British Tennis Forum - Celebrating 20 Years!

indiana wrote:

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Victoria Allen WR 805 is now up 15 points and about 100 ranking places since the last issued 28/07 rankings.

Getting quite close to her CH 671 from April 2019 when she'd not long passed her 18th birthday. And she has just 2 points due off in the rest of the year ( at the end of October ).

Might give Mimi quite a decent match.

-- Edited by indiana on Wednesday 6th of August 2025 08:27:59 PM

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 Worth pointing out (LTA - you listening?) that Vic is only in the main draw here because she made the final of a W15

Really? Goodness - who's have thought a W15 could be so useful ...... 

I've not been around all week and just catching up, but disappointed to see there isn't a livestream on the ITF site. Surely we usually get one!

She then rounds off a much simpler second set, winning 7-5 6-1. Bit surprised by the result and the scale of it, given Mimi's pedigree...but I didn't watch the match.

[SE] Victoria Allen GBR d. [7] Mimi Xu GBR 7-5 6-1

Hannah played a super tiebreak - which was much needed as there wasn't much else in that set that was super

But all that matters, I guess, is that she got the win and is into the QFs

And, yep, Indy - you called that one

Didn't see a ball of the match so don't know if Mimi was hampered by anything or Vic was just better

Coup Droit wrote:

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Hannah isn't defending any points from this week (although she does have 4 points for a R2 at Aldershot next week)

So this will be 8 additional points, and get her back up to 625 or so, when they go on

Also, Manon Leonard - second seed and expected to make the QFs - lost

So Hannah now gets the 18 year-old Japanese girl, who was JR 20 about 18 months ago, and is about WTA 495 in adults

Don't remember her at all from juniors so it'll be interesting

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 Mimi will have a lot of points to defend, she won Aldershot last year. 

It wasn't really Ciara's fault

Abe played like that against Ruby too - sprayed the ball around, looked as though she was there for the taking - and then suddeny clicked to when she needed to

Rather irritating to watch, and probably irritating to play too

But not a huge amount that Ciara could have done


With the second seed having lost, I was hoping the top seed would lose (I like Sarah RR but she's in the UK now, sorry Sarah ) - she didn't play well in her R1 match

But it looks like it's heading for a third set