Let's hear it for Tereza! She's 17 years old (born in November 1990). According to her ITF file, she was born in Pula but lives in Porec.
She reached her highest rank so far in May 2007, at #738. After that she didn't play for almost a year, until April of this yar (school?) so she lost her ranking.
She's now back in action and seems to be playing well. Last month, she reached the SF at the $10K in Mostar and the final at the $10K in Budva. This week, she's playing at the $10K in Torino. She qualified easily, winning both her qualie matches 60 60. The best part is that yesterday in the main draw, she won her first-round match against the #2 seed, Maria Irigoyen (#251 in the world), very easily: 61 61. Very impressive! Given that result, her next match, against Nancy Rustignoli (#819; never heard of her), should be very winnable.
With her first-round win yesterday, she'll be able to re-enter the rankings at around 860. Hopefully she'll keep winning this week and move up even higher than that.
Tereza will play against Ines FERRER-SUAREZ (WTA 216), first round in Podgorica. Second round probably against Mailen Auroux. This is solid draw and good chance for quarterfinal
A+ for the effort If we consider it's the same player against which Petra played that match I had a misfortune to watch live... Anyway, good luck next week!
Tereza is definately doing good lately, this being her 3rd consecutive QF on a 50k. But this next match against Svitolina is pretty important cause this is the sort of opposition that Tereza needs to get acustomed to defeating if she wants to keep moving forward.
Svitolina qualified for USO this year, beating Savchuk, LDB and Savinykh along the way, before losing to Ivanovic, so it'll definately be a challenge. But here's the deal; Tereza has accumulated many results where she got a similar amount of points as for reaching this QF, and this week she's even defending a 10k title, so if she loses she'll practically gain nothing. Even if she weren't defending anything, these points would move her only 4-5 spots ahead, while even a semi wouldn't get her more than 10 spots forward.
She is approaching another "make or break moment", cause soon she'll have to reach another level again, in order to continue her progress. In three weeks she'll again be defending more than a dozen points and between mid November and mid December around 50. So a lot of job is ahead, and plenty at stake. Her place in the Melbourne qualies is not in danger, but her place in the top 200 definately is, if she doesn't do well in the next 10 weeks. Hope she's ready for it all.
Tereza is definately doing good lately, this being her 3rd consecutive QF on a 50k. But this next match against Svitolina is pretty important cause this is the sort of opposition that Tereza needs to get acustomed to defeating if she wants to keep moving forward.
Svitolina qualified for USO this year, beating Savchuk, LDB and Savinykh along the way, before losing to Ivanovic, so it'll definately be a challenge. But here's the deal; Tereza has accumulated many results where she got a similar amount of points as for reaching this QF, and this week she's even defending a 10k title, so if she loses she'll practically gain nothing. Even if she weren't defending anything, these points would move her only 4-5 spots ahead, while even a semi wouldn't get her more than 10 spots forward.
She is approaching another "make or break moment", cause soon she'll have to reach another level again, in order to continue her progress. In three weeks she'll again be defending more than a dozen points and between mid November and mid December around 50. So a lot of job is ahead, and plenty at stake. Her place in the Melbourne qualies is not in danger, but her place in the top 200 definately is, if she doesn't do well in the next 10 weeks. Hope she's ready for it all.
Everything you say is true, ma re. I'm hopeful that Tereza can rise to meet the next challenges ahead of her, as she has done until now. In the last few months she has played better opponents than ever before. She has beaten some of them, and she appears to learn from her defeats.
I'm not saying Tereza will become a top 50 player, but top 150 is doable. Even if she doesn't defend any points until the end of 2012 (which is unlikely), she'll drop down to only about 210, which isn't terrible. After that, she's not defending any points until early March, so she has plenty of time to make up for it. Beyond that her points are extremely well distributed among tournaments and throughout the year. That greatly reduces the pressure on her to do well at any one tournament.
By the way, a good, achievable goal for Tereza for next year would be to win 1-2 matches at GS qualies (QR1 is worth 40 points).
Another reason to feel good about Tereza's progress: the player she lost to at $50K Telavi--Svitolina, in the QF--went on to win the title. And she did it easily, losing only 19 games in five matches.
Looks like we have an interesting start to 2013 in store for us when it comes to our #4, cause she's one of the top seeds in a Chinese 50k, but also the 4th alternate in Shenzhen WTA Tereza means business
Looks like we have an interesting start to 2013 in store for us when it comes to our #4, cause she's one of the top seeds in a Chinese 50k, but also the 4th alternate in Shenzhen WTA Tereza means business
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Yeah Tereza is in bit of a slump if that is correct way to say it. :lol:
But she still ended year ranked in good position for new season.
New year could mean new form maybe. :shrug:
Where did you find the info? Folks at the AO thread of this forum say she's 92nd on the q-list (88 get in directly) and the info was last updated yesterday, so unless they messed up something...
Thanks! Yeah, sometimes you really have to read EVERY page carefully.
It'll be interesting to see if we get something better from the qualies this year, although if she would repeat Lucic's QR2 from 2012 it would still be nice.
(3)Greta Arn (HUN) v Akiko Omae (JPN)
(wc)Storm Sanders (AUS) v Yuliya Beygelzimer (UKR)
Irina Khromacheva (RUS) v Tereza Mrdeza (CRO)
Julia Glushko (ISR) v (23)Mariana Duque-Marino (COL)
Khromancheva is just 17 years old and ranked around 190, which would make it seem as if she is a great draw for Tereza, given that she is more experienced but...
- former junior #1
- 3 doubles junior grand slam titles (plus 2 doubles and one singles final)
- 3 ITF titles (of which one 25k; straight sets vs Puig)
- a lefty
nuff said. Good luck Tereza
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