Week 21 - ITF (W25) - Singapore - Hard

Michael D · All-time great

Week 21 - ITF (W25) - Singapore - Hard

Michael D · All-time great

Emily plays with Catherine Harrison (USA) in the doubles vs the Saigo sisters (JPN) in the doubles.

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

I didn't see the odds last week against the lower ranked Russian player, but I see Emily has opened up as a 1/3 favourite here, the Indian is 9/4, so if anyone fancies Emily's dire W25 run to continue, there's an opportunity to benefit from it financially. They are down to play on the Wednesday.

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

www.wincomparator.com/emily-appleton-id140839-angelina-gabueva-id136278/

Judging by that, Emily ranged from 1.3-1.36 and Gabeuva 3-3.2 last week, which roughly translates to 1/3 vs 9/4 or 4/11 v 11/5, so again Emily was the favourite, but didn't deliver, so may well be priced far too short again.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Ace Ventura wrote:
I didn't see the odds last week against the lower ranked Russian player, but I see Emily has opened up as a 1/3 favourite here, the Indian is 9/4, so if anyone fancies Emily's dire W25 run to continue, there's an opportunity to benefit from it financially. They are down to play on the Wednesday.

Tx for that smile

Michael D · All-time great

Emily and Catherine Harrison struggle to a win over the Saigo sisters (Rankings 464+533 vs 869+758) 6-4 5-7 11-9

Michael D · All-time great

Well, Emily came closer in the first set than I was expecting. She was in fact up 4-2 5-3 and 6-5, serving for the set twice. In the 6-5 service game she served 3 DFs, suggesting she tightened up massively, and then lost the TB easily 6-7(4).

There were 3 breaks of serve each, so appear to be evenly matched, but if Emily comes back from blowing this set I'll be very surprised.

Michael D · All-time great

Emily did indeed fade out of the picture 2nd set after her blow in the first. That first win now taking on mythical proportions for her...

R32: Emily APPLETON (GBR) 721 lost to Riya BHATIA (IND) [8] 515 (CH:510 August 17) 6-7(4) 2-6

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Emily App+ won their doubles, 3 & 4, beating the 3rd seeds.

Michael D · All-time great

And congrats here to Emily App, who has made the doubles final with Catherine Harrison. She might not have won a W25 MD singles match yet, but good to see her making progress at doubles at least.
Up against Paige Hourigan again in the final.

SF: Emily APPLETON/ Catherine HARRISON (GBR/USA) 997 (464+533) beat Rutuja BHOSALE/ Nudnida Luangnam (IND/THA) [2] 666 (188+478) 4-6 6-3 10-5

F: Emily APPLETON/ Catherine HARRISON (GBR/USA) 997 (464+533) vs Paige HOURIGAN/ Aldila SUTJIADI (NZL/INA) [1] 458 (169+289)

-- Edited by Michael D on Friday 24th of May 2019 08:46:11 AM

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Yes, a bit like Freya, you hope that by keeping the doubles on a positive run, the singles may catch up somewhere along the way.

Although I still think Freya has more chance of that than Emily.

But it's got to be good; the two are still very young.

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

The strange thing is she has beaten some seemingly OK players at W15 level this year who have went on to do something at W25 level. She beat Hourigan in Mexico a couple of months ago (admittedly via a late retirement, 4-2 in the second, so Paige may not have been firing), but she has made the singles SF here. She beat the higher ranked Perper who has won matches at W25 level since, including Jerusalem this week, but as soon as it's in a W25 event, she seems to crumble, even if she was beating that type of player at W15 level. Maybe there is a bit of psychology involved, because the likes of Gabueva who she lost to last week has played the majority of her most recent matches at W15 level.

She was made the 1/3 pre match favourite in both of her Singapore R1 defeats, so there must be some kind of variable to set those odds that way. It's obviously low level, non mainstream stuff, but the bookies still won't want to keep paying out 9/4 for the opponent too many more times going forward.

paulisi · Tennis legend

Horrible start for Emily in her first 25k final.

paulisi · Tennis legend

Despite a lead in the second set, they lost out in the tie break, so no first title at this level

Michael D · All-time great

Much better in the second set for Emily and Catherine, but not quite close enough. A good result though, if only Emily could take her doubles form/confidence into her singles more effectively...

F: Emily APPLETON/ Catherine HARRISON (GBR/USA) 997 (464+533) lost to Paige HOURIGAN/ Aldila SUTJIADI (NZL/INA) [1] 458 (169+289) 1-6 6-7(5)