After a month’s break, the UK Pro League returned on Easter Sunday to Aldershot Tennis Centre. In a week packed with no less than 9 players who already have a UKPL week win under their belts, there’s plenty of exciting matches and unpredictable results. It’s not easy to guess who will be lifting those trophies on Saturday.
Now three days into Week 5, the pool stages have wrapped up, lets take a look at which players have impressed so far ahead of the quarterfinals.
Top seed Eliz Maloney soars through to the quarters without a hitch, beating Michelle Dzjachangirova and Elina Popescu to come top of her pool. She faces Alessia Popescu in the quarterfinals, who is competing in her first UKPL week. Men’s top seed Giles Hussey faces third seed Dan Little in his quarterfinal nb 14:30 today in another match you won’t want to miss.
Danielle Daley, winner of Week 3, also makes it through and will face Week 1 winner Katie Stresnakova. With both women securing their first UKPL wins in the past few months, it will be interesting to see who triumphs there.
Danielle Daley will play Katie Stresnakova in the quarterfinals, both women competing for the first time since their maiden week wins earlier this year.
We have some more battles between past winners on the Men’s side- Brandon Murphy faces Hamish Stewart nb 14:30, Stewart returning to compete for the first time since winning Week 2 on his debut in February. Similar to Stewart, Louis Bowden is also returning after taking the win last UKPL week, also on his debut. The 19 year old has also made it through to the quarterfinals, but will not have an easy match against Harry Wendelken today, the recent Tolouse M25 runner up.
Week 4 winner Louis Bowden advances through to the quarterfinals
Some players, such as Joshua Goodger, are still in the running for their first win. Goodger has impressed so far this week with straight-set wins against George Houghton and Louis Bowden. He plays Sean Hodkin in the second match on Court 1.
Tune in today to watch all the quarterfinals or catch up with any action you’ve missed so far at www.ukproleague.tv.