Week 41 - ITF ($25K) - Cherbourg-en-Cotentin, France, Hard Indoor

Strongbow · All-time great

RE: Week 41 - ITF ($25K) - Cherbourg-en-Cotentin, France, Hard Indoor

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

And takes the first set, 6-2

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

And serving for the match at *5-4

Jaggy1876 · Grand Slam Champion

Broken when serving for match however with the TB so that's a great win 6-2, 7-6. Well done Sam.

Peter too · Tennis legend

R2: GREY, Sarah Beth (GBR) Q 777 def HONCOVA, Michaela (SVK) 6 300 6-2 6-0
R2: MURRAY, Samantha (GBR) Q 529 def REIX, Sherazad (FRA) 3 263 6-2 7-6(4)

QF: GREY, Sarah Beth (GBR) Q 777 v ALBIE, Audrey (FRA) 373 CH=369 25/9/17
QF: MURRAY, Samantha (GBR) Q 529 v GERVAIS, Julie (FRA) Q 809 CH=564 22/8/16

blob · All-time great

Two very good runs in progress. More!
Quite generally, we do seem to fare quite well on the womens side at indoor tournaments.
(corroborating numbers pending, perhaps)

indiana · Tennis legend

Very good from Sam and reaching the QF here should ensure that she's back into the top 500 on Monday week, so far looking to be up to about WR 490. She no doubt wants to now keeping pushing on here and more importantly further beyond to go much higher.

We will be staying with 12 women in the top 500 since Freya is dropping points on Monday week ( with more the following week ) but just important she gets fit and well and with that she can recover her ranking.

indiana · Tennis legend

Sam and Beth are currently facing off in their doubles SF.

Sam & Thandi (IND) lead Beth & Barritza (DEN) 6-2 *2-3

indiana · Tennis legend

SF: Samantha Murray & Karman Kaur Thandi (IND) CR 788 (437+351) beat Karen Barritza (DEN) & Sarah Beth Grey CR 927 (463+464) 6-2 3-6 [10-7]

Sam+ were 2-6 down in the MTB.

The all French other SF is still in progress.

indiana · Tennis legend

FINAL :

Samantha Murray & Karman Kaur Thandi (IND) CR 788 (437+351) vs (4) Manon Arcangioli & Sherazad Reix (FRA/FRA) CR 645 (264+381)

vohor · Grand Slam Champion

Peter too wrote:
R2: GREY, Sarah Beth (GBR) Q 777 def HONCOVA, Michaela (SVK) 6 300 6-2 6-0
R2: MURRAY, Samantha (GBR) Q 529 def REIX, Sherazad (FRA) 3 263 6-2 7-6(4)

QF: GREY, Sarah Beth (GBR) Q 777 v ALBIE, Audrey (FRA) 373 CH=369 25/9/17
QF: MURRAY, Samantha (GBR) Q 529 v GERVAIS, Julie (FRA) Q 809 CH=564 22/8/16

Excellent results for Sam and Beth biggrin biggrin

paulisi · Tennis legend

Sam should beat Julie Gervais( based on seeing Julie at the Wirral)
Beth in her current form must stand a chance

Sam is likely to be the first or second seed at the Wirral 15k and will be someone Beth and Olivia will want to avoid in the doubles....

indiana · Tennis legend

Yes, hope Beth keeps with that really excellent singles form. The turnaround in her doubles SF MTB must have been a bit of a downer but great to still have singles to look to with real promise of more to come.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

For those who like the French rankings, Fiona Gervais is N53, which is decent.

But, like rather a lot of players, she's got a lot of points from basically playing the same players time and time again, and sharing the wins and losses (I don't mean deliberately sharing them, just that's how it works out). For instance, Gervais has played Adler, (see earlier), five times in the last 12 months, winning three, losing two. Her best result this year in terms of ranking is twice beating Reix (Sam's opponent of today). So maybe you could say she's stronger than Reix. But there's really nothing else in her results of any note. She was a good youngster who hasn't really lived up to expectation.

Audrey Albie is N14 which is significantly better, as is her results sheet. However, she's still very much a 25k sort of player, does very well in 15ks, wins a couple of rounds in 25ks, gets knocked out in R1 in richer events. She's good but nothing to be scared by.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Paulisi and I both looking to be overly optimistic - Sam is 1-6 1-2* down against Gervais......