Week 37 - ITF ($25K) - Redding, USA Hard

indiana · Tennis legend

Week 37 - ITF ($25K) - Redding, USA Hard

indiana · Tennis legend

Holds to 15 and it's all level again at 5-5*

indiana · Tennis legend

Urszula holds to love.

*5-6

indiana · Tennis legend

Harriet holds to 30

Final set TB

indiana · Tennis legend

*2-4 at change of ends

indiana · Tennis legend

Not to be

Urszula wins 7-6(2) 1-6 7-6(5)

Peter too · Tennis legend

Katie twice went a break down, at one point with her opponent serving for the match, but she broke back and took the first set 7-6(3)

steven · Tennis legend

Katie won 7-6(3) 4-6 6-4

and plays Veselinovic in the QFs

Michael D · All-time great

And lovely to see two doubles wins too, both Danielka and Harriet through to different SF, Danielka with Katie's next singles opponent and Harriet with Maria Sanchez.

indiana · Tennis legend

Katie faced a SP in that 5-6* game in the first set, escaped, won the TB and still had two more competitive sets against the unranked, never ranked ( although looks like this tournament is now a third counter so a ranking coming ) 22 year old American. Looks as if the good news from the match can be summed up in two words. She won.

It's not great. Hope having got through she can step it up, she will no doubt have to.

indiana · Tennis legend

R2: (8) Katie Swan WR 363 beat (Q) Lauren Marker (USA) UNR 7-6(3) 4-6 6-4

R2: (3) Harriet Dart WR 310 lost to Urszula Radwanska (POL) WR 716 (CH 29 in August 2012) 7-6(2) 1-6 7-6(5)

QF: (8) Katie Swan WR 363 vs Ana Veselinovic (MNE) WR 441 (CH 329 in September 2007)

Veselinovic beat the top seed, 17 yo Sofya Zhuk, in R1.

The Optimist · ATP qualifying

indiana wrote:
Katie faced a SP in that 5-6* game in the first set, escaped, won the TB and still had two more competitive sets against the unranked, never ranked ( although looks like this tournament is now a third counter so a ranking coming ) 22 year old American. Looks as if the good news from the match can be summed up in two words. She won.

It's not great. Hope having got through she can step it up, she will no doubt have to.

Katie's opponent, Lauren Marker, may never have been ranked but graduated this summer after 4 years at Arizona, a PAC12 (strong conference) school so probably a bit of a ringer.

Oakland2002 · All-time great

Arizona have a weak tennis programme compared to the rest of the PAC 12 and generally prop up the conference but to be fair Marker is one of their best female players.... ever and even at No 1 has managed some decent wins squeezing into last years college top 30 as a senior. Again the bizarre nature of college rankings being that the whole Florida and Stanford rosters would give her a decent game.

To put things in perspective Katie (who would be a freshman at college) shouldn't have too much of a problem even on a bad day with any college players outside the top 2 or 3, who she probably knows pretty well already

indiana · Tennis legend

The Optimist wrote:
indiana wrote:
Katie faced a SP in that 5-6* game in the first set, escaped, won the TB and still had two more competitive sets against the unranked, never ranked ( although looks like this tournament is now a third counter so a ranking coming ) 22 year old American. Looks as if the good news from the match can be summed up in two words. She won.

It's not great. Hope having got through she can step it up, she will no doubt have to.
Katie's opponent, Lauren Marker, may never have been ranked but graduated this summer after 4 years at Arizona, a PAC12 (strong conference) school so probably a bit of a ringer.

Thanks The O and to Oakland for the additional info. So some extenuating circumstances but looks likely Katie still some way off where she'd like to be. But it's been like that. Probably battle on as best she can for the rest of the year and have a big regroup in the off season.

Those college ringers can be a bit annoying except when they're our college ringers

blob · All-time great

Ms. Swan, 1-0*