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

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

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

indiana · Tennis legend

I was rather surprised to see Holly H was a 1/6 favourite vs Nell although other than their good QR1 wins here I am not really aware of their progress of late.

Anyway I see that it's first set to Holly by 7-5.

Seems rather more pressure on the Holly serve though. She has had 55 first serves and saved 9/10 BPs as against 37 first serves by Nell who has saved 2/4 BPs.

the addict · Tennis legend

Doubles 1st Round (L16)
Rankings are WTA taken from the ITF player profiles as showing today.

Naiktha BAINS (GBR) / Ankita RAINA (IND) CR362 (188+174) [1] v Emily APPLETON (GBR) / Emily ARBUTHNOTT (GBR) CR759 (377+382)
Angelina GRAOVAC (AUS) / Anamarija SPOLJARIC (CRO) (UNR+UNR) v Amelia BISSETT (GBR) / Tanysha DISSANAYAKE (GBR) (UNR+UNR)

Freya CHRISTIE (GBR) / Samantha MURRAY (GBR) CR493 (192+301) [3] v Martina PALADINI JENNINGS (GBR) / Aleksandra TOPALOVIC (GBR) (WC) (UNR+UNR)
Holly HUTCHINSON (GBR) / Yuriko Lily MIYAZAKI (JPN) (UNR+671) v Iman GARSHONG (GBR) / Kimberly Alinafe MPUKUSA (GBR) (WC) (UNR+UNR)

Karolina BERANKOVA (CZE) / Silvia NJIRIC (CRO) CR1268 (717+551) v Joanna GARLAND (TPE) / Qinwen ZHENG (CHN) (UNR+UNR)
Ali COLLINS (GBR) / Gabriella DA SILVA FICK (AUS) (UNR+482) v Alicia BARNETT (GBR) / Pei-Chi LEE (TPE) CR693 (351+342) [4]

Aleksandra PITAK (GBR) / Katarzyna PITAK (GBR) CR1890 (945+945) v Morgan CROSS (GBR) / Holly STAFF (GBR) (WC) (UNR+UNR)
Dewi DIJKMAN (NED) / Isabelle HAVERLAG (NED) CR1275 (671+604) v Valentini GRAMMATIKOPOULOU (GRE) / Sarah Beth GREY (GBR) CR483(323+160) [2]

Good to see 20 Brits in the draw, including quite a few juniors.

indiana · Tennis legend

Ola Pitak beat Morgan C 6-1 6-0 !

Joanna G best Abigail 6-3 7-5 - looks decent effort

Holly H 7-5 *2-1 vs Nell

Tanysha 6-4 1-2*

Ali 6-7(4) *2-4

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

Ali lost the tie break and lost 4 games in a row from 2-1* in the second, and the opponent has 3 MPs, so that looks gone.

Tanysha won the first set 6-4, but is now 1-4* down in the second. Assuming it does go to a MTB, hopefully that will work more in her favour where it's more of a lottery for the higher ranked player who has the momentum.

Garland beat Abigail 6-3 7-5. Looks a decent effort from Abigail to get the second set to 5-5 considering Jo was a massive 1/33 fave.

Edit - was typing that out while Indi was posting, so a lot of dupe info. I wasn't even aware that Ola had played her FQR, it was over so quick - made a bit of a mockery of those pretty close pre match odds - judging by that, you'd think she'd be the one 1/33.

-- Edited by Ace Ventura on Monday 5th of August 2019 06:25:32 PM

the addict · Tennis legend

Holly now up three breaks to one in the second set with Nell serving to stay in it at 1-5

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

Wow, probably too little too late, but Ali broke back from 0-40*, triple MP, to break and keep it alive, for now.

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

Aw, she saved 2 more MPs to bring it back to deuce, but Ali eventually goes down 6-7 3-6. That's 2 reasonably close battles that Rush1ti has had against young Brits, particularly the Holly S Q1 match where she was a set and break down, and if Ali had served this out (she only managed to hold 3 times which was a big issue) then she's have been guaranteed a MTB. Judging by this, I'd be quite happy to see one of our players in the main draw who face a Q draw her.

I also wouldn't mind Ola and Holly vs GB players, to guarantee a place in R2.

indiana · Tennis legend

indiana wrote:
I was rather surprised to see Holly H was a 1/6 favourite vs Nell although other than their good QR1 wins here I am not really aware of their progress of late.

Anyway I see that it's first set to Holly by 7-5.

Seems rather more pressure on the Holly serve though. She has had 55 first serves and saved 9/10 BPs as against 37 first serves by Nell who has saved 2/4 BPs.

Not so close in the second set. Holly H beats Nell 7-5 6-1

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

Looks like another MTB going the wrong way, Tanysha had a 5-2* lead, but has lost the next 5 points. GB players have lost all 4 MTBs today (before this) againt oveseas players.

Actually, I must have been including this (pessimistically) as it was just the 3.

-- Edited by Ace Ventura on Monday 5th of August 2019 06:46:40 PM

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

Tanysha lost 6-10 in the MTB.

So that's 2 through, and certainly at least 1 more than I was expecting this morning, but maybe a little bit of a shame we couldn't get one more through. Tanysha going from 5-2 to 6-10, and Holly S having the set and a break lead, and then 5-3 in the MTB, to guarantee a GB vs GB match had she won. Ali served for the first set twice, and then maybe even K Pitak - she lost at the first hurdle so was a long way off, but she won the first set in her Q1 match and lost the MTB 8-10, so close, and her opponent went on to beat Q1 Noel 6-2 6-1, after just getting past Iman herself 10-7 in the MTB so clearly mustn't have been having a great day and maybe an opportunity missed for either of those Brits.

Still, 2 through is decent. Shame we have lost Gabi in the main draw, but 11 in the main draw is good. I'd be happy with Emily App vs Ola and Alice vs Holly H, when the Qs are placed.

the addict · Tennis legend

Hmm, there are ten vacancies in the main draw. Five of them to play seeds.

Have to wait and see...........

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

the addict wrote:
Hmm, there are ten vacancies in the main draw. Five of them to play seeds.

Have to wait and see...........

That's what I didn't quite understand - there are ten spots but only 8 qualifiers....... what gives?

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

Hold my beer...

the addict · Tennis legend

These three were on the latest acceptance list, but aren't in the draw
Diana MARCINKEVICA (LAT)
Mariam BOLKVADZE (GEO)
Gabriella TAYLOR (GBR)