Week 19 - ITF (W60) - Fukuoka, Japan - Carpet

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

Week 19 - ITF (W60) - Fukuoka, Japan - Carpet

RedSquirrel · Satellite level

Seedings are always based on the rankings for the week before the tournament.

Katy gets some time to recover, not scheduled to play either singles or doubles until Wednesday. Only Naomi's singles is scheduled tomorrow.

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

Ah well, I guess it'll come in handy for next week then. Good news that she plays on the Wednesday as that does level the playing field up a bit.

I see if Katy beats Inglis, she'll be in line to face either 3rd seed Shimizu or 18 year old Naito in the next round. For some reason, Naito sounds very familiar and I'm sure I've looked at her ITF profile as if one of our players have played or were due to play her recently, but I can't find any reference to it in her recent results. Strange.

Edit - must have been last week as she was a WC and was due to face a Q, which could have been Naomi, and I must have been checking her credentials. Nothing to see here.

-- Edited by Ace Ventura on Monday 6th of May 2019 09:44:41 AM

Peter too · Tennis legend

R1: DUNNE, Katy (GBR) 236 v INGLIS, Maddison (AUS) 271 =CH
H2H 0-1 Canberra 2015 Inglis 6-7(5) 2-6

R1: BROADY, Naomi (GBR) 356 v NAMIGATA, Junni (JPN) 308 CH=105 2011
H2H 3-0
Fukuoka 2014 Broady 3-6 7-6(12) 6-4
Tokyo 2016 6-2 6-3
Mumbai 2017 6-2 6-2

R1: WATSON, Heather (GBR) 2 119 v SAKATSUME, Himeno (JPN) Q 671 CH=659 18/3/10 17yo JCH=113

SuperT · Futures level

Personally I'm not that surprised to see Katy in the draw. She loves everything about the tennis lifestyle - playing, travelling, socialising and especially winning, so I was pretty sure that if she could physically make it to Japan in time she wouldn't want to miss out. I suspect she'll be wanting to use the opportunity these 60Ks will give her to try and close the gap on Harriet and Katie who have raced up the rankings past her in recent years. Good luck to her - I'd love to see her break into the top 200 this summer.

-- Edited by SuperT on Monday 6th of May 2019 12:06:20 PM

Babfive · Satellite level

Naomi is 6-3 4-4*

the addict · Tennis legend

Naomi wins 6-3 7-6(6). Serve seems to be working again :)

paulisi · Tennis legend

Very good win.
See what a bit of confidence can do for you.

Julia Carrot · All-time great

the addict wrote:
Naomi wins 6-3 7-6(6). Serve seems to be working again :)

Yes, 7 aces, thats more like it !

the addict · Tennis legend

More important than the number of aces - 58% first serves in, and 79% first serves won !

Andy Parker · Club Coach

Great to see Naomi getting a win at last - Namigata was a pretty decent player at her peak, and her experience means it can't have been easy - her serve stats will give her great confidence, which she desperately needs at the moment.

Michael D · All-time great

Yes, it is great to see Naomi show a bit more confidence again... and she certainly needs this win, and another one still just to make up for the points she is losing this week! But it is a right step, and with the grass court season coming up, let's hope for a few more still too.

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

Both Heather and Katy are first on at 3am.

Heather is exactly the same odds as she was last week, 2/7 (Hev) vs 5/2, so hopefully that's not a bad omen - interestingly the opponent Sakatsume lost 2 and 4 to Omae (Heather's conqueror last week) a couple of months ago.

Katy and Inglis are both 5/6.

mbturner · Lower Club Player

A win for Heather 6-2 6-1. Not as straight forward as it looks as her serving stats aren't great and there were some long games. Katy went from 3-0 to 3-4 in the first set and retired.

the addict · Tennis legend

Good to see Heather win a match, she needs to find some form.
I see Katy is playing her doubles, so probably retired due to a bug rather than injury.