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Tennpar · Club Coach

RE: Week 19 – ITF W75 - Kurume, Japan - Carpet

the addict · Tennis legend

Well done Katie. The biggest title of her career since she won two W60's back in 2022, and her 18th ITF singles title

B00thy · County player

What a great match from Katie! She started with the intensity she finished with in the semi-final, although a serving was a little off to begin with, and they exchanged a few breaks. It was a good level after that, but Katie's right leg slipped away from her a bit in the 11th game and it looked like she'd tweaked it, although not too badly. Indeed, it didn't seem to affect her much at all. She had a MTO after the 1st set ended. In the second set there was no evidence of her having an injury, and if anything her movement around the court got better.

This is the best I've seen Katie play for a long while and I didn't see any evidence of a worrying injury. I'm sure she'll get some more work on the leg after the match and that hopefully she'll be fine for the next tournament. You never can tell with Katie but crossing fingers. A great win! biggrin biggrin

dodrade · Futures qualifying

the addict wrote:
Well done Katie. The biggest title of her career since she won two W60's back in 2022, and her 18th ITF singles title

Has any other player won as many ITF titles without reaching the Top 100? Shows how much injuries have held back her career.

Blue_Belle · Pro player

Where's Andy Parker gone? He must be made up at Katie's success these past few weeks.
Must admit, I was a doubter about those injuries finally being sorted. But maybe....

seagull · Tennis legend

Katy has as expected pulled out of this weeks event.

the addict · Tennis legend

seagull wrote:
Katy has as expected pulled out of this weeks event.

That is Katie (Swan) as opposed to Katy (Dunne)

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Coup Droit wrote:
emmsie69 wrote:
Still under 8 hrs total match time. It's a W100 next week so I think she should play if she feels good. With most of the top 200 otherwise engaged, it's an opportunity to move further up the rankings.
Yes, that's important
And she'll be 4th seed, I think, so should get easier matches at the start
BUT, from what I understand, she's been having physio and MTOs during the last few matches so obviously is putting her body under strain
And she doesn't really need to go up the rankings now, as in, the grass season - for her (and other brits) - isn't really based off rankings
I guess we'll find out soon

And she has indeed withdrawn, as expected

ADD: just seen that it's already posted by seagull smile

-- Edited by Coup Droit on Monday 18th of May 2026 09:13:12 AM

foobarbaz · Club Coach

dodrade wrote:
the addict wrote:
Well done Katie. The biggest title of her career since she won two W60's back in 2022, and her 18th ITF singles title
Has any other player won as many ITF titles without reaching the Top 100? Shows how much injuries have held back her career.

It's a monumental achievement by Swan to go from being unable to play, and unsure whether to continue professional tennis (falling out of the rankings completely), to turn things around, gain fitness, form, and confidence to begin winning matches, then regain the stamina to win tournaments, and consequently rise meteorically through the professional ranks, this last 18 months. She's beaten some very good players in that time, and given others (notably Osaka) a good run for their money. This all whilst managing the risk of further injury-related downtime.