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seagull · Tennis legend

Week 25 - WTA250 - Eastbourne, Great Britain - Grass

PaulM · Tennis legend

Alicia got a bit of a schooling unfortunately, heavy 6-0 6-3 defeat.

paulisi · Tennis legend

PaulM wrote:
Alicia got a bit of a schooling unfortunately, heavy 6-0 6-3 defeat.

She's had a big jump in the rankings this year and i'd expect her to plateau and consolidate her ranking around the 200's.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

paulisi wrote:
PaulM wrote:
Alicia got a bit of a schooling unfortunately, heavy 6-0 6-3 defeat.
She's had a big jump in the rankings this year and i'd expect her to plateau and consolidate her ranking around the 200's.

Ahhh, but when she was about 450 you said you saw her path purely in doubles and didn't think she had much upside in singles

So you know that Alicia is now going to jump 100 places

PaulM · Tennis legend

Harriet from *5-3 in the third to *5-5

We've been here too many times before...

sammmm · Lower Club Player

And rather predictably gets broken again so Sonmez is serving for the match at 6-5

PaulM · Tennis legend

Harriet has now lost 3 of her last 4 matches 7-5 in the third. Ouch.

In tears before it was even over. Just zero belief.

sammmm · Lower Club Player

you knew what was going to happen the moment she got broken serving for it, mental fragility has been the story of Harriet's career and I don't take pleasure in saying that

LordBrownof · Challenger qualifying

I don't think Harriet has had a coach for a while. For the past year, I've only seen her boyfriend in her box - who I don't think has any connection to tennis (but I might be wrong).

Lambda · Grand Slam Champion

PaulM wrote:
Alicia got a bit of a schooling unfortunately, heavy 6-0 6-3 defeat.

Well, wild cards are for learning so all good. I'm sure she learnt lots.

wolf · Tennis legend

I watched the second half of Maia and Isabelle's match. I've never seen them play so well and it was a really fun match which they won in a MTB.

Freya and Eden lost in 3 sets.

the addict · Tennis legend

Roundup for the record

R1:- Zeynep Sonmez (TUR) WR54 [Q3] def Harriet Dart (GBR) WR152 [WC] 4-6 6-2 7-5

R1:- Jessica Bouzas Maneiro (ESP) WR48 def Alicia Dudeney (GBR) WR246 6-0 6-3

the addict · Tennis legend

Doubles

L16:- Asia Muhammad (USA) / Fanny Stollar (HUN) CR76 (40+36) [4] def Freya Christie (GBR) / Eden Silva (GBR) CR301 (145+156) [WC] 3-6 6-3 10-5

L16:- Isabelle Haverlag (NED) / Maia Lumsden (GBR) CR137 (68+69) def Mariia Kozyreva (***) / Katarzyna Pitar (POL) CR125 (63+62) 3-6 6-4 10-4

*****

QF:- Isabelle Haverlag (NED) / Maia Lumsden (GBR) CR137 (68+69) v Eudice Chong (HKG) / Janice Tjen (INA) CR105 (61+44)

dodrade · Futures qualifying

PaulM wrote:
Harriet has now lost 3 of her last 4 matches 7-5 in the third. Ouch.

In tears before it was even over. Just zero belief.

It's rather worrying to see a player about to turn 30 repeatedly break down in tears during matches, she seems normal off-court but still emotionally immature on it when things go wrong.

JonH · Tennis legend

dodrade wrote:
PaulM wrote:
Harriet has now lost 3 of her last 4 matches 7-5 in the third. Ouch.

In tears before it was even over. Just zero belief.
It's rather worrying to see a player about to turn 30 repeatedly break down in tears during matches, she seems normal off-court but still emotionally immature on it when things go wrong.

It also feels like it must be very little fun for her - any job you do, it should hopefully be more fun than not, otherwise it becomes a real slog. And almost better to do something else that is fun.