Week 41 - ITF ($25K) - Toowoomba, Australia - Hard

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Week 41 - ITF ($25K) - Toowoomba, Australia - Hard

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Freya and Erin are through to the finals of the doubles, 6-4 6-3

Michael D · All-time great

Round up of the doubles. Other semi final will be played tomorrow and the final is scheduled to be played too.
Random fact: New Zealand holds no professional tennis tournaments. So Erin has to play in Aus to gain her ranking... Also if Suzie Larkin is now NZ based, that would be one reason she hasn't played many ITF tournaments this year. Interesting in fact the countries that hold no ITF tournaments at all. Denmark is another.

QF: Jodie Anna Burrage/ Albina Khabibulina (GBR/UZB) 867 (579+288) lost to Naiktha Bains/ Abigail Tere-Apisah (AUS/PNG) [3] 458 (143+315) 4-6 5-7

SF: Freya Christie/ Erin Routliffe (GBR/NZL) [1] 390 (291+99) beat Naiktha Bains/ Abigail Tere-Apisah (AUS/PNG) [3] 458 (143+315) 6-4 6-3

F: Freya Christie/ Erin Routliffe (GBR/NZL) [1] 390 (291+99) vs

RedSquirrel · Satellite level

Michael D wrote:

Random fact: New Zealand holds no professional tennis tournaments.

erm... Auckland wink

-- Edited by RedSquirrel on Thursday 11th of October 2018 07:17:01 PM

flamingowings · All-time great

RedSquirrel wrote:
Michael D wrote:

Random fact: New Zealand holds no professional tennis tournaments.

erm... Auckland

-- Edited by RedSquirrel on Thursday 11th of October 2018 07:17:01 PM

International tournament status at that! wink

Michael D · All-time great

flamingowings wrote:
RedSquirrel wrote:
Michael D wrote:

Random fact: New Zealand holds no professional tennis tournaments.

erm... Auckland

-- Edited by RedSquirrel on Thursday 11th of October 2018 07:17:01 PM
International tournament status at that!

Yes ok, I meant ITF tournaments - which I did clarify later in my sentence! - in which local players could be expected to play and boost their rankings. In this year's Auckland open 3 Kiwi's had WCs into qualifying, as did Suzy Larkin, with none winning their matches, and one Kiwi, Jade Lewis, had a WC into the MD and lost too. So that's the limit of NZ women's participation in professional tournaments in their own country in one year...

TomTraubert · Futures level

yeh they kind of given up
they used to hold regular events: https://www.itftennis.com/procircuit/tournaments/women's-calendar.aspx?tour=&reg=&nat=NZL&sur=&cate=&iod=&fromDate=01-01-2000&toDate=31-10-2018

Michael D · All-time great

Just to note Freya and Erin's final opponents, and the holdover of the match till tomorrow.

F: Freya Christie/ Erin Routliffe (GBR/NZL) [1] 390 (291+99) vs Samantha Harris/ Astra Sharma (AUS/AUS) 1146 (800+346) 1-3 interrupted

Michael D · All-time great

Toowoomba - I feel like an owl saying that - has been a washout again today. There is still one women's QF unfinished, and tomorrow, Sunday, they have scheduled the end of the QF, the SF and the F. It means Freya has to hang around too for her doubles final.

RedSquirrel · Satellite level

Second doubles title of the year

F: Freya Christie/ Erin Routliffe (GBR/NZL) [1] 390 (291+99) def. Samantha Harris/ Astra Sharma (AUS/AUS) 1146 (800+346) 7-5 6-4

Michael D · All-time great

That's a great performance from Freya and Erin overcoming that early deficit they had.

After a frentic day for the singles, Zo Hives who beat Katy D in the first round, ended up beating Ellen Perez, who had to play 2 1/3 matches today