Week 6 - ITF (W15) Monastir, Tunisia Hard

DF · Tennis legend

Week 6 - ITF (W15) Monastir, Tunisia Hard

DF · Tennis legend

Gabi takes the first set 6-1

DF · Tennis legend

and the second 6-2

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Destinee and Eliz got a win in the doubles

Peter too · Tennis legend

R1: TAYLOR, Gabriella (GBR) 1 440/215 def RUSOVA, Alicia (SVK) LL 1281/707 6-1 6-2
R1: MARTINS, Destinee (GBR) Q UNR/1019 lost to KENNEL, Karin (SUI) 5 531/140 6-4 3-6 4-6
R1: MALONEY, Eliz (GBR) Q 1147/464 def VEDDER, Eva (NED) 7 566/19 6-4 6-3

R2: TAYLOR, Gabriella (GBR) 1 440/215 v SCHUNK, Nastasja Mariana (GER) UNR/UNR [16yo]
R2: MALONEY, Eliz (GBR) Q 1147/464 v VUKOVIC, Draginja (SRB) 626 CH=557 5/8/19

the addict · Tennis legend

Doubles

L16:- Eliz Maloney (GBR) / Destinee Martins (GBR) CR2322 (1093+1229) def Nicole Gadient (SUI) / Likhitha Kalava (IND) CR2138 (719+1419) 6-4 6-3

QF:- Gabriella Taylor (GBR) / Eva Vedder (NED) CR1021 (551+470) [2] v MariaTimofeeva RUS) / Mariia Tkacheva (RUS) CR1692 (998+694) (16 and 18 years old)
QF:- Eliz Maloney (GBR) / Destinee Martins (GBR) CR2322 (1093+1229) v Mylene Halemai (FRA) / Manon Leonard (FRA) CR1178 (558+620)

DF · Tennis legend

Eliz manages to hold her serve for the first time 3-2

emmsie69 · Top national player

Which she then follows with a break.

emmsie69 · Top national player

and a further break for the 1st set.

-- Edited by emmsie69 on Thursday 13th of February 2020 09:12:01 AM

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

And races away with the first set, 6-2

DF · Tennis legend

She wins 6-2 6-2

Michael D · All-time great

Impressive again from Eliz, and her two points so far will move her inside the top 1100 when they go on in 10 days time. The fact she's beaten two players now ranked 566 and 626 suggests she has plenty of upward potential at this point in time which is good to see. And Eliz will get a further test of her upward credentials since she will take on the 2nd seed next in the QF, Ilona Ghioroaie (ROU) WR 482.

In the meantime Gabi is on court now too and *5-1 up first set.

-- Edited by Michael D on Thursday 13th of February 2020 12:04:44 PM

DF · Tennis legend

Gabi takes the set 6-1

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

I guess her current ranking of mid 400s means she's not necessarily too out of place in these 15k events at the moment (unfortunately), and it's important she keeps on winning to build points and confidence to hopefully move on pretty soon, but at the same time, (to me) it does pretty strange seeing her in them, and quite hard to get encouraged / excited when she does win a set comfortably if that makes sense? That said, it looks like she's currently in her most competitive set of the week, albeit only her 4th.

SuperT · Futures level

I was looking at the rankings earlier and Gabi's biggest scorer (30 points) drops out in March so she really does need to pick up some wins in the next month or her ranking will really plummet. With that in mind I guess it's safer to play 15Ks and hope to go deep rather than risk playing a higher level tournament and potentially drawing a top seed in round 1.