Week 46 - ITF (W15) Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt Hard

DF · Tennis legend

Week 46 - ITF (W15) Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt Hard

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

Excellent indeed. That Bhosale won a title here a few weeks ago.

the addict · Tennis legend

She also served for the match at 5-3. A good win though, 4 & 3 in the tiebreaks

emmsie69 · ATP level

There was 1 point in that match and that was in the 1st set.

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

I was thinking of nominating her for POTM just for her W/C 2nd Nov performance, but held off, and that loss in quals last week didn't help, but it has been a really solid month for her thus far. 8-2 record, some routine as would be expected, but some other really good results, especially for a player that's been out for such a long time. A couple more wins this week and she could be a contender.

Her potential R2 opponents followed her on to Court 4:

www.tennisexplorer.com/match-detail/

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Ace Ventura wrote:
I was thinking of nominating her for POTM just for her W/C 2nd Nov performance, but held off, and that loss in quals last week didn't help, but it has been a really solid month for her thus far. 8-2 record, some routine as would be expected, but some other really good results, especially for a player that's been out for such a long time. A couple more wins this week and she could be a contender.

Her potential R2 opponents followed her on to Court 4:

www.tennisexplorer.com/match-detail/

I will keep an eye out Ace!

Spireman · Strong Club Player

Coup Droit wrote:
Ace Ventura wrote:
Anna underway, and 3 holds to 30. *1-2.

Jasmine a huge 1/16 fave to win her match this afternoon.

Yes, those odds blew me away !
I know her opponent is 31, and has never been that highly ranked.
But all the same - for it to be quite so one-sided, pretty amazing.

I look at players utr values.....jasmine a 10, opponent an 8 so I am not surprised by one sided odds. It's quite rare that anyone overturns that sort of difference in utr...of course it can happen for all sorts of reasons, but I wouldn't bet on opponent. Also I found she is on a bit of a losing streak. She must have got some points somewhere to get her ranking though.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Good thinking, Spireman.

You may well be right that UTR is a better call.

I've been twittering on about Jasmine for a while in juniors, and am a big fan, but I still think it's lop-sided - I've stuck my 10p on her opponent, I'm afraid.

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

3 breaks of serves to start things off, 1-2*

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Really tight first set (cashed in my 10p very nicely in the middle

).

But our girl took the first set 7-5.

On serve in the second though.

Through the line, Jasmine, through the line....

the addict · Tennis legend

No problem, 5 & 3

(Well 3 breaks to 2 so not that straightforward)

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

It's this 18 year old French player for Anna tomorrow:

www.tennisexplorer.com/player/morlet/

She's here via her junior ranking of 72 - do you know much about her CD?

She was 4-5* down to her opponent today, but it says 'default', as opposed to 'retirement' on ITF Live Scores, so not sure what happened there.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Nice day in Egypt

Well done, Jasmine and Anna!

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

Well done Jasmine. She also has an 18 year old tomorrow, who took out the 6th seed today (but was the 3/10 or 1.30 pre match favourite):

www.tennisexplorer.com/player/avanesyan-8de1d/

She reached the SF last week, losing to the tournament winner, so looks a tough task.

Edit - that'll be Jasmine's first ever counter won't it?

-- Edited by Ace Ventura on Wednesday 18th of November 2020 04:42:29 PM

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Giulia Morlet was the 'next big star' for a while.

She was champion of France for 13 year-olds, and then again in the 15-16 year-old category (where she beat Elsa Jacquemot, I think)

Not many win twice and she was always in the FFT press, and being touted for great things.

I'm not really quite sure what happened but certainly the last 12-24 months have not been that great (she got knocked out in the first round in RG juniors this year).

She passed her Bac with Mention Bien, I read, which is very good for a player spending so much time on her tennis and I think she's off to the US next year, Arizona I think.

SHe's known for being a player who constructs her point rather than one like Elsa who tries to hit the fluff off the ball. Which might be more up Anna's street.