Week 5 - ITF ($25K) - Rancho Santa Fe, USA Hard

Peter too · Tennis legend

Week 5 - ITF ($25K) - Rancho Santa Fe, USA Hard

Reeltime · Satellite level

Wow, there's a blast from the past in the qualifying draw

Desirae Krawczyk (USA) v (wc)Gretchen Magers (USA)

Gretxchen Magers. 46 and still playing

steven · Tennis legend

Somebody's happy - most of you will be able to work out who from the writing style, I'm sure!

"I love San Diego!!!!my coach just rented a car, hilerious stuff, bad driving automatic wrong side stuff ha!bout to work out in the hotel gym. Luuushhh.. Then maybe a swim and jacuzzi on the roof and a little sunbathing hehe"

The two in qualifying don't seem to have the nicest draws.

SMC1809 · All-time great

A few tweets from Nik

"content with a loss!?? me??? lol 6-4 3-6 6-1, had my chances in 1st for sure! even in 3rd it should have been closer but very promising...."

"considering my abismal performance in the AMT and obviously 1st pro tourny since nov,def better than i thought and it wasnt even doubles! :)"

"plus she is 320 and not a bad player and has climbed well since we last played so definitely promising for my first match back

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steven · Tennis legend

I wasn't expecting Nik to win a set, so I'm not surprised she's not too unhappy about a 3-set loss to Larrière, who beat Nicola George and Lisa Whybourn in straight sets on her way to the Gausdal title in July and beat Cav and Mel on her way to the Port Pirie 25K Final in October, though hasn't won a set in her four 25K main draw outings since that Final.

Peter too · Tennis legend

R1: WHYBOURN, Lisa (GBR) 308 v SCANDALIS, Zoe Gwen (USA) WC 948

SMC1809 · All-time great

Nicola lost 6-1 6-1

steven · Tennis legend

A decent draw for Lisa - Scandalis is young so probably somewhat under-ranked but she hasn't had any results to suggest that she should be ranked in the top 500.

The first seed she could meet is the lowest-ranked one, (8) Luzhanska, with (4) Screecher de Brito the other seed in her quarter.

Peter too · Tennis legend

R1: WHYBOURN, Lisa (GBR) 308 beat SCANDALIS, Zoe Gwen (USA) WC 948 7-6 6-1

alex03maccy · Grand Slam Champion

it would have been scandalis if she'd have lost wink

steven · Tennis legend

I've been restraining myself from that 'scandalis' thing all day - amazed everyone else managed to keep their self-control for so long and that you were the one who 'cracked' first.

Talking of embarrassing things, I didn't realise Lisa read the forum until she wrote:

"Somebody commented on my writing style on Andy Murray message thingey... Is it that bad?!?!"

Oops. It was't even meant to mean anything bad. It's fun seeing a player manage to convey how much they're enjoying life on tour instead of just playing it über-'cool' like some of them do/

So hi Lisa * waves * is it safe to come out now?

PockyTastic · Futures level

Report on Lisa's 1st Rd from TF:

"Lisa Whybourn (GBR) d. (wc)Zoe Gwen Scandalis (USA) 76(7) 61

1st set was kinda error fest But once W[hybourn] reigned in the error the match was decided. W's form is kinda weird but nice flat drives, was a better striker than S[candalis] but S's defense was pretty good.."

Not sure what s/he means about Lisa having weird form??

Peter too · Tennis legend

R2: WHYBOURN, Lisa (GBR) 296 v LUZHANSKA, Tetiana (UKR) 8 222

murray_2k9 · Challenger qualifying

Brilliant, there were live scores on bet365 for that apparently. Good to see her closing in on the top 250, would be great to have another Brit in the GS qualy cut off if she can keep climbing.

Cant believe she was unranked less than 18months ago - what an improvement!

LordBrownof · Futures level

What do you think, if anything in particular, Lisa has done to secure such a dramatic rise?