Week 32 - ITF ($60K) - Landisville, USA - Hard

PaulM · Tennis legend

Week 32 - ITF ($60K) - Landisville, USA - Hard

RedSquirrel · Satellite level

Draw is out

Harriet and Katie S play each other
Gabi has a winnable match against WC Joelle Kissell ranked 1154
Heather has a tough one against Lexington runner-up Ann Li
Naomi plays Kristie Ahn

Edit: correcting my auto-correct corrections

-- Edited by RedSquirrel on Monday 6th of August 2018 05:02:15 PM

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

Happy with that on the whole. Dart/Swan will play the winner of the Naomi match so unless it's Ahn doing damage, a good chance of a QF there. Gabi is in line to play the 3rd seed Brengle if they both come through.

steven · Tennis legend

Kissell turns out not to be some potentially under-ranked junior - instead, she's a 27-year-old who has never been in the top 1000 who won a wild card into this event by winning a weekend tournament in New Jersey back in June. Fairly random!

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

steven wrote:
Kissell turns out not to be some potentially under-ranked junior - instead, she's a 27-year-old who has never been in the top 1000 who won a wild card into this event by winning a weekend tournament in New Jersey back in June. Fairly random!

Oh! I just presumed it was because she was a local, from just down the road (in American terms of scale).
She played NC State University college tennis until 2013-14 and had a school record breaking career at that level, though I'm given to understand it's not a top tier school.

steven · Tennis legend

Here's the draw for that wild card tournament - tennislink.usta.com/tournaments/TournamentHome/Tournament.aspx

The 1st and 2nd seeds both have career highs of 372, but they both withdrew, so Kissell didn't have to beat any WTA-ranked players to win the wild card. Nice work if you can get it! In a way, quite a cool idea but I'm surprised the wild card on offer was for a 60K, not a 15K.

PaulM · Tennis legend

Pleased to see Em and Katy are able to play doubles this week, so nothing too serious

Michael D · All-time great

PaulM wrote:
Pleased to see Em and Katy are able to play doubles this week, so nothing too serious

Yes, I was pleased to see that too. Gabi and Em, and Harriet and Katy D are our doubles entrants this week. Naomi has been playing doubles a lot recently, but is not entered this week, perhaps because Asia Muhammad, who has been a frequent partner in that run, is not playing this week - having just won at Lexington yesterday, beating the afore mentioned Ann Li comfortably in the final.

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

R32: Gabriella TAYLOR (GBR) 179 v. (WC) Joelle KISSELL (USA) 1156 (CH 1111, Apr. 2018)
R32: Heather WATSON (GBR) [5] 127 v. (SE) Ann Li (USA) 338 (=CH; 18 yo - JCH 12, Jan. 2018)
R32: Naomi BROADY (GBR) [8] 148 v. Kristie AHN (USA) 162
R32: Harriet DART (GBR) 172 v. Katie SWAN (GBR) 178
> H2H 1-0
> 2018 Surbiton, GB - ITF $100K - Grass - R16 - Dart by 6-2 6-4

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

Likewise, relieved to see our two RETs from singles qualification fit enough, and sufficiently encumbered by lingering concerns, to play doubles.

Doubles
R16: Taylor/Webley-Smith (GBR/GBR) 859 v. Govortsova/Kukharchuk (BLR/RUS) 1139
R16: Dart/Dunne (GBR/GBR) 262 v. Ahn/Kalinina (USA/UKR) 958

PaulM · Tennis legend

It looked from her Instagram post that Emily was going for a visit to the dentist chair, but could be wrong

brendan · Strong Club Player

Nice start from Gabby at 5-0 and fighting hard to make it a bagel

Michael D · All-time great

Looks like Katy D is injured - I'm assuming its her following her retirement yesterday, not Harriet - since she and Harriet have now retired from their doubles after losing the first set 0-6.

Hope she is able to recover soon, and wondering if we will see her now in Vancouver next week, or she will recuperate a bit.

jb288 · Satellite level

Katy and Harriet retired at 0-6 in their doubles, so perhaps Katy's injury is worse than she though :((

Mervatron2 · Challenger qualifying

Gabby won the first set 6-0

1-1 in the second