Week 40 - ITF W60 - Trnava, Slovakia Hard

paulisi · Tennis legend

Week 40 - ITF W60 - Trnava, Slovakia Hard

Nix · Futures level

Impressive results from all three. None of them easy matches.

PaulM · Tennis legend

Very well done. Particularly impressed by Sonay over a very good youngster and how Maia held strong mentally after being reeled back in so many times.

jb288 · Satellite level

Sonya live ranked at 200 :)

DF · Tennis legend

the addict wrote:
QF:- Mariam Bolkvadze (GEO) / Maia Lumsden (GBR) CR547 (275+272) [4] v Tayisiya Morderger (GER) / Yan aMorderger (GER) CR558 (279+279)

Mariam and Maia win 6-4 4-6 6-3

the addict · Tennis legend

QF:- Sonay Kartal (GBR) / Katie Swan (GBR) CR1274 (673+601) def Pei-Chi Lee (TPE) / Fang-Hsien Wu (TPE) CR562 (329+233) 6-3 7-6(2)

QF:- Mariam Bolkvadze (GEO) / Maia Lumsden (GBR) CR547 (275+272) [4] def Tayisiya Morderger (GER) / Yan aMorderger (GER) CR558 (279+279) 6-4 6-3

SF:- Sonay Kartal (GBR) / Katie Swan (GBR) CR1274 (673+601) v Diana Marcinkevica (LAT) / Conny Perrin (SUI) (218+206) [3]

SF:- Mariam Bolkvadze (GEO) / Maia Lumsden (GBR) CR547 (275+272) [4] v Ekaterina Kazionova (***) / Anna Kubareva (***) CR828 (446+382)

-- Edited by the addict on Thursday 6th of October 2022 04:55:06 PM

PaulM · Tennis legend

Well that's a rather successful day!!

indiana · Tennis legend

Katie now has 10 successive wins in completed singles matches ( W60 title, WTA 250 SF retirinng at 0-3 in her SF, W60 QF so far ).

Playing doubles as well suggests confidence in her current fitness.

Peter too · Tennis legend

R2: LUMSDEN, Maia (GBR) SR 684 def GRAMMATIKOPO, Valentini (GRE) (7) 197 4-6 6-4 6-3
R2: SWAN, Katie (GBR) (3) 129 def RADIVOJEVIC, Lola (SRB) Q 415 6-2 6-2
R2: KARTAL, Sonay (GBR) (8) 209 MARCINKO, Petra (CRO) JE 294 6-3 2-6 6-4

QF: SWAN, Katie (GBR) (3) 129 =CH v LUMSDEN, Maia (GBR) SR 684 (CH=250 2019)
QF: KARTAL, Sonay (GBR) (8) 209 (CH=209 2022) v DIATCHENKO, Vitalia ( ) (2) 116 (CH=71 2014)

paulisi · Tennis legend

Katie is up a set, but Sonay down a set

paulisi · Tennis legend

Sonay has levelled it up, with the winner playing Katie who has just beaten Maia in straight sets

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Watching Sonay and wondering why there is quite so much noise coming from the other court...... and then realise it's a Czech qualifer, age 15, playing the number one seed from CHina

C'mon, youngster - everyone likes a young upstart underdog

foobarbaz · Strong Club Player

Another good competitive match between the Brits. Maia played some good attacking tennis, especially in the 1st set, and has a variety of shots at her disposal. She might have been hampered a bit on serve, based on the shoulder strapping she had on. Katie was relentless in defence, always looking to find good depth on the shot, and that together with having the stronger serve kept the scoreboard ticking over in her favour.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

I guess on the plus side you could say 'Sonay did brilliantly to get SO close to beating a player ranked about 110 in the world'

On the other hand, she was really in that third set, all the way, until the last game when she did one poor smash followed by a hopeless volley (she's my little fave but not for her volleying !

), and then a nasty serve point, and put herself under pressure that she shouldn't have, which left her with too much to do

But, I guess, overall, let's go for the first version - great effort

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Coup Droit wrote:
I guess on the plus side you could say 'Sonay did brilliantly to get SO close to beating a player ranked about 110 in the world'

On the other hand, she was really in that third set, all the way, until the last game when she did one poor smash followed by a hopeless volley (she's my little fave but not for her volleying ! ), and then a nasty serve point, and put herself under pressure that she shouldn't have, which left her with too much to do

But, I guess, overall, let's go for the first version - great effort

And as per my comment on Hannah K elsewhere, Sonay has won two PoM titles this season, the only player to do so, and must also be a contender for player of the season in December !