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B00thy · County player

RE: Week 46 - ITF W50 Brisbane, Australia - Hard

B00thy · County player

foobarbaz wrote:
Crazy scene at the handshake, the metal singles stick got a real thump and fell with a clatter on the court, did Aiava lose it and wack it with her racquet ? Don't know if there was a handshake even. There hadn't been any animosity at all in the match.
Did anyone catch the underarm serve Aiava tried in the 4th game of the last set? (I think it was then, and I think it went wide of the service box). That match had everything.

-- Edited by foobarbaz on Friday 14th of November 2025 03:53:00 AM

-- Edited by foobarbaz on Friday 14th of November 2025 03:58:31 AM

yes, Aiva gave it a right whack didn't she? she does shake Katie's hand though, albeit briefly

paulisi · Tennis legend

Katie is well up for this and started on fire

paulisi · Tennis legend

Cruised through the first set, but struggling on serve in the second

paulisi · Tennis legend

Into the final.
Went 2 -0 down in the final set and then won 6 of the next 7.

Katie had a bad patch in the middle, but Emerson made it quite easy at times for Katie with lots of unforced errors

Peter too · Tennis legend

Katie 6-2 2-6 6-3

I switched it on when Katie was 2-0 down in the third. Katie seemed very determined and immediately broke back, started with three faulty serves but recovered to hold service after going 15-40 down. Two service holds took it to 3-3 and Katie then took three games without trouble, breaking twice in the process. Emerson was playing well but nothing seemed to phase Katie, from 2-0 down she just took control.

-- Edited by Peter too on Saturday 15th of November 2025 05:55:03 AM

Peter too · Tennis legend

If Katie wins the title she will certainly have earned it, having beaten the 6th, 3rd and 2nd seeds, now just the 5th seed to go.

-- Edited by Peter too on Saturday 15th of November 2025 06:42:24 AM

emmsie69 · Masters Series Champion

Peter too wrote:
Katie 6-2 2-6 6-3

I switched it on when Katie was 2-0 down in the third. Katie seemed very determined and immediately broke back, started with three faulty serves but recovered to hold service after going 15-40 down. Two service holds took it to 3-3 and Katie then took three games without trouble, breaking twice in the process. Emerson was playing well but nothing seemed to phase Katie, from 2-0 down she just took control.

-- Edited by Peter too on Saturday 15th of November 2025 05:55:03 AM

Beating Emerson Jones particularly after a highly competitive, long match the day before is amazing news. Project AO qualifying is back on track. Exciting times.

Mervatron2 · ATP qualifying

I was scared to wake up and see Katie had had to retire in todays match but this is highly impressive.

Now win it all Katie!

the addict · Tennis legend

Katie continues to impress and is climbing the rankings quickly. Now up to 291 in the live rankings.

F:- Katie Swan (GBR) WR317 (CH=118 Oct 2022) v Sijia Wei (CHN) WR223 (CH=114 in March 2025) [5]

Andy Parker · Club Coach

Mervatron2 wrote:
I was scared to wake up and see Katie had had to retire in todays match but this is highly impressive.

Now win it all Katie!

That was what I expected to happen - I thought she would be too tired to complete another match against such a good young player.

To have beaten possibly Australia's best young prospect on the back of that marathon match is better than I could have hoped for. She goes into the final off 2 very long matches and nothing to lose. I also expected her opponent to be Taylah Preston (again) - not sure how she will feel about facing Wei - very hard match for her, but just brilliant she has done so well.

As Emmsie and others say, the Aussie Open qualifiers are possible from here, if everything goes perfectly.

B00thy · County player

Fantastic news to wake up to again. And by the sound of it another match she won by determination.

We all know that Katie has the class to beat the field, but doing it after not having played back-to-back matches against players of this level for so long is, i imagine, very tiring physically and mentally. Especially for her.

Win or lose she is back to playing at the level of top 200's, without breaking down physically. I'm looking forward to watching the replay to look for clues about how she's feeling. I think my pick for player of the month for November is now nailed on! biggrin biggrin

* edited to make more sense ..

-- Edited by B00thy on Saturday 15th of November 2025 11:59:20 AM

Var · Futures level

How good is Katie S? Just wondering if there are similarities in her career trajectory with Katie B , who suffered that horrendous back injury but re-bounded to eventually reach top 30s. Is Katie S potentially as good? There seems to be a lot of excitement on the board about her recent success hence the wondering!!

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Just offering a little input :

britishtennis.activeboard.com/t72266199/british-tennis-forum-november-2025-player-of-the-month-award/

foobarbaz · Club Coach

Katie is definitely in "no pain, no gain" territory at the moment, folk only need to keep an eye on her between points in that third set to see that it's not just the opponent that she is battling. On the plus side however, Swan is striking the ball so well at the moment, with such good placement, it's giving her the chance to win these matches. Hopefully, there's enough fight left in the tank to complete the task, and take the title. Go for it, Katie.