Week 19 - ITF W60 Fukuoka, Japan Carpet

Crispy · Strong Club Player

Week 19 - ITF W60 Fukuoka, Japan Carpet

Babfive · Satellite level

Katie won 2-6 6-4 7-6(5)

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Katie fighting through this week but getting the wins and another final !

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Another win and she is right on the heals of Emma and Jodie.

Peter too · Tennis legend

SF: BOULTER, Katie (GBR)(5) (1) 135 (CH=82 2019) v BEKTAS, Emina (USA) (4) 245 (CH=188 2022) 2-6 6-4 7-6(5)

F: BOULTER, Katie (GBR)(5) (1) 135 (CH=82 2019) v KAWAGUCHI, Natsumi (JPN) Q 637 =CH

Natsumi beat the 2nd seed. She is now 20 but had a JCH=5.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Lambda wrote:
This has been a good tournament for our women in recent years. Katie won this tournament in 2018 and Heather won it the last time it was held in 2019. Can Katie retake the title and make it 3 consecutive British winners?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Fukuoka_International_Women%27s_Cup_%E2%80%93_Singles

no less than 6 entrants in 2018;

Julia Carrot · All-time great

I watched the last few games of the first set of Katys semi-final. To be honest she was pretty rubbish and Emina the far more consistent player. Very surprised and pleased that she turned it round. See Emina play though made me think about poor Tara - must be so hard for her still unable to play.

emmsie69 · Top national player

Personally I think it's been really good scheduling for Katie. OK she may not have any clay court prep but looking at the bigger picture, adding these points on now will see her into tournaments more suited to her further down the road. I wish Harriet had forsaken a couple of the higher level tournaments for some of these itf tournaments but equally one of the most admirable things about Harriet is that desire to play the big tournaments.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Babfive wrote:
Katie won 2-6 6-4 7-6(5)

Goodness, two abolutely clutch third-set TB wins, one after the other

Well done, Katie, great show

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

emmsie69 wrote:
Personally I think it's been really good scheduling for Katie. OK she may not have any clay court prep but looking at the bigger picture, adding these points on now will see her into tournaments more suited to her further down the road. I wish Harriet had forsaken a couple of the higher level tournaments for some of these itf tournaments but equally one of the most admirable things about Harriet is that desire to play the big tournaments.

Agreed. It looks like 7 or 8 years back a , pre Covid, a host of our girls like Heather, Laura, Gabi Taylor played this circuit en masse.

Lambda · Challenger level

RJH1962 wrote:

Hopefully 1 better than last time. Assume she will still go to French open for qualifying even though shes had little prep on Clay.

To get £14,000 just for turning up, I'm sure she will. As she isn't on an LTA programme any more every source of income will be welcome.

Rich2310 · County player

What a chance now for Katie to take this title.

Mervatron2 · Challenger qualifying

Hope Katie is fit and healthy enough to make a match of this final.

dodrade · Futures qualifying

Mervatron2 wrote:
Hope Katie is fit and healthy enough to make a match of this final.

I do worry she's bound to be exhausted and/or injured by now.

A shame there are so few carpet tournaments these days given the fast conditions generally suit our girls.

Blue_Belle · Club Coach

Peter too wrote:
SF: BOULTER, Katie (GBR)(5) (1) 135 (CH=82 2019) v BEKTAS, Emina (USA) (4) 245 (CH=188 2022) 2-6 6-4 7-6(5)

F: BOULTER, Katie (GBR)(5) (1) 135 (CH=82 2019) v KAWAGUCHI, Natsumi (JPN) Q 637 =CH

Natsumi beat the 2nd seed. She is now 20 but had a JCH=5.

From what I can see, Katie gave a walkover cry