Week 9 - ITF ($15K) - Solarino, Italy Carpet

Peter too · Tennis legend

Week 9 - ITF ($15K) - Solarino, Italy Carpet

Michael D · All-time great

Mandy has been training at Soto's. There is a video of her on her instagram feed hitting balls under the Barcelona blue skies. Wrist looked ok there. Let's hope it holds up under match conditions now, we all know how tough it can be getting back from wrist surgery, so wishing Mandy well now and holding thumbs a lot.

blob · All-time great

Nice comeback win for Taro today, 3-6 6-0 6-4

Peter too · Tennis legend

Q1: KEENS, Taro (GBR) UNR def TARUN, Aimee (USA) UNR 3-6 6-0 6-4
Q1: MORTON, Emily (GBR) UNR v Bye

Q2: KEENS, Taro (GBR) UNR v GADIENT, Nicole (SUI) 4 1213 CH=1207 23/10/17
Q2: MORTON, Emily (GBR) UNR v CRESCENZI, Giulia (ITA) UNR

christ · Futures level

Well done Taro.

blob · All-time great

FQR: Taro KEENS, Taro (GBR) UNR lost to Nicole GADIENT, Nicole (SUI) [q4] 1213 4-6 3-6

FQR: Emily MORTON (GBR) UNR lost to v Giulia CRESCENZI (ITA) UNR 2-6 2-6

Peter too · Tennis legend

There is no sign of Amanda Carreras in the main draw.

Strongbow · All-time great

Peter too wrote:
There is no sign of Amanda Carreras in the main draw.

Drat - if she was going to play anywhere it would be on clay - i.e. Palmanova cry

indiana · Tennis legend

Yes pity. But let's take encouragement that she is evidently so close to being back and hope just being cautious with no real setback.

Oakland2002 · All-time great

Taro and Emily are two names I have not come across before. Generally I see players emerge through juniors or via the college route. Obviously working too hard and not paying attention, good luck to them both.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Taro is a coach / runs a small tennis school. In Portsmouth, I think.

She got to about 600 in juniors. And beat Laura Robson in Laura's first big tournament in juniors, as well as represented GB.

She's also been/is a professional model. And played some of the British Tour events in the last year.

Strongbow · All-time great

Taro is 24 and played some ITF (mainly qualifiers) in 2010 and also played in the second half of last year - mainly at Sharm. Taro has also played a fair number of UK tour events (ranked 58) grade 1/2. Won the Cumberland grade 2 last August.

Emily is 19, from Yorkshire, and has played a number of UK tour events including the grade 1 at Tipton. LTA points mainly from grade 2/3.

blob · All-time great

Taro's 2017 record was 2-8
She played events in Egypt, the UK & Netherlands.
Both wins were in a FQR in Sharm el Sheikh (the FQR was the first round of qualifying in each case) against unranked players.

Emily went 1-6 in 2017
She played events in Norway, the UK & Portugal
Her win came in another FQR that was also the QR1, in Norway against an UNR player

indiana · Tennis legend

Emily has an unfortunate surname, says a supporter of Renfrewshire's #1 team, St Mirren.

But I guess still all the best to her and Taro.

wimdledont · Challenger level

Does anybody know whether Amanda is entitled to any SR entries? She was certainly high enough ranked when initially injured, but I seem to remember that you have to be out injured for six months? I think Amanda may have been out for about 4 months, had a go, had surgery, and then been out for another four months. Not sure if this counts?

She's about to start dropping all of the points from her good form last Spring, so if she cannot use SRs to get into some 25ks, the she faces a long and winding road back from very nearly UNR, which will take some time if relying solely on 15k points.