Week 42 - WTA Premier ($855K) - Moscow, Russia - Hard, Indoor [Doubles Only]

Jaffa · Challenger level

Week 42 - WTA Premier ($855K) - Moscow, Russia - Hard, Indoor [Doubles Only]

Jaffa · Challenger level

It's like they heard me... superb return game by Nicole especially to get the girls the first break in the second. 2-6 *2-0

blob · All-time great

Held on to take the second set. A noble account given, but not enough in the MTB.
Hlavackova/Babos, are individually both top doubles players, hence their rankings, and are going to Singapore as a team this year. Anna & Nicole did very well to take a set from them.
2-6 6-3 [3-10]

What a great week though, and a lovely end to the year. So happy for Anna how she's managed to continue a good WTA level career with a second partner - thanks Nicole

Plenty to look forward to in 2018; I'm rather presuming they'll stick together.

Michael D · All-time great

blob wrote:
Held on to take the second set. A noble account given, but not enough in the MTB.
Hlavackova/Babos, are individually both top doubles players, hence their rankings, and are going to Singapore as a team this year. Anna & Nicole did very well to take a set from them.
2-6 6-3 [3-10]

What a great week though, and a lovely end to the year. So happy for Anna how she's managed to continue a good WTA level career with a second partner - thanks Nicole
Plenty to look forward to in 2018; I'm rather presuming they'll stick together.

And certainly hoping they will stick together having helped each other so they both reach new CHs this week smile

Now where has Joss got to as was rather hoping she was going to do the same.... (And just to note, since the subject was raised here, Joss's 3 post Wimbledon appearances were all in North America, with Jessica Moore (Aus) as a partner, and included a SF loss in the Washington International, a L16 loss at the Landesville 25k and then a tournament win in the Vancouver 100k. The final win was in mid-Aug, after which Joss hasn't been seen on a tennis court since...

paulisi · Tennis legend

Think Anna will be more than happy with the pay check.

goldfish · Futures qualifying

On twitter last week someone posted photos of Joss helping coach on a course for juniors in the UK. Searched but couldn't find it again as it wasn't on her feed.

blob · All-time great

goldfish wrote:
On twitter last week someone posted photos of Joss helping coach on a course for juniors in the UK. Searched but couldn't find it again as it wasn't on her feed.

Could have been any of these, all saying uch the same thing about the event (they liked having Joss there):

https://twitter.com/andy_barnes81/status/919611372744400896
https://twitter.com/SouthWestLTA/status/919606587370688513
https://twitter.com/martindweston/status/919590347998625792

Didn't look like a permanent thing, just on the basis of that, but this post, from October 7th, with the tag #coachinglife suggests that it might indeed be a more permanent direction: https://www.instagram.com/p/BZ9V2C3l2hW/?hl=en&taken-by=jossrae91

In the latest hot Joss news, she's been to see the Corrs this week (which personally I find bewildering, but each to their own): https://twitter.com/JossRae91/status/921128083649941504

blob · All-time great

Hello, Hello!
A day after bemoaning the lack of coverage, what's this?

www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/41693999

This has made me inordinately pleased; it's deserved recognition. If they made it a commentable article, I'd finally create an account to make a post.

indiana · Tennis legend

blob wrote:
Hello, Hello!
A day after bemoaning the lack of coverage, what's this?
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/41693999

This has made me inordinately pleased; it's deserved recognition. If they made it a commentable article, I'd finally create an account to make a post.

The headline while factually correct ( apart from "Nicola" ! ) could have been rather improved on when that final is a WTA Premier final in a MTB against such a highly ranked pair.

Can't have everything I guess, particularly with the BBC website.

-- Edited by indiana on Saturday 21st of October 2017 12:14:09 AM

Jan · Hall of fame

I was shocked (in a good way) to see the doubles was the first report on the Beeb text page too - amazing!

steven · Tennis legend

blob wrote:
Hello, Hello!
A day after bemoaning the lack of coverage, what's this?
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/41693999

Clearly the BBC's love for having a 'Brit loses tennis match' type headline trumped any other considerations here. Still, they didn't say they 'crashed out', thankful for small mercies!