Week 2 - (ITF 15k) - Fort-de-France (Martinique), France Hard

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

Week 2 - (ITF 15k) - Fort-de-France (Martinique), France Hard

Mervatron2 · Challenger qualifying

Hopefully Emily can kick on in 2019.

the addict · Tennis legend

Ace Ventura wrote:
#NewYearNewEmily

We'll see, needs to step up to W25's asap wink

indiana · Tennis legend

Yes, old Emily was pretty good at whacking lower ranked / unranked players.

A very important year ahead for her, needs to move up a level or two and make that step up to being more competitive and winning against higher ranked players and at W25 plus level.

RedSquirrel · Satellite level

Oh wow, an excellent result from Team Pitak.

QF: Pitak, Aleksandra (GBR) / Pitak, Katarzyna (GBR) UNR def. Vladica BABIC (MNE) / Rosalie VAN DER HOEK (NED) [1] 673 (403+270) 7-6(5) 3-6 10-7

QF: Emily APPLETON (GBR) / Dalayna HEWITT (USA) [4] (502+UNR)/(3+1061) def. Micheline AUBUCHON (USA) / Terri FLEMING(USA) (849+UNR)/(UNR+UNR) 6-2 6-2

We're now guaranteed a finalist

SF: Aleksandra PITAK (GBR) / Katarzyna PITAK (GBR) (UNR)/(168+168) v Emily APPLETON (GBR) / Dalayna HEWITT (USA) [4] (502+UNR)/(3+1061)

Michael D · All-time great

RedSquirrel wrote:

We're now guaranteed a finalist

SF: Aleksandra PITAK (GBR) / Katarzyna PITAK (GBR) (UNR)/(168+168) v Emily APPLETON (GBR) / Dalayna HEWITT (USA) [4] (502+UNR)/(3+1061)

Well, looking at those rankings, I'd like to know just how the seedings are working now.. since I cannot work it out from these. Are Emily + 4th seeds just because one of them has a WTA rank??!!

RedSquirrel · Satellite level

Where both players have a WTA doubles ranking they are seeded first with their combined WTA doubles ranking. The next seeds are teams where just one player has a WTA doubles ranking ordered by the combined ranking of the WTA rank for one player and the ITF rank of the other. Any remaining seeding positions are filled by teams where both players have an ITF ranking.

the addict · Tennis legend

Yes, that's why you need to check both sets of rankings. I looked through the rulebook agan, as I wasn't certain either.

Michael D · All-time great

Ok thanks undertand it now. I was wondering why Hewitt's extremely high ITF ranking was still allowing her and Emily to be seed above the Pitak's but understand now that it is solely because Emily has a WTA doubles ranking and the Pitaks don't.

indiana · Tennis legend

Hope everyone is getting genned up for the upcoming test on all the rankings, acceptance, seedings and draw implications of the introduction of the ITF transition tour

TomTraubert · Futures level

emily & pitak jr both a set and at leest a break up

TomTraubert · Futures level

& both win within minutes of each other
good starts

Michael D · All-time great

Yes a good win for Ola especially smile

R16: PITAK, Aleksandra (GBR) UNR/ITF 477 beat FLEMING, Terri (USA) Q UNR 6-4 6-3
R16: APPLETON, Emily (GBR) [5] 740/25 beat MINA, Brandy (FRA) UNR/UNR (CH:727 April 15) 7-6(5) 6-1

the addict · Tennis legend

Looks very much as if Emily is out to consolidate her ITF ranking, which will easily get her into any W25's that she wishes to enter. A tournament win here would get her up to around ITF15 (depending on other results). Currently she is first alt in one tournament, but would anyway get into all but one of the remaining W25's this month on her current ranking.

So just what the ITF were aiming at wink

Michael D · All-time great

the addict wrote:
Looks very much as if Emily is out to consolidate her ITF ranking, which will easily get her into any W25's that she wishes to enter. A tournament win here would get her up to around ITF15 (depending on other results). Currently she is first alt in one tournament, but would anyway get into all but one of the remaining W25's this month on her current ranking.

So just what the ITF were aiming at

Yes meanwhile Fran Jones, who is still has a higher WTA ranking than Emily (and more W25 wins) is starting to find herself lower on entry lists than Emily because her ITF ranking is lower.