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paulisi · Tennis legend

Week 43 - ITF W100 Wrexham, Great Britain - Hard (Indoor)

PaulM · Tennis legend

Alice was very disappointing in the bits I saw. Overpowered and lots of basic errors.

Lambda · ATP level

Alicia's coach is Sam Mannix. She was an assistant coach at University of Florida in Alicia's last 2 years there and guided Alicia to her doubles NCAA semi-final last year.

paulisi · Tennis legend

Alicia was very disappointing.
Very inconsistent. Ella was more solid, but will struggle against better players.

Var · Futures level

Nice win for Ella. One of my favourites. Good to see her join up with Mimi again in the doubles. Play well together. Hope that ankle is ok though.

indiana · Tennis legend

Ruby broke to serve for the match vs Lily! Broken back to 15 though.

Ruby leads 6-3 5-5*

indiana · Tennis legend

paulisi wrote:
Alicia was very disappointing.
Very inconsistent. Ella was more solid, but will struggle against better players.

Certainly hadn't anticipated such a decisive scoreline between the two ( 6-3 6-1 to Ella )

indiana · Tennis legend

indiana wrote:
Ruby broke to serve for the match vs Lily! Broken back to 15 though.

Ruby leads 6-3 5-5*

TB. I did see that Ruby saved at least one SP.

paulisi · Tennis legend

Mimi is a set down. Very close match. The 7th game went to at least 10 deuce points.

Var · Futures level

paulisi wrote:
Mimi is a set down. Very close match. The 7th game went to at least 10 deuce points.

She is playing the number 3 seed ranked over a hundred places above her. I think we are maybe starting to see the difference between a w100 and the w35 last week. Some sweet draws for some GB women but others like Mimi and Mika are much tougher in Wrexham.

indiana · Tennis legend

indiana wrote:
indiana wrote:
Ruby broke to serve for the match vs Lily! Broken back to 15 though.

Ruby leads 6-3 5-5*
TB. I did see that Ruby saved at least one SP.

Ruby came back from 2-6* down, saving in all a further 5 SPs in the TB, but Lily takes the set in the end.

6-3 6-7(7)

paulisi · Tennis legend

Var wrote:
paulisi wrote:
Mimi is a set down. Very close match. The 7th game went to at least 10 deuce points.
She is playing the number 3 seed ranked over a hundred places above her. I think we are maybe starting to see the difference between a w100 and the w35 last week. Some sweet draws for some GB women but others like Mimi and Mika are much tougher in Wrexham.

There isnt much of a gap and Mimi was the favourite at the start of the match with the bookies

indiana · Tennis legend

Coup Droit wrote:
Helen40 wrote:
Coup Droit wrote:
paulisi wrote:
That was some match - 2h 30 mins and Ranah lost by the narrowest of margins.
The levels from both players were exceptional.

Not seen Ranah for a few years, but if she plays like that, she will be a top 250 player in no time.
Unfortunately that has been the story for the last three or four years now
She always plays like that and she never gets to be top-250
I still have her in my top-10 most years as she has SO much talent
But I've heard that she has a lot of problems with finding the right coach, the bigwigs at the NTC don't really rate her ..... it's such a shame
But at least she was being watched, so maybe..
Indeed - I know there are some who bat for her, thankfully - but at least one person, in particular, who has a real downer on her
Needless to say, I don't like the downer person who shall remain nameless (although not really)

Very interesting. To my mind it is players with a very good top level, while maybe inconsistent, who should really interest bigwigs, and they should try to help and get behind that player to help them be all they can be. That too logical, too sensible? Maybe too challenging for some?

Var · Futures level

paulisi wrote:
Var wrote:
paulisi wrote:
Mimi is a set down. Very close match. The 7th game went to at least 10 deuce points.
She is playing the number 3 seed ranked over a hundred places above her. I think we are maybe starting to see the difference between a w100 and the w35 last week. Some sweet draws for some GB women but others like Mimi and Mika are much tougher in Wrexham.
There isnt much of a gap and Mimi was the favourite at the start of the match with the bookies

Ooh. Never listen to them TBH! Mimi has a good position now in the second, but still a way to go. She fell away badly in the third set in the quarters at Birmingham so hopefully she can put in a better third set if it goes that far today.

indiana · Tennis legend

Ruby *3-5 down to Lily in the third set, having just got one break back.

Just watching a little I am impressed by Ruby's movement. A real scamperer!