Week 38 - ITF (W25) Roehampton, Great Britain Hard

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Week 38 - ITF (W25) Roehampton, Great Britain Hard

telstar · Strong Club Player

Can anyone please explain the logic behind court scheduling. Today, for example, there are 4 singles matches involving the six players who are also in the dubs qfinals. Three of these matches are second on the order. Thus there are bound to be rest breaks between the second and third matches on three courts. If those 4 matches were all scheduled first then there would be no delays which would presumably be to the advantage of all.

-- Edited by telstar on Wednesday 18th of September 2019 08:12:30 AM

the addict · Tennis legend

Logic ? What's that ? !!!

Nearest thing to logic I can see is that the three players in the second singles matches are on the same court for their doubles !

They've scheduled the doubles for NB 14:30, allowing four hours for the preceding singles matches. Perhaps 15:30 or even 16:30 would have been more appropriate !

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

telstar wrote:
Can anyone please explain the logic behind court scheduling. Today, for example, there are 4 singles matches involving the six players who are also in the dubs qfinals. Three of these matches are second on the order. Thus there are bound to be rest breaks between the second and third matches on three courts. If those 4 matches were all scheduled first then there would be no delays which would presumably be to the advantage of all.

-- Edited by telstar on Wednesday 18th of September 2019 08:12:30 AM

I know.

But I guess they couldn't put all three of them on first because they've only got 4 courts and two of the first slot matches also have players who will play doubles (the Bandecchi and Parizaz-Diaz matches).

So two of the first four matches are fine. But, yes, they could have inverted the others.

However, sometimes players are very happy to play singles back-to-back with doubles. THey're all warmed up, got their eye in, at lower tournaments, for sure, they often even ask to only have 15 mins between (just to change shirt, go to the bathroom, have a snack bar). They don't want to do all the warm-down and then warm-up routine, it's not worth it.

the addict · Tennis legend

Actually CD, they used 6 courts yesterday, but that would mean extra umpires etc, so probably why only four today.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

the addict wrote:
Actually CD, they used 6 courts yesterday, but that would mean extra umpires etc, so probably why only four today.

Yes, sorry, I expressed myself badly. I meant, they've only got 4 courts for today.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Grace has started off well. Looking a lot more relaxed than she did at the start of yesterday's. Dynamic, as always, and making life uncomfortable for the other.

Emma, too, seems to be flowing well. Already got a break. And nicely done too.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Emma takes the first set, 6-2 - very impressive and tidy.

Anna-Lena cut down the rather huge number of UEs, and got the break against Grace. But, as we know, Grace won't roll over and die.....

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

And then Emma has a complete meltdown, and loses the next 5 games. The first two were purely on her, just errors. Then Leonie started to play a bit better, buoyed up, presumably, from the games she'd been given.

Grace lost the first set 6-4. Got broken in the first game of teh second set but broke right back. Love her tenacity.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Grace loses 4-6 2-6

But played a decent match. And hopefully feels pleased with what she put out there this tournament (and has doubles to come)

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

Since May, Friedsam has beaten 5 top 100 players - Ferro (6-2 6-2), Petkovic (6-3 6-1), Alexandrova, Cornet and Kontaveit, all 5 in straight sets. She was 1/50 to win today, so certainly no shame there for Grace. Didn't see it, but sounds reasonably competitive.

www.tennisabstract.com/cgi-bin/wplayer-classic.cgi

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

So, after the first set, Emma lost 8 games on the trot.

And then won 6 games on the trot.

..... sort of.....

Well done to her. Great to see her back.

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

Haha, weird. I hardly saw any of it, but turned a stream on at 6-2 0-6 1-2 40-15*, watched her convert her 2nd BP, left the stream and then saw she had 40-0 on her own serve in the next game, and then went back to catch a stream and it had finished. Talk about a streaky match.

Georges or Heisen next, so you'd think she'd have a good shot at reaching another GB W25 SF. Beth's conqueror Paar (who won W25 Sunderland) has given Indy De Vroome a walkover to the QF, so that could be a potential SF, but both obviously have a lot of work to do before that.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

And they've taken 35 minutes to play the first 4 games in Jodie's match. Which unfortunately is now *1-3 for Jodie.....

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Jodie lost 6-2 6-2

The match took 1h 40 and was, in some ways, a fair bit closer than the score reflects (in terms of the tennis).

However, Sanchez thoroughly deserved to win, and won easily on most/all of the stats.

Hopefully, this is a warm-up tournament for Jodie and she will have a bit more intent and dynamism in the matches to come.....