Week 32 - ITF (W25) - Chiswick, Great Britain - Hard

the addict · Tennis legend

Week 32 - ITF (W25) - Chiswick, Great Britain - Hard

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

Poor Holly, just saw she had a BP for *4-1 in the sceond set, which may have proven decisive. She led 2-0, 3-1, 5-3 and 6-5* in the MTB, but lost the last 5 points so the Swiss girl advances. Assuming Ali comes through her Q1, hopefully she can take inspiration from that, but looking at their results this year, I might have fancied Holly's chances more.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Abby Amos, who's just beaten the girl ranked about ITF 550, did 4 years at James Madison Uni and has just now graduated but has signed up for her Masters at Arizona, playing for the Wildcats.

There's a nice article about her here:

arizonawildcats.com/news/2019/5/28/womens-tennis-signs-three-for-fall-2019.aspx

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

FQRs:

Holly vs Nell
5) Rush1ti cry vs Ali
6) Garland vs Abigail A
7) Ekani vs 12) Tanysha
8) Ola vs Morgan

The rest
1) Noel vs Fourouclas
2) Da Silva Fick vs 10) Orange
3) Zheng vs The Lithuanian girl who often plays the British tour (15)

2 guaranteed. Probably do well to get any more with Rush1ti eventually pulling through against Holly, but it would be great if one of the others could join the 2 guaranteed. Mind, some might prefer Garland to go through, so that could technically count as a half entrant, certainly more general interest in the main draw than say an Ekani.

Edit - Ali did coe through, so have amended the line up.

-- Edited by Ace Ventura on Monday 5th of August 2019 03:41:28 PM

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

Main draw is also out. Looks generally decent again from the quick check I did. Gabi was the mystery withdrawal that I was referring to yesterday on the 'Chiswick entry list' thread. Angelica did indeed get the last MDWC and plays the veteran Arn in R1.

Michael D · All-time great

Ace Ventura wrote:
Main draw is also out. Looks generally decent again from the quick check I did. Gabi was the mystery withdrawal that I was referring to yesterday on the 'Chiswick entry list' thread. Angelica did indeed get the last MDWC and plays the veteran Arn in R1.

it's funny how these things work - where are you getting the MD from Ace, is it the ITF site, since if it is, I can't see it there yet?

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

Lissey vs Adler (IR)
Alice (IR) vs Q
Angelica (WC) vs Arn
Beth (WC) vs Kostic (5)
Naiktha 6) vs Q
Sam 8) vs Berankova (IR)
Emily App (IR) vs Q
Freya (WC) vs Emily Arb (WC)

Edited to include WC on Beth.

-- Edited by Ace Ventura on Monday 5th of August 2019 03:44:07 PM

the addict · Tennis legend

Some interesting matches in the main draw, even before the qualifiers are placed.

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

Michael D wrote:
Ace Ventura wrote:
Main draw is also out. Looks generally decent again from the quick check I did. Gabi was the mystery withdrawal that I was referring to yesterday on the 'Chiswick entry list' thread. Angelica did indeed get the last MDWC and plays the veteran Arn in R1.
it's funny how these things work - where are you getting the MD from Ace, is it the ITF site, since if it is, I can't see it there yet?

It really is a weird site Michael, and seems to update for some quicker than others, but yeah, just the usual ITF site.

the addict · Tennis legend

Michael, the draws don't seem to appear for everyone at the same time for some reason - you just have to keep refreshing the page until it shows. Must be a caching issue on some computers.

Michael D · All-time great

Just to complete this QR1 round up. HarryGem posted some of the results earlier.

QR1: Iman GARSHONG (GBR) UNR lost to Mallaurie NOEL (FRA) [q1] 522 0-6 6-4 7-10 A really good performance from Iman though!
QR1: Katarzyna PITAK (GBR) [q9] 1058 lost to Natasha FOUROUCLAS (RSA) UNR 6-2 3-6 6-10

QR1: Indianna SPINK (GBR) UNR lost to Gabriella DA SILVA FICK (AUS) [q2] 576 2-6 4-6
QR1: Kimberly Alinafe MPUKUSA (GBR) UNR lost to Margaux ORANGE [q10] 1117 1-6 2-6

QR1: Martina PALADINI JENNINGS (GBR) UNR lost to Qinwen ZHENG (CHN) [q3] 726 1-6 2-6
QR1: Amelia BISSETT(GBR) [WC] UNR Born 2003 lost to Andre LUKOSIUTE (LTU) [q15] UNR 4-6 2-6

QR1: Holly HUTCHINSON (GBR) UNR def Pei-Chi LEE (TPE) [q4] 839 6-2 7-5
QR1: Nell MILLER (GBR) [WC] UNR def Anamarija SPOLJARIC (CRO] [ UNR) [q16] 6-1 6-3

QR1: Holly STAFF (GBR) UNR lost to Arlinda RUSH1TI (SUI) [q5] 829 6-3 4-6 6-10 A good performance too from Holly S
QR1: Ali COLLINS (GBR) [q13] 1070 def Veronika HUGHES (GBR) [WC] UNR 6-3 6-2

QR1: Jizel MATOS SEQUEIRA FERNANDES (GBR) UNR lost to Joanna GARLAND (TPE) [q6] 717 2-6 0-6
QR1: Abigail AMOS (GBR) [WC] UNR vs Giorgie JONES (AUS) [q11] 1174 6-4 6-2

QR1: Aleksandra TOPALOVIC (GBR) UNR lost to Irys EKANI (FRA) [q7] 911 1-6 2-6
QR1: Tanysha DISSANAYAKE (GBR) [q12] 1146 def Angelina GRAOVAC (AUS) UNR 6-1 6-3

QR1: Aleksandra PITAK (GBR) [q8] 958 def Suzy LARKIN (GBR) [WC] UNR 6-2 4-6 10-5
QR1: Morgan CROSS (GBR) UNR def Anjana SURESH (CAN) [q14] UNR 6-4 6-2

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

It's been a miserable few months for Gabi and shows no signs of improving after losing R1 last week, and not being involved here. Hope whatever it is isn't bad and she can plan her next batch of events.

It's pretty insignificant in the grand scheme of things, and things may have worked out different had Lily been the Q1 seed instead of just sneaking in, and affected the Q draw, but with no Brit benefiting (unless the LTA consider Lily more important than a random overseas player), it might have worked out better had Gabi withdrawn either after the Q draw came out, or after the main draw (even if she had no intention of playing) and then we could have maybe benfited from a LL spot. Might have been different with Lily in quals as I say, but we could well end up with 5 FQR losers, so a 5/8 chance of one of them getting the LL spot.

Something like that happened earlier in the season with Lisicki in Shrewsbury. She said she pulled out a lot earlier, but she was still in the draw, so a LL place became available, and Laura also benefited from a seperate LL situation as well.

Michael D · All-time great

So the FQR draw involving Brits is as follows (rankings are now mostly correct for this week):

FQR: Holly HUTCHINSON (GBR) UNR vs Nell MILLER (GBR) [WC] UNR
FQR: Ali COLLINS (GBR) [q13] 1067 vs Arlinda RUSH1TI (SUI) [q5] 829
FQR: Abigail AMOS (GBR) [WC] UNR vs Joanna GARLAND (TPE) [q6] 717
FQR: Tanysha DISSANAYAKE (GBR) [q12] 1145 vs Irys EKANI (FRA) [q7] 911
FQR: Aleksandra PITAK (GBR) [q8] 958 vs Morgan CROSS (GBR) UNR

Michael D · All-time great

the addict wrote:
Michael, the draws don't seem to appear for everyone at the same time for some reason - you just have to keep refreshing the page until it shows. Must be a caching issue on some computers.

Yes, very weird. I have the doubles draw, but still not the singles confuse

And it's late here in SE Asia, so I'll leave the singles draw to you Peter, if you have time.

-- Edited by Michael D on Monday 5th of August 2019 04:02:08 PM

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

Odds-wise:

Holly 1/6, Nell 7/2
Ola 4/7, Morgan 5/4
Ali 5/6, Rush1ti 5/6 - possibly influenced by the latters battle with Holly S, but that's quite encouraging
Abigail 9/1, Garland 1/33 - not so much for Abigail
Tanysha 9/4, Ekani 1/3 - underdog, but not a massive outsider.

Would be great if 1 of the other 3 (particularly Ali or Tanysha) could join the 2 guaranteed.