Week 6 - ITF W25 - Bath, Great Britain Hard

RJH1962 · Intermediate Club Player

Week 6 - ITF W25 - Bath, Great Britain Hard

indiana · Tennis legend

Coup Droit wrote:
Sonay won convincingly, 6-2 6-0, against Talia

That incidentally was the final this week in Birmingham last year when Sonay won in 3 sets.

Talia thus will drop 30 of her existing 70 ranking points. Sonay is defending 50 points this week and a further 50 next week ( of her 330 points ) as she followed on by also winning the title in Glasgow.

PaulM · Tennis legend

Jasmine pegged back from *4-2 to *4-4 but steadies the ship for 5-4 and now 30-0*.

Nope. Good serving from Helmi saves her.

*5-5

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

There's no getting away from it - Jasmine gave that match away - it's a real shame - I think Nigel Sears (he's still her coach?) has to focus less on stroke construction and more on matchplay - coz that was really poor

PaulM · Tennis legend

Jasmine loses 7-5 in the third. Had points for 6-5*.

Gutsy effort but couldn't get it over the line. Some bad decisions at time (echoing CDs comments. She should have won it and just let it slip).

Em and Maia finally broke in their second set to serve for the match, but were broken to 15. They then get dragged back to set point down from *40-0 but get into the tiebreak against LJB and Stresnakova. 6-4 6-6*

Eden and partner down 3-6 *2-2

Emma and Maddie just underway.

-- Edited by PaulM on Tuesday 7th of February 2023 03:38:46 PM

PaulM · Tennis legend

That's Em played 2 tiebreaks and 4 MTBs this year, and lost them all

LJB and Stresnakova through on their third match point 4-6 7-6(4) 11-9

And Eden out in a MTB too

-- Edited by PaulM on Tuesday 7th of February 2023 04:24:10 PM

RJH1962 · Intermediate Club Player

Coup Droit wrote:
There's no getting away from it - Jasmine gave that match away - it's a real shame - I think Nigel Sears (he's still her coach?) has to focus less on stroke construction and more on matchplay - coz that was really poor

Absolutely, she looked the better player. Not really sure how that one got away

the addict · Tennis legend

Four doubles matches played today - one from each quarter, and only one Brit made it through

L16:- Deborah Chiesa (ITA) / Lisa Pigato (ITA) CR1021 (789+232) DEF Martha Matoula (GRE) / Arina Gabriela Vasilescu (ROU) CR997 (532+465) 6-2 6-3

L16:- Viktoria Morvayova (SVK) / Anna Siskova (CZE) CR689 (531+158) DEF Marie Benoit (BEL) / Eden Silva (GBR) CR649 (337+312) [3] 6-3 5-7 10-2

L16:- Andre Lukosiute (LTU) / Naho Sato (JPN) CR739 (399+340) DEFMadeleine Brooks (GBR) / Emma Wilson (GBR) CR1643 (1029+614) [WC] 6-4 4-6 10-8

L16:- Lauryn John-Baptiste (GBR) / Katarina Stresnakova (SVK) CR786 (395+391) DEF Maia Lumsden (GBR) / Emily Webley-Smith (GBR) CR390 (217+173) [2] 4-6 7-6(4) 11-9

dodrade · Futures qualifying

indiana wrote:
Coup Droit wrote:
Sonay won convincingly, 6-2 6-0, against Talia
That incidentally was the final this week in Birmingham last year when Sonay won in 3 sets.
Talia thus will drop 30 of her existing 70 ranking points. Sonay is defending 50 points this week and a further 50 next week ( of her 330 points ) as she followed on by also winning the title in Glasgow.

Has Sonay improved on last year and/or has Talia regressed?

PaulM · Tennis legend

Anyone else noticed they messed up the singles draw here and put the 4th seed in the bottom quarter, leaving seeds 7 and 8 in quarter 3?

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

PaulM wrote:
Anyone else noticed they messed up the singles draw here and put the 4th seed in the bottom quarter, leaving seeds 7 and 8 in quarter 3?

they have! How will they deal with that - say the 4th seed loses in QF to the 2nd seed?

Jaggy1876 · Grand Slam Champion

Eden through to play Maia so guaranteed QF spot. Be interesting match up this, think Maia is the better overall player when fit. Cant really see Eden as anymore than where her ranking is but Maia has top 200 potential at least in there somewhere.

indiana · Tennis legend

Jaggy1876 wrote:
Eden through to play Maia so guaranteed QF spot. Be interesting match up this, think Maia is the better overall player when fit. Cant really see Eden as anymore than where her ranking is but Maia has top 200 potential at least in there somewhere.

Yes, will be interesting. I'd agree that Maia looks the long term better bet to possibly reach the top 200 but I'd go for Eden to win here.

And I could still see Eden progressing a fair bit further up the rankings. As quite a few folk have commented in recent years, after her earlier promise, her ranking plateaued outside the top 400 for a number of years But she pushed up over 100 places last year so certainly found something.

indiana · Tennis legend

dodrade wrote:
indiana wrote:
Coup Droit wrote:
Sonay won convincingly, 6-2 6-0, against Talia
That incidentally was the final this week in Birmingham last year when Sonay won in 3 sets.
Talia thus will drop 30 of her existing 70 ranking points. Sonay is defending 50 points this week and a further 50 next week ( of her 330 points ) as she followed on by also winning the title in Glasgow.
Has Sonay improved on last year and/or has Talia regressed?

Possibly a bit of both. I don't really know about Talia but she hasn't repeated such a week, a big breakthrough week for both at the time. I'd say Sonay is at least as good as last year, probably better now and although she has lost quite a lot of matches of late they are not bad losses. Guess it's just one match though.

PaulM · Tennis legend

So easy for Marni, 6-0 6-2. Pigato was poor and her game didn't strike me as one likely to have much success on faster indoor surfaces. Everything just sat up beautifully for Marni to blast away.

Alice lost 6-2 6-2, and Emma played pretty well in a 6-4 7-5 defeat.

-- Edited by PaulM on Wednesday 8th of February 2023 02:08:55 PM