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Amanda Keen seeded 6 in qualifying. (ranked 258)


QR1 opponent - Veronika Chvojkova (CZE) (302)


Seeds and floaters in her quarter - Margit Ruutel (EST) (2), Sabrina Jolk who bt Amanda last week. (but thery play each other in round one so only one can challenge Amanda.)


If she can win QR1 she'll face an Italian wildcard ranked in the 1000's.


Fairly good chance for Amanda this week...



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Amanda is thorugh to the final qualifying round.


She beat Chovjkova 76(1) 76(3) Looks like a close match until the tiebreaks!


She beat Alessandra Ferrazzi 61 60


In contrast to my earlier post Eugenia Grebenyuk (WR-318) emerged from Ruutel and Jolks section and will face off with Amanda for the place in the main draw!


(for the pessimists she is the second highest seed in final qualy round. So heopfully the other seed will win and she'll be first in line for LL even if she can't beat Grebenyuk!)



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main draw is out with 5 spaces allocated to Q/LL so there is a LL spot.


Amanda is not in doubles draw.


No easy matches for the qualifiers in main draw!



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She didn't need the LL spot!


(6) Amanda Keen GBR def. Eugenia Grebenyuk RUS 64 76



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Maindraw with qualifiers/LL placed

(1)Tathiana Garbin (wc) ITA vs Emmanuelle Gagliardi SUI
(LL)Ekaterina Makarova RUS vs (wc)Giulia Gabba ITA
Kathrin Woelre GER vs Sanja Ancic CRO
Kristina Barrois GER vs (5)Alberta Brianti ITA

(4)Eva Birnerova CZE vs (Q)Olga Govortsova BLR
Ivana Lisjak CRO vs (Q)Amanda Keen GBR
Sandra Zahlavova CZE vs Stephanie Foretz FRA
(Q)Giulia Gatto-Monticone ITA vs (7)Roberta Vinci ITA (wc)

(6)Sandra Kloesel GER vs Karin Knapp ITA
Margalita Chakhnashvili GEO d. Lucie Hradecka CZE 76 46 63
Kyra Nagy HUN vs Simona-Iulia Matei ROM
Youlia Fedossova FRA vs (3)Emma Laine FIN

(8)Yulia Beygelzimer UKR vs Maret Ani EST
(Q)Madalina Gojnea ROM vs Nathalie Vierin ITA
(wc)Valentina Sassi ITA vs Tatjana Malek GER
Tatiana Poutchek BLR vs (2)Maria Elena Camerin ITA

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Lisjak is 19 and ranked 146. She was as high as 95 in June this year.


She's not won many matches recently which gives Amanda a chink of light.


She's not played regularly either, playing just one tournament in each month since US Open qualies in which she lost in R2.



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Great stuff from Amanda in getting through a very tricky qualifying section.

Her rd1 qualies opponent [Chvojkova] is a tough player on fast surfaces. Naomi and Georgie have beaten her this autumn but she beat Mel South in Glasgow in October and has made a string of 25K and 50K semis and quarters this year.

Grebenyuk has a very big serve so Amanda did well to beat her in straights. The Russian has also been in good form recently, winning a 25K in Belarus. Anne beat her two weeks ago in Prerov so maybe she was able to pass on some useful tips.


Hopefully Amanda can end the year with a great run here. Lisjak says she's a clay-court specialist which sounded promising but then I looked at her recent activity. She's only played 3 tournaments since the end of August so maybe she's been injured.....but last week she reached a 75K final Hopefully she'll be a little tired from all those matches there. Her 2006 highlight has been making rd3 of Roland Garros before losing to Hingis.

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Great news is that this tournament has a website....with live scoring

Apparently Amanda was 5-1 up in her final qualifying round match, opponent pulled it back but Amanda was able to hold on.

Website:
http://www.itfmilano.com

Amanda plays Lisjak in rd1 tomorrow at midday GMT on court A.

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They're on court and warming up now

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Amanda 4-3 down on serve in first set

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Currently 3-3 on serve, no breaks yet

Lisjak serving:

deuce

Ad Lisjak

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Keen *3-4 Lisjak

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Amanda won the first set on a tie break,  don't know the score of it though!


SErving first in second set 1-0



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Fabulous stuff Really hope she can keep this up, would be one heck of a win

Lisjak serving:

15-0

30-0

40-0

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Keen 7-6, *1-1 Lisjak

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Keen serving:

15-0

30-0

40-0

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Keen 7-6, 2-1 Lisjak

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Amanda holds to love for 2-1.


She's serves 4 aces to Lisjak's 1 so far



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