Week 8 - ITF ($25K) - Perth, Australia - Hard

indiana · Tennis legend

Week 8 - ITF ($25K) - Perth, Australia - Hard

indiana · Tennis legend

Not to be

Katy was 3-1* up in the TB, *3-6 down and lost it 4-7.

Katy loses by 6-7(5) 6-3 7-6(4) after 2 hours 52 minutes.

It appears that she will move to a CH on Monday week of at least 253 ( on 217 points ). Any higher and that top 250 will need appropriate players dropping appropriate points next week. She does though have nothing to defend until May. She will remain GB #7, behind Gabi and Laura who will now be in that order.

indiana · Tennis legend

QF: Gabriella Taylor WR 240 (=CH) beat (6) Tereza Mrdeza (CRO) WR 220 (CH 150 in October 2015) by 6-4 6-3

QF: Katy Dunne WR 284 (CH 258 last September) lost to (5) Jaqueline Adina Cristian (ROU) WR 211 (CH 210 earlier this month), age 19, JCH 30 by 6-7(5) 6-3 7-6(4)

And so ...

SF: Gabriella Taylor WR 240 (=CH) vs (5) Jaqueline Adina Cristian (ROU) WR 211 (CH 210 earlier this month), age 19, JCH 30

Oakland2002 · All-time great

Another fine performance by Gabby, and not a bad week all in all for our three strongest young guns with Katie B having a cracking first round win and Katie S also on form and going deep elsewhere.

Priesty · Challenger level

All GB semi would have been nice, but hopefully Katy has worn Cristian out nicely in readiness wink

Is Gabby on course for top 200 this week if she wins the whole thing?

the addict · Tennis legend

Nice win for Gabby, pity about the DF's, could have been pretty emphatic !
Tough match for Katy - almost three hours. Again, pity about the DF's, but still a good performance.

indiana · Tennis legend

Priesty wrote:
All GB semi would have been nice, but hopefully Katy has worn Cristian out nicely in readiness
Is Gabby on course for top 200 this week if she wins the whole thing?

Almost certainly.

The title would take her to 289 points on Monday week, just behind Katie B's 295 points.

vohor · Grand Slam Champion

Well done again Gabi :D
Pity Katy couldn't quite get that done; but we don't now have to sit on the fence in the SF...

Michael D · All-time great

Priesty wrote:
All GB semi would have been nice, but hopefully Katy has worn Cristian out nicely in readiness
Is Gabby on course for top 200 this week if she wins the whole thing?

The answer is yes. She will rise to WR 231 next week, when her 9 points for reaching the QF last week are put on. The 18 pts Gabi has earned so far will take her to around 216 in the rankings the following week. If she then reaches the final 30 points will take her to about 203 - where one Victoria Azarenka currently sits... and if she won the tournament, Gabi would go up to about 194, of course depending on the movements of some of the others around her. But she would definitely be within the top 200.

Michael D · All-time great

Just to note in addition that Gabi's first points to come off are in mid-March, where she will lose 9 (Mildura QF 2017), then she will lose another 27 first two weeks of April (Mornington SF, QF).

In respect of Gabi's overall schedule in Australia, I've seen the figure 6 weeks mentioned. This week is week 3, next week there is no tournament, then there is a 25k in Mildura, which is entered into, followed by another week gap, then a 60k in Canberra. Since that is week 7 it's not clear yet if Gabi is intending to stay for that, but I rather hope she will as she needs to start testing herself up another level now (leaving the whole US swing aside for now).

-- Edited by Michael D on Friday 23rd of February 2018 10:19:23 AM

Peter too · Tennis legend

After three breaks of service Gaby leads *2-1

-- Edited by Peter too on Saturday 24th of February 2018 03:23:14 AM

Babfive · Satellite level

It seems very windy in Perth today.

Michael D · All-time great

Gabi is the first to hold serve to lead *3-1. To say the conditions are breezy though is to put it mildly. There is a small gale blowing across the court, but it's gusting too. It's making the game a real lottery. To start with it's affecting ball toss, as the gusting makes it uncertain what will happen. First of her service games Gabi twice had to run across the baseline to catch the ball again after she threw it up to serve, because the wind took it. At least a couple more serves she was effectively running forward to hit the ball because it had moved across as she was trying to hit it. What she's having to do is throw the ball behind her, so that it ends up about where she wants it. On the other side of the court, the ball was then blowing behind her as she was trying to serve, though that was the game she managed to win.

Jaqueline looks a useful player but hasn't mastered the ball toss yet and Gabi has broken her every service game thus far. Score is now 2-4*, Gabi's second service game the only hold so far. 6th game she fought back from 15-40 to deuce and then thought she'd served an ace to give her Ad, but it was called out and she DF, and then lost the next point.

Overall Gabi is managing to keep her swing tighter and reduce the errors, now ahead *5-2. It's a real test of control this match.

-- Edited by Michael D on Saturday 24th of February 2018 03:44:44 AM

Babfive · Satellite level

That hold could turn out to be very important for Gabi.

Peter too · Tennis legend

Gaby held service twice to win the first set 6-2. All other games went against service.