Week 33 - ITF ($25K) - Montreux, Switzerland - Clay

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Week 33 - ITF ($25K) - Montreux, Switzerland - Clay

blob · All-time great

OK, Tara's on.
I have no idea what to expect, or how to really think about Tara's game and prospects at the moment.
Maybe today's the day a missing puzzle piece is found.
3-4*

steven · Tennis legend

Tara (who has lost her last 10 matches) actually made a good start today, going *3-1 up in the 1st set, but Markova then won the next 4 games and eventually the set 6-4

There's not much in it though - 30-29 to Markova on points won in that opening set.

Babfive · Satellite level

Tara loses 4-6 3-6

scottie1 · Futures level

oh dear bad year for Tara sliding down the rankings

Peter too · Tennis legend

Tara was doing well last year and in the early part of this year. I thought she would push on into the top 100 but now it looks like she could be struggling to stay in the top 500. I wonder if she has other interests now that make the tennis circuit seem less appealing.

blob · All-time great

Peter too wrote:
Tara was doing well last year and in the early part of this year. I thought she would push on into the top 100 but now it looks like she could be struggling to stay in the top 500. I wonder if she has other interests now that make the tennis circuit seem less appealing.

I thought much as you; that she overcome her variability in form, and that progress would be more upwards, if perhaps, slowly, and with occasional slips.

I also have wondered idly about whether tennis is where she sees her future, and whether the snub over Wimbledon may have exarcerbated any doubts she may have been having. Pure speculation on my part, of course.

When she plays well, she's so eminently watchable, her game is, 'box-office'.

I hope we don't lose her. Be that through poor form, or other interests.

There is little more to do but see if the next time begins another up-tick. A story being repreated with a high number of our women across the rankings spectrum.