Em and Sofia lose the MTB 10-7 against the top seeds after being 7-4 up 

Top seeds have done that in all 3 of their matches this week. Frustrating but they were a set and a double break down.

Hozumi is ranked 32.

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Well done. I knew that excluding Ms Burrage from my top 10 prediction would energise her year.

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Good stuff.

I saw someone questioning why so relatively few folk had Jodie in their top 10.

This totally failed to recognise how some of us selflessly carefully make some selections based on the psyche of the players and what sort of effect the predictions will have on them  

paulisi wrote:

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Jaffa wrote:

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Alex Ward is coaching her.

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Well done Alex then! Lovely to see... may they continue to progress together!! 

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She was at West Hants as a junior as she was at Talbot Heath.When she finished at school, she trained with JTC under Lucie Ahl until recently. 

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 Yes, that was the problem.....

wow!!!
into final like a huricane
61 62

Wow, the butterfly seems to have emerged from the chrysalis, and in a hurry too 

A few serving facts struck me in particular about this result. Jodie only served a 38% first serve percentage, but won 94% of these AND 88% of her second serves. She was only broken once in the match vs the 5 breaks she won. 

SF: Jodie BURRAGE (GBR) 415 beat Miyabi INOUE (JPN) [6] 366 (CH:275 Sept 15) 6-1 6-2

F: Jodie BURRAGE (GBR) 415 vs Miharu IMANISHI (JPN) [7] 404 (CH:187 May 18) 

I would think Jodie would be the favourite in the final now. Imanishi won her semi in three sets over Hozumi. On the rankings, very helpfully the ITF have changed their format so the date of the CH is no longer indicated. Why provide as useful a service as in the past, when you can make it worse? Seems to be their all round motto at the moment.

Good luck Jodie, what a truly wonderful week this is turning out to be for her. Alex Ward must have a huge smile at the moment, but hope it will get larger yet before the week is done..