Holly Hutchinson:



Timely, as she's off to the US on a tennis scholarship in the, um, fall.

 

Lots of British interest in Surbiton main draw - a mixture of direct entrants, qualifiers, lucky losers and wild cards.

I'm just going to C&P the draw from the tournament thread, as it's the easiest way to see where all the Brits are placed:


(1)Ying-Ying Duan (CHN) v Sanaz Marand (USA)
Jaimee Fourlis (AUS) v Marina Melnikova (RUS)
Martina Caregaro (ITA) v Sherazad Reix (FRA)
(7)Robin Anderson (USA) v (wc)Harriet Dart (GBR)

(3)Lesley Kerkhove (NED) v Maria Sanchez (USA)
Catalina Pella (ARG) v Tereza Mrdeza (CRO)
Storm Sanders (AUS) v Julia Terziyska (BUL)
(8)Elitsa Kostova (BUL) v (Q)Emily Arbuthnott (GBR)

(5)Mayo Hibi (JPN) v (Q)Georgina Axon (GBR)
Katy Dunne (GBR) v Stephanie Foretz (FRA)
(LL)Emma Hurst (GBR) v Alison Bai (AUS)
(4)An-Sophie Mestach (BEL) v (Q)Magdalena Frech (POL)

(6)Ons Jabeur (TUN) v (SR)Melanie Oudin (USA)
(Q)Alexandra Stevenson (USA) v (wc)Emily Appleton (GBR)
(wc)Gabriella Taylor (GBR) v Renata Zarazua (MEX)
(2)Kai-Chen Chang (TPE) v (wc)Samantha Murray (GBR)

 

The three Brits at the bottom of the draw won, so Emily Appleton will play Mel Oudin, and Gabi and Sam will play each other.

The other Brits lost.

Doubles draw (and some results)


(1)Mestach/Sanchez (BEL/USA) v BYE
Hepburn/Phillips (GBR/GBR) d. Ghodrati/Harrington (GBR/GBR) 61 06 10-6
(4)Anderson/Bai (USA/AUS) v Miyazaki/Weymouth (JPN/GBR)
Murray/Taylor (GBR/GBR) v Caregaro/Mrdeza (ITA/CRO)

Marand/Oudin (USA/USA) d. Eklund/Stevenson (FIN/USA) 63 64
(3)Pella/Reix (ARG/FRA) d. Pitak/Pitak (GBR/GBR) 61 62
Grey/Terziyska (GBR/BUL) v Dart/Dunne (GBR/GBR)
(2)Kostova/Zarazua (BUL/MEX) v Appleton/Arbuthnott (GBR/GBR)

 

Anyone know much abut Suzy Larkin? Made a couple of QF lately in Antalya! No real junior career and hasnt played since 2007

 

I guess Google has rejigged its page rankings in light of recent interest and pushed this six year old article, which includes some biographical information, up its pecking order: Tennis ace Suzy nets title treble - Hastings and St. Leonards Observer

 

Ructions over the team selection for the Sussex Winter Cup team 5 years ago.

IIRC, she was quite a big fish in the small pool of Sussex junior tennis back in the day, but a quick google search I did just now failed to find any local news articles. You'll be able to find her linkedin profile, though, which shows she graduated last year, and has been coaching tennis all the while.

 

Hepburn/Phillips and Dart/Dunne reached the doubles quarters at Surbiton. Appleton/Arbuthnott lost in the semis. Murray lost to Oudin in the singles. All Brit interest snuffed out.

 

Wild Card play-offs start tomorrow, hopefully.

British Tennis - LTA Wimbledon Wildcard Play Offs 2016 - General

 

Eastbourne QWCs for Robson, Burrage, Christie and Dunne:

(1)Puig v (wc)Christie
Linette v (16)Allertova

(4)Brengle v (wc)Dunne
(wc)Robson v (9)McHale

(7)Lepchenko v Cirstea
(wc)Burrage v (14)Zheng

Tough draw. All unseeded players face seeds in R1, and the lowest seed is Allertova, ranked 80. Top seed Puig is ranked 43.

None of our WC girls are ranked above 280, so that's a massive gulf in quality.

 

Just noticed that Dominique Covington is seeded in 10K qualifying this week, which must mean she earned her first WTA ranking last Monday.

EDIT: and in her first match as a ranked player, she got double-bagelled by her unranked opponent.

 

A peek behind the curtain.

And good luck to you if you can spot Laura.

 

Suzy Larkin has beaten the 5th seed at Antalya 10K (her opponent retired at the beginning of the second set), and so will enter the rankings after Wimbledon. Astonishing.

 

And now Larkin is one set away from a pro final.

 

This is happening, people.

Larkin (Q) (GBR) 6-4 4-0 Romeo (FRA) [2]

 

Little choke. but Suzy wins 4 & 2 and faces sixth seed Zlochova in tomorrow's final.

 

Suzy subsides 4 & 6 in the final.

 

Battle of the British Lauras at Lisbon 10K R1 right now. Sainsbury has just come back from 2-4 down final set to level up against Deigman. 8 more points and she earns a WTA ranking.

 

Sainsbury d. Deigman 2-6 6-4 6-4 and if my calculations are correct will enter the WTA rankings in 12 days' time. Assuming she loses tomorrow, it won't be like Larkin's new ranking, she'll be right at the bottom of the heap in the thousands, but a ranking nonetheless.

 

An up to date Larkin article with some new biographical information: St Leonards ace stars in Turkey - Hastings and St. Leonards Observer

 

 

Lauryn John-Baptiste earns a WTA ranking at the Roehampton 10K.

 

Doubles spesh Olivia Nicholls beats her partner Grey at the Sheffield 10k to earn a singles ranking.

 

Isn't it great to have these British 10Ks?

Eden Richardson earns a WTA ranking in Shrewsbury. (She's off to Louisiana State University next "fall", btw.)

EDIT: Ella Taylor also earned her ranking. I checked her results and overlooked her third score. Oops. Sorry. By coincidence, Ella is ex-LSU.

 

I try to record every rankings' debut here, so are Ella and Eden the last British women to enter the WTA list? Not one debutante this year, I think. (There are one or two who have regained rankings.)

Of course last year we had four gaining rankings during the final British 10K (in old money) swing; maybe someone will come from nowhere this time around.

Otherwise we're probably relying on Alice Gillan jetting off to another continent and getting drawn against a local wild card in R1 in the next few weeks, before her two counting scores fall off.

 

Out of nowhere, Lissey Barnett is through to the final of the Cantanhede 15K: http://www.itftennis.com/procircuit/tournaments/women's-tournament/info.aspx?tournamentid=1100040387

Other semifinal is just starting the final set, so the opponent isn't known yet.

 

that was not a little choke

 

Lissey faces Sinead Lohan in the final.