Istanbul 25K

Happycynic · Pro player

Istanbul 25K

Happycynic · Pro player

Claire lost 6-4 4-6 6-1 in the qualifying round.

She is first in line for a LL spot though.

Sheddie · administrator

We'll let Claire off for that loss, going from extremely fast indoor courts in Scotland to outdoor hard in Turkey in a few days must be pretty tricky !

Main draw:

C Peterzan [GB][LL] v P Parmentier [Fr][3]

K O'Brien [GB][4] v I Senoglu [Tur][WC]

A Keen [GB] v A Serra Zanetti [It]

Anne withdrew, getting Claire a lucky loser place. Unfortunately she's drawn French clay-court specialist and world no 197 Pauline Parmentier. Parmentier may be a clay-courter but she's not too shabby indoors either, beating Amanda Keen in straights in France a couple of weeks ago. Last week she beat the world no 179 6-2, 6-1 before losing in rd2 in a 50K indoors.

Katie's opponent is ranked 593 [peaked at 293 in 2004]. The highlights of Senoglu's year have been making two 10K finals in Portugal and Spain.

Serra Zanetti beat Anna Smith in 3 sets in Glasgow last week before losing to Katie

-- Edited by UltimateBoggoFan at 10:02, 2006-10-23

Sheddie · administrator

Fantastic rd1 win for Claire, bouncing back from her qualifying disappointment in fine style to overturn a rankings gap of nearly 400 places between her and Parmentier.

Rd1: C Peterzan [GB] bt P Parmentier [Fr][3] 7-5, 6-3

Katie and Amanda play today

johnnylad · Tennis legend

UltimateBoggoFan wrote:

Fantastic rd1 win for Claire, bouncing back from her qualifying disappointment in fine style to overturn a rankings gap of nearly 400 places between her and Parmentier.

Rd1: C Peterzan [GB] bt P Parmentier [Fr][3] 7-5, 6-3

Katie and Amanda play today

Thats superb! Well done to Claire. Claire and her sister were touted as the next big thing but haven't made their move yet! Perhaps this is the start!

Happycynic · Pro player

Really very good win from Claire. Making very good use of the LL spot to get 3.5 ranking points from nowhere.

Drew · Oct 24, 2006

Happycynic wrote:

Really very good win from Claire. Making very good use of the LL spot to get 3.5 ranking points from nowhere.

wel done indeed...LL dont usually get beyond R2...hope she bucks the trend !

Happycynic · Pro player

A good day.

Katie O'Brien bt WC Upet Senoglu (Tur, 593) 6-3 7-5

Amanda Keen bt Adriana Serra-Zanetti (ITA, 857 PR) 6-4 6-3

johnnylad · Tennis legend

R2

Peterzan and Keen lost...

Claire lost 75 64 to Evtimova (BUL (307)

Amanda lost 63 26 75 to Malek (Ger) (149) the 2nd seed

Kaite should play R2 tomorrow

johnnylad · Tennis legend

Peterzan and Chvojkova through to double semis

O'Briend and Cirstea through to R2

Happycynic · Pro player

R2

Katie won!

4 K O'Brien bt q Desislava Mladenova (Bul, 874) 6-1 6-4

QF vs 7 Gubacsi (Hun, 214)

Happycynic · Pro player

Doubles (2) O'Brien and Cirstea also through to SF

.... and play CHVOJKOVA (CZE) / PETERZAN (GBR) (4)

Sheddie · administrator

Good performance from Amanda against the 2nd seed in rd2

Shame Claire lost after such a great rd1 win but it had to expected as there was such a big difference between their rankings.

Great to see Katie into another quarter-final.

Sheddie · administrator

Some info on 7th seed Gubacsi:

Currently ranked 205 with a career high of 76 reached in 2002. Two weeks ago she reached the quarters of Jersey, [beating Rebecca Llewellyn 6-1, 6-2], before losing 6-0, 7-6 to Georgie Stoop and last week she made the Glasgow semis, beating O'Donoghue before losing to Flipkens. Her other 2006 highlights are a semi in a 75K, a 25K fina in Mexico and a couple more 25K quarters plus she qualified for WTA Acapulco in Feb.

Sheddie · administrator

Some info on Katie's rd1 win [beat Senoglu 6-3, 7-5]: Katie was very solid from the baseline and gradually wore her opponent down. In the 2nd set she was 5-2 down, Senoglu had a double break. Katie broke back to make it 5-4 and when serving it out for the 2nd time Senoglu led 30-15 but Katie came back again to break for 5-5.

In Amanda's match, apparently she showed real potential , serving superbly and backing it up with classy volleying. She led 5-3 in the final set and had match point but the 2nd seed came back to win it 7-5 with the help of a lot of support from a partisan home crowd.