Week 43 - ITF (W80) Tyler, USA Hard

Peter too · Tennis legend

Week 43 - ITF (W80) Tyler, USA Hard

the addict · Tennis legend

Lucky to get into the draw from way down on the acceptance list.
Unlucky to draw the top Q seed, who has risen nearly 30 places since the entries.

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

Play has been suspended for some time, so could be a while before Naomi gets on court.

Zarazua is someone who I have been keeping an eye on since the Fed Cup draw was made, and she's had an excellent year. Ranked 267/270 when the draw was made on Feb 11th and since then she beat Sloane Stephens (although not too notable in 2020) en route to the SF of that WTA tournament Heather won in Mexico (losing to Fernandez), got to the F of a very strong clay W25 (beating Krejkicova who a few weeks later made the L16 of RG), and speaking of RG, she qualified, beat the RG Jr winner 6-1 6-2 in R1, and bagelled Svitolina in R2. Even last week, qualified for Macon W80 and beat a higher ranked player in R1, and is now at her CH stated in Peters post, so she has knocked off circa 120 spaces off her ranking since Feb, even in this crazy year.

What I didn't realise is that she was an absolute winning machine during lockdown, and played so many US Pro series events:

www.tennisexplorer.com/player/zarazua/

She was the favourite in most of those matches, but a few decent wins as well, and her W/L record in 2020 in all events is an impressive 76/19.

Naomi will probably win routinely now after all of that, haha.

-- Edited by Ace Ventura on Monday 26th of October 2020 09:49:38 PM

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

Underway now. *0-2.

Getting no better, *0-4. She's only won 2 points.

-- Edited by Ace Ventura on Monday 26th of October 2020 10:48:16 PM

the addict · Tennis legend

Well she won 3 points in the last game ! Not enough to stop the bagel though.
Must be the worst serving stats I've seen for Naomi - only 4 first serves in out of 15 attempts.

the addict · Tennis legend

Don't fancy her chances in the doubles either

L16:- Kristie Ahn (USA) / Naomi Broady (GBR) CR423 (275+148) v Misaki Doi (JPN) / Nina Stojanovic (SRB) CR168 (82+86) [2]

the addict · Tennis legend

17 points in the second set, so a little better to make it 9 & 2

the addict · Tennis legend

Naomi and Kristie play their doubles today, 3rd match on Court 1, not before 17:00 local.
Naomi looking for points to consolidate her lead (currently around 80 points and 20 places) over Emily W-S and Heather as GB's top doubles player.

Peter too · Tennis legend

Q1: BROADY, Naomi (GBR) 510 lost to ZARAZUA, Renata (MEX) 1 149 0-6 2-6

the addict · Tennis legend

Change of order, Naomi and Kristie are now second match on court 2. But play is interrupted after just over 90 minutes pay, with the predeing match at 6-4 1-3, so could still be a while once they resume.

the addict · Tennis legend

Looks like there was no further play yesterday. No less than 27 singles matches on the schedule for today, QR1, QR2 and MD first round. No doubles though, not surprisingly.

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

They played some Q matches indoors, but play is supposedly over for the day, so it's effectively Thursday and there's still 5 qualifiers to determine and no main draw matches as of yet. Crazy.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

I see Naomi's doubles opponents have been replaced by alts in the form of Zarazua and partner...hey ho.

the addict · Tennis legend

JonH comes home wrote:
I see Naomi's doubles opponents have been replaced by alts in the form of Zarazua and partner...hey ho.

Looks like Stojanovic has pulled out - not showing in the singles draw, whereas Doi played today.

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

Yeah, 3 singles players withdrew. I guess Thursday start, potentially having to play 2 matches in a day (if you want to do well), and that most will be playing Charleston W100 next week will have put a few off.

Naomi supposed to be on a streamed court, every other match is listed on the ITF streaming site, but not hers, although it will be very very late by the time she is on court. One of her opponents is just in the early stages of her singles match (her second full match of the day).

Oh, and Zarazua has already played 2 full singles matches today as well, although she did only drop 8 games combined.

-- Edited by Ace Ventura on Thursday 29th of October 2020 11:46:46 PM