Week 14 - ITF ($15K) - Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt - Hard

Jaggy1876 · Grand Slam Champion

RE: Week 14 - ITF ($15K) - Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt - Hard

Ian1314 · Lower Club Player

Perhaps at 15K level they cannot return as well.

Still seven aces a set is something biggrin

paulisi · Tennis legend

Good win for Tara.
Very much a confidence player and if she gets on a run, no reason why she cannot get back inside the top 250.

blob · All-time great

Very convincing

Decent shot at a ninth singles title.

SF: Tara MOORE (GBR) [2] 479 defeated Angelina GABUEVA (RUS) 896 6-1 6-2

F: Tara MOORE (GBR) [2] 479 v. Eleni KORDOLAIMI (GRE) [3] 517 (CH 458, Aug. 2017)

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

paulisi wrote:
Good win for Tara.
Very much a confidence player and if she gets on a run, no reason why she cannot get back inside the top 250.

Very much a physical fitness player too.

Which was most decidedly lacking last year.

If she's got that a bit in order, she will done herself a huge favour.

the addict · Tennis legend

Good to see Tara winning agan. She desperately needs the points just to stay where she is in the rankings.
Outside the top 500 in the live rankings now., with less than a third of the points needed to get back up to the top 250

Michael D · All-time great

Yes, I haven't been able to check results for a couple of days, and it's great to see Tara has reached the final, and through a series of convincing wins too. In the final, to note she is playing against her doubles partner for the work, who in contrast to Tara has played three successive 3 set matches to get there.

scottie1 · Futures level

Michael D wrote:
Yes, I haven't been able to check results for a couple of days, and it's great to see Tara has reached the final, and through a series of convincing wins too. In the final, to note she is playing against her doubles partner for the work, who in contrast to Tara has played three successive 3 set matches to get there.

Always look for Tara's results this hopefully is green shoots of a ranking recovery too good a player to be ranked about 500 in world

RedSquirrel · Satellite level

Great start for Tara. Leads the first set 5-0*

RedSquirrel · Satellite level

And she takes the first in double quick time 6-0

blob · All-time great

Wins 26 of 37 points (70.27%)

blob · All-time great

Delightfully anticlimactic

6-0 6-1

blob · All-time great

A ninth singles title for Tara (8 x $10/$15K, 1 x $25K)
Her first singles title in over two years, since Antalya in January 2016.

It's Tara's eighteenth pro title in total.

There's never been any doubting the talent. Can the pieces be found to unlock it in a sustained manner?

Well done Tara

Michael D · All-time great

Congrats to Tara indeed, especially for such a professionally conducted victory biggrin

This at least will regain Tara the 10 points she loses this week, with net +2 the following week (she has 1 pointers, so it is effectively -9 and then +11). She will therefore likely move back to between 467-470 in a week's time. Then she could do with another good week next week too...

With the 12 points from this week, Tara now has just 3 double figure counters, and of these the lowest, another 10 pointer (for reaching QR2 in the Rabat WTA event last year), will come off 7th May. So it would be good if Tara can cover this one too, to keep her ranking in the 400s at least, and to be hoped then serve as the platform for keeping her (re-)motivation and moving higher again.

vohor · Grand Slam Champion

Congrats Tara :D
Hopefully the start towards returning to her best :)