Week 39 - ITF (W25) - Roehampton, Great Britain - Hard

the addict · Tennis legend

Week 39 - ITF (W25) - Roehampton, Great Britain - Hard

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

Emma into a decider, 7-5 2-6, and likely to broken in the opening game *0-40.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Lord, that's not kind..... :::(((

(Add: re Katy's retirement)

And Emma Rad has lost the second set (and given she ended up retiring last week, you can only just cross your fingers....)

-- Edited by Coup Droit on Wednesday 25th of September 2019 12:37:21 PM

the addict · Tennis legend

Sam wins the battle of the Brits and friends (they share a coach) 4 & 2

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

Emma 5-4* in the decider.

the addict · Tennis legend

That's a huge win for Emma

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Thank goodness for that.

Really happy for her.

With Katy's retirement, and Jodie's loss (although not altogether unexpected), things were looking a bit bleak.

Do hope her abdomen/rib problems from last week are OK.

Bravo, Emma.

Michael D · All-time great

Here's the singles round up. Great win for Emma, showing she's well ahead of Gabi in terms of current performance levels.

R16: BARNETT, Alicia (GBR) 599 lost to MURRAY, Samantha (GBR) [7] 291 4-6 2-6
R16: RADUCANU, Emma (GBR) [WC] 550 vs GEORGES, Myrtille (FRA) [3] 250 (CH=168 2016) 7-5 2-6 7-5
R16: DUNNE, Katy (GBR) 333 lost to BANDECCHI, Susan (SUI) [8] 297 (CH:294) 4-6 5-4 ret
R16: BURRAGE, Jodie Anna (GBR) [5] 274 lost to DE VROOME, Indy (NED) [Q] 454 (CH:177) 4-6 6-4 1-6

QF: MURRAY, Samantha (GBR) [7] 291 vs Anna-Lena FRIEDSAM (GER) [1] 208 (CH:45 2016)

QF: RADUCANU, Emma (GBR) [WC] 550 vs BANDECCHI, Susan (SUI) [8] 297 (CH:294)

-- Edited by Michael D on Wednesday 25th of September 2019 01:50:15 PM

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Esther and Sonay beat the Pitak sisters very easily.

I think that's the first doubles ATP point for each of them.

Well done, girls.

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

Chuffed for Emma, she's certainly been economical with her events these past 12 months - 7 ITF events played (outside of Wimbledon qualifying) and she has reached 2 W25 SFs, 2 W25 QFs (one that may be improved further), won a W15 and reached a W15 final, the only minor 'blip' (or rather the lowest return) being a W25 2nd round loss in Glasgow against the much more experienced Savinykh, where Emma even managed to take the first set 6-1. She does have 28 points coming off soon, so unless she goes further here, will fall down the rankings a bit if she doesn't play much more in 2019 (not that that's too important at this stage), but extremely encouraging that she's competing with, and in most cases, beating, a lot of decent 130-300 type players.

It's nice to have a bit of youth as well as the experience in the quarter final smile

-- Edited by Ace Ventura on Wednesday 25th of September 2019 02:07:34 PM

indiana · Tennis legend

the addict wrote:
Just when she was getting on top in the match at 4-6 *5-1, Katy loses three games in a row, there's a MTO and she retires.

It was just in early May that Katy went and won a Spanish 60K. Slightly out of the blue but it took her up to WR 236, not too far off her CH 212.

Rather than taking time to savour it she jumped on a plane to fly all the wsy to Japan for another 60K ( and one or two folk did question this as she did it ). I guess she felt in form and wanted ti capitalise rather than pull out. But in Japan she retired from her R1 singles and also her doubles QF.

Now in September, with more downs than ups since May, she is WR 333 and here she has again had to retire.

Now not saying it all goes back to that choice to fly off to Japan. But things took a turn there. I do hope they can turn again and that she can at least more often play close to her best.

indiana · Tennis legend

Yes, good stuff by Emma

I see that she is 4th under 17 in the live rankings ( 16th U18 ). Just the nonentities of Gauff, Lopatetska and Tauson ahead of her

Fair bit ahead of her rankingswise but each follows their own path. And Emma and many others will for now have restricted schedules and other focuses.

Going well ...

Jaggy1876 · Grand Slam Champion

Sam really does have a great chance at securing the Aus Open qualies target.

I assume she will play the Indian swing which I think is the last cut off for points, she likes playing there and her new husband is from there. Tournaments tend to be weaker there. Think she only needs about 50 points now and would be great to show the youngsters how its done.

Michael D · All-time great

indiana wrote:
the addict wrote:
Just when she was getting on top in the match at 4-6 *5-1, Katy loses three games in a row, there's a MTO and she retires.
It was just in early May that Katy went and won a Spanish 60K. Slightly out of the blue but it took her up to WR 236, not too far off her CH 212.
Rather than taking time to savour it she jumped on a plane to fly all the wsy to Japan for another 60K ( and one or two folk did question this as she did it ). I guess she felt in form and wanted ti capitalise rather than pull out. But in Japan she retired from her R1 singles and also her doubles QF.
Now in September, with more downs than ups since May, she is WR 333 and here she has again had to retire.
Now not saying it all goes back to that choice to fly off to Japan. But things took a turn there. I do hope they can turn again and that she can at least more often play close to her best.

Yes I remember that trip. I couldn't believe it at the time, thought she would naturally delay her trip after her Sunday finals win. She was also entered for another W60 the following week too in Japan, which is the one I thought she would adjust her sights for, and at least give herself time to overcome the most immediate jetlag. Of course that following week's tournament she never made as she was injured by then. That was just crazy.

Jaggy1876 · Grand Slam Champion

Yes Katy with the ill advised Japan trip and Katie B the meaningless Fed Cup match. Katie would likely still be top 100 and Katy D was heading into the 100-200 bracket as well.