Week 43 - ITF (W25) - Nanning, China - Hard

Michael D · All-time great

Week 43 - ITF (W25) - Nanning, China - Hard

Michael D · All-time great

Emily's first opponent here received a walkover in her first round; expect the match to be relatively tight.

QR2: Emily WEBLEY-SMITH (GBR) [q8] 535 vs Ying ZHANG (CHN) 664 (CH:356 March 17)

Michael D · All-time great

Well the match was tight - and Emily was on the losing end of it

So much harder this week for Emily in singles, compared with the draws she had last week that allowed her to garner 19 pts...

Let's hope its a better week for the doubles

QR2: Emily WEBLEY-SMITH (GBR) [q8] 535 lost to Ying ZHANG (CHN) 664 (CH:356 March 17) 4-6 6-0 5-10

Michael D · All-time great

For the doubles, Emily and Sofia are top seeds this week and face a Chinese WC pair first up.

PaulM · Tennis legend

From *1-4 to *5-4 30-0

But lose the next 4 points

5-5*

PaulM · Tennis legend

Missed a deuce point

*5-6

Now a medical timeout

PaulM · Tennis legend

Having fought back in the first, two doubles in the tiebreaker see them *3-6 down.

Recover to 6-6*, *7-6

Boom. First set sneaked 7-6(6)

Babfive · Satellite level

*4-4 in the second.

PaulM · Tennis legend

Win it 7-6(6) 6-4

Babfive · Satellite level

PaulM wrote:
Win it 7-6(6) 6-4

Phew! I was a bit worried about the match going to a mtb.

Michael D · All-time great

Sofia and Emily made much more of a meal of that than I expected. One of their next opponents is likely to be Valerie Savinykh who partnered Harriet last week until Harriet withdrew. For some reason Valerie's match was the only R16 match held over until tomorrow.

R16: Sofia SHAPATAVA/ Emily WEBLEY-SMITH (GEO/GBR) [1] 348 (169+179) def Meiqi GUO/ Mei Xu WU (CHN/CHN) [WC] 777 (400+377) 7-6(6) 6-4

the addict · Tennis legend

Well it wasn't Valeria, as she and her partner lost in the first round to a chinese pair. But Sofia and Emily are through to the semifinal as they were given a walkover.

QF:- Sofia SHAPATAVA/ Emily WEBLEY-SMITH (GEO/GBR) [1] 348 (169+179) "defeated" Shuyue MA (CHN) / Meiling WANG (CHN) CR1410 (738+672) by Walkover

SF:- Sofia SHAPATAVA/ Emily WEBLEY-SMITH (GEO/GBR) [1] 348 (169+179) v Siqi CAO / Dan Ni WANG (CHN/CHN) CR925 (507+418)

Michael D · All-time great

Sadly Emily and Sofia have lost to the Chinese alt pair... not a very good result this

SF:- Sofia SHAPATAVA/ Emily WEBLEY-SMITH (GEO/GBR) [1] 348 (169+179) lost to Siqi CAO / Dan Ni WANG (CHN/CHN) [ALT} CR925 (507+418) 4-6 6-2 6-10

Jaggy1876 · Grand Slam Champion

The lottery of doubles prevails. Another example Im afraid Michael.

indiana · Tennis legend

Pity for Em & Sofia.

Em now though has nothing to defend until next April. So a real window to keep pushing up her doubles ranking. For now that would be whenever she exceeds 18 points, her bottom 2 counters.