Week 49 - ITF (W15) Norman, USA Hard

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Week 49 - ITF (W15) Norman, USA Hard

DF · Tennis legend

Nell lost 5-7 5-7

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Part of you feels 'real shame', as she was 4-0 up in the second and she 'should' have won at least that set and forced a decider.

But to lose 5-7 5-7 to the top seed is a very creditable performance. So well done on that.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

But a win for Jasmine

And hard fought too:

6-7(4) 7-5 6-3

Well done !

Michael D · All-time great

That was a great effort from Nell, though no doubt she will be disappointed she did not force that decider. Still she was playing someone close to the top 500.
And a wonderful win for Jamine in just over 2.5 hours. Depending on how much gas she has left in the tank Jasmine may have a good chance in her next match too though Failla did put out the 2nd seed in the first round.

R16: Nell MILLER (GBR) [Q] UNR/1948 lost to Pamela MONTEZ (USA) [1] 510 (CH:454 (Sept 19) 5-7 5-7
R16: Jasmine Amber ASGHAR (GBR) [Q] UNR/UNR def Madeleine KOBELT (USA) 1115/740 (CH:893 Nov 16) 6-7(4) 7-5 6-3

QF: Jasmine Amber ASGHAR (GBR) [Q] UNR/UNR vs Jessica FAILLA (USA) 999 (CH:691 Sept 16)

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Nell and partner come through a nail-biter in the doubles though, winning the MTB 10-8 :)

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Jasmine and partner lost her doubles though, 7-6(5) 6-2

Michael D · All-time great

From both Nell's and Jasmine's performances here, one thing this tournament in far away Oklahoma shows is the value of W15 tournaments to help players get a foot on the ranking ladder. Both these two players should have WTA rankings. They are good enough and have had rankings previously, losing them only because of the lack of appropriate playing opportunities.

I wonder if anyone at the LTA even knows these two are playing here this week, or can care a toss? It really does show up the myopia and obstinacy in the LTA's thinking that it still won't reconsider the doing away with all tournaments in the UK at this level.

telstar · Strong Club Player

Jas is playing university tennis in Oklahoma and Nell is in Texas.

Tennpar · Club Coach

Michael D wrote:
From both Nell's and Jasmine's performances here, one thing this tournament in far away Oklahoma shows is the value of W15 tournaments to help players get a foot on the ranking ladder. Both these two players should have WTA rankings. They are good enough and have had rankings previously, losing them only because of the lack of appropriate playing opportunities.

I wonder if anyone at the LTA even knows these two are playing here this week, or can care a toss? It really does show up the myopia and obstinacy in the LTA's thinking that it still won't reconsider the doing away with all tournaments in the UK at this level.

The LTA have sent out this email today as to how they 'recognise successful performance in the UK and provide the opportunity for players to earn wild cards into our Professional events in 2020'.

In 2020, there will once again be 4 distinct swings of Pro Series events (February, April, July/August, and September). The intention of which is to provide more opportunities for our best British players to compete, earn ranking points and win prize money in this country.

Alongside each of the ITF World Tennis Tour swings there will again be a number of wild card feed up opportunities linked to domestic British events. The purpose of these is to recognise successful performance in the UK and to provide the opportunity for players to earn wild cards into our Professional events in 2020.

The list below outlines the feed ups that are available and also stipulates any conditions associated with them (please note only players recognised by the ITF as GBR are eligible for these feed ups):

British Tour event

GB Pro Series event

LTA British Tour Loughborough 2 (2-5 January 2020) TIER 1

Women: Winner into qualifying of GB Pro Series Glasgow (week 7) or

GB Pro Series Sunderland (week 8) *

LTA British Tour Bath (3-8 February 2020) PREMIER TIER

Women: Winner into main draw/runner-up into qualifying

GB Pro Series Glasgow (week 7) or GB Pro Series Sunderland (week 8) *

LTA British Tour Bolton (23-28 March 2020) TIER 1

Women: Winner into main draw/runner-up into qualifying

GB Pro Series Loughborough (week 15) or GB Pro Series Edgbaston (week 16) *

LTA British Tour North Oxford (25-30 May 2020) PREMIER TIER

Women: Winner into qualifying of Manchester Trophy or Ilkley Trophy *

LTA British Tour Paddington (6-11 July 2020) PREMIER TIER

Further information to follow

LTA British Tour Sutton (August 2020) PREMIER TIER

Further information to follow

LTA British Tour ( September 2020) PREMIER TIER

Further information to follow

*Which event is at the discretion of the LTA Womens Performance Team. Players need to make a timely request to Alastair Lawrance (Alastair.lawrance@lta.org.uk) in the Performance Team

For the first swing of womens GB Pro Series events in February there will also be wild card feeds from the following Progress Tour events

Progress Tour event

GB Pro Series event

Cardiff Metropolitan University (main draw 6 & 7 January 2020)

Women: Winner into main draw/runner-up into qualifying

GB Pro Series Glasgow (week 7) or GB Pro Series Sunderland (week 8) *

Millfield (main draw 31 January-2 February 2020)

Women: Winner into into qualifying

GB Pro Series Glasgow (week 7) or GB Pro Series Sunderland (week 8) *

*Which event is at the discretion of the LTA Womens Performance Team. Players need to make a timely request to Alastair Lawrance in the Performance Team

This information is also available on the LTA Website, but if you have any questions then please email alastair.lawrance@lta.org.uk

Kind Regards

Alastair Lawrance
Player Pathway Administrator

the addict · Tennis legend

Doubles roundup - missed some earlier, so repeating it all

L16:- Jasmine Amber Asghar (GBR) / Oleksandra Korashvili (UKR) [WC] def Liga Dekmeijere (LAT) / Maria Kononova (RUS) 6-0 6-2
L16:- Lisa Mays (AUS) / Nell Miller (GBR) def Lorraine M. Guillermo(USA) / Kennedy Shaffer (USA) [2] 7-6(3) 4-6 10-8

QF:- Jasmine Amber Asghar (GBR) / Oleksandra Korashvili(UKR) [WC] LOST TO Carmen Corley (USA) / Ivana Corley (USA) 7-6(5) 6-2
QF:- Lisa Mays (AUS) / Nell Miller (GBR) def Keisha R Clousing (USA) / Emma Davis (USA) 4-6 6-3 10-8

SF:- Lisa Mays (AUS) / Nell Miller (GBR) v Emerald Able (USA) / Sophie Adams (USA)

Edit:- Rankings removed, as got the ITF and WTA rankings mixed up on the new ITF website

-- Edited by the addict on Friday 6th of December 2019 08:02:17 PM

DF · Tennis legend

Jasmine lost 3-6 4-6

the addict · Tennis legend

SF:- Lisa Mays (AUS) / Nell Miller (GBR) def Emerald Able (USA) / Sophie Adams (USA) 6-2 7-5 smile

the addict · Tennis legend

F:- Lisa Mays (AUS) / Nell Miller (GBR) v Carmen Corley (USA) / Ivana Corley (USA)

Michael D · All-time great

Tennpar wrote:
Michael D wrote:
From both Nell's and Jasmine's performances here, one thing this tournament in far away Oklahoma shows is the value of W15 tournaments to help players get a foot on the ranking ladder. Both these two players should have WTA rankings. They are good enough and have had rankings previously, losing them only because of the lack of appropriate playing opportunities.

I wonder if anyone at the LTA even knows these two are playing here this week, or can care a toss? It really does show up the myopia and obstinacy in the LTA's thinking that it still won't reconsider the doing away with all tournaments in the UK at this level.
The LTA have sent out this email today as to how they 'recognise successful performance in the UK and provide the opportunity for players to earn wild cards into our Professional events in 2020'.

A lot simpler if they just had a few W15 tournaments!!!