Week 41 - ITF ($25K) - Cherbourg-en-Cotentin, France Hard

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Week 41 - ITF ($25K) - Cherbourg-en-Cotentin, France Hard

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Damn. Thought that would be close but thought that Lissey would have enough to win it.
Home advantage kicked in and Clemence won 6-7(7) 6-4 6-3 in 3 hrs and 2 mins.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Eden, at least, so far is doing the business. Leading 6-2 2-1*

And Ella is 2-1*

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Well done to Eden who gets the job done in style

She wins 6-2 6-1

Maia is in the main draw and is drawn against a qualifier.

Ella is going well - leading *4-2

Babfive · Pro player

Ella wins 6-3 6-3 biggrin Good win.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Brilliant, Ella !!!!

And, CD, you're hopeless, a feeble display, one out of three cry

(do you think I could try and sneak the two good ones from yesterday in and make it 3 out of 5?)

Seriously, thrilled for Ella - that is certainly a very good win against a decent player. Such a shame that Alicia couldn't quite manage it - she was very close.

Now to see if either of the Brits end up against Maia.......

Michael D · All-time great

Great to see both Eden and Ella qualify and gain a point, but very disappointing for Lissey, who on paper should have qualified most easily

Q2: SILVA, Eden (GBR) 2 486 beat BOUALEM, Josephine (FRA) 9 768 CH=408 11/7/16 6-2 6-2
Q2: BARNETT, Alicia (GBR) 3 533 lost to FAYOL, Clemence (FRA) 10 790 CH=568 5/3/18 7-6(7) 4-6 3-6
Q2: TAYLOR, Ella (GBR) 12 797 beat BROULEAU, Lou (FRA) 4 654 CH=329 15/2/16 6-3 6-3

Oh and yes a 25% chance that one of them will get Maia...

-- Edited by Michael D on Sunday 7th of October 2018 04:38:45 PM

Michael D · All-time great

In the doubles, Maia and Harmony Tan are playing together, and Lissey and Eden are too.

There are only 3 first round matches, with 5 pairs getting byes to the QF. The Brit pairs are playing in two of those first round matches.

Michael D · All-time great

The 25% chance comes up trumps, to mix gambling metaphors. Ella gets Maia, and Eden a fellow qualifier

R32: Eden SILVA (GBR) [Q] 486 vs Arlinda RUSHI T! (SUI) [Q] 699 (CH:668 July 18) 19yrs
R32: Maia LUMSDEN (GBR) 414 vs Ella TAYLOR (GBR) [Q] 797

-- Edited by Michael D on Sunday 7th of October 2018 06:32:06 PM

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

The Qs have been placed and while some on here won't like it, I personally think it's the best possible outcome. Maia has drawn Ella and Eden landed in the Q vs Q spot and plays 19 year old Ru****i ranked 699. That's a great chance for 2 of our players to make round 2.

The other Q options were:

Piter
Buyucakay (7) - former top 100 player
Georges (3) - been in the headlines recently and a bit of a volatile player
Zimmermann (5)
Paquet (6) - held her own as a WC at the recent FO

The other 3 were obviously Q vs Q and Maia.

I hope Maia makes R2 has she had a lot of points to defend in the coming months and Ella has done pretty well to make the main draw in the first place, beating a higher seed in Qs and if Maia does lose, then Ella will have another great win on her record.

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

Haha, that's Rush1ti if you were wondering.

Michael D · All-time great

Ace Ventura wrote:
Haha, that's Rush1ti if you were wondering.

Yes, I noticed I'd been censored too biggrin biggrin

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

Naturally, you'd like a chance for all 3 players to advance, but when it's a 25k and one is the 2nd lowest ranked direct entry and the other 2 are qualifiers, then it was pretty unlikely all 3 would win and if you wanted them to avoid Maia, then 4/7 were seeds and then there'd even be a chance that Eden and Ella could have drawn each other in the Q vs Q slot. It is a bit annoying when Brits draw each other especially if one was a seed and the other was a place or two off being seeded, but I'm fine with this situation. Imagine the following scenario:

Georges (3) vs Eden (Q)
Paquet (6) vs Ella (Q)
Maia vs Sugnaux (Q) - top Q seed who came through qualifying last week and made the QF so her current rank of 481 will be boosted further.

You'd be lucky if 1 came through with that, whereas here we are guaranteed 1 and on paper, it's about the best draw that Eden could have had (without drawing Ella).

-- Edited by Ace Ventura on Sunday 7th of October 2018 06:48:37 PM

TomTraubert · Futures level

Michael D wrote:
Ace Ventura wrote:
Haha, that's Rush1ti if you were wondering.
Yes, I noticed I'd been censored too

Rush¡ti

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Maia and partner have just won their doubles in a MTB