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

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

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

dodrade · Futures qualifying

I hope Lissey can find some singles form this week before going back on tour.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Well, got that wrong ..... thought Jizel might get a little closer in the score against Alice but it was over before it had begun, 6-0 6-1 to Alice

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

Nadia beat Angelina 6-2 6-0. Angelina was 2-0 up early on.

the addict · Tennis legend

Results Roundup

Womens Pool A

Elis Maloney def Amelia Bissett 2-6 7-5 10-6
Freya Christie def Katherine Barnes 6-3 6-1
Alice Gillan def Jizel M S Fernandes 6-0 6-1

Womens Pool B

Emily Appleton def Danielle Daley 6-4 6-3
Alicia Barnett def Emma Wilson 6-3 7-5
Nadia Rawson def Angelina Graovac 6-2 6-0

the addict · Tennis legend

ORDER OF PLAY
Tuesday 27th April

Women's Pool A
Court 1 - Not before 15:30
Freya Christie v Jizel Fernandes

Court 2 - Not before 11:15
Alice Gillan v Katarina Stresnakova

Court 2 - Not before 15:30
Eliz Maloney v Katherine Barnes

Women's Pool B

Court 1 - 10:00
Alicia Barnett v Nadia Rawson

Court 1 - Not before 15:15
Emily Appleton v Emma Wilson

Court 2 - Not before 12:30
Angelina Graovac v Danielle Daley

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

Ouch. An early exit for Millie. I thought she looked to be holding her knee a bit at the end of her match this morning. Another overseas replacement, this time a Slovakian. Not really fair on Eliz who has now dropped a point against a live opponent (I'm assuming Katarina won't be up to too much given she only seems to have played 4 matches in 6 years), but not too much they can do I guess. At least Eliz did come through that MTB, and hopefully she won't miss out on the top 2 by a point, but I suppose it is still 'in her hands', as she still has to play the likes of Freya and Alice.

Edit - seems Katarina, or 'Katie' was at US college, so she might be a typical middle of the group type player, like Emma W, although that's obviously being stereotypical biggrin . I'll be interested to see what odds she is against Alice once they are set.

-- Edited by Ace Ventura on Monday 26th of April 2021 07:18:15 PM

the addict · Tennis legend

Katarina Stresnakova has been at Oklahoma State University (2015-2019), which is why she doesn't feature a lot in the ITF stats. Could be a surprise !

Edit:- Found this article. Katarina had a good record playing the No 1 slot ........

https://okstate.com/news/2019/6/6/womens-tennis-stresnakova-named-big-12-spring-scholar-athlete-of-the-year.aspx

-- Edited by the addict on Monday 26th of April 2021 07:26:07 PM

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

Yep, was just having a quick scan of her Twitter and saw that. I wonder how many other overseas tennis players / associates are living in the UK that we are not aware of, probably loads.

That Angelina reminded me a bit of Amelia Stuart, both in terms of looks, and her results.

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

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She seems to now be a postgraduate at Loughborough, so a handy replacement for them.

cya · Strong Club Player

I'm surprised Ella Taylor isn't in the line up - she's also a postgrad student at Loughborough, unless she's concluded her studies already

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Ace Ventura wrote:
Ouch. An early exit for Millie. I thought she looked to be holding her knee a bit at the end of her match this morning. Another overseas replacement, this time a Slovakian. Not really fair on Eliz who has now dropped a point against a live opponent (I'm assuming Katarina won't be up to too much given she only seems to have played 4 matches in 6 years), but not too much they can do I guess. At least Eliz did come through that MTB, and hopefully she won't miss out on the top 2 by a point, but I suppose it is still 'in her hands', as she still has to play the likes of Freya and Alice.
Edit - seems Katarina, or 'Katie' was at US college, so she might be a typical middle of the group type player, like Emma W, although that's obviously being stereotypical . I'll be interested to see what odds she is against Alice once they are set.

-- Edited by Ace Ventura on Monday 26th of April 2021 07:18:15 PM

1.44 for Alice, 2.62 for Katarina - by far the closest odds out of today's - probably because Katarina, as you say, is a bit of an unknown quantity

Hope Millie is ok.........

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

Just saw that before CD. I'd waited ages until last night, ha, but most betting sites were just offering odds for 4 women's matches by the time I went to bed (not Freya vs Jizel either for some reason, but those are up now too, and no doubt influenced by the latter's score yesterday). I see the retrospective odds for Alice vs Millie were 5/6 vs 5/6 (1.83 vs 1.83), so in that respect, this seems a decent replacement on paper, and looks to be the most competitive match on paper today.

If she is decent / competitive then hopefully she will get more opportunities in future editions, especially with her living locally. It's much better / more interesting (for a neutral), at least seeing fairly close odds, and I'm sure Alice will get more from it overall than playing as a 1/50, 1/100 type favourite, even if she did end up with a point or two less.

the addict · Tennis legend

Nadia retires after losing the first set to Lissey in a tie-break. I hope this isn't going to be another week of attrition

Edit - it was Lissey who retired, not Nadia

-- Edited by the addict on Tuesday 27th of April 2021 11:15:16 AM

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

I think it was Lissey who retired TA?