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Danny1312 · Strong Club Player

Week 32 - W35 Roehampton, Great Britain - Hard

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

What a SUPER win !

Well done, Ms Dudeney

I SO enjoyed that one (and the kerching)

Alicia has always had such a nice 'stately' style of tennis

Sarah RR looked a little flat, but she's crafy with her leftiness and Alicia really had to stay calm, especially when she was behind in the second set

To beat the top seed, a top-200 player, at home - it doesn't get much better

the addict · Tennis legend

paulisi wrote:
9 out of 16
4 out of 8

Will be quite happy if we get 2 out of 4

You get your wish

QF:- Alicia Dudeney (GBR) WR1152 [WC] def Tiantsoa Sarah Rakotomanga Rajaonah (FRA) WR184 [1] 6-2 7-5

paulisi · Tennis legend

I'll take 1 out of 2 in the semi finals

the addict · Tennis legend

SF:- Alicia Dudeney (GBR) WR1152 [WC] v Yeonwoo Ku (KOR) WR363

SF:- Hiromi Abe (JPN) WR342 [8] v Hannah Klugman (GBR) WR665 [JE]

Alicia projected to be up to around WR850 after today's results and Hannah around WR600, although live rankings aren't an exact science, particularly this week !

the addict · Tennis legend

SF:- Amelia Bissett (GBR) / Jasmine Conway (GBR) UNR (UNR+1037) lost to Mary Lewis (USA) / Brandy Walker (USA) CR901 (460+441) 3-6 2-6

SF:- Naiktha Bains (GBR) / Rutuja Bhosale (IND) CR495 (261+234) [2] def Hiromi Abe (JPN) / Akiko Omae (JPN) CR561 (268+293) [3] 5-7 6-0 10-7

*****

F:- Naiktha Bains (GBR) / Rutuja Bhosale (IND) CR495 (261+234) [2] v Mary Lewis (USA) / Brandy Walker (USA) CR901 (460+441)

Mervatron2 · Challenger level

This is really Hannahs to lose now. Ive seen nothing in the others that so scary.

Hannah does have her off days though.

Toby · Lower Club Player

Anyone know what time the semis are tomorrow?

the addict · Tennis legend

Both on court 5 - Hannah at 10:30 with Alicia to follow. The men are on court 3 at the same time. Doubles finals to follow.
The order of play is on the ITF tournament website

Toby · Lower Club Player

Thanks, will def pop along then for Hannah match.

Lambda · ATP level

Coup Droit wrote:
paulisi wrote:
In addition, Hannah would almost certainly get a wildcard and is only 1 place out of direct entry and Ranah, who was a very late withdrawal again is still on the entry list.
I don't think she wants to use up a wildcard here
But yes, direct entry would be nice
Of course, assuming she needs it - better just to win tomorrow and it all goes away

All academic now. 2 withdrawals from Aldershot, one of which is Ranah, puts Hannah in the main draw unless there is that rare occurrence of both SE spots being taken - aside from Alicia I've not checked to see if anyone else in the qualifying list could still take one.

paulisi · Tennis legend

7 DA plus 4 wildcards and a weak qualifying draw. Should see another loaded GB main draw

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Lambda wrote:
Coup Droit wrote:

paulisi wrote:
In addition, Hannah would almost certainly get a wildcard and is only 1 place out of direct entry and Ranah, who was a very late withdrawal again is still on the entry list.
I don't think she wants to use up a wildcard here
But yes, direct entry would be nice
Of course, assuming she needs it - better just to win tomorrow and it all goes away

All academic now. 2 withdrawals from Aldershot, one of which is Ranah, puts Hannah in the main draw unless there is that rare occurrence of both SE spots being taken - aside from Alicia I've not checked to see if anyone else in the qualifying list could still take one.

Thanks, Lambda smile

I looked at the quali list (as the SEs have to come from there) and the vast majority are Brits so we know they're not still playing anywhere

And I checked the other four or five and there's no one still going

So that looks good

simon381 · Lower Club Player

Beyond Aldershot, Hannah was going to do the junior warmup J300 event at College Park, USA on the 18th but has withdrawn and has entered a W15 in Logrono, Spain and not doing any warm-ups before the US Open Junior tournament. This suggests a switch in focus, only doing the Junior grand slams going forward and concentrating on the main tour.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

simon381 wrote:
Beyond Aldershot, Hannah was going to do the junior warmup J300 event at College Park, USA on the 18th but has withdrawn and has entered a W15 in Logrono, Spain and not doing any warm-ups before the US Open Junior tournament. This suggests a switch in focus, only doing the Junior grand slams going forward and concentrating on the main tour.

In the recent interview I posted in her thread, she was very clear that juniors is just for practice, that's what she and Ben decided a little while back, her word was 'practice'

And that's a decent strategy - it's difficult to find match situations where you can just practice your nes schemes of play, as opposed to worrying about points, the result etc