Week 39 - ITF (W25) Porto, Portugal Hard

Strongbow · All-time great

Week 39 - ITF (W25) Porto, Portugal Hard

dodrade · Futures qualifying

ROSAMUND wrote:
the addict wrote:
ROSAMUND wrote:
Has Jodie Burrage been ill or injured in the last couple of months.?
No, she's being playing in Portugal - three tournaments since the start of September, including one W25 final
I had not looked at her recent results. It was just the one sided nature of her result here that drew my attention.

She's played a lot of tournaments since july, perhaps it finally caught up with her.

the addict · Tennis legend

No play yet in Porto today. Looks like plenty of showers around according to Accuweather

the addict · Tennis legend

Looks like there was around 40 minutes play late afternoon, but no matches completed. So Saturday has one R2 match to finish, plus 4 QF's plus 2 doubles SF's
Men's is similar, athough it looks as if they intend to play the singles SF's on Saturday rather than Sunday.

DF · Tennis legend

Some action at last in Porto.

the addict · Tennis legend

Yes, I was just going to comment !
Unfinished matches first. Katy is third on Court 4, where play has just started with Bucsa serving out the first set.

DF · Tennis legend

Katy warming up on court

DF · Tennis legend

Katy having difficulties with her serve

DF · Tennis legend

So first set gone 1-6

DF · Tennis legend

Katy lost 1-6 3-6

the addict · Tennis legend

DF wrote:
Katy having difficulties with her serve

From the stats it looks as if that was a large part of the difference. Only 39% of first serves in, nd 9 DF in 54 points

Pity, but still some valuable match practice this week after her long lay-off.

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

Katy's conqueror GGP beat Haddad Maia (again) in the SF, but is currently in a battle againt a local player in the final, who I assume is a MDWC. It's currently 1-6 5-4*

The Portuguese player had lost 4 R1s in a row since the retart (usually heavy defeats), and won her first match last week, before going down 0 and 2 to Lily in R2, so this is an absolute dream week for her, completely out of the blue.

-- Edited by Ace Ventura on Sunday 4th of October 2020 04:18:18 PM

Deucebag · Intermediate Club Player

Hi
Does anybody know if there are any potential 25ks due to be staged in the UK any time soon. I know a few have been cancelled over the past few months but with the British tour series at the NTC being such a success I thought the LTA might have squeezed a couple of 25k events in aswell.

the addict · Tennis legend

Hi Deucebag. There are no ITF events scheduled on the calendar now in the UK for the rest of this year. I agree that the LTA should have tried to squeeze some in, but I guess that the implications of allowing international players in make it much harder to organise compared with the UK only events.

Deucebag · Intermediate Club Player

Thanks for the reply T.A
Hopefully our players get to play a few in the New Year without having to travel. It might be a good idea for a few 15ks aswell for our younger talents.