Week 3 - ITF ($25K) - Guaruja, Brazil Hard

indiana · Tennis legend

RE: Week 3 - ITF ($25K) - Guaruja, Brazil Hard

indiana · Tennis legend

Em's doubles QF now shown on Thursday's OoP so clearly abandoned today. No latest score shown. Her doubles partner has a singles match to play beforehand.

PaulM · Tennis legend

7-5 *2-3 overnight

Saved quadruple set point at *4-5

Kounosuke · Intermediate Club Player

They're back on again, but have just been broken, 7-5 2-4*

Edit: Promptly broken back, on serve again *3-4

-- Edited by Kounosuke on Thursday 21st of January 2016 03:50:23 PM

Kounosuke · Intermediate Club Player

The 2nd set goes the wrong way, 7-5 3-6. MTB time.

PaulM · Tennis legend

Other pair get 3 very lucky let cords including on deuce

7-5 3-6 *0-0

PaulM · Tennis legend

Oh that was a messy MTB

Played better yesterday. Shame.

Onwards... As Indy said these 25ks are a bit pointless unless she wins the title.

-- Edited by PaulM on Thursday 21st of January 2016 04:10:31 PM

Kounosuke · Intermediate Club Player

Em+ loses the MTB 10-6 :(

insomniacfolder · Challenger level

PaulM wrote:
As Indy said these 25ks are a bit pointless unless she wins the title.

I think there's a possibility that for Emily, though she'd want to win matches, for sure, this event wasn't pointless, no matter the result.
I think this may be the first tennis tournament that the renowned lover of international travel has ever played in Brazil, or indeed, in South America at all.
From 2004-2007, she played at 14 different events in Mexico, and 2 in Cuba, but I think that's the closest she ever got.
So, if she were to lose early, she could at least console herself with another country (and continent) ticked off on her ever growing list, and possibly soak in yet another varied culture.

paulisi · Tennis legend

Wow - I seem to remember someone(probably Steven) putting up a stat about the number of countries she has played in, but I didn't realise she had never played over in S America. I knew she had done most of Europe, Asia, some of Africa and N America.

Jaggy1876 · Grand Slam Champion

Emily's problem is that she's not good enough for singles at this level she should perhaps look into finding a doubles partner like Anna an Jocelyn did. Singles ranking will likely drop to 500-600 within a month or two

steven · Tennis legend

paulisi wrote:
Wow - I seem to remember someone(probably Steven) putting up a stat about the number of countries she has played in, but I didn't realise she had never played over in S America. I knew she had done most of Europe, Asia, some of Africa and N America.

How did you guess it was me? wink

That was back in April 2014 - in the almost two years since, she has 'only' added two countries - one was Malaysia later in 2014, the other Brazil this week, as insomniacfolder said.

She had played in South America before but only in juniors - in Peru, Bolivia and Uruguay in 2000 and 2001.

Here's the full list of 42 countries (32 if you exclude juniors) - J means only in ITF juniors, * means new since the original list:

AUS
BEL J
BOL J
BRA
BUL
CAN J
CHI
CHN J
CRO
CUB
CZE
DEN
EGY
ESP
EST
FRA
GBR
GRE
INA
IND J
ITA
JPN
KAZ
KOR J
LUX
MAS
MEX J
NGR
PER J
POR
ROU
RSA
SEN
SUI
SWE
THA
TUR J
UAE
URU J
USA
UZB
VIE

insomniacfolder · Challenger level

steven wrote:
paulisi wrote:
Wow - I seem to remember someone(probably Steven) putting up a stat about the number of countries she has played in, but I didn't realise she had never played over in S America. I knew she had done most of Europe, Asia, some of Africa and N America.
How did you guess it was me?

Yes, I did not think to check the Junior records.
Depending on exactly how you define a 'country', the UN has ~193-206 recognised states.So,Emily's haul so far is about 1/5!
There are several that run at least a couple of events a year that it seems she could add reasonably easily, too, if she so wished: AUT, GER(!), RUS, SRB, SVK, TUN etc.