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

Babfive · Satellite level

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

Peter too · Tennis legend

QF: APPLETON, Emily (GBR) 6 849 def BOWTELL, Anna (IRL) WC UNR 6-3 7-6(1)
QF: BURRAGE, Jodie Anna (GBR) 891 def DEIGMAN, Laura (GBR) 997 7-5 6-2
QF: GREY, Sarah Beth (GBR) 8 859 lost to GLEASON, Quinn (USA) 2 625 4-6 2-6

SF: APPLETON, Emily (GBR) 6 849 v LOHAN, Sinead (IRL) 909 CH=866 6/3/17
SF: BURRAGE, Jodie Anna (GBR) 891 v GLEASON, Quinn (USA) 2 625 =CH

blob · All-time great

OK. I'll plump for an all-Brit final!

Strongbow · All-time great

blob wrote:
OK. I'll plump for an all-Brit final!

Would be nice smile

vohor · Grand Slam Champion

Excellent day in the end yesterday for Emily :D
Yep, here's to an all-Brit singles final :)

the addict · Tennis legend

Both SF just started.
Jodie breaks to love immediately, but Emily is broken in the first game.

the addict · Tennis legend

Two tight matches, both with plenty of service breaks
Jodie 7-5 0-0* (4 breaks to 3)
Emily 5-7 *0-0 (3 breaks to 4)

the addict · Tennis legend

Not to be for Emily as Sinead Lohan runs away with the second set 6-0.

Emily only managed seven points in the set, three of them (including a break point) in the final game.
Hope she is OK - doubles final due later this afternoon.

Jodie is 3-3, one break apiece

-- Edited by the addict on Friday 28th of July 2017 12:53:01 PM

indiana · Tennis legend

Pity for Emily. But as mentioned before Sinead is really hugely underranked based on what she has done in her sparse ITF appearances away from US college.

the addict · Tennis legend

And Jodie makes the final 7-5 7-5

indiana · Tennis legend

Well done to Jodie Into her second final after Sharm in March.

These 7 points so far should take her up over 100 ranking places to a new CH around WR 780 on Monday week. Win the final and she'll be getting close to the top 700. Also will be into the GB top 20, probably to #19 ( certainly if she wins the final ) on Monday week.

How far up she can go for now we will see, before she heads across the pond along with Emily and many others. May their US colleges look after them well !

the addict · Tennis legend

Emily + just lost the first set of the doubles final 5-7

the addict · Tennis legend

No trophy this week, but a good performance anyway

Giorgia MARCHETTI /Rosalie VAN DER HOEK [1] def Emily APPLETON /Quinn GLEASON [2] 7-5 6-4

Peter too · Tennis legend

SF: APPLETON, Emily (GBR) 6 849 v LOHAN, Sinead (IRL) 909 5-7 0-6
SF: BURRAGE, Jodie Anna (GBR) 891 def GLEASON, Quinn (USA) 2 625 7-5 7-5

F: BURRAGE, Jodie Anna (GBR) 891 v LOHAN, Sinead (IRL) 909

Oakland2002 · All-time great

So this week has been dominated by aspiring, present or recent Collegiate tennis players. Quinn Gleason left Norte Dame last year and as indicated earlier Monica Robinson was last seasons number 1 being ranked just inside the top 100 players.

Sinead Lohan plays no 1 at Miami which has a very storied athletics programme. To quote a friend who regularly paints his face orange and green, in Miami; "Its all about the U baby".

She is having a pretty strong collegiate career (interestingly on a par with Julian Cash who is presently having some success in Egypt) she is into her final (senior) year next year coming off a year playing no 1 and ranked just outside the top 20 nationally. A win for Jodie would put down a marker prior to starting at Florida where standards are up a level (who cleanly dispatched Miami in the NCAA tournament).

It is good to reflect on the level Cam has come out of his junior year in college at, he was clearly the top collegiate player and is now competing at challenger level (probably the top 3-4 collegiate players are able to compete at that level) with a pretty steep drop off with those 10-30 likely to go deep in weaker futures events.

-- Edited by Oakland2002 on Saturday 29th of July 2017 04:24:30 AM

-- Edited by Oakland2002 on Saturday 29th of July 2017 03:44:57 PM