Katherine's second pro win
QR1: Katherine BARNES (GBR) UNR defeated Viktoriya LAVRENTYEVA (RUS) UNR 6-2 6-2
QR2: Katherine BARNES (GBR) UNR v. Elena GRIESSNER (AUT) UNR (=CH - 18 yo; JCH 1314, Jan. 2017)

Peter too wrote:

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Katherine is a 16 year old with a JCH of 1185.

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 She has hardly played juniors and she has no ambition to go back to juniors. She has decided she will develop better playing against a older and better players.

She has also come through the system despite being based out in the sticks in East Anglia.

I love the idea often heard that East Anglia is the sticks when it is has London so relatively close to the south, especially Suffolk. Actually even more so Essex and Hertfordshire which are apparently also part of East Anglia.

Says someone who grew up in the Scottish Highlands.

And I went to UEA and used to live in Norfolk, so for me East Anglia is Norwich and Norfolk, and the Broads, and the beautiful coastline (including Suffolk), and a country side that is marked by beautiful, stark monochromatic skylines. It's a special part of the UK.

That's weird, I can't see a Q draw in the ITF tournament listing, but there is a final Q OOP for tomorrow... and the news isn't good, because Katherine will have to play the Q1 seed to get into the main draw.

FQR: Katherine BARNES (GBR) UNR vs Cemre ANIL (TUR) [Q1] 847 (CH:788 July 17)

the addict wrote:

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The draw is showing for me. Just one of those ITF blips 

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Yeah, for the tournament doubles page, although there's no draw there yet, I have some rather abstract lines that allow for 1 QF and then 2 SFs and a F and that's it  

And still no Q draw

Every so often they "reorganise" the ITF and WTA pages and each time they make them worse than they were before.