Week 17 - ITF ($50K) - Charlottesville, VA, USA - Clay

philwrig · Hall of fame

RE: Week 17 - ITF ($50K) - Charlottesville, VA, USA - Clay

Maza1987 · Challenger level

have they even started playing. heard there was some bad weather.

philwrig · Hall of fame

I think the weather was OK today, Bouchard won who was playing at the same time. Weather forecast dodgy for tomorrow.

philwrig · Hall of fame

There may be some light at the end of the tunnel. Falconi just tweeted 5.30am flight Git er dun. So that sounds as if she lost.

tony_orient · ATP qualifying

The schedule of play for tomorrow on the USTA website has Laura up against Claire De Gubernatis of France at 10 so it looks like she got an excellent win earlier.

No idea of the score though.

philwrig · Hall of fame

Score 6-3 5-7 6-4 so a good win, weather looks to have already turned so conditions will be very heavy blustery tomorrow.

steven · Tennis legend

That's a really good win under the circumstances

- de Gubernatis has had a good month, winning the 25K in Osprey, but Laura thrashed her 1 & 2 in Hechingen qualifying two years ago so you'd hope ...

indiana · Tennis legend

That is an excellent win by Laura. Falconi is at a CH of 117 and is having a good year, having beaten a number of top 100 players and lying no 69 in the race.

R2 : Laura Robson WR 256 vs Claire De Gubernatis (FRA) WR 214

De Guberrnatis hadn't done much this year until winning the Osprey, USA 25K on clay two weeks ago, beating 4 players ranked WR 181 to WR 217 in the process.

( edit : OK, maybe the Osprey win isn't as much news as when I started writing my post smile )

-- Edited by indiana on Thursday 28th of April 2011 12:38:53 AM

Julia Carrot · All-time great

Laura, Laura, Laura. Brilliant.

RBBOT · Futures qualifying

Not liking the weather news. Laura has a history of losing windy matches.

Julia Carrot · All-time great

RBBOT wrote:
Laura has a history of losing windy matches.

Let's not get blown away now smile

wolf · Tennis legend

R1: GALLOVITS-HALL (ROU) / ROBSON (GBR) defeated FARIA (BRA) / GONCALVES (BRA) 6-3 4-6 [10-4]

QF: FICHMAN (CAN) / PELLETIER (CAN) (1) Vs GALLOVITS-HALL (ROU) / ROBSON (GBR)

philwrig · Hall of fame

Weather likely to be a major factor today, raining and also windy at the moment (no tornadoes thankfully- over 100 people killed yesterday). Clearing up by midday though.
De Gubernatis will be a tricky opponent today having won impressively a similar type of event albeit a weaker field just a couple of weeks ago. Knowing that Laura has a track record of impressive first round performances followed by a dropoff in round 2, this could be a major banana skin even taking into account their onesided previous meeting.

RBBOT · Futures qualifying

You can't fault her choice of doubles partner.

Julia Carrot · All-time great

Matches didn't start here until 2pm today 'cos of the weather. No news on Laura's match as yet.