Week 19 - ITF W35 Patja D'Aro, Spain - Clay

indiana · Tennis legend

Week 19 - ITF W35 Patja D'Aro, Spain - Clay

Christine · Intermediate Club Player

I've been watching Sarah's progress for a while, from losing in first qualifying to now beating much higher players, she's obviously learning a lot - good for her, so pleased

Var · Pro player

Christine wrote:
I've been watching Sarah's progress for a while, from losing in first qualifying to now beating much higher players, she's obviously learning a lot - good for her, so pleased

Good to have another younger player in the mix!

DF · Tennis legend

Sarah WR1064 has defeated WR550 and WR699 on her way to the Main Draw. Hope she can do something similar there smile

DF · Tennis legend

Hannah K is a set down 3-6

the addict · Tennis legend

DF wrote:
Hannah K is a set down 3-6

A bad-serving day. Only won 7/26 points on serve compared with her opponents 12/28. The first 6 games were all breaks if serve though. She only made 38% of first serves against 68% so there is plenty of hope yet.

indiana · Tennis legend

From 3-6 *2-4, Hannah won 4 games in a row.

3-6 6-4 MTB ..

BradMarx90 · County player

Hannah got over the line. Won 10-5 in the MTB.

paulisi · Tennis legend

BradMarx90 wrote:
Hannah got over the line. Won 10-5 in the MTB.

At least she is picking up ranking points...

Var · Pro player

paulisi wrote:
BradMarx90 wrote:
Hannah got over the line. Won 10-5 in the MTB.
At least she is picking up ranking points...

Its practice on clay she needs.

Lambda · Challenger level

1 ranking point isn't going to make much difference and she'll be doing well to make further progress. If this is as far as she goes, personally I'd rather she lost FQR so it wouldn't have counted towards her allowance of 10 pro tournaments. Not sure if there is an age criteria to UTR events, but she may have been better going down the route Mimi took for clay practice so as to not waste one of the pro events she's allowed to play. It was quite ingenious of Mimi's team to choose the UTR rather than ITF for clay practice to save her pro ITF allowance for events where it she would make use of it.

Lambda · Challenger level

L32: (q) Sarah Tatu (GBR) WR1068 v Ekaterina Reyngold (***) WR490
L32: (q) Hannah Klugman (GBR) WR665 (15yo JWR 7) v Daniela Vismane (LAT) WR408

Reyngold is 13-9 (8-4 on clay) this year and made the QFs of her last 2 clay events at the beginning of April. A win for Sarah would be her 2nd best by ranking.
Vismane is 13-9 on clay this year with all her losses to players ranked higher than Hannah.

Var · Pro player

Lambda wrote:
1 ranking point isn't going to make much difference and she'll be doing well to make further progress. If this is as far as she goes, personally I'd rather she lost FQR so it wouldn't have counted towards her allowance of 10 pro tournaments. Not sure if there is an age criteria to UTR events, but she may have been better going down the route Mimi took for clay practice so as to not waste one of the pro events she's allowed to play. It was quite ingenious of Mimi's team to choose the UTR rather than ITF for clay practice to save her pro ITF allowance for events where it she would make use of it.

And she won it! Agree smart move. Good for Mimi to string so many matches together back to back. Also reasonable coverage.

Oscariyan · Strong Club Player

Great fight back from Klugman so should give her a lot of confidence at least! Also I guess at her age its about experiences over points and results.

indiana · Tennis legend

Oscariyan wrote:
Great fight back from Klugman so should give her a lot of confidence at least! Also I guess at her age its about experiences over points and results.

Absolutely !!!! Although good to continue to learn how to make these winning experiences.

-- Edited by indiana on Tuesday 7th of May 2024 05:58:36 PM