Week 19 - ITF ($60K) - Fukuoka, Japan - Hard

Julia Carrot · All-time great

Week 19 - ITF ($60K) - Fukuoka, Japan - Hard

Babfive · Satellite level

5-1*

Babfive · Satellite level

Tara wins 6-1 in the third. biggrin

Michael D · All-time great

The MD is out now too. THe short straws are that Katy D by missing out on being seeded by one place has inevitably been drawn against one of the other all seeded Brits. The person she has got is Laura, just one place above her. Gabi also plays Ksenia Lykina again, EWS' successful doubles partner of the last two weeks. Gabi beat Ksenia in the first round last week in Gifu, so Ksenia won't be that pleased at seeing her again. Naomi is top seed and like Katie B gets a relatively easy draw.

In the doubles, Laura (#1 seed), Naomi (#2 seed) and Tara all team up separately.

Julia Carrot · All-time great

So pleased for Tara.

edit- I now see she has another round to play; I thought she had qualified with this win. Still pleased she managed to beat Abbie though.

-- Edited by Julia Carrot on Monday 7th of May 2018 06:52:56 AM

Michael D · All-time great

And fantastic for Tara, who goes where Naomi failed to go last week and beats last week's SFst, 3 pts gained so far smile

QR2: Tara MOORE (GBR) [q2] 444 beat Abbie MYERS (AUS) 641 (CH:472 June 15) Will be 427=CH this coming week 2-6 6-6 6-1

FQR: Tara MOORE (GBR) [q2] 444 vs Erina HAYASHI (JPN) [q5] 517 (CH:450 June 17)

-- Edited by Michael D on Monday 7th of May 2018 07:03:29 AM

RedSquirrel · Satellite level

Excellent Tara.

Also the doubles Katy and Gabi pair up but have to qualify.

Michael D · All-time great

RedSquirrel wrote:
Excellent Tara.

Also the doubles Katy and Gabi pair up but have to qualify.

Oh, that's interesting, missed that entirely. And I see one of the two doubles Q slots is against the top seeds, Laura and Jacqueline Cako (USA). Seeing that Katy D has already drawn Laura in the singles, we can imagine which of the two slots they will get should they go through (which they should). Mind you, the other slot is against Rika Fujiwara, who was half the winning doubles team last week, and Ksenia, who was half the runner's up team last week.

blob · All-time great

So Tara beats Myers from a set down, but Naomi lost to her form a set up.... is Tara now the new GB #3

SuperT · Futures level

Michael D wrote:
The MD is out now too. THe short straws are that Katy D by missing out on being seeded by one place has inevitably been drawn against one of the other all seeded Brits. The person she has got is Laura, just one place above her. Gabi also plays Ksenia Lykina again, EWS' successful doubles partner of the last two weeks. Gabi beat Ksenia in the first round last week in Gifu, so Ksenia won't be that pleased at seeing her again. Naomi is top seed and like Katie B gets a relatively easy draw.

In the doubles, Laura (#1 seed), Naomi (#2 seed) and Tara all team up separately.

Assuming they all progress Naomi is on schedule to meet Katie B in the QF and similarly Katy/Laura to play Gabi, so the draw could be kinder. However an all GB final is still theoretically possible so lets be optimistic!

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

I don't think the draw is too bad overall. Could have been a bit kinder obviously, but it depends which way you look at it as it should actually help us get 2 semi finalists (which would be good for a 60ker), rather than could have 3 or 4 there, but may well end up with 0 or 1.

Shame Katy has been drawn against a seed again and even more so against a compatriot, but out of the 4 possibilities, I'd rather she was drawn against Laura than any of the other 3 as Laura coming back from injury and a lack of match practice would be the most vulnerable out of the 4 seeds and may well have been favourite to go out anyway, so instead of likely having 2 1st round casualties had Katy drawn a Gabi or Katie B, hopefully we just end up with just one. Plus, that will be an interesting match and potentially significant for the summer picks.

Broady has actually been paired with the next highest ranked non seed after Katy. I know very little about Shimizu but with her being 10th highest in the field and playing at home, that could have been easier (she's also higher ranked than Abbie Myers...), but if you do have ambition of crashing the top 100 again then you shouldn't be too worried about this type of match.

Gabi as mentioned plays the same opponent as last week and while I didn't see any of the match, it did look 2 reasonably close sets, but hopefully it's a repeat.

Katie's WC opponent is only 17 but she hasn't managed to come through qualifying in any of her 2018 ITF events thus fa, so it's a very favourable draw.

If Tara comes through her FQR she will play either another qualifier, Asia Muhammad or Laura's conqueror from last week and this weeks 3rd seed Jang.

Jaggy1876 · Grand Slam Champion

blob wrote:
So Tara beats Myers from a set down, but Naomi lost to her form a set up.... is Tara now the new GB #3

The Indiana book of logic Id call that

Michael D · All-time great

Jaggy1876 wrote:
blob wrote:
So Tara beats Myers from a set down, but Naomi lost to her form a set up.... is Tara now the new GB #3
The Indiana book of logic Id call that

I think most of us - including Indy - would be pleased if Tara would move back into and raise the level of that nobody wants it GB #10 position smile

Michael D · All-time great

Ironically since Laura is the seeded player, it is Katy D that has the higher ranking this week...

R32: Naomi BROADY (GBR) [1] 127 vs Ayano SHIMIZU (JPN) 238 (CH:229)
R32: Katie BOULTER (GBR) [5] 176 vs Yuki NAITO (JPN) UNR (CH:813 Jan 17) 17yrs (JCH:13 March 18)
R32: Laura ROBSON (GBR) [8] 236 vs Katy DUNNE (GBR) 225
R32: Gabriella TAYLOR (GBR) [4] 173 vs Ksenia LYKINA (RUS) 304 (CH:171 April 10)

Michael D · All-time great

Points this week and next (for those playing) significant for all these players as many will lose large counters on 21/05.
Laura's ranking in particular will plummet in 2 weeks if she does not have a major replacement counter, but Gabi and Katie B will also have drops, as well Harriet and Katy D to lesser extents.

Gabi: -50 pts (21/5)
Katie B: -14 pts (14/5) -48 pts (21/5)
Harriet: -18 pts (21/5)
Katy D: -8 pts (21/5)
Laura: -15 pts (14/5) -80 pts (21/5)