Week 24 - ITF (W25) Minsk, Belarus Clay

Peter too · Tennis legend

Week 24 - ITF (W25) Minsk, Belarus Clay

Mervatron2 · Challenger qualifying

Hoping for another week of the same. Good luck Fran

DF · Tennis legend

Fran takes the first set 7-6 (2)

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

Fran has taken the first set 7-6(2), she did have a fairly healthy lead earlier when I checked, but over the line now.

DF · Tennis legend

but lost the second 2-6

DF · Tennis legend

Fran wins! 7-6 (5) in the third

Strongbow · All-time great

Snap !

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-- Edited by Strongbow on Wednesday 12th of June 2019 02:26:42 PM

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

2h 59 mins....

Well done, Fran

Mervatron2 · Challenger qualifying

WOW. Too close for comfort lol

Michael D · All-time great

Big win that for Fran in the end. Plays one of the three Ekaterina Makarova's who are professional tennis players next.

R32: JONES, Francesca (GBR) [SE] 455 beat TALBI, Shalimar (BLR) [WC] 523 (CH=518 20/5/19) 7-6(2) 2-6 7-6(5)

R16: JONES, Francesca (GBR) [SE] 455 vs MAKAROVA, Ekaterina (RUS) [IR] 531/6 (CH:Dec 18)

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Fran has the first set 6-4

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

Serving for the match, *5-4. 2 MPs...

Wins 6-4 6-4. smile

-- Edited by Ace Ventura on Thursday 13th of June 2019 10:14:00 AM

the addict · Tennis legend

Nice win for Fran - although I was expecting her to beat middle Makarova comfortably anyway. Next match will be more of a test if Bjorklund comes through later today.

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

It's going to be a really tough match next whoever she plays. Bjorklund vs Kan. Kan is the player someone on here referenced was destined for the top 100 before injuries took over when she beat Gabi very comfortably a few weeks ago. Since then she lost to Bjorklund in a 3 setter and then reached a W25 SF, before giving a walkover. I remember Bjorklund actually being the favourite against Katy Dunne when they met in Portugal in April (but she lost). Since then she won a fairly strong W25, and in her last event lost 6-1 5-7 4-6 to Voegele who is in and around the top 100.

Fran of course won a title last week and is on a 7 match winning streak herself, but bar maybe Christian, this is the worst section he could have landed in and will likely be her toughest match in these 2 weeks, but 9 points in the bag whatever happens.

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

the addict wrote:
Nice win for Fran - although I was expecting her to beat middle Makarova comfortably anyway. Next match will be more of a test if Bjorklund comes through later today.

Yeah, she's certainly more familiar to me sharing that name and I was always under the impression that she was just competent on the W15 scene, but a bit limited higher up, especially when Eden gave her a bagel earlier in the year, but her results have picked up a bit recently and she did beat Bondar the other week and put out the 4th seed who has also won a 25k in the past few weeks.

Kan is actually the very slight 8/11 favourite in that Bjorklund match, despite losing in 3 the last time they played, so it'll likely be tough either way.