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indiana · Tennis legend

Week 25 - WTA250 - Nottingham, Grass

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Well, even if you study A levels in your free time, you've still got to do the exams at the time everyone else does

Yes, impressive

Crispy · Strong Club Player

Really impressed with Mimi; some fantastic weapons, and really great to see her try and succeed in bossing the points. However she fares this grass court season, it's what we want to see.

-- Edited by Crispy on Thursday 19th of June 2025 12:28:01 PM

Danny1312 · Intermediate Club Player

From what I remember from her last grass season it's a massive step up regardless! Remember her in last years qualifying and she didn't look ready but looks comfortable now well done to her!

wimbledont · Intermediate Club Player

Sonay 4-3* Katie

This is streamed on the beeb sportspage.

www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/live/cy0k6z8y7y2t

B00thy · Strong Club Player

Crispy wrote:
Really impressed with Mimi; some fantastic weapons, and really great to see her try and succeed in bossing the points. However she fares this grass court season, it's what we want to see.

-- Edited by Crispy on Thursday 19th of June 2025 12:28:01 PM

I have just rewound the BBC stream and watched her first set. This is the first time I have watched her for quite a while and with the best quality TV and I'm very impressed with her.

Var · Futures qualifying

Always believed in Mimi. Though got the impression from her junior results that hard courts were her best surface. Super to see her starting to make great strides. Well done Mimi!

markymc1983 · Club Coach

Watching Katie and Sonay, the inconsistency of Katies game is getting quite worrying really. Has Bilijana left her team as the commentator has frequently mentioned that Damian Rodriguez is her coach, I thought he was her hitting partner?

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Var wrote:
Always believed in Mimi. Though got the impression from her junior results that hard courts were her best surface. Super to see her starting to make great strides. Well done Mimi!

i saw her for the first time on grass

Playing Nationals the year it was done at Surbiton

She was playing Eva Shaw - and was only 13 or 14 years old !

As paulisi says, the big forehand and serve really stood out - that ball stayed hit !

And she was a strong athletic girl for her age - dwarfed the others

Eva won but Mimi got a 'player-to-be-watched' in everyone's book that day, I'm sure biggrin

The others have caught up in size but her movement has got a lot better, so the power now has more control. And, yes, she likes her slice

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Almost the forgotten match - Katie and Sonay in a real battle at 5 all final set

markymc1983 · Club Coach

Its an awful match neither deserve a QF place tbf.

Danny1312 · Intermediate Club Player

markymc1983 wrote:
Its an awful match neither deserve a QF place tbf.

But one shall get one! It's gotten very scrappy Sonay really should've won it but think it's Katie's now.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Katie did it- that was a close one

PaulM · Tennis legend

Classicly terrible all-GB match but enthralling in its own way. Katie did well to come through, probably good she did.

Jeff Stelling · Club Coach

Katie by far the more enterprising and entertaining to watch (at least in that match)

-- Edited by Jeff Stelling on Thursday 19th of June 2025 03:53:25 PM