2024 Billie Jean King Cup Qualifiers - France vs GB - 12/13 April (indoor clay)

indiana · Tennis legend

2024 Billie Jean King Cup Qualifiers - France vs GB - 12/13 April (indoor clay)

the addict · Tennis legend

What a great result !

I enjoyed watching Emma, even though so many games were so close. Great promise for the next few weeks.

Ian1314 · Lower Club Player

SuperT wrote:
The tennis is brilliant here but the commentator is driving me nuts. Tie break time. C'mon Emma

Agree regarding commentator; I think it's easier listening to two commentators together than just the one.

Great result!

Peter too · Tennis legend

Emma's match must have lasted close to three hours which suggests that her match fitness is pretty much back to where it needs to be. That is very encouraging, particularly as she had to fight so hard at the end to stop the French surge.

MrTSymonds · Junior player

My partner always jokes that I'm a jinx to Raducanu.
I turned it on when I saw she was 5-2 up in the final set.
At 0-40 and 5-5 I thought it best to turn it off.

Amazing to see that she won nearly every point after I turned it off!

Mervatron2 · Challenger qualifying

Wow. Great to see team gb come through that. I did think emma had blown it.

Great to see her get these two wins and on clay too.

Deucebag · Intermediate Club Player

Beating France in France on clay!
It doesnt get much better than that. Well done girls.

Oscariyan · Strong Club Player

What an amazing weekend, well done ladies!

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Deucebag wrote:
Beating France in France on clay!
It doesnt get much better than that. Well done girls.

I know - and to think that they chose clay specially biggrin biggrin biggrin

Crispy · Strong Club Player

After so much pessimism, theyve done the unthinkable! What a team, well done Anne, Katie and Emma!

dodrade · Futures qualifying

Great stuff! I guess I owe Katie an apology after calling for her to be dropped today, what a turnaround in form!

The French probably regretting resting Garcia now (unless her shoulder wasn't up to it), although after yesterday they no doubt thought Burel could take care of Katie comfortably.

Nix · Futures level

So pleased for Katie and Emma. They've both been through awful times with injuries etc and it's wonderful to see them getting big wins - and on clay! Hope it bodes well for the clay season. Even a few wins will be great for the confidence and the bank balance!

HarryGem · Club Coach

Nix wrote:
So pleased for Katie and Emma. They've both been through awful times with injuries etc and it's wonderful to see them getting big wins - and on clay! Hope it bodes well for the clay season. Even a few wins will be great for the confidence and the bank balance!

Not sure Emma needs to worry too much about her bank balance.

Seriously though what a terrific win. Emma was so very good for much of yesterday's match. Let's hope she can recover and go again next time out. That was around 5 hours on court in two tough matches both physically and mentally.

But Katie. Just wow. So impressed after the first match. She just bullied Burel off the court. Probably how she needs to play on clay as I don't think she has quite got the hang of the surface but very encouraging signs.

Peter too · Tennis legend

Katie said she tried to play like a clay court player in her match against Parry and it didn't work so she switched back to her normal style of play against Burel and it worked.

seagull · Hall of fame

Emma playing Kerber in Stuttgart