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Profiled by Rob Dinerman, Feb 2002
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| Wendy
Maitland. Aberdeen, Scotland Resides: Nottingham, England Age: 26. WISPA ranking: 36. Highest ranking: 32 |
This
Scotland native is currently based in Nottingham, England, where she trains
and does some coaching at a squash venue known as The Park. Twenty-six
years old, she has been playing the game since the age of 7, and attended
the same grade-school as World Men's No. 1 Peter Nicol, with whom she
also shared the tutelage of coach Nick O'Connor.
After playing a fair amount on the WISPA tour for a year and a half while working as a development officer, she officially turned pro two years ago and plans to devote herself full-time to the game for at least the next several seasons. Although she has been ranked as high as No. 31, she is at No. 36 at the moment, which means she has to qualify for most of the tournaments with 16-player main draws and some of those with 32, where the top 24 who enter are "straight in" and the remainder attempt to qualify their way in to the eight remaining slots.
At
the Tournament of Champions, she lost in four in the first of the two
rounds of qualifying to Annalise Naude of South Africa, who made it into
the main draw and led Rebecca McRee two games to none before losing in
five.
Successful qualifiers have the momentum and court familiarity gained from those preliminary matches but sometimes pay a price in fatigue in their subsequent first-round matches against opponents who are straight in, and this is one of several factors (another important one being that only main-draw players get their hotel bills picked up by the tournament) that players whose rankings put them "on the bubble" have to contend with.
Maitland did reach the final of a tour stop in Denmark last year, where she lost to hometown favorite Ellen Petersen, and feels she is slowly but surely progressing with her game.
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