Week 32 - ITF (W60) - Landisville PA, USA - Hard

the addict · Tennis legend

Week 32 - ITF (W60) - Landisville PA, USA - Hard

PaulM · Tennis legend

Em and Junri save 10 of 11 break points to win 6-4 6-4

Strongbow · All-time great

Harriet+ lost their tie-break 4-10 cry

indiana · Tennis legend

PaulM wrote:
Em and Junri save 10 of 11 break points to win 6-4 6-4

Good stuff. Their opponents, Anderson & Ponchet, won the Lexington 60K title last week.

Michael D · All-time great

Great result for Em and Junri. Opponents have just put out the 4th seeds.

L16: Junri NAMIGATA (JPN)/ Emily WEBLEY-SMITH (GBR) 356 (172+184) def Robin ANDERSON (USA) /Jessika PONCHET (FRA) 547 (227+320) 6-4 6-4

L16: Hayley CARTER (USA)/ Jamie LOEB (USA) CR414 (99+315) def Harriet DART (GBR) / Yanina WICKMAYER (BEL) [3] 282 (132+150) 6-4 6-7(3) 10-4

QF: Junri NAMIGATA (JPN) / Emily WEBLEY-SMITH (GBR) 356 (172+184) vs Vladica BABIC (MNE) /Ena SHIBAHARA (JPN) 294 (217+77)

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

Ace Ventura wrote:
Without wanting to look past Catherine Harrison, if Harriet does go through, she'll probably have the worst draw she could in the 2R as Kristie Ahn will likely be waiting for her (assuming she beats her WC compatriot). Ahn has been in great form recently, qualifying for Wimbledon, making a W60 SF in her next event, and just last week came through qualifying in San Jose Premier, then beat Tomljanovic and Mertens (3 and 3) before going down to Vekic in QF, and as a result, she is now ranked above Harriet, but of course the seedings are based on the previous weeks rankings.

Ah, after all that, I see Ahn (perhaps not too surprisingly) has withdrawn following her recent exploits, so Harriet will be in line to play a qualifier or WC if she gets past Harrison. I know Harrison is coming into this on the back of a W25 last week (hence her SE) and Harriet hasn't played an official match since Wimbledon, but the odds are pretty close despite the ranking difference, 4/7 Harriet, 5/4 Harrison - it was a pretty weak W25 field that she won, she was second seed and top seed was 340 - equivalent of Sam being top seed in our 2 W25s.

It will probably be on fairly soon - the unranked LL Rosenqvist, who beat Naomi, is a set and 0-3* down in her match, and Harriet follows on, and there is a stream for it.

That match has now finished, so she should be on next.

-- Edited by Ace Ventura on Wednesday 7th of August 2019 03:17:51 PM

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

Proving to be a tight battle thus far, 5-5 40-30*

Jan · Hall of fame

I found the livestream, but it's disappeared now confuse

hoots · Intermediate Club Player

Harriet won first set 7-5.3-3 in second set. She was a break up but has just been broken back

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

4 games in a row to the American, Harriet only winning 4 points, 3-5*

Jan · Hall of fame

Oh dear I go off to do a few things and come back to find that Harriet has lost the second set.
Come on Harriet!

hoots · Intermediate Club Player

Now one set all. 6-3

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

Looks well on her way now, *4-0, and a couple of GPs to make it 5.

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

She did make it 5. Qualifier Duval beat her Amercian WC compatriot easily, 1 and 0, so that's who Harriet will face in R2, assuming there's no slip ups here.

Jan · Hall of fame

Harriet won