Singles draw is out and no Katie Swan. Emma Radacanu is there, Armani, Jodie, Katy D, Gabi, Alicia and Emilie Lindh

Ace Ventura wrote:

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I'm on my phone which tends to not be as quick when I'm on the laptop, so I still can't see it. Is Sam in?

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 Yes. Against Gervais first.

Thanks both. It's up now for me, not too bad overall. Emma and Emilie against Qs, so I hope that's against Ole and either Eliz or Suzy if they come through.

Limited interest in dubs, but good to see Katie S back in some capacity.

-- Edited by Ace Ventura on Monday 23rd of September 2019 05:36:28 PM

Q2: PITAK, Aleksandra (GBR) 791 def APPLETON, Emily (GBR) 622 4-6 6-2 [10-4]
Q2: CHRISTIE, Freya (GBR) 4 637 lost to GARLAND, Joanna (TPE)11 745 2-6 0-3 Ret.
Q2: LARKIN, Suzy (GBR) WC UNR def CHRISTENSEN, Elle (USA) 15 852 6-4 7-6(3)

Full doubles draw (Brits in all but one match)

1st Round
L16: Freya CHRISTIE (GBR) / Maria SANCHEZ (USA) CR286 (208+78) [1] v Samantha MURRAY (GBR) / Anna SMITH (GBR) UNR (254+UNR/CH46)
L16: Jana FETT (CRO) / Katie SWAN (GBR) CR873 (452+421) v Susan BANDECCHI (SUI) / Leonie KUNG (SUI) CR1033 (693+340)

L16: Quirine LEMOINE (NED) / Gabriella TAYLOR (GBR) CR857 (329+528) [4] v Myrtille GEORGES (FRA) / Julie GERVAIS (FRA) CR1326 (499+827)
L16: Aleksandra PITAK (GBR) / Katarzyna PITAK (GBR) CR1374 (687+687) v Esther ADESHINA (GBR) / Sonay KARTAL (GBR) UNR (UNR+UNR)

L16: Sarah-Rebecca SEKULIC (GER) / Julia WACHACZYK (GER) CR901 (590+311) v Amelia BISSETT (GBR) / Morgan CROSS (GBR) UNR (UNR+UNR)
L16: Elizabeth Kapari BAGERBASEH (GHA) / Victoria-Corina MIREA (ROU) UNR (UNR+UNR) v Emily APPLETON (GBR) [3] / Alicia BARNETT (GBR) CR 730 (384+346)[3]

L16: Natasha FOUROUCLAS (RSA) / Ingrid VOJCINAKOVA (SVK) CR1969 (1071+898) v Fernanda CONTRERAS GOMEZ (MEX) / Katharine FAHEY (USA) CR2115 (727+1388)
L16: Eliz MALONEY (GBR) / Ilay YORUK (TUR) UNR (UNR+946) v Julia TERZIYSKA (BUL) / Prarthana G. THOMBARE (IND) CR596 (251+345) [2]

Coup Droit wrote:

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Excellent win for Suzy ! That big British tour event obviously got her eye in well.

Very pleased for her - and she should get a special bonus for having put out TWO peskies.

As Ace Ventura says, that's a real blow for Emily Appleton.

Maybe Ola played well - but she played SO poorly in the streamed match last week where she lost to Marni 1 & 2.

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Ola's a bit strange of a strange one (her career / progress, not necessarily her, ha). She's still very young at 18, as I think you specifically pointed out when she reached a W15 final very recently, but I thought she was going to be an actual decent prospect during the grass last year when just a couple of months past her 17th birthday, she took a set off Maria Sanchez in a rain affected match, and had one or two other good results / performances, but you just need take a look at her results timeline and you see results like last week really are not uncommon. She lost 2 and 0 to Lily in Chiswick the other month, 0 and 2 to someone in Hungarian qualifying in July, and another 0 and 2 at the start of the year, and then another 0 and 2 in Sharm last November (quite a common score that), and then you do kind of think realistically how far can she go:

http://www.tennisabstract.com/cgi-bin/wplayer-classic.cgi?p=AleksandraPitak

Emily and her W25s has obviously been discussed to death on here, but because she had more of a junior pedigree, I still do hold some hope that she can maybe get to where say Katy currently is at some point, or if not, the ranking region where Eden is, basically I hold her in higher light than Ola, but who knows, perhaps in 18 months when Ola is Emily's age, she will have surpassed Emily and be at that level herself. I can remember watching them play about a year ago indoors in a T&T W15 on a FB stream and Emily won that in straights, so still young herself, she'll be particularly gutted at this result I'd imagine.

 

Eliz has taken the first set 6-4, so has a guaranteed MTB at worst. Amelia R beat this Spanish opponent last week to set up the all GB FQR with Emily Arb, but then the Spaniard did seemingly beat K Pitak (who give Jo Garland a good match last week) easily this morning, so it's quite hard to predict things, but it would be great if she could joing Ola and Suzy. 3 breaks to 2.