ozgamer
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Big scalp. Soeda is a veteran Challenger player (18 titles).
2017 Aussie Watch
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Big scalp. Soeda is a veteran Challenger player (18 titles).
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A pity that Klein took out one of our own otherwise it'd be a pretty stacked second round.
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We can now add Polmans.
ozgamer
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Probably worth mentioning something about the gals.
Kimberley Birrell won her first MD match (Launceston) against Alize Lim since Hobart, 2016 vs Kovinic. Missed most of last year due to surgery on her elbow.
Kimberley Birrell won her first MD match (Launceston) against Alize Lim since Hobart, 2016 vs Kovinic. Missed most of last year due to surgery on her elbow.
Purcell as well who might be worth mentioning. He had some promising results last year including a challenger win in Korea , where he beat Saville and Whittington. The 18 year old also had a close 3 set loss against Giraldo last year and had a recent 3 set loss to Rublev earlier this year .
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How embarrassed must Velotti be right now.
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Massively disappointing day otherwise. Aussies getting wiped in Launceston.
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There goes another. Damn.
In slightly more positive news , in the women's Fourlis beat number 8 seed and world 181 Kato 6-3 6-1. Saw a bit of her match against Kuznetsova at the Australian Open , she looks like a promising prospect.
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Jasika seems either really hot or gets wiped. There doesn't seem to be much middle ground. Just my observation.
Dissapointing losses today all round in Launceston.
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So with Polmans gone is it a complete Aussie failure?
Whittington and Alex Bolt are through to the quarter finals, with Purcell still a possibility so not completely even though it isn't as good as last week.
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Missed the Bolt result and just got Whittington so fair enough.
How amusing that arguably the worst player in the comp is in the quarters.
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She could be higher if she can fix up her serve. Her groundstrokes are pretty good. Plenty of time, she's only 17 or something like that but she needs to start working on it now.
Fourlis in the QF of the ITF and will possibly face another Aussie in Birrell
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Launceston done.
Fourlis up 24 to 271 overall after losing in the QF of the Launceston ITF, so some promising signs even though this was not as good a week as last week for the men and women.
She needed that and the AO R1 win though, because she's dropping 51 points next week as her Perth ITF title from last year comes off!
Fourlis and Aiava are somewhat constrained by WTA rules which stipulate that players under 18 can only play a maximum number of tournaments - 12 for Aiava until she is 17, and 16 for Fourlis until she is 18. Obviously it is designed to help young players, but we won't really get a sense of their ceiling until they're 18 and can play as much as they want.
Next week is pretty quiet on the mens side - it's just Tomic and Thompson (and Ebden and Barton in Qs) in Memphis, JP Smith in the Tempe Challenger and some scattered Futures. Aside from Fed Cup in the womens, Stosur is in Doha and there's the first of two ITF 25k events here in Perth...if they've pumped the courts out by then
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We will at least have doubles champs in Launceston.
