Quite a thumping for Marni. Disappointing 

Does anyone give Jasmine much hope against Lissey? My knowledge, or understanding, of overseas opponents passed say the 300, certainly 400, range will dip significantly, as I generally won't have seen them play, won't have come across them on other social media platforms (Twitter, TF etc.), and will mainly just have heard of the name when facing a GB player, with the very odd exception, but while she seemed soundly beating last week, Jasmine does have some scalps over those in and around Lissey's current ranking range, even if the system can be a bit flawed at the moment. Obviously no chance of a stream unfortunately, but I will be interested to see how it goes.

I was going to say does anyone know what's happening with Anna Brogan as she would often be in these events with Jasmine last year. It seems ages since she last played, like months, but I see she did play a couple of events here in early Feb. She could have been another decent option for the UK Pro Series of recent weeks.

I've been rooting for Jasmine for a couple of years because I always rather like and follow the ones who are not the top hope but have come from nowhere (as far as rankings and titles etc are concerned). Rather like Arthur Féry. They're hardly on the radar and you get one or two really good results, which doesn't change the ranking that much, because it's just one or two results. But it's two out of two, so to speak. So you get excited that there's potential for a steep upside.
And she's tall - can't help it - height is good
Agree with the addict, the most likely result is something along the lines of 6-3 6-3 (for Lissey)
But I wouldn't be that suprised if Jasmine caused an upset.

However, just gone to check and Bet365 have it as evens (1.83 v 1.83), which seems rather tight, I'd have said.

ADD: looks like my 20p swayed the market  It's now Lissey 1.57 v 2.25 Jasmine

-- Edited by Coup Droit on Tuesday 23rd of March 2021 05:22:57 PM

Power will certainly come into it, but I would say that consistency, experience and game planning are major factors.

And to see how those factors make the difference, here's an example of the complete opposite when they DON'T work.

I'm looking at the recent UKPro semi-final, when Eliz Maloney WR1158 came back from a set and 5-1 down to beat Beth Grey WR643 via a match tie-break. Big ranking difference, but Eliz was on top of her game and was getting everything back, and Beth started missing the lines (although the rallies were pretty long). So the consistency went, and the game plan didn't work. That was the great leveller.

I cansee Jasmine doing something similar to Lissey, frustrating the game plan. Although Lissey is a good doubles player, and is likely to change it up and get to the net (mind you, Beth is good at doubles too but didn't get forward enough).

Oh well, it could be interesting !

Lissey won the first set 6-4

And was serving for the match at *5-4

But got broken and now 5-5

(cashed out the 20p a game ago, leave some there, you never know ....)

Jasmine storming back in the third. She was 0-5* in the decider, but it's now 4-5*, still another break needed though.

Jasmine was 2-5* down in the second and saved a match point at *4-5. And as Ace said was 0-5* down in the third and had several points for *5-5.

Great fight but Lissey will be furious for an unnecessary extra hour on court!