Week 9 - WTA250 - Lyon, France Hard

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

RE: Week 9 - WTA250 - Lyon, France Hard

PaulM · Tennis legend

Eden/Kim now on court for their first round.

4-4*

paulisi · Tennis legend

Eden lost a MTB and from what I saw Eden was the weak link.

Sam has a great chance to become no.1 5his week on the doubles rankings.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

I thought they were both pretty poor in the MTB, to be honest.
And had no real idea what the other one was doing.
Unlike Sam and Ulrikke.

the addict · Tennis legend

Lissey and Liv about to start their QF. The winners play Sam and Ulrike.

Just to summarise the first round matches:-

L16:- Ulrikke Eikeri (NOR)/ Samantha Murray Sharan (GBR) CR164 (43+121) def Estelle Cascino (FRA) / Jessika Ponchet (FRA) CR262 (128+134) 6-4 6-2
L16:- Alicia Barnett (GBR) / Olivia Nicholls (GBR) CR316 (150+166) def Irina Bara (ROU) / Ekaterine Gorgodze (GEO) CR124 (70+54) [3] 6-3 6-4
L16:- Eden Silva (GBR) / Kimberley Zimmermann (BEL) CR229 (147+82) LOST TO Hao-Ching Chan (TPE) / Julia Lohoff (GER) CR120 (58+62) [2] 7+5 1+6 2-10

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

And in the up to date live rankings on LTR, the standings are

104 Tara 863 pts
108 Sam 834 pts
128 Hev 652 pts
137 Lissey 611 pts
142 Eden 606 pts
152 Liv 569 pts
154 Harriet 565 pts
156 Beth 560 pts

Another win and Sam could move top (indeed Heather could also move back to the top with a winning week). Both Sam and Heather could also get top 100, Tara would fall just short

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Lissey & Liv straight off to a 3-0 lead

the addict · Tennis legend

*4-0, looking comfortable and confident

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Our players looked very good.

But what a nightmare of a set by the others

They've got to play better than that in the second set, surely....

(But hope they don't)

paulisi · Tennis legend

Some decent prize money on offer for the doubles teams here.

PaulM · Tennis legend

6-0 4-3*

Had 3 points for *5-1 though.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Yeah, they were cruising at 4-1 and they should definitely have won one, if not two, of those three break points for 5-1

-- Edited by Coup Droit on Wednesday 2nd of March 2022 04:05:14 PM

paulisi · Tennis legend

Olivia is the class act on the court, playing really well.

PaulM · Tennis legend

Woohoo! So pleased for them. By far the better team.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Thoroughly deserved that.

Olivia was absolutely like a rock with her overheads, and moving forwards.

I though Lissey was really good off the ground.

So pleased for them.