Kelly Liggan

I know that she just beat Steph

Indeed she's the top ranked Irish girl, kind of surprised people last year when she got through to final round Aus qualies a year ago. Has had a few other decent results, but nothing too amazing, particularly not in WTA maindraw events. She plays a lot of events (at one point near 40, though she's cut down somewhat since). She's more of a baseline. Sarah H., from this board has seen her play a few times I believe from last year's qualies and also posted some pictures back then too, maybe she'll stop by here and give you a bit more info if possible

I actully saw kelly last year in final rnd qualy's at last years OZ Open.
Baseliner, solid groundies, hits the ball pretty flat, not a lot of margin for error and is pretty tenacious.
Shorter girl, freckles and aubin hair.
Really nice personality, she came and watched a match I was watching after and wasn't too upset with her loss and spoke fondly of others.
She had this massive blister on her foot, I couldn't beleive she was playing with hit.
I thought she could have had the potential to hit around 100 but she went a little backwards in seatd.

Hope she does better this year and hope to see her again when I make the qualies on Saturday

She's up against Eva Martincova of the Czech Republic in the second round of qualies. I hope she does well...I've never seen her play on the main tour cos she doesn't tend to get into the main draw. Hopefully this year though...

Yeah Kelly is the great hope for Irish 'women's tennis (we don't have many tennis players!!!lol) I have only seen her play once, she does hit the ball well and I thought she did have the potential to do well. Yvonne Doyle is another she got inside the Top 200 but then had a string of injuries but she back again so hopefully she can get back up there!!!!

Yvonen is more suited to doubles. She's a fantasci doubles player. Top 100 in 2 years i guarentee.

PAul

Kelly's basically a "worker" on the court and deserves her ranking. She really wasn't seen as Ireland's best hope. She was always in the shadow of Yvonne Doyle, Karen Nugent ( lost to Hingis in 3 sets in QF of junior Wimbledon ) and Claire Curran but injury has totally hampered their careers so it's nice to see Kelly up there. Hopefully she and Elsa O'Riain can push on up the rankings a bit.

MirjanaFan I meant that she is the hope now since the other Yvonne and Karen have had injuries etc.