Good test but great opportunity for the girls. The fields in both events (Austin in particular) are not great. The ITFs in Trnava and Astana have significantly higher cut offs, so definitely a moment to take advantage of.
Yes it would be lovely to see these young women playing WTA tennis..
I wont say anymore
You know I'm with you - on this, at least
But, to be fair, Alicia gaves singles a good go.
Freya was one of my picks to be top-500-200-100 in singles at age 17 but her boyfriend's illness, her own back injury, just life, got in the way (still possible, in theory, but I'm happy for her to have got doubles going)
Ali was never going to make it in singles (just my opinion). Olivia neither. And Emily App probably not, although - like Freya - I do hope she carries on singles - both could well have a run, at some point, and suddenly be knocking on the door of Grand Slam quali rankings, say
But, overall, I'm happy they're all here, giving it a spin. I don't feel any 'what could have been' regrets.
Yes a pity, seemed a chance for even more this week for Emily in her doubles. But still a very nice R1 win.
Despite their close R1 loss, Ali and Freya will on Monday move up to GB #3 and #4 respectively. With Ali due to drop points on 20/03 they will switch round then. Clearly if they continue to partner only each other their rankings will in time come together.
