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Oscariyan · Club Coach

Week 25 - WTA250 - Nottingham, Grass

Mervatron2 · Challenger level

What a cracking set of results today.

Well done gals.

B00thy · Strong Club Player

L32:- Mingge Xu (GBR) WR300 [WC] def Katie Volynets (USA) WR96 6-3 6-3

Goodness what a fantastic result to come back to biggrin

B00thy · Strong Club Player

L32:- Katie Boulter (GB) WR39 [8] v Lulu Sun (NZL) WR44 6-2 6-2

Saw some of this ..

Katie's off/on switch keeps wobbling .. when it's on, brilliant ..

indiana · Tennis legend

Just catching up now. What a great set of results, well done ladies!!

DavidC · Tennis legend

Delighted to be able to witness Mimi get her first win at this level, after watching her only in streams for the last 5 years. I think the first 3 games were key. Mimi was understandably nervous and Katie could and probably should have been 3-0 up rather than 1*-2. That helped Mimi to settle, realising that Katie didn't have anything to cause her major problems, and she quickly matched Katie before eventually outplaying her, albeit having more than her fair share of luck with netcords (including an outrageous one on matchpoint). BTW I don't think her ranking is as high as 300 yet, as implied above

Also very pleased for Fran, as people may have worked out from my occasional interventions here on her matches that she is one of my favourite players. Re the Harriet am-dram comments (which I am also not a fan of) there was a non-call in the second set fourth game where she was broken that really annoyed her (I was diagonally opposite, so couldn't judge). Some players would use that as motivation, but unfortunately she let it fester and it didn't help her. She therefore only looked capable of turning it around when Fran had her hand problems, and it felt like Fran needed to win in 2 at that point - and she deserved to do so in my opinion.

Deucebag · Intermediate Club Player

What a great set of results to come home to. Well done to all.

PaulM · Tennis legend

For a set and a half the youngsters were right in it against the second seeds, but couldn't cope with an increase in level and lost 2-6 6-3 10-4

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

PaulM wrote:
For a set and a half the youngsters were right in it against the second seeds, but couldn't cope with an increase in level and lost 2-6 6-3 10-4

Great effort

Wimbly doubles wildcard biggrin

Lambda · ATP level

Coup Droit wrote:
PaulM wrote:
For a set and a half the youngsters were right in it against the second seeds, but couldn't cope with an increase in level and lost 2-6 6-3 10-4
Great effort
Wimbly doubles wildcard

I know it's Wimbledon an' all, but if Hannah has ambitions of going deep in Junior Wimbledon, wouldn't she be better served getting more matches in on grass playing Roehampton than playing what's likely to be 1 doubles match at Wimbledon?
Mika withdrew from Roehampton today.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Lambda wrote:
Coup Droit wrote:

PaulM wrote:
For a set and a half the youngsters were right in it against the second seeds, but couldn't cope with an increase in level and lost 2-6 6-3 10-4
Great effort
Wimbly doubles wildcard
I know it's Wimbledon an' all, but if Hannah has ambitions of going deep in Junior Wimbledon, wouldn't she be better served getting more matches in on grass playing Roehampton than playing what's likely to be 1 doubles match at Wimbledon?
Mika withdrew from Roehampton today.

I take the point but, whatever her ambitions, I'm pretty sure she wouldn't turn down a Wimbledon place just to potentially play more Roehampton J300 matches

DavidC · Tennis legend

The WTA have showcased one of Mimi's many outstanding points

dodrade · Futures qualifying

PaulM wrote:
It's almost sad watching how much Harriet has regressed since the Australian Open.

I'm keen to see Fran finally break the top 100 so would be quite happy for her to go on and win this and keep nudging in the right direction, but once Harriet loses her round 3 points from last year's Wimbledon it's not obvious to me how she gets anywhere near the top 100 again playing like this. The sheer desperation, stress and anxiety which I think is underpinning some of this behaviour is borderline worrying (I know some will say it's seems to stem from an almost sense of entitlement/being spoilt).

-- Edited by PaulM on Tuesday 17th of June 2025 11:32:33 AM

Frankly given how poor her recent form has been (not to mention her behaviour) i'm not sure Harriet deserves a Wimbledon MDWC although I still expect she'll receive one,