British Tour 2018

the addict · Tennis legend

British Tour 2018

the addict · Tennis legend

Loughborough 2 (Tier 2) this coming week

And Joko2 is top seed in qualifying

In the main draw, the top four entries are listed as Alicia Barnett, Summer Yardley, Kira Reuter and Danielle Daley

Mervatron2 · Challenger qualifying

Jo Ko 2?

the addict · Tennis legend

Blame CD for that - see the Week 10 Solarino thread wink

JOANNA KONDRATOWICZ

the addict · Tennis legend

At the British Tour Tier 2 event in Loughborough this week

Fridays Semi-Finals

Kira Reuter [2] def Rebecca Hill 6-1 6-1
Summer Yardley [1] def Mae Mccutcheon 7-5 6-4

Saturday Final

Kira Reuter [2] def Summer Yardley [1] 6-4 3-0 Retired

Alicia Barnett, Danielle Daley (and Joanna Kondratowicz) didn't take part in the end

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

At Edgbaston, the QFs are:

Summer Yardley v Tamara Malazonia
Olivia Elliott v Isabelle Marshall
Olivia Rook v Andre Lukosuite
Maria Budin v Anna Chesca

the addict · Tennis legend

Couple of matches of note
Summer Yardley beat Joko2 6-1 7-5 Close second set
Kira Reuter retired after one set

Michael D · All-time great

Whatever issues Kira has, she should try and sort them out. She must have run up a record number of retireds already this year. However, since she also retired last week good to see Summer seems fitter this week, even if just 1 match so far.

Strongbow · All-time great

It will be interesting to see if Summer does ITF this year. Good luck anyway smile

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Edgbaston:

Summer Yardley retired at 0-6 0-2 down in her QF to Tamara.

Maria def. Anna Chesca

Olivia Elliott came through against Izzy Marshall

Andre Lukosiute def. Olivia Rook

SFs:

Tamara Malazonia def. Olivia Elliott 2-6 6-0 6-2

(q) Andre Lukosiute def. Maria Budin 7-6(6) 6-1

Andre L is a Lithuanian youngster with a JWR of 1024.

Michael D · All-time great

So much for Summer being fitter this week. I hope she and Kira can both recover fully soon, but should probably treat their injuries a bit better until then. Little point in being forced to retire for two or more weeks in quick succession.

Michael D · All-time great

F: (q) Andre Lukosiute def Tamara Malazonia 6-3 6-4

blob · All-time great

Malazonia sounds like she comes from a bad place.

Michael D · All-time great

blob wrote:
Malazonia sounds like she comes from a bad place.

I think the name could be Georgian, which is a great place to visit actually. biggrin Tamara is just 16 and has an older sister, Katie, who is 19 I think.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

the addict wrote:
Couple of matches of note
Summer Yardley beat Joko2 6-1 7-5 Close second set
Kira Reuter retired after one set

I know Kira's had injury problems.

But just seen her US college application video on Sarah Borwell's site and it's one of the best/most promising ones I've seen in a while.

(She's also 5 ft 11, with a perfect physique for tennis).

Do hope she's over the injuries soon - and good luck - there's some good tennis stuff going on there !