Week 46 - ITF ($60K+H) - Toyota, Japan - Hard

wimdledont · Challenger level

Week 46 - ITF ($60K+H) - Toyota, Japan - Hard

indiana · Tennis legend

Is Singapore 2018 ready for maybe all these Brits ? biggrin

paulisi · Tennis legend

Interesting match up between Katy and Laura and I would be tempted to back Katy in this case.

Katy's ranking has huge potential upside - she has covered most of her points for the rest of the year and has 15pts to defend until May. I'm not sure if she is planning any more tennis this year, but she is going back to Australia in February for that circuit, so a relatively good run down under and I can see Katy getting down to low 200's before the grass court season which may give her direct entry into the 100K's on the grass and a chance of a Wimbledon main draw wildcard.

Mervatron2 · Challenger qualifying

Shame that the meet in the second round but at least one will make the QF.

Peter too · Tennis legend

Laura 6-1 0-0*

Babfive · Satellite level

Laura won 6-1 6-3

jb288 · Satellite level

First serve was really firing for Laura in the first set...dropped off a lot in the second but quite a few aces again, so maybe signs of improvement again :)

paulisi · Tennis legend

No luck in the doubles for Katy either.

Peter too · Tennis legend

R2: ROBSON, Laura (GBR) 241 def DUNNE, Katy (GBR) 283 6-1 6-3

QF: ROBSON, Laura (GBR) 241 v LU, Jia-Jing (CHN) 5 229 CH=198 4/4/16

Helen40 · Grand Slam Champion

jb288 wrote:
First serve was really firing for Laura in the first set...dropped off a lot in the second but quite a few aces again, so maybe signs of improvement again :)

I'm not celebrating yet, Laura sometimes plays well against her countrymen. I will wait for the next match and will be more optimistic if she can play two matches well in a row.

the addict · Tennis legend

Doubles result. Close aganst the top seeds, but not quite enough

QF Ksenia LYKINA (RUS) / Junri NAMIGATA (JPN) [1] def Katy DUNNE (GBR) / Ayaka OKUNO (JPN) 4-6 6-4 [10-7]

Peter too · Tennis legend

Laura 1-6 7-6(3)

This is almost the reverse of Tara's match against Lu in Hong Kong in January, which Tara went on to win in three.

-- Edited by Peter too on Friday 17th of November 2017 03:30:19 AM

Peter too · Tennis legend

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-- Edited by Peter too on Friday 17th of November 2017 03:25:02 AM

indiana · Tennis legend

Peter too wrote:

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-- Edited by Peter too on Friday 17th of November 2017 03:25:02 AM

Yes, that can be the reaction following a Laura match To be fair she's not the only one.

Now 1-6 7-6(3) *4-4. Two breaks apiece in the third,

indiana · Tennis legend

Actually was one break apiece. But now Lu has a second.

4-5*