UK Pro League 2022

telstar · Strong Club Player

RE: UK Pro League 2022

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

telstar wrote:
JonH comes home wrote:
Gabriella Knutson replaces Beth. Freya beats Eliz which surprises me a bit.

Kyle won in an MTB on his return against George Houghton
Gabby is replacing Eden tomorrow. Jo replaced Beth today.

Cool, dropping like flies! Re Knutson - never heard of her before this event!

the addict · Tennis legend

JonH comes home wrote:
telstar wrote:
JonH comes home wrote:
Gabriella Knutson replaces Beth. Freya beats Eliz which surprises me a bit.

Kyle won in an MTB on his return against George Houghton
Gabby is replacing Eden tomorrow. Jo replaced Beth today.
Cool, dropping like flies! Re Knutson - never heard of her before this event!

I'm sure you've already found this out, but I'm going to post it anyway. She's a post-grad student at Durham. Aged 25, from the Czech Republic, WR469. Won doubles at W25's in Loughborough and Nottingham this year, partnering Joanna Garland and Katie Stresnakova

Densher · Intermediate Club Player

Yeah Knutson played college tennis at Syracuse then completed a postgraduate course at Durham, had a year out doing whatever, then came back to Durham for another postgrad, this time also acting as coordinator of the tennis club there; and finally took her first steps into the professional game this year.

Seen her play a couple of times, very robust on her backhand side, serve okay but the high toss can be problematic outdoors. Not sure if this is still true but I think she was training at Sutton with Stresnakova and Lukosiute.

-- Edited by Densher on Monday 21st of November 2022 08:00:57 PM

the addict · Tennis legend

Thanks Densher, great background information.

(and welcome to the board - missed your first post whenever it was)

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Thanks - hadnt been able to do my own research so much appreciated

dodrade · Futures qualifying

Pretty poor attendance compared to last year's finals, The only two people watching the end of Alice Gillan and Lauryn John-Baptiste's match seemed to be a relative of Lauryn's and Abigail Johnson.

Bagel · Lower Club Player

Densher wrote:
Yeah Knutson played college tennis at Syracuse then completed a postgraduate course at Durham, had a year out doing whatever, then came back to Durham for another postgrad, this time also acting as coordinator of the tennis club there; and finally took her first steps into the professional game this year.

Seen her play a couple of times, very robust on her backhand side, serve okay but the high toss can be problematic outdoors. Not sure if this is still true but I think she was training at Sutton with Stresnakova and Lukosiute.

-- Edited by Densher on Monday 21st of November 2022 08:00:57 PM

Gabby, Katy and Andre along with Eliz formed the Sutton Tennis Club team which became National Team Tennis champions in September. Gaby only just recently started full time pro tennis so, as already ranked in the 400's, she has the potential to go high. I would consider her favourite for this event.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Coup Droit wrote:
Utterly bizarre, re above.....

In addition, I see that Beth has withdrawn - which is worrying - and backs up previous worries ::((

Also, Ewan Moore has beaten Billy Harris which is a big upset in terms of rankings, but Ewan was playing extremely well, on livestream and was always a reasonable outsider punt

Well, Ewan backed it up with a straight sets win over Anton today, two big wins for him and he is through to the last 8 for certain.

Dan Cox beat George H which means George H is out and Cox and Edmund proceed to the last 8, although they need to play each other for position tomorrow

Densher · Intermediate Club Player

Looking over the results in the women's groups, they all went as expected: Knutson overcame Gillan fairly easily, Lumsden came through against Lukosiute after a tricky opening set, Maloney was very convincing against Vasilescu and Malygina beat Stresnakova - all wins in straights and just the one tiebreak in the Lumsden/Lukosiute match

For tomorrow it will be interesting to see how Dan Cox gets on against Kyle

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

From what I can see, Ewan Moore, Dan Cox, Kyle Edmund and Charlie Broom into the mens last 8.

Eliz Maloney, Elena Malygina, Gabriela Knutson, Lauryn John-Baptiste, Maia Lumsden into the womens last 8

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

JonH comes home wrote:
From what I can see, Ewan Moore, Dan Cox, Kyle Edmund and Charlie Broom into the mens last 8.

Eliz Maloney, Elena Malygina, Gabriela Knutson, Lauryn John-Baptiste, Maia Lumsden into the womens last 8

Why do the pools say that Eliz has played 2 and won 2 when she lost her first match against Freya?

the addict · Tennis legend

Coup Droit wrote:
JonH comes home wrote:
From what I can see, Ewan Moore, Dan Cox, Kyle Edmund and Charlie Broom into the mens last 8.

Eliz Maloney, Elena Malygina, Gabriela Knutson, Lauryn John-Baptiste, Maia Lumsden into the womens last 8
Why do the pools say that Eliz has played 2 and won 2 when she lost her first match against Freya?

Because whoever updates the tables always gets it wrong !

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

the addict wrote:
Coup Droit wrote:
JonH comes home wrote:
From what I can see, Ewan Moore, Dan Cox, Kyle Edmund and Charlie Broom into the mens last 8.

Eliz Maloney, Elena Malygina, Gabriela Knutson, Lauryn John-Baptiste, Maia Lumsden into the womens last 8
Why do the pools say that Eliz has played 2 and won 2 when she lost her first match against Freya?

Because whoever updates the tables always gets it wrong !

They do dont they - rubbish ! eliz is still through though ! The 4 points is correct

-- Edited by JonH comes home on Wednesday 23rd of November 2022 12:52:43 AM

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Well, based on the above, maybe they were both qualified already so it didn't really matter???

No idea but Lauryn JB has just beaten Gabi Knutson very easily

And in the men's, two down to the wire, with both Kyle and Harry W sneaking through their matches by the skin of their teeth