R1:- Marie Villet (FRA) WR796 [3] v Georgina Hays (GBR) UNR/1323/17yo [WC]
Georgina lost 0-6 1-6
Unfortunate with the draw ............
Actually, I don;t think so
The far stronger players in this draw are juniors playing on JRs and college students
The top seed has been knocked out in two sets by a 15 year-old
The 4th seed has lost very easily to a 16 year-old
And the Junior Wimbly semi-finalist is in the draw, and smashed her first match
There's also a college player who won last week's title without dropping a set
None of these are highly seeded or seeded at all and, to be honest, they're all far harder draws than Villet
I think Georgina (does she still go by Gigi?) got lucky to miss most of those players - a lot of the W15s are a lot stronger at the moment in terms of real tennis level, with juniors using their JRs during school holidays, and including lots of the top Americans juniors who came over for the grass court season, and also the US college athletes getting in some ITF practice during uni vacation time
