Week 49 - ITF ($15K) - Cairo, Egypt Clay

indiana · Tennis legend

Week 49 - ITF ($15K) - Cairo, Egypt Clay

Peter too · Tennis legend

R2: WILLIAM, Tiffany (GBR) LL 1130 v FETECAU, Irina (ROU) 8 572 CH=506 2/10/17

blob · All-time great

Another good looking outing from Tiffany, working against a >600 place rankings gap; she's just taken the second set to tie things up, 4-6 6-4

Michael D · All-time great

Wow, Tiffany has completed a great comeback performance there, winning the last 5 games in a row for the match after being 1-2* down in the third set.

R2: WILLIAM, Tiffany (GBR) LL 1130 beat FETECAU, Irina (ROU) 8 572 CH=506 2/10/17 4-6 6-4 6-2 smile

the addict · Tennis legend

Romped away with it from 1-2* 30-40, only lost three (?) points in the last five games.

Another good win, the two points will jump her up the rankings quite a way.

paulisi · Tennis legend

Good stuff - talented, but inconsistent.

I really think there should be some sort of LTA funding and mentoring for college graduates to have a go on the tour if they are good enough.

blob · All-time great

Taking that LL spot and making an excellent return from it. Well done.

Michael D · All-time great

Tiffany is nearing the top 1000 now but needs two more points to be sure of getting there. Once these 2 points are added on week after next she will have 8 pts, which will take her somewhere between 1025 and 1050 in the ranking. She has another Romanian opponent up next, this time a promising junior.

QF: WILLIAM, Tiffany (GBR) LL 1130 vs ROSCA, Andreea Amalia (ROU) 798 (CH:628 July 17) 18yrs (JCH:133 April 15)

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

paulisi wrote:
Good stuff - talented, but inconsistent.

I really think there should be some sort of LTA funding and mentoring for college graduates to have a go on the tour if they are good enough.

But how do you tell if they 'are good enough'?

I'm actually with the LTA here.

I like Tiff and her tennis, but when she left college she was nowhere on the college tennis radar, had no ITF profile, and spent her first year as a pro/semi pro losing practically all her matches. I know she went to France for a while too. She really was not a budding talent that would justify direct funding. No other federation I know would have thought her worth funding either.

Now, if we has a neutral, entirely discretionary funding board, it's just possible someone would have seen some potential there. But as it is, with a matrix system and the vested interest of being in the fold in the first place, there was no chance.

The top-up funding is supposed to address the issue of people in a position like Tiffany. And it does, to an extent. I'm not sure what else the federation can do (apart from implement the old gold standard mantra of decent club structure overall thriving tennis industry,which would then do the job itself).

paulisi · Tennis legend

Put the travel bursary scheme back in place put extend it to allow students who have finished uni rather than just age related

If I remember correctly, it topped up prize winnings to a fixed level for futures and challengers for overseas tournaments

indiana · Tennis legend

Coup Droit wrote:
paulisi wrote:
Good stuff - talented, but inconsistent.

I really think there should be some sort of LTA funding and mentoring for college graduates to have a go on the tour if they are good enough.
But how do you tell if they 'are good enough'?
I'm actually with the LTA here.
I like Tiff and her tennis, but when she left college she was nowhere on the college tennis radar, had no ITF profile, and spent her first year as a pro/semi pro losing practically all her matches. I know she went to France for a while too. She really was not a budding talent that would justify direct funding. No other federation I know would have thought her worth funding either.
Now, if we has a neutral, entirely discretionary funding board, it's just possible someone would have seen some potential there. But as it is, with a matrix system and the vested interest of being in the fold in the first place, there was no chance.
The top-up funding is supposed to address the issue of people in a position like Tiffany. And it does, to an extent. I'm not sure what else the federation can do (apart from implement the old gold standard mantra of decent club structure overall thriving tennis industry,which would then do the job itself).

Yes Tiffany may have been no sort of college standout. But I'm with certainly being more clearly aware of and ready to accommodate potentially much better players that might come out of college. Say if Emily Arbuthnott continues to progress in her tennis and then wants a pro career. To me it makes sense to make allowances and help her in some forms.

Surely someone like her is very much worth deviating from the age related matrices, so it is pleasing that there do now allow discretionary additions. Now we 'just' need discretion applied wisely.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

I don't think we need to fund every college or uni player who wishes to travel and play some tournaments. And as Tiff wouldn't have made the cut using any normal metrics, I'm not sure about in on a selective basis either. Of course, if we had more tournaments at home it wouldn't be an issue.

vohor · Grand Slam Champion

Michael D wrote:
Wow, Tiffany has completed a great comeback performance there, winning the last 5 games in a row for the match after being 1-2* down in the third set.

R2: WILLIAM, Tiffany (GBR) LL 1130 beat FETECAU, Irina (ROU) 8 572 CH=506 2/10/17 4-6 6-4 6-2

Great result for Tiffany there biggrin

blob · All-time great

Not the best of starts today for Tiffany, 1-6

Strongbow · All-time great

Should be a new CH for Tiffany - close to 1000 biggrin

Playing Cairo again next week.