Week 17 - UKPro League - Week 4, Loughborough (Indoor Hard)

cya · Strong Club Player

Week 17 - UKPro League - Week 4, Loughborough (Indoor Hard)

Bagel · Lower Club Player

I believe the list will include Lissey, Eliz, Danielle and Nadia.

the addict · Tennis legend

Bagel wrote:
I believe the list will include Lissey, Eliz, Danielle and Nadia.

Also Alice, and I think Emily A is playing as well.

the addict · Tennis legend

Monday Schedule is published, and so the Player Pools are confirmed.

Womens Pool A

Court 1 - 10:00
Elis Maloney v Amelia Bissett

Court 2 - 10:00
Freya Christie v Katherine Barnes

Court 2 - Not before 12:30
Alice Gillan v Jizel M S Fernandes

Womens Pool B

Court 1 - Not before 12:30
Emily Appleton v Danielle Daley

Court 1 - Not before 15:30
Alicia Barnett v Emma Wilson

Court 2 - Not before 17:00
Angelina Graovac v Nadia Rawson

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Our first non-UK player? Or is Angelina no longer Aussie?

-- Edited by Coup Droit on Sunday 25th of April 2021 11:47:44 AM

Bagel · Lower Club Player

Angelina is a 19 year old Aussie with a WR of 1049.

the addict · Tennis legend

Angelina has played 9 tournaments in Sharm this year, losing in QR1 every time, including a 1&1 defeat by Eliz in February.
Not sure how she qualifies to play in this tournament - a google search suggests she is looking for money ?

Bagel · Lower Club Player

the addict wrote:
Monday Schedule is published, and so the Player Pools are confirmed.

Womens Pool A

Court 1 - 10:00
Elis Maloney v Amelia Bissett

Court 2 - 10:00
Freya Christie v Katherine Barnes

Court 2 - Not before 12:30
Alice Gillan v Jizel M S Fernandes

Womens Pool B

Court 1 - Not before 12:30
Emily Appleton v Danielle Daley

Court 1 - Not before 15:30
Alicia Barnett v Emma Wilson

Court 2 - Not before 17:00
Angelina Graovac v Nadia Rawson

Almost certainly the strongest women's draw so far. Emma definitely, Katherine probably and Angelina possibly are strong replacements.

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

Hmm, I guess when you're replacing the likes of Kim and Annali, the bar isn't very high, but this is Angelina's year thus far:

www.tennisexplorer.com/player/graovac-f471f/

1-11, 9 defeats in a row at Sharm, including 1-6 1-6 to Eliz in Feb. 11/2 or 6.5 to beat Danielle, who herself is normally a wide underdog in most of her matches here. A numbers maker I would have thought.

www.tennisexplorer.com/player/barnes-74592/

Katherine 1-5 in her 6 2020 matches, and managed a total of 15 games combined in those 5 defeats, which included Sofia J, Sally P, and Tanysha. She did get a MTB win over Nadia, so could maybe at least be competitive in some matches.

I do like the idea of offering places to overseas players in the UK, if it boosts the field, although don't think it does in this instance. Players like Lily, certainly, and Andre would have been good value, so perhaps we might see some others in future weeks.

Edit - just read TA's passage there highlighting what I said about Angelina, although saying that, TA's order of play is completely different to what Bet365 have.

-- Edited by Ace Ventura on Sunday 25th of April 2021 07:18:11 PM

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

TA's definitely matches the website, so no idea where Bet365 have got that information from.

www.bet365.com/

the addict · Tennis legend

Ace Ventura wrote:
TA's definitely matches the website, so no idea where Bet365 have got that information from.

www.bet365.com/

I did actually copy and paste from the website, via Word for reformatting wink

sliced backhand · Lower Club Player

Ace Ventura wrote:
Hmm, I guess when you're replacing the likes of Kim and Annali, the bar isn't very high, but this is Angelina's year thus far:

www.tennisexplorer.com/player/graovac-f471f/

1-11, 9 defeats in a row at Sharm, including 1-6 1-6 to Eliz in Feb. 11/2 or 6.5 to beat Danielle, who herself is normally a wide underdog in most of her matches here. A numbers maker I would have thought.

www.tennisexplorer.com/player/barnes-74592/

Katherine 1-5 in her 6 2020 matches, and managed a total of 15 games combined in those 5 defeats, which included Sofia J, Sally P, and Tanysha. She did get a MTB win over Nadia, so could maybe at least be competitive in some matches.

I do like the idea of offering places to overseas players in the UK, if it boosts the field, although don't think it does in this instance. Players like Lily, certainly, and Andre would have been good value, so perhaps we might see some others in future weeks.

Edit - just read TA's passage there highlighting what I said about Angelina, although saying that, TA's order of play is completely different to what Bet365 have.

-- Edited by Ace Ventura on Sunday 25th of April 2021 07:18:11 PM

One of these got a lot of good results when she was a junior and there weren't any umpires!

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Shame to hear about that, sliced backhand..... :(

The bookmakers certainly given Angelina no chance - she's 8x versus Nadia being 1.06 (and that's against Nadia, who is hardly the strongest player in the field).

All the odds indicate very one-sided matches, with only Eliz v Millie expected to be a little interesting, at 1.5 and 2.5

Think Emma v Lissey might be a little tighter than predicted, though. And possibly Jizel might push Alice a bit more than the odds indicate. Will be interesting to see Kat Barnes ....

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

I think this is the first time this series that the women have been on at 10am. Think I'll watch the Eliz vs Millie match. I hope it's a bit closer than when they met a couple of weeks ago.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Freya defeated Kat Barnes, 6-1 6-3