Week 34 - USO Qualifying (hard)

the addict · Tennis legend

Week 34 - USO Qualifying (hard)

Sim · County player

Laura has now defended her points from last year (net gain of 8 so far) and with no more points to come off until March 2017 and with 3 single pointers and one 3 pointer has lots of opportunity to jump up the rankings -starting of course with today!!

Kounosuke · Intermediate Club Player

Interestingly the bookies have Laura as a slight favourite.

indiana · Tennis legend

Great to see from Laura

Yes one does wonder about what has so sparked such an improvement, much of the unknown not so much about what she has produced recently but where was it for so very long. The Landisville running down balls and control to take advantage of openings was very good.

It to me has certainly been a lot more than a gradual process and not something I saw coming as it has ( though I have argued in the past there was some gradual progress this recently has been a very big leap comparatively ).

It would appear, as some have suggested, that something, maybe something subconsciously, has caused her to just go for it again and believe. Success can breed more belief can breed more success ...

Long may it continue and build further.

For now 7 successive wins is Laura's best ever as a pro ( she lost her next match after her 2008 Sunderland 10K title ).

-- Edited by indiana on Friday 26th of August 2016 12:20:45 PM

indiana · Tennis legend

Pity for Tara.

But particularly if she has not felt fully over the Landisville events this has been a pretty decent effort here and 20 more ranking points.

Hope she has a good mini break and is then fighting fit ready for a good end to the year.

brendan · Strong Club Player

Kounosuke wrote:
Interestingly the bookies have Laura as a slight favourite.

doesn't it depend on where the bookies are? - if they're British-based then they'd obviously expect more action for Laura so her price would fall accordingly

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

Main draw is live streamed at 16:30 UK time.

PaulM · Tennis legend

Heather and Naomi to open against qualifiers.

Depends who they are really, but their opponents will be match tight regardless. Same can't be said of our girls.

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

Remember how slick and stylish and efficient the French Open Draw was? This isn't anything like that!

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

Bit of a shambles as the graphics failed about 2 minutes into the ladies draw, and then failed completely.
Catchphrase of the draw "We OK? We OK to go?"

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

Johanna plays (WC) Bethanie Mattek-Sands
Winner of that to play Pironkova/(WC) Razzano

Can't complain with that.

Also good deeper in Jo's section: Petkovic, Qualifier, Crawford, Bencic
Petko and Belinda obviously dangerous, but horribly out of form.

Muguruza would pe probable R4, and Keys or Kuznetsova a QF

-- Edited by AliBlahBlah on Friday 26th of August 2016 04:25:10 PM

Jan · Hall of fame

Good luck to Laura later.
If she does qualify, I hope she doesn't have to play Heather or Naomi!

indiana · Tennis legend

Yes good looking draws there. And match tight though the qualfiers may be in general such a draw is certainly not one to complain about. Now be largely up to them.

indiana · Tennis legend

Jan wrote:
Good luck to Laura later.
If she does qualify, I hope she doesn't have to play Heather or Naomi!

From a spead the interest angle no, but to be guaranteed one of Laura and ( Heather or Naomi ) through to R2 wouldn't be the worst thing.

Sim · County player

indiana wrote:
Jan wrote:
Good luck to Laura later.
If she does qualify, I hope she doesn't have to play Heather or Naomi!
From a spead the interest angle no, but to be guaranteed one of Laura and ( Heather or Naomi ) through to R2 wouldn't be the worst thing.

I'll settle for Laura vs Hev or Naomi, not least as it means Laura will win today, and as indy says would guarantee a R2 place which we would all have probably settled for before the draw came out. Anyway Laura has to get one of the Qualifier spots first.