British Tennis Forum - Celebrating 20 Years!

Jan · Hall of fame

Weeks 27 & 28 - The Championships, Wimbledon (Womens') (grass) - main draw

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Super !

PaulM · Tennis legend

Yes Katie. Those last two games were fantastic

Jajon · Club Coach

Woooo! Also winnable 2R icl

markymc1983 · Club Coach

So glad she held her nerve. Seems like a lovely lady also

paulisi · Tennis legend

Very good from Katie to stay strong in the final set.

It worries me that bar the top 4 GB players, I don't see anyone capable of climbing up to the top 100 in the next couple of years, bar Jodie
The experienced players are dropping back and the young pretenders are not ready yet.

9vicman · Futures qualifying

paulisi wrote:
Very good from Katie to stay strong in the final set.

It worries me that bar the top 4 GB players, I don't see anyone capable of climbing up to the top 100 in the next couple of years, bar Jodie
The experienced players are dropping back and the young pretenders are not ready yet.

I was worried in the 90s that no British player ever again would reach the Top 100.

9vicman · Futures qualifying

paulisi wrote:
Very good from Katie to stay strong in the final set.

It worries me that bar the top 4 GB players, I don't see anyone capable of climbing up to the top 100 in the next couple of years, bar Jodie
The experienced players are dropping back and the young pretenders are not ready yet.

Well done Katie, but pretty horrible tennis. Maybe they were too similar: plenty of power but not much finesse.

Danny1312 · Intermediate Club Player

Emma very complimentary of Mimi in her interview and very happy lovely to see :)

Peter too · Tennis legend

Summary so far:-

R1: Emma Raducanu (GBR) WR40 def Mingge Xu (GBR) WC WR318 {17yo JCH=3} 6-3 6-3
R1: Katie Boulter (GBR) WR43 v Paula Badosa (ESP) [9] WR9 6-2 3-6 6-4
R1: Hannah Klugman (GBR) WC WR573 {16yo JCH=3} lost to Leylah Fernandez (CAN) [29] WR38 1-6 3-6
R1: Harriet Dart (GBR) WC WR152 lost to Dalma Galfi (HUN) WR110 6-3 3-6 5-7
R1: Sonay Kartal (GBR) WR51 def Jelena Ostapenko (LAT) [20] WR21 7-5 2-6 6-2
R1: Mika Stojsavljevic (GBR) WC WR796 {16yo JCH=5} lost to Ashlyn Krueger (USA) [31] WR31 3-6 2-6

R2: Emma Raducanu (GBR) WR40 v Marketa Vondrousova (CZE) WR73
R2: Katie Boulter (GBR) WR43 v Solana Sierra (ARG) WR101
R2: Sonay Kartal (GBR) WR51 v Viktoriya Tomova (BUL) WR111

Emma has played Marketa three times, beating her at Wimbledon in 2021 but losing to her in the BJK cup in 2022 and losing to her in Abu Dhabi in 2025.

-- Edited by Peter too on Monday 30th of June 2025 08:10:07 PM

KK · Club Coach

paulisi wrote:
Very good from Katie to stay strong in the final set.

It worries me that bar the top 4 GB players, I don't see anyone capable of climbing up to the top 100 in the next couple of years, bar Jodie
The experienced players are dropping back and the young pretenders are not ready yet.

What about a couple of the men coming out of college?

Chris · Junior player

Who is Jodie Kartal ?

9vicman · Futures qualifying

Coup Droit wrote:
9vicman wrote:
Our chats in this forum about Harriet are more emotive than about any other player. She has the ability to make people feel. No indifference.
I think Emma engenders far stronger and varying emotions than Harriet
I'm glad no one was saying anything nasty about Harriet
But if people are just pointing out that she looked morose on the court, then that's what this forum is for, too - to give information and impressions, to make other readers want to read it

Yes definitely far more varying emotions for Emma: some people are quite positive about her.

Yes, agree that this forum is for information and impressions, and it's my impression that people tend to pile on Harriet. But at least we've stopped speculating on her upbringing and behaviour as a child.

Var · Futures qualifying

9vicman wrote:
paulisi wrote:
Very good from Katie to stay strong in the final set.

It worries me that bar the top 4 GB players, I don't see anyone capable of climbing up to the top 100 in the next couple of years, bar Jodie
The experienced players are dropping back and the young pretenders are not ready yet.
I was worried in the 90s that no British player ever again would reach the Top 100.

Too early to say. Mimi has climbed 300 places. I dont think you can ask more than that TBH. Mika and Hannah are a year behind and just need the experience at pro level when they are ready. Mimi has talked about how she is still,limited at 17 as to how many matches she can play. That will change when she is 18 in September. Kind of think Mimi might be in a Sonay trajectory but lets see what happens. Of course there will be some who come through as well that still arent on the radar.

wimbledont · Intermediate Club Player

So all 3 of our DAs won, taking down seeds 9 and 20. KB claimed the biggest scalp of the day, across the whole of this half of the draw.

None of our WCs won, but none were completely outclassed.

The 3 youngsters particularly all put up a decent showing, all playing against top 50 players, and gaining really valuable experience and more prize money to invest than they could sanely hope to generate in a couple of years playing ITFs.

Really good day.