25k Port Pirie

VSandhi20 · Futures qualifying

25k Port Pirie

johnnylad · Tennis legend

Still waiting for tennis Australia to remeber that tennis fans exist

Results will be posted here:
http://www.tennisaustralia.com.au/pa...4&pageId=10610

johnnylad · Tennis legend

Sunday was washed out
Qualies started today

Qualies Round 1

Julia Dziedzic vs 4-Natasha Khan

2-Antonia Matic def Wendy Kong 6-0 6-0

That's all i know! (from WTA world)

johnnylad · Tennis legend

Still nothing on Tennis Australia

but news from LTA

Cavaday, Stoop, Khan and Ricketts are through to final qualifying round.

South, Llewellyn and O'Donoghue made the main draw.

Percy is out.

VSandhi20 · Futures qualifying

http://www.itftennis.com/womens/tournaments/drawsheetbyround.asp?tournament=1100014380&event=1100081923&round=3

the results from QR1 and 2.

Happycynic · Pro player

QR1:

Naomi CAVADAY (GBR) (1) defeated Hayley ERICKSEN (AUS) 61 75
Claire RICKETTS (GBR) (14) defeated Alenka HUBACEK (AUS) 64 60
Georgie STOOP (GBR) (3) defeated Emma FORD (AUS) 60 60
Emily WEBLEY-SMITH (GBR) (11) defeated Brittany SHEED (AUS) 64 60
Natasha KHAN (GBR) (6) defeated Julia DZIEDZIC (AUS) 61 62

Karen PATERSON (GBR) (5) defeated Cassandra CHAN (AUS) 62 64

Michelle BRYCKI (AUS, 1339) defeated Lucy FLETCHER (GBR) 75 46 61

Monika KRAUZE (POL, 1170) defeated Melissa PERCY (GBR) 63 63

QR2

Naomi CAVADAY (GBR) (1) defeated Lara GILTINAN (AUS) 61 61

Claire RICKETTS (GBR) (14) defeated Monika KRAUZE (POL) 60 57 62
Georgie STOOP (GBR) (3) defeated Tanja KOVACEVIC (AUS) 60 60
Karen PATERSON (GBR) (5) defeated Edita MILOS (CRO) 61 75
Evie DOMINIKOVIC (AUS, UR but has been 64) defeated Emily WEBLEY-SMITH (GBR) (11) 60 63
Natasha KHAN (GBR) (6) defeated Tinusha SIVAGANAM (MAS) 62 60

QR tomorrow. No easy matches-all vs seeds, or (KP) Dominikovic...

VSandhi20 · Futures qualifying

Didnt Paterson beat Domikovic last week or was it one of the other girls?

Happycynic · Pro player

It was Emily last week. This week was DOMINIKOVIC's revenge....

Michael · Pro player

Wow Georgie won 24 games and dropped none. Impressive.

Sheddie · administrator

According to the LTA, the wind has been tricky for the players to deal with this week.

Extremely impressive wins for Georgie, Naomi and Natasha

Emily beat Dominikovic's sister Danielle in 3 sets last week. She wasn't 100% for that match, played with a dodgy stomach so it was an impressive achievement to beat someone 300 places higher. Although Evie Dominikovic is unranked, if she's been top 100 she's still going to be an extremely tough opponent, just maybe not with the match sharpness and fitness which she had at her peak. What caused such a dramatic rankings fall, I presume it was injury ?

Good to see that Karen recovered well from her injury and is back to winning ways

Final round matches:

N Cavaday [GB][1] v A Szili [Aus][15]

G Stoop [GB][3] v E Barry [NZ][13]

A Matic [Ger][2] v C Ricketts [GB][14]

K Paterson [GB][5] v E Dominikovic [Aus]

N Khan [GB][6] v K Wlodarczak [Aus][12]

Naomi has the best draw, her opponent is ranked 848 [reached 402 back in 2002]. Szili qualified last week and beat Rodionova in rd1 before losing in straights in rd2. Her best result this year, was reaching a 10K final in Australia a couple of months ago.

Georgie's match is trickier than it looks. Ellen Barry may be only ranked 809 but she's just 17 and last week she made the quarters, beating Jane O'Donoghue in straights in rd2. She's also made another 25K quarter-final, in Melbourne, this autumn. In the juniors, she reached a high of 26 in 2005 before concentrating on seniors this year.

Tough final round draw for Claire. Matic is ranked 407 [peaked at 225 in 2004]. She lost to Mel South in rd2 last week in 3 sets.

Natasha's opponent is ranked 722. She got a wildcard last week and won a round before losing to the 7th seed.

Sheddie · administrator

No final round qualies results yet but 1 result from the main draw has come through:

Rd1: M South [GB][2] bt E Hewson [Aus] 6-2, 6-3

Hewson is ranked 344 but has made a 10K final and four 25K quarters this year, that's an impressively comfortable opening victory for Mel

VSandhi20 · Futures qualifying

No news of the final qualifying round. However, the main draw confirms Cavaday and Stoop as the Brits qualifiers. Sadly, Dominikovic bt Paterson, as well as Khan and Ricketts losing out.

MD:

Jane O'Donoghue v Sophie Ferguson (AUS) [5] [wr:212]

Naomi Cavaday v Trudie Musgrave (AUS) [321]

Rebecca Llewellyn v Raquel Kops-Jones (USA) [8] [261]

Georgie Stoop v (Q) Claire De Gubernatis (FRA) [440]

Pity for O'Donoghue to play a promising player in Ferguson, who beat Petrova 2 seasons ago. Cavaday and Stoop are good chances to make R2.

Results:

Rebecca Llewellyn lost Raquel Kops-Jones 62 63

Tough for Becky considering she was playing a seed.

VSandhi20 · Futures qualifying

OOP for Wednesday shows all remaining R1 matches including Brits and a couple of doubles matches involving the Brits.

DOUBLES:

R1:

Hewson/Paterson bt Stoop/Webley-Smith 64 64

Llwellyn/O'Donoghue bt Matic/Pavic 64 64

Cavaday/South lost [2] Dell'acqua/Rao 63 61

QF (Wednesday):

Hewson/Paterson v [1] Grandin/Kops-Jones

Llwellyn/O'Donoghue v [4] Horiatopoulos/Kriz

Sheddie · administrator

Scores from the final qualifying round:

N Cavaday [GB][1] bt A Szili [Aus][15] 4-0 ret

G Stoop [GB][3] bt E Barry [NZ][13] 6-1, 6-4

A Matic [Ger][2] bt C Ricketts [GB][14] 6-3, 6-1

K Paterson [GB][5] lost to E Dominikovic [Aus] 6-4, 3-6, 2-6

N Khan [GB][6] lost to K Wlodarczak [Aus][12] 6-1, 5-7, 3-6

Naomi's opponent retired with a thigh strain, super win for Georgie against a tricky opponent ! What happened to Natasha though after that storming first set

I was sure she'd qualify. From reading reports of her matches last week, she seems to struggle at times with keeping her focus, often seems to lose concentration when she's ahead in matches. Maybe that was the case again today.

It's a shame about Rebecca, but yet another really tough draw for her, she's been very unlucky recently. Kop-Jones beat her in rd1 last week aswell; 6-2, 2-6, 6-1.

Sheddie · administrator

Oh btw, congrats on 1000 posts Vik

Team coach Lucie Ahl was very happy with Mel's win "Mel played a solid match today, she will practise and train tomorrow." said Ahl.

Very nice draw for Naomi

Musgrave's career best ranking is 239 but that was back in 2000. She hasn't played since early October having been out with a minor injury. Musgrave has done well in Britain this year, she reached the final of the 25K in Felixstowe in July [beating Julia Bone and Amanda Keen] and the semis of the 10K in London in August [before losing to Anna Fitzpatrick in straights]. She's also made two 25K quarters in Japan and France and earlier this year she beat Jane O'Donoghue in 3.

Lucie said ""Naomi has a good chance tomorrow against Musgrave if she can continue being positive and playing her game. Georgie again played well, she has to keep the focus again tomorrow."

Georgie beat De Gubenatis in rd1 last week, 6-3, 6-4.

Ferguson is currently ranked 212, she made the semis last week and also in Melbourne last month. She's done very well on clay this year - 4 quarters in 25Ks and 50Ks, a semi and two 25K finals. Lucie said ""Jane has a tough draw against Sophie but she is playing a lot better and having had a few wins is feeling a lot more confident."

Hopefully at least one of Karen or Natasha will get a lucky loser place. "Emily and Natasha will be put through there paces on the practise court and in training to make sure there ready for next weeks qualifers on Sunday." said Ahl.

"The last tournament is still all to play for, even more so being the last week some girls may be getting tired and ready to go home."