Week 44 - ITF ($25K) - The Wirral, GB

paulisi · Tennis legend

RE: Week 44 - ITF ($25K) - The Wirral, GB

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

paulisi wrote:
Ace Ventura wrote:
Is this going to be one of those events (quals) where you don't know the scores until the matches have finished?
There are no umpires. So scores will not be officially published as live.
I can advise that all the opening matches are going to form.
Taro Keens is playing The best of the lower ranked players, but still lost the first set 6-2

I wonder why that is. Grand slam country, only has about 6 ITF events outside of the grass season. Loads of other 25ks quals have it and I'm sure some 15k quals as well.

paulisi · Tennis legend

Keeps the costs down and is within ITF guidelines.

All matches still going to form, although Taro and the Morton sisters had a good go.

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

Just a bit of a shame when you can't follow the scores or even check odds to use as a bit of a gauge. Had they had a 25k every other week then you could understand, but hey-ho.

indiana · Tennis legend

That's probably not Ace's point. Perhaps more should such relative cost cutting in ITFs, slightly demeaning the events in so doing, be such an issue in a country like this, one which spends so lavishly in other areas - eg. grass court season, support staff for teams, etc etc etc?

SuperT · Futures level

paulisi wrote:
Keeps the costs down and is within ITF guidelines.

All matches still going to form, although Taro and the Morton sisters had a good go.

At least that must mean Freya won which would be good news?

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

TX for the updates, paulisi.

The ITF sites has the following scores:

Iva PRIMORAC (CRO) [13] 6-2 7-5 Emily MORTON (GBR)
Cristiana FERRANDO (ITA) [4] 6-2 6-3 Taro KEENS (GBR)
Madeleine KOBELT (USA) [15] 6-1 6-1 Elinor BEAZLEY (GBR)
Freya CHRISTIE (GBR) [5] 6-2 6-0 Kimberly Alinafe MPUKUSA (GBR)
Karin KENNEL (SUI) [10] 6-1 6-1 Ellie TSIMBILAKIS (GBR)
Melanie STOKKE (NOR) [6] 6-0 6-4 Katie MORTON (GBR)

the addict · Tennis legend

Second batch of scores now posted

Eleni KORDOLAIMI (GRE) [1] 6-0 6-0 Olivia FRENCH (GBR)
Julia WACHACZYK (GER) [11] 6-1 6-1 Emma HURST (GBR)
Stephanie WAGNER (GER) [7] 6-0 6-2 Anna POPESCU (GBR)
Margaux ORANGE (FRA) 6-2 6-2 Katarzyna PITAK (GBR) [16]
Malene HELGO (NOR) [8] 6-2 6-1 Anoushka WOOLLER (GBR)
Vlada EKSHIBAROVA (ISR) [12] 6-0 6-1 Katherine BARNES (GBR)

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Goodness, it's not often you see a whole batch of results as terribly one-sided as that lot

the addict · Tennis legend

No, pretty rare. But then most of the GB girls are unranked, against opponents mostly inside the top 700

scottie1 · Futures level

Coup Droit wrote:
Goodness, it's not often you see a whole batch of results as terribly one-sided as that lot

May be its an indicator of the standard of the British girls who lost in the qualifying first round

Strongbow · All-time great

No GBR MD DA and no GBR qualies player has beaten an overseas opponent. And another similar eventat Shrewsbury. Woth every penny wink

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

It's very sad to see. Not unexpected in some cases obviously, but poor in others. I don't know how good the likes of Wagner is and she may well be fresh out of college, fast rising and hot on the scene as much as I know, but at face value, when you're losing to a 25 year old ranked in the late 500s and winning only 2 games at a home event, without wanting to dound too harsh, you cant help but feel its a bit of a waste of time. It may well have just been a bad day, but she's 21 not 17/18 so you wouldn't think her ceiling was that high.

the addict · Tennis legend

Should have kept this as a 15k tournament, then the entry list would have been weaker, and there might have been a few wins.
Even Kasia lost badly, and that should have been a close match.

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

And then K Pitak was also a disappointing score. I know triangular theories can't be taken too seriously, but Orange lost 6-0 6-0 in her last match the other week to someone who lost 6-3 6-3 to Ella Taylor in the next round. Doesn't say too much for Katarzyna if she's only winning 4 games against Orange.

Most were not expected and a lot are making up the numbers, but if this is the group between the likes of Eden, Maia, Freya, Jodie to Emma R then it's going to be pretty bare.