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

philwrig · Hall of fame

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

Madeline · Admin:Moderator + Tennis Legend

Whenever I see that girl's name written as Mlad my brain translates as Vlad the Impaler. . .

steven · Tennis legend

I 'compromised' on twitter during the Hopman Cup & AOQ and simply referred to her as Mlad the Impaler. wink

Peter too · Tennis legend

R1: BROADY, Naomi (GBR) 292 beat YAKIMOVA, Anastasia (BLR) 2 121 3-6 6-4 7-5

murray_2k9 · Challenger qualifying

Wow, cracking win and a good battle it seems. Naomis year really picking up now.

kundalini · Specialist Reporter + Intermediate Club Player

Kristina Mladenovic (Fra) bt Eleanor Dean (Gbr) 6-1 6-0

Mona Barthel (Ger) bt Anna-Giulia Remondina (Ita) 6-2 6-1

Marta Domachowska (Pol) bt Sandra Zahlavova (Cze) 6-4 4-6 6-4

Audrey Bergot (Fra) bt Sandra Martinovic (Bih) 6-3 6-3

Irena Pavlovic (Fra) bt Anna Zaja (Ger) 6-2 6-1

Naomi Broady (Gbr) bt Anastasia Yakimova (Blr) 3-6 6-4 7-5

Irina Buryachok (Ukr) bt Jade Windley (Gbr) 7-5 7-6 (7-5)

Katie O'Brien (Gbr) bt Ksenia Lykina (Rus) 7-5 6-2

Iryna Kuryanovich (Blr) bt Melanie South (Gbr) 6-1 6-3

Stephanie Vongsouthi (Fra) bt Samantha Murray (Gbr) 6-3 6-4

Patrycja Sanduska (Pol) bt Lucy Brown (Gbr) 6-3 7-6 (7-2)

Elise Tamaela (Ned) bt Emma Laine (Fin) 6-3 7-5

Peter too · Tennis legend

R2: OBRIEN, Katie (GBR) 3 228 v MLADENOVIC, Kristina (FRA) 372

indiana · Tennis legend

Would have been nice to have got one more win to add to Katie and Naomi, though purely on rankings Katie was the only higher ranked player in her match.

Looks decent performances by Jade and Lucy, disappointing from Mel, and Eleanor clearly found it very tough.

Samantha has at least got a ranking now ( as has Eleanor ) and it will be interesting to see how she progresses.

philwrig · Hall of fame

Decent efforts by most of our players.
Katie will find it tough against the Impaler but the draw has really opened up for the Broadster, so quietly confident of further progress there.

Ratty · County player

philwrig wrote:

Those sorts of displays by players often give them a huge boost for future matches.

What evidence do you have for this assertion?

smile

philwrig · Hall of fame

Ratty wrote:

philwrig wrote:

Those sorts of displays by players often give them a huge boost for future matches.
What evidence do you have for this assertion?

Something you pick up when following 1000's of matches every year, players who come through very tough matches get additional mental strength from knowing they can win when defeat was maybe more likely. It obviously doesn't happen in every case but I would eat my hat if it didn't happen in more than 50% of cases.

Ratty · County player

How do you measure mental strength?

philwrig · Hall of fame

It's what you would describe in accountancy terms as an intangible asset.
Difficult to calculate an accurate value but certainly worth something.

-- Edited by philwrig on Wednesday 2nd of February 2011 10:34:57 PM

djlovesyou · Strong Club Player

I would say that winning a close match against a player supposed to be better than you would be more beneficial than losing, more often than not.

Ratty · County player

I suspect that any benefit is fleeting.

Successful people in any walk of life are self-confident "from within". It is part of their personality. Their self-confidence is not materially affected by day-to-day successes and failures.

If you need success to boost your self-confidence, then I doubt that you have the resilience to be a successful tennis player. Or indeed, a successful anything ....