Week 15 - ITF W25 - Nottingham, GB Hard

Peter too · Tennis legend

Week 15 - ITF W25 - Nottingham, GB Hard

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Just to repeat comments re the wildcards, as others may know more:

"Given getting a wildcard is OK....

(And Sarah Tatu)

But the other quali ones are a little weird

Katie Dyson hasn't been around for years but, hey.....

Jada Okoye - who had just got thrashed in the UK Pro event by both Kate Mansfield and Jizel

Isabella Townsend....... really?"

indiana · Tennis legend

Great work re the draw Peter.

Re the ITF rankings I could still very happily do without them here but hopefully some folk get something out of them.

Peter too · Tennis legend

indiana wrote:
Great work re the draw Peter.

Re the ITF rankings I could still very happily do without them here but hopefully some folk get something out of them.

I will drop them for the main draw.

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

It looks like courts 1,2,7,8 are streamed, so from a GB perspective, matches involving Freya, Danielle, Anna, Lauren B, and Isabella, as well as 3 matches with no British interest.

Odds-wise, Emma's is pretty much 50/50, but unfortunately not streamed, and Danielle is a relatively close underdog at 11/4 (certainly in comparison to other matches) against an opponent who has played a few Brit's in the past and been the subject of a few puns biggrin . There's a very clear favourite in all the other matches with 13/2 the shortest price for the third closest match on paper.

There often is one big surprise in these qualifiers, especially with the MTB format, so it will be interesting to see if one of our players can pull off a shock, or avoid a 'giant killing'.

Priesty · Challenger level

So Freya has been given a first qualifying round tie against Given who has been given a WC.

I'd say Freya should win, but not sure it's a given wink

Would also agree that the granting of QWC to Katie Dyson seems very strange, it sounds as though she's been in a vacuum for quite some time....

-- Edited by Priesty on Sunday 10th of April 2022 12:01:51 PM

Tennisdad_101 · Lower Club Player

watching the Freya : Given match wishing someone would just hit the ball. Could be nerves but this is not a great match to watch, lots of errors and defensive players from both.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Tennisdad_101 wrote:
watching the Freya : Given match wishing someone would just hit the ball. Could be nerves but this is not a great match to watch, lots of errors and defensive players from both.

smile biggrin smile

I know - hideous, truly horrible

Tennisdad_101 · Lower Club Player

Glad that ones over!!

DF · Tennis legend

Lara Bakhaya was so close in her match

paulisi · Tennis legend

The Qualifying wildcards were given to the next GB player on the list, similar to Glasgow.
Qualifying is really weak this week and next.

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

Emma has had 6 MPs, but has just fended off two BP chances to get it back on serve, and faces another one. 7-6 5-3 *40-40

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

DF wrote:
Lara Bakhaya was so close in her match

Yeah, lost two TBs. They both had 6 breaks and 6 holds, so it did look like Lara was in decent positions throughout, especially that second set. That will probably be the closest out of all the big outsiders today.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

paulisi wrote:
The Qualifying wildcards were given to the next GB player on the list, similar to Glasgow.
Qualifying is really weak this week and next.

But there are tons of girls on the ALT list above Isabella Townsend, say, who are not in the draw. Did they all withdraw? Surely that would show up?

She's 31 on the ALT list, Jade is 40 and 38 is Katie D

Where did all the others go?

But well done to Emma on a top-1000 win

And Lara on a very fine score.

DF · Tennis legend

Anna Brogan def Kate Mansfield 6-0 6-2