Week 34 - ITF ($50K) - Istanbul, Turkey Hard

Peter too · Tennis legend

Week 34 - ITF ($50K) - Istanbul, Turkey Hard

steven · Tennis legend

I was a bit surprised to find that Lisa has lost 11 of her last 12 WTA-ranked matches (she may have won some British Tour matches in between) and last won back to back matches when she reached the Glasgow and Wrexham semis in January. She wasn't too far off against Jakupovic last week, who was ranked higher than Nowak is, so hopefully this week will go a bit better for her, since she's too good to be struggling like this.

Peter too · Tennis legend

Q1: WHYBOURN, Lisa (GBR) 440 beat NOWAK, Karolina (GER) 420 6-4 7-6(6)

Q2: WHYBOURN, Lisa (GBR) 440 v DE LATTRE, Magali (POR) 4 370

indiana · Tennis legend

Good to see that win for Lisa, especially given what Steven was saying smile

Peter too · Tennis legend

Q2: WHYBOURN, Lisa (GBR) 440 lost to DE LATTRE, Magali (POR) 4 370 1-6 6-4 3-6

Peter too · Tennis legend

R1: MOORE, Tara (GBR) 358 v SIMMONDS, Chanel (RSA) 4 257
R1: SOUTH, Melanie (GBR) 3 245 v Fuda, Ryoko (JPN) 291

steven · Tennis legend

There's an 'interesting' H2H here - Mel played Fuda (CH 143 in 2006) on Mount Gambier way back in 2005 ... and got double bagelled!

Meanwhile, I nearly got confused over Tara's opponent's name - before finally realising that the top two South Africans are called Chanelle S and Chanel S (Scheepers and Simmonds) - and I thought we were bad with all the Jamies and Joshes!

GaJo1 · Social player

R1: [1]Sarah Gronert vs. Teodora Mircic

Even if this is a british tennis forum, I would like to say GOOD LUCK to Sarah. smile

-- Edited by GaJo1 on Monday 22nd of August 2011 10:16:13 PM

steven · Tennis legend

steven wrote:
... before finally realising that the top two South Africans are called Chanelle S and Chanel S

I don't think @colinbirrell posts here, but if he does a good impersonation of someone who does:

"I hear they have high hopes for Chanel No.5. Ah-haha. :>)" disbelief

biggrin

steven · Tennis legend

Uh oh, I thought it had been a bit too long since I'd been in trouble on Twitter ashamed (i.e. at least a week wink )

Admittedly, it probably was a stat best kept uder wraps until after today's match blankstare

philwrig · Hall of fame

From Mel on twitter, Tara and herself both lost tough matches.
Mel's scoreline 4-6 6-2 6-4.
Shame but thats the way its going for our girls at the moment.

We need to get a successor to Nigel Sears ASAP, someone that knows what they're doing and who can inspire our current crop of players.
I never thought I'd say this but the men are leading the way at the moment. They may have alot of catching up to do but their future starting to look alot brighter.

steven · Tennis legend

From Mel, after a day of woe in the wind for the Brits here:

R1: MOORE, Tara (GBR) 358 lost to SIMMONDS, Chanel (RSA) 4 257 no score yet
R1: SOUTH, Melanie (GBR) 3 245 lost to Fuda, Ryoko (JPN) 291 4-6 6-2 6-4 bleh

"Was a tough match. Windy conditions could have gone either way. so close to playing good again. Anyone wanna give me a hug!"

GaJo1 · Social player

Sorry, but I'm glad:

(1)Sarah Gronert (GER) d. Teodora Mircic (SRB) 63 64 biggrin

Just change the E in GER into B and you should be glad too.

steven · Tennis legend

Well done to Sarah. Maybe she should become British - then she might have more than just one mad fan wink (I'm sure she has more than one fan already, but probably not more than one mad enough to be welcomed here smile )

As Ken on Radio Tennis said during the Bally-Görges match last night, "there are loads of British here (listening and commenting), so where are all the Germans?" (*)

(*) we'll gloss over the fact that he was conveniently ignoring the language factor, the fact that the Germans have a lot more top 100 players to follow (so a match like that isn't such a big deal for them) and the fact that it didn't start until 2 am over there wink

GaJo1 · Social player

.... be welcomed here.

Steven ! thank you, I'm very proud about what you said. smile

I learn many new words ( never heard) in the brtish forums. For example ... crappy ..
and I can practice my English a little bit.

-- Edited by GaJo1 on Wednesday 24th of August 2011 04:07:35 PM