Week 6, ITF 25k, Loughborough, Great Britain, Indoor, Hard

Peter too · Tennis legend

Week 6, ITF 25k, Loughborough, Great Britain, Indoor, Hard

jb288 · Satellite level

A shame that beth and alicia are playing each other after both had promising ends to last season.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Just to add the mega congrats to Nell.

Worth pointing out that she's only 17 (not sure it says in the listings).

That follows up on some super wins in the British Tour, including her wins over Freya and Tara.

the addict · Tennis legend

And by coincidence, those wins over Freya and Tara were also at Loughborough. As was the British Tour Masters (which she also won). Must like it there.

-- Edited by the addict on Monday 5th of February 2018 10:32:18 PM

wimdledont · Challenger level

Livescores is reporting!...

Pitak 3*-2 Rueffer

Barnet 2*-2 Grey

indiana · Tennis legend

the addict wrote:
And by coincidence, those wins over Freya and Tara were also at Loughborough. As was the British Tour Masters (which she also won). Must like it there.

-- Edited by the addict on Monday 5th of February 2018 10:32:18 PM

Maybe she responds well to pink, if the arguably rather garish court surrounds are still as was.

the addict · Tennis legend

Not surprisingly, Beth v Alicia is pretty tight. First set to Beth 6-4 having served for it at 5-2. Alicia a break up inthe third (almost a double break) at *3-1

wimdledont · Challenger level

Pitak the Elder looked competitive to start with, then Rueffer won eleven straight points to claim the first set, and bulldozed straight through the second.

3-6, 0-6

Michael D · All-time great

Interesting to see that Alicia has turned the tables on Beth. She is just one game away from victory now, leading Beth 4-6 6-2 5-0*

Alice Gillan has also started against Karen Barritza. That is still on serve *2-3

blob · All-time great

Alicia completes her comeback 4-6 6-2 6-1
It is the 50th win for GB women in 2018

paulisi · Tennis legend

Slightly surprised by Beth's defeat, but I know she was working on some technical changes recently.

indiana · Tennis legend

Interesting to know and hope that good play from Alicia played a fair part. She advanced well herself last year and as suggested it looked that it might be tight. AlicIa should push up a few notches from being at her CH, clearly much more if she can win a MD round.

Kind of with any GB vs GB match the hope is that both play well and the winner was just better on the day.

the addict · Tennis legend

paulisi wrote:
Slightly surprised by Beth's defeat, but I know she was working on some technical changes recently.

Beth's first tournament after a month training - going to take a few matches to get those changes working

blob · All-time great

Alice goes down to Barritza, 4-6 1-6
Jodie with a quick first set off Olivia N. 6-2

Nell's match just in the first game.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Very pleased for Alicia. She's had some good wins recently. Nice to see some points to back it up.

I imagine both her and Beth are aiming to crack the top-500 and make Wimbly qualis (one way or another), at the very minimum this year. Top 400 is probably their main aim for the year. Beth presumably will have doubles aims too. (We need a few of our girls ranked about 300 to make it up to about 200 by June so that automatic wildcards can then be moved down to the next row). A lot of respect for both players - good luck to them.