Week 23 - ITF ($25K) - Obidos, Portugal Carpet

Peter too · Tennis legend

Week 23 - ITF ($25K) - Obidos, Portugal Carpet

Michael D · All-time great

Week 23 - ITF ($25K) - Portugal Carpet

Peter too · Tennis legend

Week 23 - ITF ($25K) - Obidos, Portugal Carpet

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

Pretty late main draw for this one. Although neither are seeded, I hope Fran and Maia avoid each other.

RedSquirrel · Satellite level

Maia should be seeded 7

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

RedSquirrel wrote:
Maia should be seeded 7

Yeah, I was just looking at the ITF site which has her 10th highest but her ranking at 461 when she is 426 now and I see she is above some who were listed higher at the time. How do you know she is 7th by the way? Manually calculated it or is there a specific site you use?

the addict · Tennis legend

Remember that seeding is based on the computer ranking of the Monday 7 days before the tournament week, so 28th May

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

the addict wrote:
Remember that seeding is based on the computer ranking of the Monday 7 days before the tournament week, so 28th May

Yeah, keep forgetting that and saw she has moved ahead of 2 and likely one more since. Anyway, good that she has seeded and definitely hope she avoids Fran now, a nice WC for either would be good.

the addict · Tennis legend

And I agree with your forecast of #7, based on the ITF acceptance list wink

RedSquirrel · Satellite level

Ace Ventura wrote:

How do you know she is 7th by the way? Manually calculated it or is there a specific site you use?

Copy the entry list and latest rankings into Excel and use the lookup and rank functions.

indiana · Tennis legend

RedSquirrel wrote:
Ace Ventura wrote:

How do you know she is 7th by the way? Manually calculated it or is there a specific site you use?

Copy the entry list and latest rankings into Excel and use the lookup and rank functions.

Of course, simples

Michael D · All-time great

The doubles draw is out here now, but not yet the singles.

Only Brit doubles participant is Soumeya who has managed to bag herself a very decent partner, Sofia Shapatava (GEO) WR 218, with whom EWS played several times in France in Oct-Nov 17.

First up they will have a rematch with Daniella Silva who put Soumeya out of the singles qualifying. She has far better odds this time. Winners will play the 2nd seeds.

R16: Soumeya ANANE/ Sofia SHAPATAVA (GBR/GEO) 1400 (1182+218) vs Ekaterina SHALIMOVA/ Daniella SILVA (RUS/POR) 2126 (1081+1045)

-- Edited by Michael D on Monday 4th of June 2018 12:47:13 PM

Michael D · All-time great

This R16 doubles match is also scheduled for later today. It wasn't on the original OOP, even earlier this morning, which had just the remaining q matches on it.

Michael D · All-time great

A useful 9 pts for Soumeya, the quality of her partner told smile

Next up to test themselves against the 2nd seeds

R16: Soumeya ANANE/ Sofia SHAPATAVA (GBR/GEO) 1400 (1182+218) beat Ekaterina SHALIMOVA/ Daniella SILVA (RUS/POR) 2126 (1081+1045) 6-1 6-2

QF: Soumeya ANANE/ Sofia SHAPATAVA (GBR/GEO) 1400 (1182+218) vs Linnea MALMQVIST/Angelica MORATELLI (SWE/) [2] 1149 (658+491)

Michael D · All-time great

That result alone should lift Soumeya about 200 places and into the top 1000 doubles. It doubles her current points tally and is her first counter that is more than 1 point.