$25.000 Itf Women's Circuit-Sekisho Open

HardCourt-Outdoor

Main Draw

1 CETKOVSKA, Petra CZE 247
2 TAKASE, Ayami JPN 306 1
3 YAMAMOTO, Mayumi JPN 326 1
4 HSU, Wen-Hsin TPE 343 2
5 YONEMURA, Tomoko JPN 362 1
6 MORITA, Ayumi JPN 364 1
7 EKLOV, Tiffany USA 365 1
8 DOKEI, Tomoko JPN 389 1
9 IIJIMA, Kumiko JPN 394 2
10 TAKAO, Erika JPN 396 1
11 JEON, Mi-Ra KOR 412 1
12 YONEMURA, Akiko JPN 437
13 ARAI, Maki JPN 468 1
14 KIM, So-Jung KOR 483 1
15 TEZUKA, Remi JPN 486 1
16 TAKAGISHI, Tomoyo JPN 506 1
17 TANAKA, Mari JPN 521 1
18 KATSUMI, Shizu JPN 639 1
19 TAGUCHI, Keiko JPN 659 1
20 LEE, Jin-A KOR 677 1
WC SEMA, Erika JPN 787
WC OKA, Ayumi JPN 943

Qualifying

1 MIZUNO, Eriko JPN 688 1
2 KAUFMAN, Biffy USA 707= 2
3 KIM, Hye-Mi KOR 711 1
4 SUGANO, Tomoko JPN 723 1
5 LYOO-SUH, Hee-Sun KOR 742 1
6 KOMORI, Hiroko JPN 748 1
7 HUANG, Lei CHN 749= 1
8 KITAZAKI, Etsuko JPN 764 1
9 JOSHI, Shilpa USA 766 1
10 INOUE, Mari JPN 773 1
11 DU PLESSIS, Lizaan RSA 774
12 HISAMI, Kanae JPN 800 1
13 INOUE, Haruka JPN 836 1
14 KRISHNAMURTHY, Kavitha CAN 841 1
15 TAIRA, Tomoko JPN 845= 1
16 ZHAO, Jia CHN 871=
17 ISE, Mitsuko JPN 885 1
18 FUJISHIRO, Haruka JPN 910 1
19 AIKO, Kasumi JPN 938 1
20 SEO, Soon-Mi KOR 940 1
21 KURATA, Yuko JPN 1024= 1
22 GATES, Julianna USA 1051 2
23 TANAKA, Shiho JPN 1076 1
24 UCHIDA, Yuko JPN 1091 1
25 KURODA, Yuka JPN 1109 1
26 UMEDA, Sayaka JPN 1112= 1
WC OKAZAKI, Hiromi JPN 1277
WC KAWAMURA, Mika JPN 1288

Chrissie Seredni,but with a "3"

good luck Ayumi Morita

Hsieh and Chan withdrew...

Petra Cetkowska will be #1 seed...

Wildcards

MD Erika Sema & Ayumi Oka
Q Hiromi Okazaki & Mika Kawamura

Good Luck

Takase
Morita
Sema

G0 Ayumi, Mi-Ra, Tomoko, Kumiko and So-Jung!

Looks like a Japanese player will win this one lol

Ayumi has a real chance to win this title... :D

Quali final draw　MONDAY

①KAUFUMAN(USA) vs ⑪INOUE Haruka
②MIZUNO vs AIKO
③KIM(KOR) vs ⑯SEO(KOR)
④LYOO-SUH(KOR) vs ⑫KRISHNAMURTHY(CAN)
⑤SUGANO vs WC INOUE AKARI(OKINAWA SHOGAKU HIGH She is young...)
⑥JOSH(USA) vs WC YAMAMOTO
TAKEUCHI vs ⑨KITAZAKI
⑧DU PLESSIS(USA) vs WC OTAKE

JAPANESE and ASIA player's tennis life is long but white player's life is short.
ASIAN'S BODY is Small and week but WHITE and BLACK'S BODY is STORONG
(musle born, physical strength etc)

Main Draw

(1)Petra Cetkovska vs. (wc)Ayumi Yamamoto
Jin-A Lee vs. Maki Arai

Shizu Katsumi vs. (wc)Emiko Ito
(5)Wen-Hsin Hsu vs. Q

(3)Mayumi Yamamoto vs. Keiko Taguchi
Kumiko Iijima vs. Q

Tomoyo Takagishi vs. Q
(8)Tomoko Dokei vs. (wc)Ayumi Oka

(7)Tomoko Yonemura vs. So-Jung Kim
Mi-Ra Jeon vs. (wc)Erika Sema

Akiko Yonemura vs. Q
(4)Tiffany Eklov vs. Mari Tanaka

(6)Ayumi Morita vs. Q
Remi Tezuka vs. Q

Erika Takao vs. Q
(2)Ayami Takase vs. Q

Doubles Main Draw

(1)Takemura/Yonemura vs. Q
Dokei/Katsumi vs. Q

(3)Iijima/Tezuka vs. (wc)Inoue/Inoue
Kim/Taguchi vs. Du Plessis/Okazaki

Mizuno/Takemoto vs. Kitazaki/Taira
(4)Arai/Yamamoto vs. Kaufman/Tanaka

Komori/Sugano vs. (wc)Inoue/Otake
(2)Jeon/Takase vs. (wc)Chinen/Saito

Quali Draw-1st Round

(1)Kaufman d. (wc)Kawamura 61 60
(11)Inoue d. Kurata 63 63

(2)Mizuno d. Tanaka 62 61
Aiko d. (13)Ise 76(5) 06 63

(3)Kim d. Uchida 61 61
(16)Seo d. (wc)Chinen 60 60

(4)Lyoo-Suh d. Umeda 62 63
(12)Krishnamurthy d. Kuroda 61 61

(5)Sugano d. Takemoto 63 61
(10)Inoue d. (wc)A.Inoue 62 62

(6)Joshi d. (wc)Okazaki 75 62
(wc)Yamamoto d. (14)Fujishiro 46 62 64

Takeuchi d. (7)Komori 36 62 60
(9)Kitazaki d. Sakai 76(4) 62

(8)Du Plessis d. Gates 64 75
(wc)Otake d. (15)Taira 62 75

Lizaan :D please qualify

go Lizaan in qualies ;)

and in maindraw
(1)Petra Cetkovska ;) :kiss:
go Petra :)

Please Mi-Ra, win a match. :sad:

Good luck Petra,Mi-Ra and Ayumi (Morita) :banana:

JAPANESE and ASIA player's tennis life is long but white player's life is short.
ASIAN'S BODY is Small and week but WHITE and BLACK'S BODY is STORONG
(musle born, physical strength etc)

:scared:

Qualifing final
INOUE Haruka def. KAUFMAN 61 76(5)
MIZUNO def. AIKO 64 63
KIM def. SEO 63 46 62
LYOO def. KRISHNAMUTHY 64 36 63
INOUE Akari def. SUGANO 60 63 :fiery:
YAMAMOTO def. JOSHI 76(3) 76(6)
KITAZAKI def TAKEUCHI 46 62 62
DU OLESSUS def. OTAKE 26 63 60　　　　　　　　　　



INOUE vs ⑦YONEMURA MIZUNO vs TAKAGISHI KIM vs TAKAO
LYOO vs ⑤HSU INOUE A vs ⑥MORITA YAMAMOTO vs IIZIMA
KITAZAKI vs ②TAKASE DU PLESSUS vs TEZUKA

Lizaan ;) :yeah:

COME ON Mi-RA! WIN SOME ROUNDS! DON'T RETIRE! :sad:

CAN SOMEONE EXPLAIN TO ME HOW HYE-MI KIM WINS MATCHES???!!!! I'VE SEEN HER PLAY AND IT IS PAINFUL TO WATCH!!!?????!!!!!

Go Mi-ra!! WIN THE TITLE!

I have just come back from Ibaraki 25K. I watched the match between Hye-Mi Kim vs. Soon-Mi Seo.

Yes, Kim is not an orthodox player. She uses a lot of back-hand slices and some wrist-snap forehand. Service motion is also a bit strange, too.

Nevertheless, she is a very consistent player and mentally tough. Mental toughness , as we know, is an important part of the sport.

In tennis, dozens of skills are involved in making a win.

Thus, Kim uses her mental toughness in offsetting some weakness. It is not abnormal that a player relies on his/her strenghth to offset his/her weakness. I enjoyed watching her unorthodoxical playing.

When Chris Evert was very young, a spectator of her practice said "She can never make it !", which proved wrong. Chris Evert was not a hard-hitter nor a very-talented player. But, her mental toughness and ball concentration are unbelievable. She is very smart, too.

Main Draw-Day 1 (Monday)

Maki Arai d. Jin-A Lee 62 64
(wc)Emiko Ito d. Shizu Katsumi 61 63
Keiko Taguchi d. (3)Mayumi Yamamoto 63 75
So-Jung Kim d. (7)Tomoko Yonemura 46 64 75
Mari Tanaka d. (4)Tiffany Eklov 67(5) 64 63


(3)Iijima/Tezuka d. Inoue/Inoue 63 62
(2)Jeon/Takase d. Chinen/Saito 60 60

I have just come back from Ibaraki 25K. I watched the match between Hye-Mi Kim vs. Soon-Mi Seo.

Yes, Kim is not an orthodox player. She uses a lot of back-hand slices and some wrist-snap forehand. Service motion is also a bit strange, too.

Nevertheless, she is a very consistent player and mentally tough. Mental toughness , as we know, is an important part of the sport.

In tennis, dozens of skills are involved in making a win.

Thus, Kim uses her mental toughness in offsetting some weakness. It is not abnormal that a player relies on his/her strenghth to offset his/her weakness. I enjoyed watching her unorthodoxical playing.

When Chris Evert was very young, a spectator of her practice said "She can never make it !", which proved wrong. Chris Evert was not a hard-hitter nor a very-talented player. But, her mental toughness and ball concentration are unbelievable. She is very smart, too.


Okay thanks for the reply! :) ;)

So-Jung Kim :yeah:
Mari Tanaka :yeah:

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: @ Japanese names :cool:

INOUE Akari def. MORITA Ayumi 63 64 ZANNEN! Ayumi

Ayumi :help:

I've never even heard of Akari Inoue.......Ayumi...that's a bizarre and disappointing loss....

Ayumi :eek: :eek: :sad:


Akari Inoue is 17 and they played against each other in Tokio this year where Ayumi won 61 64
she hasnt done anything special so far:eek:

Ayumi :help: :help:

1R

1-Petra Cetkovska (CZE) d. WC-Ayumi Yamamoto (JPN) 6-3 6-2
Maki Arai (JPN) d. Jin-A Lee (KOR) 6-2 6-4 :D
WC-Emiko Ito (JPN) d. Shizu Katsumi (JPN) 6-1 6-3
5-Wen-Hsin Hsu (TPE) d. Q-Hee-Sun Lyoo-Suh (KOR) 6-0 6-3 :D

Keiko Taguchi (JPN) d. 3-Mayumi Yamamoto (JPN) 6-3 7-5 :help:
Kumiko Iijima (JPN) d. Q-Ai Yamamoto (JPN) 7-5 6-1 :D
Tomoyo Takagishi (JPN) d. Q-Eriko Mizuno (JPN) 6-2 6-0 :D
8-Tomoko Dokei (JPN) d. WC-Ayumi Oka (JPN) 6-3 7-5

So-Jung Kim (KOR) d. 7-Tomoko Yonemura (JPN) 4-6 6-4 7-5
Mi-Ra Jeon (KOR) d. WC-Erika Sema (JPN) 6-2 6-2 :bounce:
Q-Haruka Inoue (JPN) d. Akiko Yonemura (JPN) 6-3 6-3
Mari Tanaka (JPN) d. 4-Tiffany Eklov (USA) 6-7(5) 6-4 6-3 :D

Q-Akari Inoue (JPN) d. 6-Ayumi Morita (JPN) 6-3 6-4
Remi Tezuka (JPN) d. Q-Lizaan Du Plessis (RSA) 7-5 6-1 :D
Erika Takao (JPN) d. Q-Hye-Mi Kim (KOR) 6-4 6-3
2-Ayami Takase (JPN) d. Q-Etsuko Kitazaki (JPN) 6-1 6-3

Come on Mi-Ra! :D :worship: I'm so thrilled that you won a round! There is no reason why you can't reach the finals! GO FOR IT Mi-RA!

ooooh...

Go Maki, MI-RA, kumiko, Tomoyo, So-Jung, Remi and Erika!

Mi-Ra Jeaon :hearts: :worship:
Wen-Hsin Hsu :yeah:
Tomoyo Takagishi :yeah:
Remi Tezuka :yeah:

Haruka :) :yeah:

Petra :yeah: keep going :D

2nd Round-Wednesday

(5)Wen-Hsin Hsu d. (wc)Emiko Ito 62 63
Tomoyo Takagishi d. (8)Tomoko Dokei 36 61 76(4)
Mi-Ra Jeon d. So-Jung Kim 64 64
Mari Tanaka d. (Q)Haruka Inoue 62 67(8) 63

Haruka :bigcry:

Petra :kiss:
win it please :angel:

Doubles Main Draw-1st Round

(1)Takemura/Yonemura vs. (Q) Morita/Sema 76(2) 61
Dokei/Katsumi vs. (Q) Kawamura/Kuroda 61 64

(3)Iijima/Tezuka vs. (wc)Inoue/Inoue 63 62
Kim/Taguchi vs. Du Plessis/Okazaki 62 62

Mizuno/Takemoto vs. Kitazaki/Taira 75 61
Kaufman/Tanaka d. (4)Arai/Yamamoto 62 76(3)

Komori/Sugano vs. (wc)Inoue/Otake 63 61
(2)Jeon/Takase vs. (wc)Chinen/Saito 60 60

QF

Kim/Taguchi d. (3)Iijima/Tezuka 76(6) 61
Kaufman/Tanaka d. Mizuno/Takemoto 64 75

Petra :yeah: ;) :D

Great Job Wen-Hsin:D

Happy with all 4 winners today! :D

Mi-Ra :bounce:

When Chris Evert was very young, a spectator of her practice said "She can never make it !", which proved wrong. Chris Evert was not a hard-hitter nor a very-talented player. But, her mental toughness and ball concentration are unbelievable. She is very smart, too.

Not to take offense, but saying Chris Evert was "not a hard-hitter nor a very talented player" is incorrect. Yes, Evert was mentally tough and had keen sense of anticipation. But that alone would have only carried her so far in the game. No one wins 18 grand slams without being talented. Evert had some of the best hand-eye coordination in the game, and was an uncanny mover about the court. Her footwork was possibly the best the game has ever seen. It's true that compared to today's hard hitters, her ground strokes were not as hard. However, at the time, she was generally thought to have very penetrating ground strokes, and played a heavy game. I'll admit that other players may have had more gifts than Chris, but her talent for the game -- both physical and mental -- ranks near the very top.

I've never even heard of Akari Inoue.......Ayumi...that's a bizarre and disappointing loss....

Akari Inoue is youngest sister of Haruka Inoue
Akari--Maiko--Haruka

Haruka has no power but has technique so Akari maybe has same things.

and Maiko had the power. It's too bad Maiko retired. :sad:

Mi-Ra! :D

Nice win for Mi-Ra! Hope she keeps it up!

GO TOMOYO! Finally a decent win again!!!

I've seen Haruka Inoue play and it is bizarre...her serve is sooooooooooooooooooooweak and her groundstrokes are extremely limited. I think because she's a good fighter, quick and mentally tough she's been able to have success.....Hope Akari is a solid all-around player. Why did Maiko retire???

2nd Round-Thursday

(1)Petra Cetkovska d. Maki Arai 62 64 :yeah:
Keiko Taguchi d. Kumiko Iijima 62 64
Remi Tezuka d. (Q)Akari Inoue 57 61 75
Erika Takao d. (2)Ayami Takase 61 64

QF Lineup-Tomorrow

(1)Cetkovska v (5)Hsu
Takagishi v Taguchi
Jeon v Tanaka
Tezuka v Takao

QF

(1)Takemura/Yonemura d. Dokei/Katsumi 62 62
Kim/Taguchi d. (3)Iijima/Tezuka 76(6) 61
Kaufman/Tanaka d. Mizuno/Takemoto 64 75
(2)Jeon/Takase d. Komori/Sugano 36 63 63

Nice win for Mi-Ra! Hope she keeps it up!

GO TOMOYO! Finally a decent win again!!!

I've seen Haruka Inoue play and it is bizarre...her serve is sooooooooooooooooooooweak and her groundstrokes are extremely limited. I think because she's a good fighter, quick and mentally tough she's been able to have success.....Hope Akari is a solid all-around player. Why did Maiko retire???
I heard that she simply got married and retired. She was a Top 10 junior, but her pro career was quite disappointing. :sad:

Kumiko :rolleyes: :(
Remi :D
Ayami :sad:

Mi-Ra faces Mari in both singles and doubles next! :o

Mi-Ra :hearts: :yeah:
Petra Cetkovska :yeah:
Mari Tanaka :yeah:

Kumiko Iijima :bigcry:

Petra :bounce: ;) :D
go girl ;)
win this and best ever rank ;)

been 2 yrs in the wilderness :o but last 2-3 months been good ;)

QF

(1)Petra Cetkovska d. (5)Wen-Hsin Hsu 36 76(3) 76(5) :unsure: :D
Tomoyo Takagishi d. Keiko Taguchi 63 64
Mari Tanaka d. Mi-Ra Jeon 36 76(5) 63
Erika Takao d. Remi Tezuka 62 63

SF

(1)Takemura/Yonemura d. Kim/Taguchi 67(2) 64 64
(2)Jeon/Takase d. Kaufman/Tanaka 57 76(4) 62

Petra ;) :hearts: ; :yeah:

Petra Cetkovska :yeah:.
Tomoyo Takagishi :yeah:
Mari Tanaka :yeah: but Mi-Ra :bigcry:

Wen-Hsin, u choker! :mad:
Tomoyo :D :yeah:
Mi-Ra :sad: :fiery:
Mari :)
Remi :sad:

Mari faces her long-time rival, Erika in the SF. I wonder how many times they've played this year including domestic events. :o

Poor Mi-Ra, she loses a heartbreaker and a chance to play singles in what's most likely her last event in Seoul. Hope she wins the doubles. :sad:

Poor Mi-Ra, I really wanted her to win that match......
Wow Tomoyo!! Keep it up!!

Petra :D ;)
I knew it would be a tough match, but that is really a shocking scoreline
great she pulled it out ;)

SF

(1)Petra Cetkovska d. Tomoyo Takagishi 57 63 64 :D
Erika Takao d. Mari Tanaka 63 64


Final

(1)Takemura/Yonemura d. (2)Jeon/Takase 62 64

Petra :bounce: ;) :yeah:
go win it tomorrow ;)

Mari :bigcry:
Tomoyo :bigcry: but Petra :yeah:

Petra :banana: :bounce:
win this title, girl :kiss:

Hsu :sobbing:

Ughh...Tomoyo...but at least she's finally winning some matches.....GO ERIKA!

Finals:

Cetkovska d. Takao 26 75 63 :)

NO! Erika! That match was yours! Lost opportunity!

Petra :yeah:. She's back on track ;)

Petra :worship:
three very tough matches. but she did it
congratz on another 25k title :kiss:

Petra :yeah: :kiss:

Well Done :hug:

Petra :banana: ;) :D :woohoo:
well done :kiss:

Wow well done Petra

Congrats Petra!