Week 11 - ITF ($25K) - Gwalior, India - Hard

Babfive · Satellite level

Week 11 - ITF ($25K) - Gwalior, India - Hard

PaulM · Tennis legend

Michael D · All-time great

Great result for Emily, these 5 points will carry her back into the 500s when they come onstream after Miami. Unfortunately Emily has the 2nd seed next so will be much harder for her to make further headway than for Freya.

R32: Freya CHRISTIE (GBR) 531 beat Valeriya STRAKHOVA (UKR) [5] 361 (CH:231 Feb 16) 6-2 6-3
R32: Emily WEBLEY-SMITH (GBR) 656 vs Nidhi CHILUMULA (IND) 993 (CH:578 Nov 14)

R16: Freya CHRISTIE (GBR) 531 vs Monica ROBINSON (USA) [Q] 1151 (CH:1149 Feb 18)
R16: Emily WEBLEY-SMITH (GBR) 656 vs Amandine HESSE (FRA) [2] 216 (CH:154 May 16)

H2H: 0-1 50k Stockton, USA, Hesse 6-3 3-6 1-6

-- Edited by Michael D on Tuesday 13th of March 2018 09:52:05 AM

wimdledont · Challenger level

Freya+ won 7-6(3), 6-4

EWS+ 3-1

Michael D · All-time great

Wow, Emily+ managed to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat there. They were 4-8 down in the MTB but then proceeded to win the next 6 points.
Final score 6-2 3-6 10-8.

Bad news is they next play Freya +, so only 1 pair can make the SF. Would like Emily too as she needs the doubles points more... and her doubles ranking will only improve if she gets at least to the SF.

blob · All-time great

Sterling comeback from Emily & Valeriya, they were 3-8 down in the MTB and reeled off 7 straight points

R16: Webley-Smith/Strakhova (GBR/UKR) [3] 602 defeated Bhatia/Papamichail (IND/GRE) 1219 6-2 3-6 [10-8]

R16: Christie/Khabibulina (GBR/UZB) 812 defeated Mihalikova/Thandi (SVK/IND) 620 7-6(3) 6-4

QF: Webley-Smith/Strakhova (GBR/UKR) [3] 602 v. Christie/Khabibulina (GBR/UZB) 812

blob · All-time great

Whilst you were typing...

Michael D · All-time great

blob wrote:
Whilst you were typing...

That's ok, I was thinking about putting the scores up too... and now I don't need to bother biggrin

Babfive · Satellite level

Freya is 7-6(4) 4-6 1-1

Babfive · Satellite level

Freya serving at 1-3 down in the final set.

wimdledont · Challenger level

Freya lost the final set 6(6)-7

Michael D · All-time great

Freya and Emily have both lost unfortunately, so 5 points only each. Emily that was not surprising, Freya it certainly was, even if Ms Robinson can obviously play better than her ranking befits, and the match was tight.

R16: Freya CHRISTIE (GBR) 531 lost to Monica ROBINSON (USA) [Q] 1151 (CH:1149 Feb 18) 7-6(4) 4-6 6-7(6)
R16: Emily WEBLEY-SMITH (GBR) 656 lost to Amandine HESSE (FRA) [2] 216 (CH:154 May 16) 4-6 1-6

blob · All-time great

Freya & Albina currently lead Emily & Valriya in the match to determine which Brit makes the doubles SF, 6-3 3-3*

Oakland2002 · All-time great

Monica is another strong player from SoCal. Anyone ranked no 1 in San Diego at 18 is going to be half decent. On the cusp of top 50 as a junior at Notre Dame which is a top school both academic and sporting. Graduated this spring, peaked at 54 in college Tennis as a junior, senior probably involved academic grafted hence a slight drop off. I would imagine she has precisely the game perfectly designed to beat Freya, ie mobile defensive keeps the ball in play putting pressure on Freya to win the point, I have seen her frustrated in this way before by Risa Osaki a master moonballer

The sports programme has enormous wealth Notre Dame football has its own contract with ABC to show their games, not a conference deal but its own. It would be a bit like Man U doing its own deal with Sky before the premiership started up and keeping it!

-- Edited by Oakland2002 on Wednesday 14th of March 2018 11:07:33 AM

Michael D · All-time great

Oakland2002 wrote:
Monica is another strong player from SoCal. Anyone ranked no 1 in San Diego at 18 is going to be half decent. On the cusp of top 50 as a junior at Notre Dame which is a top school both academic and sporting. Graduated this spring, peaked at 54 in college Tennis as a junior, senior probably involved academic grafted hence a slight drop off. I would imagine she has precisely the game perfectly designed to beat Freya, ie mobile defensive keeps the ball in play putting pressure on Freya to win the point, I have seen her frustrated in this way before by Risa Osaki a master moonballer

The sports programme has enormous wealth Notre Dame football has its own contract with ABC to show their games, not a conference deal but its own. It would be a bit like Man U doing its own deal with Sky before the premiership started up and keeping it!

-- Edited by Oakland2002 on Wednesday 14th of March 2018 11:07:33 AM

Emily beat Monica last week in Bhopal in the L16 in 3 sets. Thus far between last week and this Monica has gained 11 points, which should see her move quite a bit further up the rankings now.