Week 19 - ITF (W25) - Obidos, Portugal - Carpet

the addict · Tennis legend

Week 19 - ITF (W25) - Obidos, Portugal - Carpet

indiana · Tennis legend

2nd WTA rankings counter for Mandy.

Quickest way to a WTA ranking is to reach the QF here to total 11 points.

Peter too · Tennis legend

Q2: ALLEN, Victoria (GBR) 10 676 lost to MUNTEAN, Victoria (FRA) 2 591 5-7 7-6(4) [8-10]
Q2: CARRERAS, Amanda (GBR) UNR def SHALIMOVA, Ekaterina (RUS) 766 3-6 6-4 [10-6]

R1: GREY, Sarah Beth (GBR) 460 v WARGNIER, Lucie (FRA) Q 621 =CH
H2H 0-1 Sunderland 2017 Wargnier 6-7(7) 2-6

R1: SILVA, Eden (GBR) 424 v HO, Jessica (USA) 527 CH=509 18/2/19

R1: CARRERAS, Amanda (GBR) Q UNR v KOELZER, Romy (GER) 8 402 CH=395 29/4/19

R1: WEBLEY-SMITH, Emily (GBR) 524 v MIHALIKOVA, Tereza (SVK) 7 368 CH=349 11/6/18
H2H 0-1 Bhopal 2018 Mihalikova 1-6 7-5 0-6

-- Edited by Peter too on Tuesday 7th of May 2019 05:17:10 PM

Strongbow · All-time great

Mandy's second couter - (thanks Indie) - first comes off in Sept. So she will probably will have to play a mix of 25ks and 15ks for the rest of the year to keep her ITF ranking up. smile

RedSquirrel · Satellite level

Amanda's first major ITF counter doesn't drop off until December. I would be surprised if Amanda isn't WTA top 600 by then and was in a position where she had a need to defend her ITF points. But, even then, as she'll have a WTA ranking, the ITF ranking would be irrelevant except for the purpose of obtaining the reserved main draw spots as the WTA ranking would be used for entry to 15s. For now, if she wants to avoid 25k qualifying and get directly into main draws via the reserved places then she probably needs 1 or 2 more good 15Ks to move her ITF ranking up a bit so it's her choice which reserved places to have, rather than what's left which she will get at the moment, and then she can forget about 15s for good. If she's happy to build up her WTA ranking the traditional way by qualifying for 25K main draws, then, once she has that WTA ranking, she need not trouble herself about an ITF ranking.

RedSquirrel · Satellite level

Emily is 6-4 3-0*. There is a rather long MTO at the moment, which is hopefully not Emily.

the addict · Tennis legend

No, it wasn't Emily. She goes through 6-4 4-0 retired

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

Nice to see her get a win. Haven't looked at their credentials, but it'll definitely be a MDWC up next for her in the last 16. Ka is one of the potential opponents and I'm sure she has beaten one of our players recently, might have even been EWS.

Edit - it is WC Andrea Ka who beat the local WC 5-0 RET. Just had a quick look and Ka did beat EWS in Portugal qualifying last month, 6-3 6-1, so hopefully Emily can get a bit revenge here.

-- Edited by Ace Ventura on Tuesday 7th of May 2019 10:33:13 AM

PaulM · Tennis legend

No harm in a bit of luck for Em. Fingers crossed she can reverse that loss to Ka on these courts last month.

the addict · Tennis legend

No further Brits involved today - but just to note the matches are showing as interrupted - could be another one of those weeks................

Mervatron2 · Challenger qualifying

Good to see Mandy qualify. Seems to have gotten her mojo back.

the addict · Tennis legend

Early morning showers in Obidos, start put back to 13:00.
Eden and Beth are first matches on courts 2 & 3, Mandy is second match on court 4

DF · Tennis legend

start put back to 14:00

the addict · Tennis legend

Play has started at last.
Beth is 2-0*
Eden is *1-1

RedSquirrel · Satellite level

Eden was facing 2 SPs when Ho retired.
Wins 3-5 *15-40 ret