Week 18 - ITF ($80K) - Gifu, Japan - Hard

Samson · Lower Club Player

Week 18 - ITF ($80K) - Gifu, Japan - Hard

Michael D · All-time great

Delighted for the come back kid, that's a fantastic win today biggrin

Unfortunate though that all the other come backs were not our players. And still have to wait for that Kurumi Nara vs Gabi match up... which won't happen next week as although Gabi is staying one more week in Japan (and then goes where?), Kurumi is not.

For Emily, at 70 pts, this has now become her biggest counter (with her previous largest being 50 for a 25k win) - 115 in total to the winner. After two good weeks with Ksenia though, next week Emily will need a new partner again in China - where Ankia Raina is playing too (or indeed Harriet). One thing for our amazing peripatetic lass, she is never short of friends willing to play with her. But this week is special, and I really hope she and Ksenia can go out with a big bang. At the beginning of the week, if all of us had been told one Brit could win by the end of the week, who might it be, none of us would have picked Emily. So all the more wonderful, and hugely pleased for her smile smile smile

Peter too · Tennis legend

QF: DART, Harriet (GBR) 215 lost to NARA, Kurumi, (JPN) 103 CH=32 2014 6-2 1-6 2-6
QF: BROADY, Naomi (GBR) 4 128 lost to MYERS, Abbie (AUS) Q 641 6-3 6-7(6) 1-6

vohor · Grand Slam Champion

blob wrote:
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

YAY! biggrin biggrin

Brilliant win; good luck in the final smile

indiana · Tennis legend

RedSquirrel wrote:
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.

Naomi was actually returning at 5-3* in the second set and had 4 separate MPs during that game. Having not taken any of them she served for it at *5-4 and was broken to 30. And then lost the TB.

It doesn't look like her general game was in great shape given her ace count and decent first serve %. In the 3rd set the serve has gone off and she has fallen away 1-6.

Miriambee · Futures level

blob wrote:
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.

Harriet was never in the running for the Fed cup vs Japan, Gabi and Anna Smith were also on the team, but never played.

indiana · Tennis legend

Great to see from Emily

She is down for the China 60K next week and I was surprised to see that she is actually on the main draw list so no qualifying concern.

indiana · Tennis legend

Miriambee wrote:
blob wrote:
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.
Harriet was never in the running for the Fed cup vs Japan, Gabi and Anna Smith were also on the team, but never played.

blob's just having fun but can't find the wink

Michael D · All-time great

Emily and Ksenia are in their final now, only on livescores not livestreams. It has been close so far, but Emily + have always been playing catch up so far 5-7 *3-4

Michael D · All-time great

Oh dear, and they succumbed weakly in the end. When I looked penultimately it was *4-5 40-15 and I thought they are still in there fighting and could take this to a second set TB, then looked again and they'd lost the 3 points following in a row cry cry Still a great week for Emily, and 80k final reached smile and her largest counter now. On to China she goes.

F: Webley-Smith/Lykina (GBR/RUS) 472 lost to Fujiwara/Naito (JPN/JPN) 494 5-7 4-6

-- Edited by Michael D on Saturday 5th of May 2018 07:53:58 AM

PaulM · Tennis legend

That's a shame. Was a great opportunity but had a feeling they wouldn't quite make it. Been a brilliant week though.

Jaggy1876 · Grand Slam Champion

16yr old Wild Card ranked 659 Uchijima has made the final to face Nara. Maybe a name to watch there. She will rise around 300 places in the rankings so far.