Week 33 - ITF (W15) Oeiras, Portugal - Clay

the addict · Tennis legend

Week 33 - ITF (W15) Oeiras, Portugal - Clay

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

Sashi lost 2-6 3-6 to 19 y/o Ukrainian Elizabet Hamaliy WR1214 (CH 1144 Oct 19) who now plays the Q3 in the next round.

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

Amanda has drawn a local 18 year old in R1 - Fonte, ranked 909. Not too much relevancy to gauge on, but I remember her beating Vic Allen quite comfortably about a year ago.

Clara Tauson vs Clara Burel is a bit of a standout W15 R1 match, both have won recent W25+ titles, and have either won or reached a jr slam final within the last 2 years. Thinking about it, I remember them meeting at Glasgow W25 earlier in the year.

the addict · Tennis legend

Gives me great pleasure to post this formally after so many months !

R1:- Amanda Carreras (GBR) WR332 [7] v Maria Ines Fonte (POR) WR909 [WC]
Winner to face a qualifier of another wildcard in the second round

Many in the same quarter as the top seed Christina Bucsa (SPA) WR177

Pity they didn't upgrade the tournament, the entry is as strong as many W25's

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

I was just coming back to say that this Fonte was a WC, I missed that the first time, but hopefully Amanda can get to the QF, and while just an exho, I'm sure she beat the top seed Bucsa in that recent clay event where she reached the final against Sorribes Tormo, so maybe she can have a bigger run than her seeding here, but one match at a time.

Yep, it's easily W25 level. A good mix of top 300 players, and some promising youngsters - 4 of them have drawn each other in round 1 (Q Zheng vs Vecic the other).

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Mandy opens on centre tomorrow at 11am local time, is that 11 am BST also?

the addict · Tennis legend

Yes, Portugal is the same as us - including the clock changes. Apart from the Azores of course.

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

There's an Amanda stream if anyone is interested, although there's currently no scoreboard.

www.facebook.com/raquetc/videos/

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Theres a live scoreboard on the ITF site as per link below

live.itftennis.com/en/live-scores/

Mandy is 5-0 up first set

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

Doesn't look like well get a scoreboard either (on the actual stream), but easy enough to hear the umpire, and looks like it'll hopefully be a comfortable match for her, 5-0*.

Although the WC is on the board after the time it took me to write that, with a hold to love.

-- Edited by Ace Ventura on Wednesday 19th of August 2020 10:37:27 AM

the addict · Tennis legend

Nice to have a stream, but I haven't time to watch it today. Pretty dominant from Mandy, just that one game escaping her so far.

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

Yeah, I've got it on (very much) in the background while working, so not the easiest to follow without having to look at an external sources which Jon provided.

I was hoping to see Tauson vs Burel later on, but they aren't on centre court, but at least it is another option to have on later in the week when there could be some more decent match ups, once most of the inconsiderate local centre court hoggers have been eliminated, haha. Although saying that, we wouldn't have the option to watch Amanda without Fonte's presence.

the addict · Tennis legend

Missed this yesterday, as I was expecting any entries

Doubles
R1:- Elizabet Hamaliy (UKR) / Sara Lanca (POR) def Sashi Kempster (GBR) / Valentina Losciale (ITA) 6-1 5-7 10-4

the addict · Tennis legend

R1:- Amanda Carreras (GBR) WR332 [7] def Maria Ines Fonte (POR) WR909 [WC] 6-1 6-2 (one hour and 21 minutes)

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

Her potential opponents are one of the two other matches on the streamed court today. French Q vs another Portugues WC. French lady is 1/5 fave (vs 10/3), but if the WC can cause the upset (although not major) then Amanda would probably be streamed again in her next match.