Week 49 - ITF (W25) Solapur, India Hard

DF · Tennis legend

Week 49 - ITF (W25) Solapur, India Hard

emmsie69 · Top national player

Blimey she has really turned a corner since the summer

Michael D · All-time great

Yes incredible really for Naiktha. She is ending the year as she started it, which is good to see
A really encouraging performance from Katie too.

Katie will play Ankita Raina next, Naiktha either Valeria Savinykh, who is top seed but a set down against the or, Diana Marcinkevica.

QF: BAINS, Naiktha (GBR) [5] 249 def YUAN, Yue (CHN) [3] 231 CH=222 7/10/19 6-4 6-0
QF: BOULTER, Katie (GBR) 342 def EIKERI, Ulrikke (NOR) [4] 246 CH=206 16/4/18 6-4 6-3

SF: BAINS, Naiktha (GBR) [5] 249 vs MARCINKEVICA, Diana (LAT) [6] 250 (CH:196 April 14)
SF: BOULTER, Katie (GBR) 342 vs RAINA, Ankita (IND) [2] 188 (CH:164 Feb 19)

Edit: Marcinkevica has won easily in the end.

-- Edited by Michael D on Friday 6th of December 2019 09:44:31 AM

the addict · Tennis legend

Great results, although Katie's first serve is still letting her down - but she wasn't broken at all.

Em and Rutuja now on court, and are a break down at *2-5

emmsie69 · Top national player

Downside is that once these points go on both she and Diana will go past Katie Swan leaving her ranked 247. Some of these players miscalculated when they called time on their season.

Michael D · All-time great

Sadly Em and Rutuja have been beaten easily.

SF:- Berfu CENGIZ (TUR) / Despina PAPAMICHAIL (GRE) CR637 (375+262) def Rutuja BHOSALE (IND) / Emily WEBLEY-SMITH (GBR) [2] CR347 (202+145) 6-2 6-2

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Em WS and partner weren't really in that match and lost 2-6 2-6

Status Quo · Intermediate Club Player

Two useful results in singles. Useful build up for both heading in to their respective ambitions for the Australian swing to come.

Tangentially related, having recently praised the WTA for finally having managed a positive and laudable overhaul of their website, I don't think I can quite be as positive of the latest ITF reworking of their pages.
The new ITF site isn't terrible, by any means, and it maintains all the functionality, as far as I can see. There are even a few minor additions and supplemental tweaks. Things have beeen shuffled around into unfamiliar places, but that's fair enough. I'm not sure the new geography improves anything though - it's just different.
But, where the new design really falls down is on the sheer amount of space and size it wastes. A modern vogue of website design (favoured to mobile devices and touch scrolling) everything is so big and far apart with so much wasted space. This is especially noticeable in things like the entry lists and draw-sheets where even having reduced the default size to 66% of usual, I can no longer see the same amount of information per page that the old site displayed. This means a lot of extra time flicking up and down, back and forth, which just equates to wasted time. This I can only see as a backwards step, but it does seem to be what the market wants, much to my chagrin.

Michael D · All-time great

Status Quo wrote:
Two useful results in singles. Useful build up for both heading in to their respective ambitions for the Australian swing to come.

Tangentially related, having recently praised the WTA for finally having managed a positive and laudable overhaul of their website, I don't think I can quite be as positive of the latest ITF reworking of their pages.
The new ITF site isn't terrible, by any means, and it maintains all the functionality, as far as I can see. There are even a few minor additions and supplemental tweaks. Things have beeen shuffled around into unfamiliar places, but that's fair enough. I'm not sure the new geography improves anything though - it's just different.
But, where the new design really falls down is on the sheer amount of space and size it wastes. A modern vogue of website design (favoured to mobile devices and touch scrolling) everything is so big and far apart with so much wasted space. This is especially noticeable in things like the entry lists and draw-sheets where even having reduced the default size to 66% of usual, I can no longer see the same amount of information per page that the old site displayed. This means a lot of extra time flicking up and down, back and forth, which just equates to wasted time. This I can only see as a backwards step, but it does seem to be what the market wants, much to my chagrin.

Yes, I agree, the wasted space and the greater difficulty in viewing - and grasping easily - simple things like this week's events, without having to scroll up or down or sideways, is a real nuisance. There are improved functionalities once one gets into it - at least now one can see CH rankings again for each player for instance - but overall, a more compact format would have made for much easier usage.

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

Katie and Naiktha both 4/6 favourites to beat their 11/10 opponents, so hopefully we'll get that all GB final. They were both favourites to win their respective matches today as well.

Both matches start at 5am UK time, so will be over before many are up.

Babfive · Satellite level

Naiktha won 6-4 6-2 smile

Katie is 7-5 *0-3

Michael D · All-time great

An excellent win for Naiktha over the player who took out the top seed easily yesterday. Katie seems to have run out of steam today.

SF: BAINS, Naiktha (GBR) [5] 249 def MARCINKEVICA, Diana (LAT) [6] 250 (CH:196 April 14) 6-4 6-2
SF: BOULTER, Katie (GBR) 342 lost to RAINA, Ankita (IND) [2] 188 (CH:164 Feb 19) 7-5 2-6 2-6

F: BAINS, Naiktha (GBR) [5] 249 vs RAINA, Ankita (IND) [2] 188 (CH:164 Feb 19)

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

Pity for Katie, but I'd have settled for waking up to one win, although probably the other way round. That said, while both could do with winning matches, at this stage, with the AO Q cut off looming, it was probably more important for Naiktha.

Hopefully Katie can make another decent run next week.

On a different note, it's great to see Naiktha putting that horrible run well and truly behind her as she has now won 11 of her last 14 matches, and a lot of those wins have been against solid 200-299 type players.

-- Edited by Ace Ventura on Saturday 7th of December 2019 09:45:06 AM

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

Emma has just posted a 'story' from Pune, so that's good news, and must have been just a minor knock / illness or something. She's almost certainly going to have to play quals this time though, unless there's been a raft of withdrawals since the freeze deadline.

emmsie69 · Top national player

Naiktha will be around mid 220's when the semi points go on and higher if she wins so is nailed on now for qualies, Katie Swan on the other hand is definitely in squeaky bum territory and likely to miss out now.