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Week 9 - ITF W25 - Tucuman, Argentina Clay


Good to see Fran getting her ranking back. The five points earned so far along with the 9 from last week should put her around WR1000 - or just above.

I was under the impression that the three tournaments or 10 point rule meant that 9 + 5 points wasn't enough, but on looking at other players I can see that I was mistaken.
(eg Layne Sleeth (CAN) has 8+5 and is ranked 1007)

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the addict wrote:

Good to see Fran getting her ranking back. The five points earned so far along with the 9 from last week should put her around WR1000 - or just above.

I was under the impression that the three tournaments or 10 point rule meant that 9 + 5 points wasn't enough, but on looking at other players I can see that I was mistaken.
(eg Layne Sleeth (CAN) has 8+5 and is ranked 1007)


 Yes it's an eirher/or of 3 scores or 10 points in total. So anyone with 10 points or more in total is ranked.

If Fran already has enough to sneak into the top 1000, or hopefully wins her next round anyway, that will give us 30 GB women in the top 1000 as against 33 men. There are currently 16 GB women and 17 men in the top 500.



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Another good result.  The only unimpressive one has been the first round this week.



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Fran takes the 1st set 7-5.

Closer than last week but looks good so far.

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Fran just took the first set against Seibold smile

Ha snap! I'm too slow on my phone!



-- Edited by Jan on Thursday 2nd of March 2023 07:57:06 PM

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Medical Time out.

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Second set gone 1-6. Fran only won 5 points on serve in 4 games (the game she won was a break)

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It looks as if the MTO must have been for Fran. She has played a lot of tennis recently it must put a a lot of stress on her hands.

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R3 : JONES, Francesca (GBR) SR UNR lost to SEIBOLD, Emily (GER) (14) 461 7-5 1-6 4-6

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It looks as if Fran is having a week off, and is next scheduled to play in Colombia the week after.

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Peter too wrote:

It looks as if Fran is having a week off, and is next scheduled to play in Colombia the week after.


 Yes, there are no South American ITF events next week

The Colombia event is then a W40 which she is on the main draw list for based on her SR.

Possibly be happy to have a week off anyway.



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Five and a half hours on court today, three hours for round one. A lot of tennis.

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the addict wrote:

Five and a half hours on court today, three hours for round one. A lot of tennis.


 At least no retired biggrin



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Out of interest, does Fran have a specially adapted grip on her tennis racket or just a standard one.

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emmsie69 wrote:

Out of interest, does Fran have a specially adapted grip on her tennis racket or just a standard one.


 I don't know for a fact but I sat right up close to her several years ago and, from what I could see, there was no special grip but the racket handle was very small (not sure if it's simply the smallest official size or if she gets it made specially, even smaller). When newspapers report about Fran's hand, they always mention that she only has three fingers. Which makes you think of a normal hand, with a space for a finger, as though you'd had one amputated, say. But Fran's hand itself (her palm and the back of her hand) is only the width of three fingers. It's terribly narrow. Hence, she says that to grip the racket handle firmly takes the most enormous amount of force, hence all the subsequent problems to her hand/wrist etc. 



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