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Ace Ventura


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Should be about to get underway. Good luck to both.

There was about 10% of me half hoping that the LTA might have arranged some sort of streaming on their social media pages, but I guess that was always an unlikely longshot.

I too would like to see Sonay win. Talia is a fantastic story, and the fact that she's 16 makes it so exciting - there was a bit discussion on TF about the last time a Brit won a W25 or above as a 16 y/o, and there were no answers - Emma reached two SFs as a 16 y/o (possibly another as a 15 year old), and then won Pune later that year, but had just turned 17 at that stage - has there ever been a British 16 year old (female) who has won* at this level (or above)?

That said, as others mention, the points do seem far more important to Sonay at this stage of her career - if she wins today then those extra 20 points are basically the equivalent of winning back to back W15 events, so it's massive, at least relatively. Plus, I have at least seen her play before, haha. That sounds so strange, a Brit in a W25 final and never watched a prior match.

*Edit - not even won, but made a final?



-- Edited by Ace Ventura on Saturday 12th of February 2022 10:19:11 AM

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Sonay has started slow in pretty much every match this week - I think she has been a break down early on in all 4 matches, so there'll be no alarm bells ringing, but Talia has started with a break to love.


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Talia starts with a break. *1-0

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This has just been a great tournament for our women. So good to see. Are we starting to see the emergence of a new group of players in the sort of 15-18 age range?

On the negative side I'd say there are more questions regarding Jodie who really should have done better here and maybe some question as to how long Sam will keep playing. But otherwise just so many positives.

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Talia now two breaks up *4-1.
1st serve Talia 83% to 33%
2nd serve Talia 50% to 0%

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I can't ever remember being quite so frustrated that a match isn't being streamed. Talia is clearly an amazing player and I want to see what she looks like and how she plays. And I always love watching Sonay and want to see if she can fight back. It's Saturday morning and what better time to watch such an interesting match. Grrrr!!

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Talia and Sonay swap breaks leaving Talia two breaks up *5-2

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Sonay gets both breaks back to level the score 5-5
The momentum is now with Sonay.

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paulisi wrote:

Sonay is a very short priced favourite

 That doesn't surprise me with the form she has been in and I thought of posting something similar. But looking up utr values Sonay is 11. something, Talia 10, but at least two of Talias beaten opponent here have been 11 so at least in this tournament playing that sort of level. Possibly being in UK helps our players and of course that advantage not there in final today.



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SuperT wrote:

I can't ever remember being quite so frustrated that a match isn't being streamed. Talia is clearly an amazing player and I want to see what she looks like and how she plays. And I always love watching Sonay and want to see if she can fight back. It's Saturday morning and what better time to watch such an interesting match. Grrrr!!

Especially when said Saturday morning is basically looking at scores on a betting site as a very modest alternative, haha. Even the 'LTA Competitions' Twitter page providing update, and the odd highlight, as they have done in the past, would have been something.

Just when Sonay seems to have been gaining the momentum, Talia back ahead and is now serving for the set. Sonay definitely seems to have been more comfortable receiving than serving these past few matches.

 



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Peter too wrote:

Sonay gets both breaks back to level the score 5-5
The momentum is now with Sonay.

 But not for long...



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HarryGem wrote:

This has just been a great tournament for our women. So good to see. Are we starting to see the emergence of a new group of players in the sort of 15-18 age range?

On the negative side I'd say there are more questions regarding Jodie who really should have done better here and maybe some question as to how long Sam will keep playing. But otherwise just so many positives.

 The top juniors are(in ranking order)

Ranah Stoiber - expecting a wildcard into Glasgow

Matilda - already top 500

Ella McDonald - did well in previous 25k

Talia - will be ranked around 800 after this week

Mimi Xu - did well in previous 25k, very young...

Eva Shaw - talented, but not really pushed on as a senior yet

isabelle Lacey - did well in previous 25k

Next on the lists - Flora Johnson,  Sarah Tatu, Issy Purser,  Ella Blackford.



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Talia 7-5 0-0*

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Ace Ventura wrote:
SuperT wrote:

I can't ever remember being quite so frustrated that a match isn't being streamed. Talia is clearly an amazing player and I want to see what she looks like and how she plays. And I always love watching Sonay and want to see if she can fight back. It's Saturday morning and what better time to watch such an interesting match. Grrrr!!

Especially when said Saturday morning is basically looking at scores on a betting site as a very modest alternative, haha. Even the 'LTA Competitions' Twitter page providing update, and the odd highlight, as they have done in the past, would have been something.

Just when Sonay seems to have been gaining the momentum, Talia back ahead and is now serving for the set. Sonay definitely seems to have been more comfortable receiving than serving these past few matches.

 

 Lta competitions twitter has been 100% focused on Shrewsbury this week, photos, updates etc. Almost like they are trying to keep the womens tournament out of the spotlight.



-- Edited by Spireman on Saturday 12th of February 2022 11:03:36 AM

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I didn't see any of her matches the other week, and they were streamed, but it didn't look like Talia was pulling up any trees in Loughborough. She needed a MTB to get past Anna P in quals, and while it did look like it was a perhaps more a case of poor BP conversion rate vs an effective one, or maybe just a bad day, she did still lose 1-6 1-6 to a LL in R1 (who Marni beat in quals), so even just based on that, I didn't see this week coming at all, but here she, just one set away from a W25 title.


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