Week 5 - ITF ($25K) - Sutton, Great Britain - Hard

SMC1809 · All-time great

Week 5 - ITF ($25K) - Sutton, Great Britain - Hard

SMC1809 · All-time great

If anyone is planning to go along to Sutton to cheer on some of the British qualifiers, this may help you identify some of them.

http://www.wta96.com/wiki/lgalleritur.php?gnr=0&grnr=209

alex03maccy · Grand Slam Champion

Still confused as to why Fitzy is having to qualify. Hopefully she can pick up the point for her bother.

jb288 · Satellite level

Shame the likes of Yaz didnt go to sign in as she would've made it easily...
No obvious chances of upsets, except possibly Alex. Still praying for Mandy to find some inspiration :)

SMC1809 · All-time great

I believe this is Anna Smith's home club. Does anyone know how she is? Is she still injured?

steven · Tennis legend

Tara has won her first match, though not without her injury problems rearing their head again unfortunately.

"Ouch. Quad not looking good. Happy to limp myself to a first round win though, wish these injuries would go away!"

SMC1809 · All-time great

(1)Tara Moore (GBR) d. Manisha Foster (GBR) 62 76(5) smile

(15)Patrycja Sanduska (POL) d. Alexandra Walker (GBR) 16 60 75 cry

(2)Carmen Klaschka (GER) d. Daneika Borthwick (GBR) 62 62 cry

(10)Elixane Lechemia (FRA) d. Angelica Moratelli (ITA) 62 63

(3)Justine Ozga (GER) d. Amanda Elliott (GBR) 63 62 cry

(9)Sina Haas (GER) d. Jessica Ren (GBR) 62 63 cry

(4)Ksenia Lykina (RUS) d. Natasha Starling (GBR) 61 60 cry

(11)Lara Michel (SUI) d. Michaela Ince (GBR) 62 61 cry

(5)Anna Fitzpatrick (GBR) d. Ilge Alpay (GBR) 61 64 smile

(12)Sandra Martinovic (BIH) d. Petra Krejsova (CZE) 64 62

(6)Myrtille Georges (FRA) d. (wc)Stephanie Cornish (GBR) 61 62 cry

(16)Mara Nowak (GER) d. Emily Southall (GBR) 75 62 cry

Katerina Klapkova (CZE) d. (7)Darija Jurak (CRO) 60 63
(13)Anna Zaja (GER) d. (wc)Georgia Craven (GBR) 36 63 62 cry

Amandine Hesse (FRA) d. (8)Lina Stanciute (LTU) 63 63
Holly Richards (GBR) d. (14)Vanessa Henke (GER) 26 75 63 smile

Only 1 upset, but Georgia Craven did well to take a set off Zaja

philwrig · Hall of fame

SMC1809 wrote:

I believe this is Anna Smith's home club. Does anyone know how she is? Is she still injured?

We have 3 players out at the moment.... Anna, Cav and Laura and my best guess is that Anna's return will come first and that Laura will be last. Don't ask me to explain why I think this as its just a hunch. Certainly Laura won't be back until at the very earliest the backend of March.

indiana · Tennis legend

alex03maccy wrote:

Still confused as to why Fitzy is having to qualify. Hopefully she can pick up the point for her bother.

Don't know, the LTA works in mysterious ways. Not sure how many wildcards Fitzy has received over the last year.

I guess they are expecting / hoping Tara and Fitzy will qualify so maximising the Brit numbers in the main draw

jb288 · Satellite level

Fitzy's opponent has the odd impressive result and lots of dross...let's hope it's a bad day. Was quite surprised Ilge took 5 games off Anna tho! GL to the girls tomorrow...need at least 2 Brits to make SFs for me to justify the trip down next Sat :s

albino · Intermediate Club Player

On the subject of injuries, what is happening with Georgie Gent?

Peter too · Tennis legend

Q2: MOORE, Tara (GBR) 1 347 lost to SANDUSKA, Patrycja (POL) 15 619 2-5 Ret.

philwrig · Hall of fame

Shame but probably shouldn't have taken to the court.

Julia Carrot · All-time great

philwrig wrote:
Certainly Laura won't be back until at the very earliest the backend of March.

Has there been more news about her then? I thought it was 3 weeks from Hopman.

philwrig · Hall of fame

Julia Carrot wrote:

philwrig wrote:
Certainly Laura won't be back until at the very earliest the backend of March.
Has there been more news about her then? I thought it was 3 weeks from Hopman.

There was an indepth article in The Times with her new coach (PM). Amongst other things the article revealed that the injury was worse than first reported. The abductor muscle that was injured was torn leaving 7cm of scar tissue, so PM said that it would be 2 months before Laura would be back on a tennis court. That article came out about two weeks ago, but of course unless you are a Times subscriber you can't get access to it. Because of the severity of the injury special care would have to be taken in the rehab to ensure the area wouldn't be reinjured in the future.

The article also talked about the fact that Laura was ' 1000kms away from being a top 10/ number 1 player'. To get there PM said that Laura must get much quicker and become more reactive on the court, but reassuringly he feels she can get there.