Week 42 - ITF ($15K) - Antalya, Turkey Hard

Helen40 · Grand Slam Champion

RE: Week 42 - ITF ($15K) - Antalya, Turkey Hard

wales1994 · County player

Very excited by Emma's progress.... on that topic, anyone know what happened to Holly Fisher? She was promising a few years ago, got a Wimbledon qualifying wildcard from nowhere this year - where she was truly smashed. And not played since, seems very, very strange to me!

the addict · Tennis legend

Holly hasn't even played any LTA events this year ......

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

wales1994 wrote:
Very excited by Emma's progress.... on that topic, anyone know what happened to Holly Fisher? She was promising a few years ago, got a Wimbledon qualifying wildcard from nowhere this year - where she was truly smashed. And not played since, seems very, very strange to me!

As said at the time, Holly looked injured/having issues/not quite right at Wimbly qualis.

No idea what exactly but I'm not surprised she's been out since then.

paulisi · Tennis legend

Helen40 wrote:
paulisi wrote:
No suprise - too good for 15k events. I'd like to see her step up to 25k. There are 2 domestic events coming up....
Yes but they're up North, so it's not like she could nip back to school in between games. Maybe she'll have a week of tennis over the winter hols. I can't see any suitable tournaments for her then though.

She has made it into qualifying for the Wirral. Qualifying is Sunday & Monday. I'd expect her to qualify if she signed in.

TomTraubert · Futures level

Coup Droit wrote:
wales1994 wrote:
Very excited by Emma's progress.... on that topic, anyone know what happened to Holly Fisher? She was promising a few years ago, got a Wimbledon qualifying wildcard from nowhere this year - where she was truly smashed. And not played since, seems very, very strange to me!
As said at the time, Holly looked injured/having issues/not quite right at Wimbly qualis.
No idea what exactly but I'm not surprised she's been out since then.

getting worriying ecoes of eleanor dean about htis one cry-to-the-power-of-infinity

Helen40 · Grand Slam Champion

paulisi wrote:
Helen40 wrote:
paulisi wrote:
No suprise - too good for 15k events. I'd like to see her step up to 25k. There are 2 domestic events coming up....
Yes but they're up North, so it's not like she could nip back to school in between games. Maybe she'll have a week of tennis over the winter hols. I can't see any suitable tournaments for her then though.
She has made it into qualifying for the Wirral. Qualifying is Sunday & Monday. I'd expect her to qualify if she signed in.

I'd expect her to get WCs if she plays them. I notice she's on the lists for Wirral, but not Shrewsbury. (Also a 25k). I guess we'll see what her work/life balance is

the addict · Tennis legend

TomTraubert wrote:
Coup Droit wrote:
wales1994 wrote:
Very excited by Emma's progress.... on that topic, anyone know what happened to Holly Fisher? She was promising a few years ago, got a Wimbledon qualifying wildcard from nowhere this year - where she was truly smashed. And not played since, seems very, very strange to me!
As said at the time, Holly looked injured/having issues/not quite right at Wimbly qualis.
No idea what exactly but I'm not surprised she's been out since then.
getting worriying ecoes of eleanor dean about htis one cry-to-the-power-of-infinity

BTW, it's Holly Fischer, not Fisher. And she doesn't feature on the British Tour leadeboard at all

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

Nice when a home ITF comes around, shame there's so few now compared to a lot of nations.

Not sure where we are at in terms of maximum wildcard allocations, but as it stands, Grey, Murray, Silva, Christie, Barnett, E Taylor and Raducanu are all in Qs, so you'd imagine 4 of those 7 will get MDWCs. 4 of those 'promoted' should see at least Popescu and Hurst into quals and there'll no doubt be a few MD and Q withdrawals boosting others up like the Pitaks, possibly Boulter.

RedSquirrel · Satellite level

Ace Ventura wrote:

Nice when a home ITF comes around, shame there's so few now compared to a lot of nations.

Not sure where we are at in terms of maximum wildcard allocations, but as it stands, Grey, Murray, Silva, Christie, Barnett, E Taylor and Raducanu are all in Qs, so you'd imagine 4 of those 7 will get MDWCs. 4 of those 'promoted' should see at least Popescu and Hurst into quals and there'll no doubt be a few MD and Q withdrawals boosting others up like the Pitaks, possibly Boulter.

Freya and Eden don't have any available, Beth and Ella have 1 left and Sam, Lissey and Emma have 2 left. I expect they'll be enough withdrawals for Beth to get to the main draw by right so it's difficult to see beyond Sam, Lissey, Ella and Emma for the WCs.

the addict · Tennis legend

Beth is currently at Q4 and Sam at Q6 - so a fair chance that they will both get in with a handful of withdrawals. And the players below the ones already mentioned aren't really candidates as red says.

Oakland2002 · All-time great

Red ha! I hadn't really thought of squirrels have political leanings, the greys have done very well in South London under John Major's leadership.

TomTraubert · Futures level

warming up for the final
go go emma

http://live.itftennis.com/en/live-streams/video.php?vid=16027860

Julia Carrot · All-time great

Emma a break up

but my goodness it doesnt sound like more than 1 or 2 spectators

Priesty · Challenger level

Ace Ventura wrote:
Nice when a home ITF comes around, shame there's so few now compared to a lot of nations.

Not sure where we are at in terms of maximum wildcard allocations, but as it stands, Grey, Murray, Silva, Christie, Barnett, E Taylor and Raducanu are all in Qs, so you'd imagine 4 of those 7 will get MDWCs. 4 of those 'promoted' should see at least Popescu and Hurst into quals and there'll no doubt be a few MD and Q withdrawals boosting others up like the Pitaks, possibly Boulter.

Similar sentiments from Evo quoted in the Daily Mail interview posted yesterday in his individual thread.