Week 2 - ITF (W15) - Monastir, Tunisia - Hard

Peter too · Tennis legend

Week 2 - ITF (W15) - Monastir, Tunisia - Hard

the addict · Tennis legend

Doubles

SF: - Jodie Anna Burrage (GBR) / Tereza Mihalikova (SVK) CR639 (419+220) [1] defBojana Marinkovic (SRB) / Victoria Muntean (FRA) CR1214 (662+552) [3] 7-6(1) 6-2

F:- SF: - Jodie Anna Burrage (GBR) / Tereza Mihalikova (SVK) CR639 (419+220) [1] v Mallaurie Noel (FRA) / Oona Orpana (FIN) UNR (UNR/CH920+523)

Mallaurie Noel hardly ever plays doubles, this is only her 6th doubles tournament in two years, with a 1/6 W/L record

HarryGem · Club Coach

Michael D wrote:
Coup Droit wrote:
Michael D wrote:
Well Gabi is in a rather different space to Jodie still. A set down so far to Arcangioli, but at least she is break up in the 2nd. 3-6 3-1*
To be fair, though, Gabi's opponent is a far stronger player than Jodie's
Yes granted... but.. it's still a long, long way back for Gabi. She's due to play here again next week, as are both Jodie and Katy D, then Jodie moves on to a W25 in Thailand, and Gabi to another W15 in Spain. She still needs to get back into a winning habit, and for that reason, makes sense for her to continue a run at this level. But a far cry from two years ago when she was winning a stream of W25 events and performing well in W60s to0.

Hopefully Gabi can string a few positive results together at this lower level and regain some confidence. But as you say it is a long long way back just now. The challenge will really test her resiliance. Glad to see Jodie winning too but her level really is above this.

DF · Tennis legend

Jodi starting well 3-0

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Jodie hits the ground running, 3-0

Michael D · All-time great

Sprinting.. first set 6-0 in 23 mins... Ok one more to go...

the addict · Tennis legend

Just the two breaks in the final set - comfortable win 0 & 3

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

Nice to see Jodie stringing some wins together, and convincing scorelines as well, even if they are matches we'd expect her to win in normal circumstances. She did lose a few matches to 500+ players during her comeback at the back end of last year, so persumably the off season has done her recovery good.

Peter too · Tennis legend

SF: BURRAGE, Jodie Anna (GBR) 1 283/891 def AINITDINOVA, Gozal (KAZ) 5 501/107 6-0 6-3

F: BURRAGE, Jodie Anna (GBR) 1 283/891 v MUNTEAN, Victoria (FRA) 546/718 CH= 435/179 27/6/16

emmsie69 · Top national player

It would be nice to see her accumulate enough points for a qualifying slot at the French Open, easily doable with no injuries.

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

emmsie69 wrote:
It would be nice to see her accumulate enough points for a qualifying slot at the French Open, easily doable with no injuries.

Hopefully, but the US Open might be more realstic. She is certainly capable, and she really was going great guns until Surbiton, but she's effective had a PR like absense since then, without actully getting the benefits of the PR. Something like 179 of her 200 points have come before Surbiton, so a lot of her work until the French will just be trying to maintain what she did until Surbiton. There's a couple of W25 finals to defend, although some of her success will actually drop off after the RG qual cut off.

I'd be happy enough if she is roughly where she is now heading into the grass, maybe a bit higher like 250, then have a solid grass season before WImbledon, close in on the top 200, get a Wimbledon MDWC, and then go from there. I think the FO are still using a 96 Q draw this year, as opposed to the 128 like the other slams, so the cut off will be around 225-230.

the addict · Tennis legend

Yes, she's going to need roughly another 70 points on top of the one's she's got to defend to get even close to the FO qualifying cut, so the next few weeks will be crucial. But at least she's entered for the W25 in Thailand at the end of this month, so hopefully moving onwards and upwards

DF · Tennis legend

Jodie's doubles final has started.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Ace Ventura wrote:
emmsie69 wrote:
It would be nice to see her accumulate enough points for a qualifying slot at the French Open, easily doable with no injuries.
Hopefully, but the US Open might be more realstic. She is certainly capable, and she really was going great guns until Surbiton, but she's effective had a PR like absense since then, without actully getting the benefits of the PR. Something like 179 of her 200 points have come before Surbiton, so a lot of her work until the French will just be trying to maintain what she did until Surbiton. There's a couple of W25 finals to defend, although some of her success will actually drop off after the RG qual cut off.
I'd be happy enough if she is roughly where she is now heading into the grass, maybe a bit higher like 250, then have a solid grass season before WImbledon, close in on the top 200, get a Wimbledon MDWC, and then go from there. I think the FO are still using a 96 Q draw this year, as opposed to the 128 like the other slams, so the cut off will be around 225-230.

Hi Ace, are you sure it is 96? It was certainly 128 last season!

https://www.rolandgarros.com/en-us/results/QD?round=1

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

JonH comes home wrote:
Ace Ventura wrote:
emmsie69 wrote:
It would be nice to see her accumulate enough points for a qualifying slot at the French Open, easily doable with no injuries.
Hopefully, but the US Open might be more realstic. She is certainly capable, and she really was going great guns until Surbiton, but she's effective had a PR like absense since then, without actully getting the benefits of the PR. Something like 179 of her 200 points have come before Surbiton, so a lot of her work until the French will just be trying to maintain what she did until Surbiton. There's a couple of W25 finals to defend, although some of her success will actually drop off after the RG qual cut off.
I'd be happy enough if she is roughly where she is now heading into the grass, maybe a bit higher like 250, then have a solid grass season before WImbledon, close in on the top 200, get a Wimbledon MDWC, and then go from there. I think the FO are still using a 96 Q draw this year, as opposed to the 128 like the other slams, so the cut off will be around 225-230.
Hi Ace, are you sure it is 96? It was certainly 128 last season!

https://www.rolandgarros.com/en-us/results/QD?round=1

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_French_Open_%E2%80%93_Women%27s_Singles_Qualifying

Yep, men was 128, women 96. Hopefully they change that soon.