Week 17 - WTA International ($250K) - TEB BNP Paribas Instanbul Cup, Istanbul, Turkey (clay)

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

Week 17 - WTA International ($250K) - TEB BNP Paribas Instanbul Cup, Istanbul, Turkey (clay)

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Big smiles

Peter too · Tennis legend

Q1: DART, Harriet (GBR) 225 def RODINA, Evgeniya (RUS) 2 118 6-2 6-2

Q2: DART, Harriet (GBR) 225 v IVAKHNENKO, Valentyna (RUS) 186 CH=185 9/4/18

Michael D · All-time great

indiana wrote:
Super

These 12 points ( so far ) should certainly improve her current WR/CH 225 and will move her ahead of Laura to GB #6. Top 200 well in sight.
Harriet is perhaps a player that maybe increasingly comfortable in her own skin has the ability to majorly reset expectation parameters. Her average end of season predicted ranking, from our historically generally optimistic predictors, stands at WR 268.

-- Edited by indiana on Sunday 22nd of April 2018 04:49:02 PM

Harriet trod water for most of last year, which is why few have predicted her to rise much this year. It is lovely to see her begin to progress so rapidly again and prove, well many of us including myself, so lacking in foresight!

Jiwan · Club Coach

one or two more big wins or one more good run and she will have some main draw wild cards during the grass court season. 6 months ago Naomi, Laura and Heather would have had guaranteed main draw wild cards. At this rate they might be struggling to get into qualifying, as is the British standard at the moment.

Grachka · Club Coach

Great win against Miss Motherland! biggrin

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

The odds are up and the bookies make the opponent a far stronger favourite than they made Rodina despite being lower ranked, 2/7 vs 8/11. I suppose that will be mainly down to respective form with Rodina on a long losing run and this one winning a title last week.

indiana · Tennis legend

Michael D wrote:
indiana wrote:
Super

These 12 points ( so far ) should certainly improve her current WR/CH 225 and will move her ahead of Laura to GB #6. Top 200 well in sight.
Harriet is perhaps a player that maybe increasingly comfortable in her own skin has the ability to majorly reset expectation parameters. Her average end of season predicted ranking, from our historically generally optimistic predictors, stands at WR 268.

-- Edited by indiana on Sunday 22nd of April 2018 04:49:02 PM
Harriet trod water for most of last year, which is why few have predicted her to rise much this year. It is lovely to see her begin to progress so rapidly again and prove, well many of us including myself, so lacking in foresight!

Yes, though I realise I had a mistype in my predictions with WR 304 for Harriet rather than 204. Guess just have to leave it now

Michael D · All-time great

indiana wrote:
Michael D wrote:
indiana wrote:
Super

These 12 points ( so far ) should certainly improve her current WR/CH 225 and will move her ahead of Laura to GB #6. Top 200 well in sight.
Harriet is perhaps a player that maybe increasingly comfortable in her own skin has the ability to majorly reset expectation parameters. Her average end of season predicted ranking, from our historically generally optimistic predictors, stands at WR 268.

-- Edited by indiana on Sunday 22nd of April 2018 04:49:02 PM
Harriet trod water for most of last year, which is why few have predicted her to rise much this year. It is lovely to see her begin to progress so rapidly again and prove, well many of us including myself, so lacking in foresight!
Yes, though I realise I had a mistype in my predictions with WR 304 for Harriet rather than 204. Guess just have to leave it now

I think most of us mistyped that first number; we'd all go one number to the left now if we could! confuse

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Vohor might be sitting pretty at 131

Mind you, vohor has a sunny disposition and has all the women in the top 150 practically

I went for a gloomy year this year on the basis that then I might be happily surprised (and I was feeling gloomy and Eeyore-like in general, post-Christmas). I think I have everyone practically at 240 - would be WONDERFUL if they were all 140s......

blob · All-time great

Under way. Ivakhnenko has been in good form on clay - she won the $25K in Tunis last week.
*0-1

the addict · Tennis legend

Harriet struggling here *0-5

Jaffa · Challenger level

Bagelled first set. Looks a bit lost at the moment.

blob · All-time great

There was a very long first service game for Harriett (game 2) in which she had plenty of chance to win it, and didn't.
After that: the flood, all in the wrong direction. The Russian is in peak clay form.

blob · All-time great

Well, Harriet aimed very high in her selection of her first clay tournament in over a year.
It paid off, she won that match, got good points, and decent money, she's also in the doubles that will add to the benefit.

But, she got a lesson today in where WTA level play is, and you cna't go in cold onto a surface and expect to do much if you run into a speciallist, particularly one on good form, even if they are of a similar ranking to you.
Sure she'll learn plenty though. Wel done ofr taking the gamble. If a similar chance arises on a different surface later in the year, I wouldn't bet against Harriet getting even better rewards out of the opportunity