Week 43- ITF W25 - Loughborough, Great Britain, Hard

Nix · Futures level

RE: Week 43- ITF W25 - Loughborough, Great Britain, Hard

Blue_Belle · Club Coach

Laura Robson is the tournament director here:
twitter.com/underarm_ace/status/1584586720120487937

wolf · Tennis legend

Maybe she can help fill the doubles draw.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Shhh wrote:
Rich2310 wrote:
The doubles draw is terrible. How is this even possible not to get more British players to take part. All the youngsters coming through who could benefit from the experience. There should never be any gaps.
I agree Rich. 5 byes! Why do more girls not want to take to the court? It is a few pounds and a bit of court time even if you lose comfortably in 1st round. It doesn't promote the case to stage more tournaments when there are so many gaps in draws

I know I've said it already too but what I really don't understand here is that Loughborough is the elite academy centre for the LTA, and is also a top, probably THE top, uni in the UK for sport.

So where are the women who play for Loughborough Uni tennis team? Where are their coaches? And the coaches/players at the Academy? (Not to mention whoever plays county tennis for there, all other players linked to the set-up, eveyone else in the country....)

Lambda · Challenger level

To be fair to the Academy girls based here I think they are all here, playing juniors elsewhere or, presumably given their post freeze withdrawals, injured. 1 of those playing juniors elsewhere is too young to enter here.

-- Edited by Lambda on Tuesday 25th of October 2022 06:16:08 AM

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Lambda wrote:
To be fair to the Academy girls based here I think they are all here, playing juniors elsewhere or, presumably given their post freeze withdrawals, injured. 1 of those playing juniors elsewhere is too young to enter here.

-- Edited by Lambda on Tuesday 25th of October 2022 06:16:08 AM

Yes, but what about the coaches?

Isn't Given Roach part of their squad? She was definitely in some elite group. And is not playing doubles, although played singles.

DF · Tennis legend

Eden has taken the first set whilst Ella is a set behind and Katy was within touching distance of dropping the first set easily but has remembered how

to play and is fighting back.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Katy's opponent jarred/twisted/whatever her ankle as Katy rather wrong-footed her - and is now sitting on the court, at the baseline, with lots of docs/physios etc.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

And the woman has retired, giving Katy the win, 4-5 ret.

paulisi · Tennis legend

The points are very much needed for Katy, even in the circumstances

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Eden won easily, 2 & 1

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Ella lost 3 & 4

But a very decent performance against the top seed

the addict · Tennis legend

paulisi wrote:
The points are very much needed for Katy, even in the circumstances

Those 6 points (5+1) are going to take her up into the top 1000 again, slightly above where she was at the entry deadline (1012)

jb288 · Satellite level

Eden plays Katy next to guarantee us a quarter finalist at least.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Alice lost 3-6 3-6