Week 43 - ITF W60 - Glasgow, Great Britain Hard

Var · Pro player

RE: Week 43 - ITF W60 - Glasgow, Great Britain Hard

DF · Tennis legend

Var wrote:
DF wrote:
Lambda wrote:
Heather arrived in Tampico on Thursday. They're making a big deal of her being there, more than any other player. Anyway, even if she had withdrawn from Tampico as she was on the acceptance list there she isn't eligible for a WC here.

Fran withdrew from her next 2 weeks of tournaments on Friday. Sonay is a possibility if her rehab from whatever her injury was has gone better than expected, but given the tribulations of Katie and Fran last week I'd caution her against returning too soon.

Would they really give Katherine Barnes a WC to a 60k ahead of Mimi? A WC for Barnes would give her a 3rd counter and a WTA ranking.

Anna would only be directly in if Marni hasn't taken her SE, otherwise Anna needs a WC. But as next in, they can just not use that WC and Anna would then be in directly. Either way, it looks though she's in the main draw.

A WC for Isabelle, as seems certain, would be using 1 of the 2 merit WCs she's earned for winning a match with a WC as she used the last of her standard 3 ITF MD WCs last week. It would actually be her 5th ITF MD WC this year but 1 in Roehampton doesn't count as she didn't get a counter from it.

I'm struggling to identify who the last WC could be. Everyone I'd give a WC to ahead of Mimi is in qualifying, withdrawn in the last week, committed elsewhere or injured.

Aimee won the Scottish National Indoor Championships, a British/Scottish Tour event in Stirling in February and often gets to the latter stages of the British Tour events she enters (which being from Tyneside tend to be the Scottish and Northern ones).
Thank you
Sorry if I have missed this but will this tournament be streamed live?

It is on the ITF Live Stream.

Var · Pro player

DF wrote:
Var wrote:
DF wrote:
Lambda wrote:
Heather arrived in Tampico on Thursday. They're making a big deal of her being there, more than any other player. Anyway, even if she had withdrawn from Tampico as she was on the acceptance list there she isn't eligible for a WC here.

Fran withdrew from her next 2 weeks of tournaments on Friday. Sonay is a possibility if her rehab from whatever her injury was has gone better than expected, but given the tribulations of Katie and Fran last week I'd caution her against returning too soon.

Would they really give Katherine Barnes a WC to a 60k ahead of Mimi? A WC for Barnes would give her a 3rd counter and a WTA ranking.

Anna would only be directly in if Marni hasn't taken her SE, otherwise Anna needs a WC. But as next in, they can just not use that WC and Anna would then be in directly. Either way, it looks though she's in the main draw.

A WC for Isabelle, as seems certain, would be using 1 of the 2 merit WCs she's earned for winning a match with a WC as she used the last of her standard 3 ITF MD WCs last week. It would actually be her 5th ITF MD WC this year but 1 in Roehampton doesn't count as she didn't get a counter from it.

I'm struggling to identify who the last WC could be. Everyone I'd give a WC to ahead of Mimi is in qualifying, withdrawn in the last week, committed elsewhere or injured.

Aimee won the Scottish National Indoor Championships, a British/Scottish Tour event in Stirling in February and often gets to the latter stages of the British Tour events she enters (which being from Tyneside tend to be the Scottish and Northern ones).
Thank you
Sorry if I have missed this but will this tournament be streamed live?
It is on the ITF Live Stream.

Thank you

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Nice one Mimi

6-2 6-3 win

nice and easy against a top 550 player

(second attempt - having posted it in a random wrong thread before )

Densher · Intermediate Club Player

McDonald enjoyed an early break against Ryser only to get broken right back. Emma Wilson lost the first set in her match and is down a double break in the second, so probably curtains for her.

Imogen Hadded has had a tricky start against the 6th qualifying seed. I watched her qualifying match in Shrewsbury and thought her a very tidy player, albeit without a lot of punch.

Also spotted Marelie Raath when I glanced at the draw; this must be her first senior ITF match. I assume college will be her preferred route if she does go pro, so she may be thinking a win or two at this level will assist her in getting a scholarship place at one of the best programs. Or maybe she wants to test herself here - you can understand just wanting to give it a go. Whatever the case, good luck to her.

Densher · Intermediate Club Player

Haddad very annoyed with herself. She rescued one of the breaks and had a game point on her serve but couldn't consolidate. She's hit a couple of good angled serves but anything more linear is getting eaten up by Persson, who now has the first set.

Emma Wilson has now lost in straight sets and Emily Appleton got through fairly comfortably against Francesca Simpson.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Enjoying reading your reports, Densher

Allez, Ella ! And Imogen ...

DF · Tennis legend

Holly has been given a walkover

Densher · Intermediate Club Player

I suppose Bolkvadze pulling out is not much of a surprise. I am fairly sure she only entered in the doubles last week at Shrewsbury, so can't be totally confident about her fitness right now. She had shoulder surgery earlier this year I think.

Densher · Intermediate Club Player

Another chapter in the bitter Gillan/Stresnakova rivalry is underway here in Glasgow (so far 3 wins each, Gillan has won the last 2). We've just had an interruption of several minutes, with Gillan and Stresnakova arguing with each other and the umpire, which necessitated an organiser coming onto court and resolving the situation.

I didn't see the initial incident but think it may have been a disputed line call.

Densher · Intermediate Club Player

Densher wrote:
Another chapter in the bitter Gillan/Stresnakova rivalry is underway here in Glasgow (so far 3 wins each, Gillan has won the last 2). We've just had an interruption of several minutes, with Gillan and Stresnakova arguing with each other and the umpire, which necessitated an organiser coming onto court and resolving the situation.

I didn't see the initial incident but think it may have been a disputed line call.

So far Alice has been cutting through Katie S like a knife through butter. The Stresnakova serve has been a liability and she can't match Gillan for power, but she doesn't really have the finesse game to move Gillan around either.

Marelie Raath has now started her match. Gabia Paskauskas getting underway in 25 minutes.

Densher · Intermediate Club Player

Densher wrote:
Densher wrote:
Another chapter in the bitter Gillan/Stresnakova rivalry is underway here in Glasgow (so far 3 wins each, Gillan has won the last 2). We've just had an interruption of several minutes, with Gillan and Stresnakova arguing with each other and the umpire, which necessitated an organiser coming onto court and resolving the situation.

I didn't see the initial incident but think it may have been a disputed line call.
So far Alice has been cutting through Katie S like a knife through butter. The Stresnakova serve has been a liability and she can't match Gillan for power, but she doesn't really have the finesse game to move Gillan around either.
Marelie Raath has now started her match. Gabia Paskauskas getting underway in 25 minutes.

Stresnakova, having been drubbed 6-0 in the first set, has gone for a tactical toilet break.

Raath started nervously in her match and only took 1 of the first 9 points, with a couple of bad errors thrown in. She's since added a bit more shape to her ground strokes to slow the points a bit more - recognising the superior firepower of her opponent - and is trying to shift Koevermans wide as early as she can, but the Dutch player is landing a lot of one-two punches on her serve and often forcing Raath far behind the baseline. Raath did play a couple of very good points and is attempting the right things but it isn't really coming off.

Koevermans now 5-0 up, prompting Raath to gesticulate and complain to herself in a blend of Afrikaans and English.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Only watching livestream, but very pleased to see Hep win - she was so much the more aggressive player (I know Eliz is always a bit of a defensive soul but really, there's limits ......)

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Whats the Gillan and stresnakova background history here?

Densher · Intermediate Club Player

JonH comes home wrote:
Whats the Gillan and stresnakova background history here?

Admittedly, I was being slightly tongue-in-cheek but (assuming my memory hasn't been clouded by a different match) they did in fact have a heated argument during a UK Pro League encounter, followed by a rather frosty handshake at the end. Can't recall the context of the dispute, however.