Week 45 - ITF ($25K) - Shrewsbury, GB Hard

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Week 45 - ITF ($25K) - Shrewsbury, GB Hard

the addict · Tennis legend

Half the matches completed

Q2: BARRITZA, Karen (DEN) 1 494 def YARDLEY, Summer (GBR) UNR 6-3 6-4
Q2: SUGNAUX, Tess (SUI) 2 500 def MCCOLGAN, Hannah (GBR) UNR 6-4 6-1
Q2: GREY, Sarah Beth (GBR) 6 667 def SAINSBURY, Laura (GBR) 926 6-4 6-3

Peter too · Tennis legend

Emma Hurst was serving for the match at 6-5 in the third but got broken and narrowly lost the tie break after saving one match point. 1-6 6-4 6-7(6)

the addict · Tennis legend

The doubles draw is out, and there are some really good potential QF and SF matches, assuming they get that far.
For example,
Freya Christie/Harriet Dart v Beth Grey/Sam Murray (SF)
Maia Lumsden/Katie Swan v Emily Webley-Smith/Anna Vrijic (QF)

the addict · Tennis legend

Remaining Q2 matches
Q2: FAYOL, Clemence (FRA) 5 592 def HURST, Emma (GBR) 1143 6-1 4-6 7-6(6)
Q2: WEBLEY-SMITH, Emily (GBR) 584 def CAZEAUX, Amandine (FRA) 9 836 6-4 6-2
Q2: BARNETT, Alicia (GBR) 721 def WILLIAM, Tiffany (GBR) 14 1157 6-2 6-0

paulisi · Tennis legend

All matches went to form.
Summer Yardley has improved a lot since I last saw her and was very competitive.
Tiffany William is all power, but was very erratic.
Hannah played a typical Hannah game - very patchy.
Emma Hurst's was poor in the first set, but got her game together and was hitting a lot of winners in sets 2 &. 3 and was the better play for most. Should have served it out and had chances in the tie break, but looked the weaker mentally( though Fayol netted on match point at the net with an open court)
Draw is at 6.30 in the lounge.
The Shrewsbury Club is in the middle of a 1.25m upgrade, but little has been done to improve spectator facilities yet. This is funded by sale of land for housing. The builders have thrown in 10k to the prize money as it is a building site outside.

paulisi · Tennis legend

Friedsam will be the tournament favourite. She was very good today.

OOP is out
2 guaranteed GB wins, but generally tough matches for our girls.

the addict · Tennis legend

The guaranteed GB wins are in the same quarter cry

Eden SILVA (GBR) (WC) v Alicia BARNETT (GBR) (Q)
Freya CHRISTIE (GBR) v Harriet DART (GBR) [8] cry

But no-one has to play Friedsam (not before QF anyway) wink

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

paulisi wrote:
Friedsam will be the tournament favourite. She was very good today.

OOP is out
2 guaranteed GB wins, but generally tough matches for our girls.

Not saying they'll win but we've got pretty good draws !

Emily W-S gets a fellow qualifier. Katie Swan gets a qualifier (and even though it's Barritza, that's better than many other options). Beth and Maia get unseeded players. Eden, Alicia, Freya and Harriet all play each other with a guaranteed QF place on offer.

Only Sam and Jodie have really drawn short straws on paper, getting the second and third seeds.

Grachka · County player

Full draw

(1) Lesley Kerkhove NED vs. Shilin Xu CHN

Q Kaja Juvan SLO vs. Q Emily Webley-Smith GBR

WC Eden Silva GBR vs. Q Alicia Barnett GBR

Freya Christie GBR vs. (8) Harriet Dart GBR

(4) Ayla Aksu TUR vs. Laura-Ioana Andrei ROU

Katarzyna Piter POL vs. Marina Melnikova RUS

Q Sarah Beth Grey GBR vs Raluca Georgiana Serban ROU

Pemra Ozgen TUR vs. (5) Georgina Garcia-Perez ESP

(6) Diana Marcinkevica LAT vs. Eleni Kordolaimi GRE

Q Tess Sugnaux SUI vs. Q Clemena Fayol FRA

Q Karen Barritza DEN vs. Katie Swan GBR

WC Jodie Anna Burrage GBR vs. (3) Kathinka von Deichmann LIE

(7) Sarah-Rebecca Sekulic GER vs. Kimberly Zimmermann BEL

Elixane Lechemia FRA vs. Q Anna-Lena Friedsam GER

Ana Vrljic CRO vs WC Maia Lumsden GBR

WC Samantha Murray GBR vs. (2) Ivana Jorovic SRB

Peter too · Tennis legend

With latest ratings and previous meetings.

R1: WEBLEY-SMITH, Emily (GBR) Q 591 v JUVAN, Kaja (SLO) Q 555 CH=541 23/10/17 16yo JCH=5
R1: SILVA, Eden (GBR) WC 569 v BARNETT, Alicia (GBR) Q 722
H2H 2-1
Nottingham Junior 2011 1-6 2-6
Nottingham 2014 6-4 5-7 6-3
Wirral 2017 6-1 7-6(3)

R1: DART, Harriet (GBR) 8 315 v CHRISTIE, Freya (GBR) 604
H2H 2-0
Jiangmen 2015 6-2 6-2
Sanguenay 2016 6-4 7-6(6)

R1: GREY, Sarah Beth (GBR) Q 665 v SERBAN, Raluca Georgiana (ROU) 335 =CH
H2H 0-2
Rethymno 2013 6-3 6-7(4) 3-6
Heraklion 2016 1-6 4-6

R1: SWAN, Katie (GBR) 299 v BARRITZA, Karen (DEN) Q 500 CH=396 17/4/17
R1: BURRAGE, Jodie Anna (GBR) WC 587 v VON DEICHMANN, Kathinka (LIE) 3 197 CH=170 17/7/17
R1: LUMSDEN, Maia (GBR) WC 584 v VRLJIC, Ana (CRO) 444 CH=180 2013
R1: MURRAY, Samantha (GBR) WC 453 v JOROVIC, Ivana (SRB) 2 183 CH=134 24/10/16
H2H 0-1 Seoul 2014 4-6 3-6

-- Edited by Peter too on Monday 6th of November 2017 09:13:09 PM

paulisi · Tennis legend

Looking properly at the draws and what I've seen today:
EWS has drawn a very good junior, who looked very good. Tough match for Emily
Eden turned Alicia over on the Wirral, so should be favourite
Harriet v Freya is too close to call.
Beth looks to have a good chance, but looked a little tired today(Laura played well)
Katie S should comfortably beat Barritza
Jodie has a tough match, but Beth pushed her opponent really close a few weeks ago.
Maia should be too good for Vrljic, who is way past her best
Sam has a real tough one against a girl who is dropping down from success at a higher level.
I'll also predict the top seed we get knocked out tomorrow.

indiana · Tennis legend

Thanks, paulisi, looks a pretty balanced draw, and was going to be tough for some, can't complain jn general.

A gathering together in R1 of much of the mid to slightly upper range of our ranked players. GB ranks 6 and 8 then 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 and finally 21.

Michael D · All-time great

paulisi wrote:
Looking properly at the draws and what I've seen today:
EWS has drawn a very good junior, who looked very good. Tough match for Emily
Eden turned Alicia over on the Wirral, so should be favourite
Harriet v Freya is too close to call.
Beth looks to have a good chance, but looked a little tired today(Laura played well)
Katie S should comfortably beat Barritza
Jodie has a tough match, but Beth pushed her opponent really close a few weeks ago.
Maia should be too good for Vrljic, who is way past her best
Sam has a real tough one against a girl who is dropping down from success at a higher level.
I'll also predict the top seed we get knocked out tomorrow.

Yes I see the Chinese girl playing Lesley Kerkhove, the top seed, was a former junior #1. Could be an interesting match that. I hope Sam is up for it too, and at least can give the #2 seed a good game too.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Maia has taken the first set in very good speed, winning 6-1 in 30 mins.

Freya too the first set v Harriet, and was a break up, but it's now back on serve