Week 41 – ITF(W25) Lagos, Portugal - Hard

the addict · Tennis legend

Week 41 – ITF(W25) Lagos, Portugal - Hard

PaulM · Tennis legend

Sashi loses 6-1 6-1.

Emily leads 6-3 *0-0

PaulM · Tennis legend

Em into a MTB. Less than 40% first serves in. Missed a couple of break points at the start of the second.

6-3 3-6 0-0*

-- Edited by PaulM on Monday 11th of October 2021 12:29:44 PM

PaulM · Tennis legend

Emily wins 10-6 in the breaker.

Peter too · Tennis legend

Q1: KEMPSTER, Sashi (GBR) UNR lost to MURAMATSU, Chihiro (JPN) 1 292 1-6 1-6
Q1: WEBLEY-SMITH, Emily (GBR) 10 549 v JORGE, Matilde (POR) 806 6-3 3-6 [10-6]

Q2: WEBLEY-SMITH, Emily (GBR) 10 549 (CH=240 2011) v FALKOWSKA, Weronika (POL) 3 401 (CH=392 2021)

PaulM · Tennis legend

Emily is pairing up with Naiktha. They are second seeds but suspect their Romanian opponents will be favourites.

Naiktha plays a Swiss wildcard.

the addict · Tennis legend

Draws not yet available on the ITF site

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

I guess there's levels to this game, a huge ranking difference, and Sashi was an average 13/2 or 7.50 to win, but that (emphatically) ends a 14 match losing streak for the Japanese player, who now plays Joanna Garland in Q2. She's probably pleased that she was the Q1 seed to try and get something going again.

the addict · Tennis legend

L16:- Miriam Bianca Bulgaru (ROU) / Irina Fetecau (ROU) CR940 (382+558) v Naiktha Bains (GBR) / Emily Webley-Smith (GBR) CR456 (240+216) [2]

L16:- Carolina Azadinho (POR) / Sashi Kempster (GBR) CR3149 (1588+1561) v Tina Cvetkovic (SLO) / Pia Lovric (SLO) CR1239 (732+507)

PaulM · Tennis legend

Em loses 6-3 6-2. More of a battle than I'd maybe expected, second set was actually closer than the first (Emily was broken from game point up twice, every game bar one went at least to 30).

Doubles later. Naiktha's singles tomorrow.

Peter too · Tennis legend

R1: BAINS, Naiktha GBR) 264 (CH=199 2020) v SEQUEIRA, Milla (SUI) WC UNR=CH {18yo JCH=UNR}

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

For the quasi-Brits, Joanna Garland came back from 1-6 down to win the MTB, taking out the top q seed

PaulM · Tennis legend

Em/Naiktha took the first set 6-3. Broken at the start of the second after a long toilet break.

0-1*

PaulM · Tennis legend

A bad break from 40-15 up at *1-1, double fault on deuce, was well recovered and the girls went up *4-2. But the Romanians have just held for the first time this set to 40 to level up.

*4-4

-- Edited by PaulM on Tuesday 12th of October 2021 02:15:42 PM

PaulM · Tennis legend

Hold from 15-30, and then it's 4 match points at 5-4*...

One gone. Two gone. Phew!

Em and Naiktha take a good 6-3 6-4 win. That was a difficult match, and importantly ends a long stretch for Em going back to Nottingham.