Week 37 - ITF ($25K) - Santa Margherita Di Pula, Italy, Clay

Michael D · All-time great

Week 37 - ITF ($25K) - Santa Margherita Di Pula, Italy, Clay

wolf · Tennis legend

That is not her doubles partner, she's another Alice from Italy. smile

Michael D · All-time great

Yes she's played with Alice Savoretti mainly smile

wimdledont · Challenger level

Mandy's in a mood.

She leads 6-1, 5-0...

Michael D · All-time great

Well I hope it's only the mood that has ended, seeing as Mandy has then lost the next 3 games including two breaks of her serve cry

Michael D · All-time great

I wonder what happened there then? Mandy lost 4 games straight and was 0-30 heading for her third service break when she pulled it round again to win 4 points in a row and the match 6-1 6-4.

Michael D · All-time great

5 points though, her first real points for a long time. However since she has 13 coming off this week, that's still -8 on balance when these are added.

Strongbow · All-time great

Just good to see her playing again smile

typo cry

-- Edited by Strongbow on Tuesday 12th of September 2017 09:24:36 PM

PockyTastic · Futures level

Strongbow wrote:
Just good to see her playing again
typo

-- Edited by Strongbow on Tuesday 12th of September 2017 09:24:36 PM

Agreed. She was in good form (still hurting on her behalf for those match points in Charleston quailes) when she had that ankle injury and had to miss the clay season where she could have continued to progress. I'm hoping she remains healthy, strings some wins together and can get herself into the position to have a successful 2018.

Michael D · All-time great

Wrist injury Pocky, and that's always the concern... why her return has been very stop-start so far.

Peter too · Tennis legend

R1: CARRERAS, Amanda (GBR) 354 def BALDUCCI, Alice (ITA) 583 6-1 6-4

Peter too · Tennis legend

R2: CARRERAS, Amanda (GBR) 354 v PIERI, Jessica (ITA) 5 309 CH=256 14/8/17
H2H 1-2
Imola 2015 6-7(2) 6-3 6-7(7)
Santa Margherita di Pula 2015 6-4 6-3
Santa Margherita di Pula 2015 3-6 3-6

Oakland2002 · All-time great

It would be great to see Mandy get back on track, wrist injuries are horrid. Mandy is the closest thing that Gibraltar has to an elite professional athlete since Danny Higginbottoms Gran. Surely Gibraltar is the ideal place for the LTA to develop a winter training base post BREXIT

blob · All-time great

First set gone, 3-6
First serve landing plenty, but not doing anywhere near enough work when it does (36.4% won - lower than Mandy's second serve)

Michael D · All-time great

And lost the second set sadly too 3-6 4-6. Critical game was the 8th game when Mandy had 4 or 5 break opportunities but didn't win any of them. Once she'd missed those, it seemed fairly inevitable that once the score got to *4-5 that she would face BPs herself, and indeed she did, losing the first immediately and the match with it.

Still it's good to see Mandy back. At the moment she is due to miss next week again (she also missed a week between this and her first tournament back), and this is on acceptance lists, including for here again, in two weeks time.

R2: CARRERAS, Amanda (GBR) 354 lost to PIERI, Jessica (ITA) 5 309 CH=256 14/8/17 3-6 4-6

-- Edited by Michael D on Thursday 14th of September 2017 03:56:42 PM