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Interesting that Emily App is playing doubles with the girl, born 2001, who's just turned 17, Lulu SUN, WTA 646, who lost to Sasha Hill at Roehampton.

Lulu switched from Swiss nationality to New Zealand just in time for Wimbledon - word had it that it was a temporary switch, for Wimbledon purposes (although I don't quite know why) but now she's unsure and might stick with them. Her father is Croatian, too, and her mother Chinese, but born in NZ, although grew up in Geneva (guess it's good to have options.....)

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No Em clash and on the face of it a decent looking chance for Emilie.

L32: (Q) Emilie Lindh Gallagher UNR vs Adithya Karunaratne (HKG), WR 1181 (CH 1174 last month), age 16, JCH 205

L32: (2) Emily Appleton WR 624 vs (Q) Anne-Sophie Morandais (GUD) UNR, age 18, no junior record



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Well, the R32 draw is now complete - and thank goodness Emily does not play ELG wink Instead ELG plays a promising Hong Kong based junior (though of Sri Lankan heritage), but still has as good a chance of finally getting her ranking here as she could ask for. As for Emily, she definitely could not ask for a better draw to earn finally a singles win...  

R32: APPLETON, Emily (GBR) [2] 624 v Anne-Sophie MORANDAIS (GUD) [Q] UNR 18yrs

R32: Emilie LINDH GALLAGHER (GBR) [Q] UNR 18yrs vs Adithya KARUNARATNE (HKG) 1185 (CH:1174 June 18) 16yrs (JCH:205 Jan 17) 

Edit: A good snap that smile



-- Edited by Michael D on Monday 16th of July 2018 03:04:07 PM

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When Alice had her run to the SF in Colombo in October, she defeated Emilie's opponent along the way, 6-4 in the third.
Karunaratne was designated as Sri Lankan then - which makes sense given the surname - but she must have switched to Hong Kong between then and now.
Amazingly, Karunaratne has 4 points, of which, fully 3 of them came by virtue of separate incidences of R32 RET in her favour. Only for the remaining point did she actually win the R32 match to earn the point!

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Hmmph!
Emily looked like sensibly losing her first round doubles for once, thus 'logically' clearing the path to a singles win instead.
But, they decided to haul their way back in to the second set, save three consecutive match points, and force a TB
1-6 6-6

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4 more MP saved, and they force an MTB, 1-6 7-6(11)

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One of the opponents name was in part, Lazaro, but it was Emily and Lulu that came back from the dead, taking the MTB to cap a remarkable comeback, 1-6 7-6(11) [10-7]
Whether that augurs well for the singles exploits or not, time will tell...

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Shout for Emily and Lulu 



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Emily gets some of her frustrations out.... 11 aces and 8 DFs

L32: APPLETON, Emily (GBR) [2] 624 beat Anne-Sophie MORANDAIS (GUD) [Q] UNR 18yrs 6-0 6-1

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Emilie's big match to earn a ranking has now started. Early signs are not too promising unfortunately. She has lost her first two service games, and though she won the first break back, the stat I don't like is only 3/11 1st serves won so far. If her serve is that ineffective she will struggle in the match, so I hope she can improve the effectiveness of her first serve as the match continues. *1-3

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First set gone 6-3. Serve has improved a little, was 10/22 for the set. Still needs a bit more.

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First set has gone 3-6. Those first serves still an issue, just 10/22 (45%) won on a 65% first serve percentage.

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Emilie twice recovered a break in the second set, but has been broken again for 3-5*. The last game looked as if it wasn't going to end. Emilie had 9 game points and saved 3 break points, but lost the game on the 30th point.

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Yes, failing to win one of those 9 GPs, losing 3 on DFs, did for Emilie sadly. The next game Karunaratne served out easily for the set and match, so Emilie fails still to win her 3rd counter but a brave effort nevertheless. 3-6 3-6

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L32: Emily APPLETON (GBR) [2] 624 beat Anne-Sophie MORANDAIS (GUD) [Q] UNR 18yrs 6-0 6-1
L32: Emilie LINDH GALLAGHER (GBR) [Q] UNR 18yrs lost to Adithya KARUNARATNE (HKG) 1185 (CH:1174 June 18) 16yrs (JCH:205 Jan 17) 3-6 3-6

L16: Emily APPLETON (GBR) [2] 624 vs Noelia BOUZO ZANOTTI (ESP) 1106 (CH:831 Oct 16) 18yrs (JCH:318 Jan 15)



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