any non seed was outside the top 890 ) and as said the upcoming Woking 25K entry list doesn't suggest any at all easy pickings.

But then I know relatively nothing about what county week offers current active players other than what I have read here.

the addict · Tennis legend

indiana wrote:
This Dublin week does look to have been one of the better opportunities to pick up the odd point ( with say qualification from an unranked qualifying field and a decent R1 draw - and any non seed was outside the top 890 ) and as said the upcoming Woking 25K entry list doesn't suggest any at all easy pickings.

The withdrawal date for Chiswick (the week after Woking) has just passed, and at present the field looks even stronger there at present with MD cut-off at 347 and QF at 886. So no easy pickings in sight.