Week 30 - ITF ($60K) - Granby, Canada Hard

indiana · Tennis legend

Week 30 - ITF ($60K) - Granby, Canada Hard

indiana · Tennis legend

Love hold, 5-4*

indiana · Tennis legend

Yay, Sam breaks to 15. One set all.

6-7(4) 6-4

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

Peter too · Tennis legend

R1: CHRISTIE, Freya (GBR) Q 575 lost to DI LORENZO, Francesca (USA) 4 194 4-6 6-0 3-6
R1: MURRAY, Samantha (GBR) Q 493 lost to GLUSHKO, Julia (ISR) 5 196 6-7(4) 6-4 4-6

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

Samantha, as with Freya before her, succumbs in a close third set to the higher ranked player, 6-7(4) 6-4 4-6

Hopeful that both good performances can be carried forward soon to more fruitful returns.

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

I am again reliably informed that Sam's match was the 1,000th completed women's professional match of 2018 for GBR.
We have won 504 of them
This is better than 2017, when we only won 479 of the first 1,000 matches.

Michael D · All-time great

Pity that neither Freya nor Sam was able to turn the third set into a fantastic win. Both of them have the ability and the pedigree to do so, or at least in their histories they do. Sam especially I'd hoped might make it. Still the results are encouraging, as ABB notes - but only in so far as similar situations can soon be converted into wins.

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

Samantha salvaged something from the day with a routine win in the doubles.
R16: Murray/Omae (GBR/JPN) [4] 531 defeated (WC) Leduc/Sleeth (CAN/CAN) UNR (1201 + UNR) 6-2 6-2

Mervatron2 · Challenger qualifying

Shame they didn't get easier 1st round draws to reap the points rewards.

Encourgaing results but both Sam and Freya are not getting those wins at the higher level at the moment.

They are both down for the 2 25k's in the UK. Hopefully they can get some big wins there.

Strongbow · All-time great

Peter too wrote:
R1: CHRISTIE, Freya (GBR) Q 575 lost to DI LORENZO, Francesca (USA) 4 194 4-6 6-0 3-6
R1: MURRAY, Samantha (GBR) Q 493 lost to GLUSHKO, Julia (ISR) 5 196 6-7(4) 6-4 4-6

Drat and double drat cry cry . Didn't expect either to win but Freya did well taking it to three. smile

indiana · Tennis legend

Later tonight, early hours in the UK ...

QF: (4) Samantha Murray & Akiko Omae (JPN) CR 531 (329+202) vs Quinn Gleason & Astra Sharma (USA/AUS) CR 635 (255+380)

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

indiana wrote:
Later tonight, early hours in the UK ...

QF: (4) Samantha Murray & Akiko Omae (JPN) CR 531 (329+202) vs Quinn Gleason & Astra Sharma (USA/AUS) CR 635 (255+380)

And they're chugging along very nicely, 6-3 3-0*

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

Wrapped up a routine win, to make the SF, 6-3 6-3

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

Singles or doubles, only Francesca remains from week 30 on the ladies side.

SF: Murray/Omae (GBR/JPN) [4] 531 lost to E. Sema/Yo****omi (JPN/JPN) 674 1-6 4-6