Week 14 - ITF (W25) Bolton, GB Hard

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

Week 14 - ITF (W25) Bolton, GB Hard

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

So top seed Diatchenko safely through to play Victoria.

2nd seed Badosa Gibert came back from a set and 3-4* down to win and hopefully set up a R2 match with Naomi.

6th seed Greet Minnen currently making easy work of the other non-WTA ranked IR (6-1 5-0)

7th seed Shinikova currently 6-3 5-2 up

5th seed Ponchet beat the promising Waltert 6-3 6-4 earlier.

So all the seeds look like they will be safely through today. The 3 other seeds play tomorrow including 2 against Brits.

-- Edited by Ace Ventura on Tuesday 2nd of April 2019 03:45:03 PM

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

Order of play out tomorrow:

Court 2 (no stream) 10am - Jodie

Court 6 (no stream)
10am - Men's match
Followed by Ella

Court 7 (stream)
10am - Men's match
Followed by Emma
Followed by Maia (n.b. 12.30pm)

Court 8 (stream)
10am - Men's match
Followed by another
Followed by Tara (n.b. 12.30pm)
Followed by Naomi

Edit - Forgot about Jodie. Shame she's not being streamed because that's probably the best chance of a W tomorrow.

-- Edited by Ace Ventura on Tuesday 2nd of April 2019 09:39:54 PM

the addict · Tennis legend

Justrealised that this hadn't been posted - Brits in seven of the eight matches

Full Doubles draw
R1 L16

Naomi BROADY (GBR) [1] Rosalie VAN DER HOEK (NED) [1] v Emina BEKTAS (USA) Tara MOORE (GBR)
Freya CHRISTIE (GBR) Olivia NICHOLLS (GBR) v Yu-Chieh HSIEH (TPE) Pei-Chi LEE (TPE)

Diana MARCINKEVICA (LAT) [3] Ekaterina YASHINA (RUS) [3] v Victoria ALLEN (GBR) (WC) Ella TAYLOR (GBR) (WC)
Sasha HILL (GBR) (WC) Holly STAFF (GBR) (WC) v Laura-Ioana PAAR (ROU) Helene SCHOLSEN (BEL)

Isabella SHINIKOVA (BUL) Julia TERZIYSKA (BUL) v Alicia BARNETT (GBR) Jodie Anna BURRAGE (GBR)
Aleksandra PITAK (GBR) (WC) Katarzyna PITAK (GBR) (WC) v Jessika PONCHET (FRA) [4] Nina STOJANOVIC (SRB) [4]

Robin ANDERSON (USA) Maegan MANASSE (USA) v Tayisiya MORDERGER (GER) Yana MORDERGER (GER)
Emma LAINE (FIN) Samantha MURRAY (GBR) v Pei Hsuan CHEN (TPE) [2] Fang-Hsien WU (TPE) [2]

the addict · Tennis legend

Doubles Results so far

L16:- Emina BEKTAS (USA) Tara MOORE (GBR) def Naomi BROADY (GBR) [1] Rosalie VAN DER HOEK (NED) [1] 7-5 6-4 smile smile cry

Yu-Chieh HSIEH (TPE) Pei-Chi LEE (TPE) def Freya CHRISTIE (GBR) Olivia NICHOLLS (GBR) 6-2 6-2 cry
Pei Hsuan CHEN (TPE) [2] Fang-Hsien WU (TPE) [2] def Emma LAINE (FIN) Samantha MURRAY (GBR) 6-4 6-4 cry

-- Edited by the addict on Tuesday 2nd of April 2019 06:47:19 PM

paulisi · Tennis legend

The TPE girls were excellent and one should win the tournament.
There was an incident in Tara's doubles, where Tara got what she believed was a bad call on deciding point. Tara weren't happy and made her feelings known and then had a go at Naomi for not asking for the point to be awarded. There were then several exchanges of words over the next few minutes and it became quite embarrassing.

Alice played OK, but never really looked like winning once Diana cut out the errors.
Sasha was outplayed.

the addict · Tennis legend

Ace Ventura wrote:
Poor Laura, I wonder if that heel is bothering her that paulisi mentioned earlier? She has gone from 5-2 to 6-7(2) 0-4 in no time, with most the games seemingly comfortable. I'm not particularly neutral in that match - I'll wish Tara well in the main draw, but was certainly wanting Laura to come through. I suppose at least Laura did ensure a GB main draw entry with her prior win, but points wise, she'll get no credit for it.

Laura posted a pic, showing a raw patch on her heel the size of a 50p piece cry

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

Jodie up an early break, *3-1

seagull · Hall of fame

Takes first set 6-1

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

On serve in the second, but Jodie has saved 2 BPs. *1-2

But has another BP to face...

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

Jodie eventually held, but was broken to 15 on her next service game. Looks a different set this one - 2-4*

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

They've exchanged breaks, so the Swede now serving for the 2nd set. 3-5* and she's halfway to taking the game.

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

Malmqvist takes the set on her 5th set point after a long game (Jodie also had a BP), but from seemingly comfortable after the first set and the start of the 2nd (LM held to 40, JB to love in their first games), it's now gone into a decider. 6-1 3-6 *0-0.

Hopefully not a big opportunity missed here.

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

Emma underway, but facing 2 BPs straight away.

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

Emma *0-2 and you can just about see a bit of Jodie's match on the stream with it being the next court. She held and is 30-30 on the Swede's first service game.