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Really well done to Harriet 

Not sure about particular immediate benefits of her WTA outing, she has been coming along very nicely anyway and not a huge shock. But it did show good ambition and an experience that should hopefully still be good for her.



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We certainly have a good stock of young female players at challenger levels just now all capable of going deep just a shame its a bit meh on the mens side.

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Naomi has been taken to a decider, but Ms Myers currently has the upper hand. She has won the first 6-3, and was 5-3 up in the 2nd and serving for the match. But she lost serve and went on to lose the set on the TB to 8-6. Broken again in the 1st game of the third and currently 1-2*. 17 aces for Naomi so far.

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Disappointing 3rd set.

Naomi defeated 6-3 6-7(6) 1-6. cry

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Woo-hoo. Harriet takes the 1st set 6-2.


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But Nara ups her game and the 2nd set is all Nara. 1-6 cry

On to the third. Come on Harriet, you can do this.

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and lost the third 2-6. Stillnot a bad shwing against someone ranked about 100 places above her. Not so for Naomi though.

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I don't understand Myers' career, but well done ot her.

QF points at $80K is... a pretty good counter. But the magnitude of the long term goal is shown by the fact that even if all 16 counters were QF points at $80K, then you're still only half way to the points total typically required to break into the top 100. (21 points for $80K QF; 16*21=336 - WR100: ~650-670 points)
It is perfectly possible for our group now to keep having 'good weeks' and yet still not get anywhere substantial in that 200-100 zone that claims so many. You need to win more than one big ITF >$60K, or have soem WTA runs. The entries each are awarded during the grass to WTA events - and they surely will hoepfully each get some sort of chance(s) - are probably the best route. It's possibly still a year to soon to expect, but not to hope.

It is going to be interesting to see who is GB 2-4 come the end of 2018, It really does seem up for grabs.

As I said, all along, Annie K was right to leave Harriet on the bench for the fourth singles rubber. The only viable solution was Annie coming out of retirement to play the match herself, but she wasn't even willing to give it a go!

We need to find a way to stop 5'0'' Nara's Brit-bashing streak.


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From 4-1 in the first set, Naomi & Katy capitulated, 6-7(4) 2-6

Emily & Ksenia are into the MTB, 2-6 6-4

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Emily defeats our Fed Cup conqueror, Ninomiya.
I TOLD YOU ALL THAT ANNIE SHOULD HAVE USED EMILY IN THE DOUBLES RUBBER INSTEAD OF HEATHER!!!
(here endeth the series)

A truly fantastic result, against two top 60 doubles speciallists.
2-6 6-4 [10-8]

A chance for one of the biggest titles of Emily's career - she just keeps rolling on, and no signs of slowing down yet

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Arguably one of the best doubles wins of Em's career.

Got a bit nervous at the end, from *9-5 to *9-8, but through to the final. Amazing stuff

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Well done Em.

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Excellent win for Emily. biggrin.

And she is in the MD for next week's 60K, so there are no worries about her getting there for qualifying now.

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SF: Webley-Smith/Lykina (GBR/RUS) 472 defeated Hozumi/Ninomiya (JPN/JPN) [1] 100 2-6 6-4 [10-8]
SF: Broady/Dunne (GBR/GBR) [2] 243 lost to Fujiwara/Naito (JPN/JPN) 494 6-7(4) 2-6

F: Webley-Smith/Lykina (GBR/RUS) 472 v. Fujiwara/Naito (JPN/JPN) 494

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Great news for Emily, but overall you've got to say that's a bit disappointing from the singles point of view, especially when you see a 16 year old and a lowly ranked, albeit dangerous, 23 year old reach the semi final.

To have 6 of the top 14 players involved and not one semi final between them is a bit of a let down, but the draw wasn't ideal as 2 were guaranteed to go out before the QFs and one faced the top seed.

Dunne - 1st round, played top seed so understandable
Robson - 1st round - played a higher ranked seed but looked winnable especially as a lower ranked player put her out in the next round
Boulter - 1st round - lost to lower ranked player
Taylor - 2nd round - lost to a lower ranked player and was a seed so par would have been QFs.
Broady - QF - Given her 2018 form you'd say that was par but she was a top 4 seed so probably should have made the semi. Good win over Hibi, but poor losing to a qualifier
Dart - QF - great week, 2 very notable wins and took set off top seed



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