Week 7 - (ITF W25) - Trnava, Slovakia Hard

Strongbow · All-time great

RE: Week 7 - (ITF W25) - Trnava, Slovakia Hard

RedSquirrel · Satellite level

For some reason all the matches are showing as interrupted on live scores. For an indoor tournament?

PaulM · Tennis legend

Tara now on against a lucky loser *1-1

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Tara has the first set

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

Good stuff, 7-5. I wonder what was up with Boulter's friend Krejcikova? I notice she is in the main draw for Glasgow next week...

RedSquirrel · Satellite level

Ace Ventura wrote:

Good stuff, 7-5. I wonder what was up with Boulter's friend Krejcikova? I notice she is in the main draw for Glasgow next week...

She's ill according to Czech media.

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

Tara 7-5 4-2*

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

Tara won 7-5 6-2.

A stroke of luck with a seed withdrawing, but she's had a tough time recently, so it's nice for her to get that opportunity. I was going to say she should take over that seeding, but that's not really the case here. It's Allertova up next who was the 2nd seed when initial entries came out but has dropped 200 places after her Aussie Open 2018 last 16 points (as a qualifier) came off. She was out from Wimbledon 2018 to Aussie Open 2019 and is getting back into things, bu has obviously operated at a MUCH higher level, so this will be tough for Tara. Allertova will be rested as well having won her match 5-0 ret. earlier.

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

On a side note, I see Tereza Martincova and Ana Konjuh are currently battling it out, 5-5, here in round 1. That's a pretty big coup to have in the first round of a 25k event and would look much more in place in the Shrewsbury 60k QF or SF.

Martincova is in great form, coming through Qs and reaching Taipei 125k QF, 3rd round of AO quals and coming through quals in St Petersburg Premier to reach the last 16 in her last 3 events and Konjuh, despite her young age, has been seeded in slams.

Michael D · All-time great

Yes, just to add that this is Tara's 3rd biggest counter now, and only the third time in the last year that she has reached R16 of a tournament. The other two occasions were both W60 events in Japan last May. It will require some performance from Tara to go any further this week too.

R32: Tara MOORE (GBR) [Q] 494 beat Miriam KOLODZIEJOVA (CZE) [LL] 282 (CH: 256 ) 7-5 6-2

R16: Tara MOORE (GBR) [Q] 494 vs Denisa ALLERTOVA (CZE) 360 (CH:55 2015)

Michael D · All-time great

Here are the doubles QF line ups involving Sam and TaCo. Matches are Thursday.

QF: Emma LAINE / Samantha MURRAY (FIN/GBR) 671 (317+354) vs Laura-Ioana ANDREI / Anastasia ZARYCKA (ROU/CZE) [4] 591 (372+219)
QF: Tara MOORE / Conny PERRIN (GBR/SUI) [2] 406 (195+211) vs Angelica MORATELLI / Dejana RADANOVIC (ITA/SRB) UNR (533+UNR)
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RedSquirrel · Satellite level

Tara underway and she's recovered from *0-3 to 3-3* having won the last 7 points.

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

It's a tie break now, so a very good effort, but Tara did serve for it at *5-4.

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

Forgot about this match. Tara unfortunately lost the tie break comfortably (to 2), but it is on serve in the second set *3-3. That set started with 4 breaks of serve.

the addict · Tennis legend

Tara doing well when she gets her first serve in, but 9 DF so far, and only 27% won on second serve. *4-4