Not as much a walk in the park, as I thought it was going to be.

Q1: Tara MOORE (GBR) [2] 473 defeated Mami HASEGAWA (JPN) (WC) UNR/1928 (CH 1127) 7-5 6-3

FQR: Tara MOORE (GBR) [2] 473 vs Yuuki TANAKA (JPN) [7] 564 (CH: 308 in Sep 2017)

Spoken too soon. All the momentum now is with the Japanese - 4 points to 16
*0-4

Gets a break back *1-4



-- Edited by RedSquirrel on Monday 13th of May 2019 04:47:21 AM

More breaks and it went to a MTB. In the MTB Tara went from 6-3 to 6-8, and had a MP herself at 10-9, but in the end it was not to be

FQR: Tara MOORE (GBR) [2] 473 lost to Yuuki TANAKA (JPN) [7] 564 (CH: 308 in Sep 2017) 6-2 5-7 10-12

Without that Sunderland run the other week, this would have been a normal Tara 2019 result, but that Ponchet comeback and win over Dodin did restore a bit of hope. She'll get 3 points for her Q1 win which I suppose is better than a typical case of coming through 2 rounds of Qs at W25 level and losing in R1 in the main draw, but if she's ever wanting to get back to near where she was, you really need to be beating a lower ranked 29 year old who has never been inside the top 300. A run here would have helped boost her ranking for Manchester W100, which tends to be the weaker of the 3 ITF events.

Surprised the main draw isn't out yet. The Japanese events tend to be always be out by the time I get up around 8am and the Korean (3 Brits), Singapore (Emily) and Chinese ITF draws have all been out a while. Really interested to see who Heather and Katy get in particular.

There was a LL, but with the ITFs it's a free draw rather than one from the top 2 ranked players and Tara has missed out. Sakatsume who Heather beat in R1 last week is the LL and she actually faces Naomi in R1, so that's a decent draw. Can't see anyone who would really trouble Hev in the early stages, so hopefully she can get those 2 or 3 wins and and secure her Wimbledon direct entry.

Hev not playing doubles which IMO is good.

RedSquirrel wrote:

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I thought Diyas might withdraw having reached the final the past two weeks and having secured a Wimbledon entry.

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I was actually thinking that too when I mentioned Ahn yesterday. Circa 150 points for 2 weeks work is a good return. Wimbledon entry secured as you say, so main job done and she sneaked into the FO draw directly (was the initial last entrant), so she can either go home for some rest, or to Europe earlier to practise for the clay.

Edit - Ahn hasn't withdrawn.

-- Edited by Ace Ventura on Monday 13th of May 2019 01:53:35 PM