Week 15 - ITF (W25) - Sunderland, GB - Hard Indoor

Grachka · County player

Week 15 - ITF (W25) - Sunderland, GB - Hard Indoor

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

Grachka wrote:
Don't know anything about Grace Piper, but she could've done with an easier opener to her career...Molinaro had a fairly robust junior career and picked up a W15 title last month, beating Amanda Carreras in the process.

Yup, very promising young player. I've no idea about Grace either, but was pleased initially that some of our players who had a chance to progress like Laura avoided EM - if Grace is half decent herself and could have maybe done something with a better draw, then that would be unfortunate, but at the same time, Eleonora was definitely someone I was hoping to see in the main draw when I visit the venue later in the week.

Helen40 · Grand Slam Champion

OOP is out. I was wondering, why are the men always on before the women, both matches are best of 3?

telstar · Strong Club Player

flamingowings wrote:
Could someone more in the know than I give me a summary of the Morton's, Kimberley, Esther and Grace please? Not names I have come across before (that I can remember anyway) rate them or too early to tell?

Esther is a real natural talent and, by some margin, the most promising of that group.

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

Bet 365 have their odds up already and let's just say, there's a few one sided looking matches:

Alicia 1/3 vs 9/4 Alice
Ferrando 1/33 to beat Lilly M
Robson 1/1000 to win her R1 match against compatriot
Paar 1/200 to beat Kimberly
Emily 3/1 to win her match
Freya 2/9 vs 3/1 Sasha
K Pitak 9/2 to beat her Taiwan opponent
Sam 1/1000 to beat her compatriot
Younger Pitak 3/1 to beat Brit killer M Noel
Holly 7/2

No odds for Molinaro vs Piper or Esther's match yet.

I guess that'll be because if you did a Google timeline search for all the others then you can get a snapshot of their results, yet there's very little for Grace or Esther, so the bookies won't have as much data to go on and will be harder to gauge as well as being risky.

-- Edited by Ace Ventura on Sunday 7th of April 2019 10:12:52 PM

RedSquirrel · Satellite level

Had a look at Grace's LTA record. In February Grace won the Invitational 18U Winter National Tour. She's also played a couple of BT events this year. In Bath she beat Jizel 1&2 and Megan Davies 2&3 before losing to Bolkvadze 3&0 in the QF. In Loughborough she lost to Tiff 6-7(2) 2-6 in R1.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

No idea how Emily Morton plays but the odds have come dramatically since last night as people have realised she's playing Fiona Condino

It was 4.0 and is now 2.6!

paulisi · Tennis legend

The Morton's are a nice family.
Both girls are reasonable players, but this level is a step too far for them.

I'm expecting to see a blast from the past in the main draw....(possibly doubles)

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

Coup Droit wrote:
No idea how Emily Morton plays but the odds have come dramatically since last night as people have realised she's playing Fiona Condino

It was 4.0 and is now 2.6!

Yeah, that is a significant change. Just checked and Condino has lost her last 14 matches stretching back to early October and all but one in straight sets, but then Emily was obviously heavily beaten by Sam last week. Would be great if the younger Pitak could get some joy against Noel as the respective winners face each other in the FQR, but you'd suspect Noel would qualify again.

I see Piper is 11/2 to beat Molinaro which isn't the longest considering she is playing a good opponent, especially when you see some of the other odds like Kimberly now 20/1 to beat Paar (now 1/500 instead of 1/200). Piper may well lose routinely, but those relatively low odds perhaps suggests that she does have a little something about her.

Esther is 7/1.

Julia Carrot · All-time great

paulisi wrote:

I'm expecting to see a blast from the past in the main draw....(possibly doubles)

Intrigued.........

Michael D · All-time great

Julia Carrot wrote:
paulisi wrote:

I'm expecting to see a blast from the past in the main draw....(possibly doubles)
Intrigued.........

It would be nice to see Anna Smith again... there has been only silence surrounding her recovery from her knee operations for months now.

paulisi · Tennis legend

Julia Carrot wrote:
paulisi wrote:

I'm expecting to see a blast from the past in the main draw....(possibly doubles)
Intrigued.........

I'm 75% confident that Fran Stepenson came over to watch on Sunday. Lots of the Brits knew here and she said she was playing Sunderland. However she had a European accent and a connection to Igor Sisjling, thus I'm not 100% confident.

RedSquirrel · Satellite level

A bit of a break for Lillian who no longer faces the Q3 seed. Instead she plays doubles player, Yu-Chieh Hsieh.

JonH · All-time great

Just out of interest, the British wins in the 3 home ITF events to date tally up as follows ($60k and 2 x $25k events).

Lumsden - 5 wins
Burrage - 5 wins
Raducanu - 4 wins
Jones - 1 win
Allen - 1 win

Will be interesting to see who comes out top of these indoor hard events; if the LTA had anything about them the overall player with most wins (or in some points table) would be rewarded with a guaranteed wild card into Wimbledon or at least one of the big grass events pre Wimbledon.

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

Looks like a potential reprieve for Mould, who was 9/1 to beat Q3 seed Ferrando. That match is no longer happening and now Mould is playing Su Wei Hsieh's younger sister, a double's specialist who hasn't played a single's match for about 9 months, and lost her only 2 matches in the past 12 months - she may well still have too much for Mould, but you'd think on paper, that should be a bit better.

Hope Ferrando isn't in the main draw and another main draw withdrawal, but as she is below Paar, hopefully she has just withdrawn.

Are we thinking Maia is the current main draw withdrawal?