Week 38 - ITF ($25k) - Lubbock, USA Hard

Michael D · All-time great

Week 38 - ITF ($25k) - Lubbock, USA Hard

Michael D · All-time great

And doubles, with two pairs too

QF: Naomi BROADY/ Nadia PODOROSKA (GBR/ARG) [2] 318 vs Ayaka OKUNO/ Chanel SIMMONDS (JPN/RSA) 500
QF: Emina BEKTAS/ Tara MOORE (USA/GBR) 626 vs Vladica BABIC/ Hayley CARTER (MNE/USA) [Q] 1374

indiana · Tennis legend

Pity re Tara again but she is not going to get anywhere close to her potential unless and until she can sort out the consistent DF donations. Another 21 DFs this time.

Michael D · All-time great

Naomi and Olivia are both playing now, and both are down 4-5. Naomi is on serve though, whilst Olivia is a break down. Still a very respectable start from her.

Michael D · All-time great

Naomi then broke to take the first set 7-5
Olivia failed to break back and lost the first 4-6, and is now an early break down in the second

PaulM · Tennis legend

Olivia give this a real go. Impressive.

Naomi missing break points. *3-4 second set

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

Olivia lost 4-6 4-6, but a good effort indeed.

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

Naomi into a decider

PaulM · Tennis legend

Oh Naomi....

Down a break in the third

TomTraubert · Futures level

thats ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...
real real real bad

congrats to marand one of her 10 best wins in her 12 year jurneywoman career

just do dubs naomi

real real REAL REAL bad

disbelief

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

Naomi lost 7-5 6-7(4) 3-6

PaulM · Tennis legend

She's her own worst enemy

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

Thing is, it's obviously poor but at the same time, it's not really a surprise - she's just been bad for so long now.

I've not looked at the stats and stuff in detail, but you you'd think her Aussie Open Q position might be under threat once those late 125k and Luxembourg points come off. Actually, if they are doing the 16x8 rather than 12x8 this year like Wimbledon, then she should still be fine.

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

Others will be more clued up, but she has roughly 160 points to defend before the start of 2018. If you removed those 160 points, she would be on 200 points which is around 260 in the rankings, so there is work to be done this back end to stay in the top 200.

indiana · Tennis legend

Ace Ventura wrote:
Others will be more clued up, but she has roughly 160 points to defend before the start of 2018. If you removed those 160 points, she would be on 200 points which is around 260 in the rankings, so there is work to be done this back end to stay in the top 200.

Yes, I'd just been looking at her precise guaranteed ranking points but you've basically said it.

Taking off her relatively big remaining points from last year and replacing them with this week's 5 points and non counters.

360 - ( 8 + 14 + 60 + 57 + 29 ) + ( 5 + 2 + 1 + 1 + 1 ) = 202 points, which is currently equivalent to WR 264