Week 21 - ITF ($25K) - Les Franqueses del Valles, Spain - Hard

Peter too · Tennis legend

Week 21 - ITF ($25K) - Les Franqueses del Valles, Spain - Hard

Michael D · All-time great

Etienne wrote:
The poor second seed isn't having much fun in this tournament, having lost to Seone Mendez (according to Red Squirrel above) and now to Gasparyan.

Good to see some consistently good results for Swan, and agree that Gasparyan will be a good test.

Yes, I think this would be the definition of a really bad recurrent nightmare furious furious

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

Gasparyan was a huge 1/10 favourite to beat the third seed Sanchez today, shorter than Katie was to beat her qualifier opponent. It will be a very tough but also a good test to see where both players currently are and of course, they were due to play in the semi finals the other week but the Italian seed with the double surname which I forget did manage to beat her in the quarters before losing to Katie in the semi finals so it won't be beyond her.

Even if Katie is well beaten tomorrow, it will still have been a great week for her making the semi's from the 7th seed position, a 4th successive tournament where she has managed at least a semi and her ranking is improving all the time with very little to defend.

Grachka · County player

Gasparyan is very good, but she's still early in her comeback trail after a very long time out (not counting two sporadic tournaments towards the end of last year) to think she'll be rusty under pressure...and Katie is the best she's faced thus far.

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

Grachka wrote:
Gasparyan is very good, but she's still early in her comeback trail after a very long time out (not counting two sporadic tournaments towards the end of last year) to think she'll be rusty under pressure...and Katie is the best she's faced thus far.

True and she did retire early in a tournament semi final in Uzbek a month ago when she last came through quals, so she still may not be ready for 6/7 games in quick succession. You could argue Potapova is the best she has faced in her comeback, but she lost to her in Russia anyway.

Gasparyan is 1/2, Katie 6/4 for what it's worth.

TheTraveller2 · Lower Club Player

This will be a good test for Katie. It will be the sort of standard she will be seeing a lot more of in the grass court season if she is able to take advantage of some wildcards.

paulisi · Tennis legend

Match underway.

the addict · Tennis legend

Not much joy for Katie so far. 2 breaks to one down, and only won a single point on her own serve. But getting close to breaking back.
*1-4

Mervatron2 · Challenger qualifying

Come on Katie

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

Not going great. 1-6 *0-0

the addict · Tennis legend

11/26 points on return, 1/13 on serve in the first set

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

Hmm, long way back from here, 1-6 0-1*

RedSquirrel · Satellite level

Katie's retired

Mervatron2 · Challenger qualifying

Oh no. Again

Etienne · Club Coach

You'd hope precautionary, she'd be stupid to carry on playing at that scoreline with anything beyond the tiniest niggle with the grass season coming up.