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Week 31 - WTA International ($250k) - Washington DC, USA - Hard


R2: BOULTER, Katie (GBR) 118 lost to KIICK, Allie (USA) Q 202 4-6 7-5 1-6

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Err, oh dear 

Hopefully this match has just been a blip after such a really good few months. As commented on another thread few can bring near their best to the table all the time.

Regroup and onward ...



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Ace Ventura wrote:


Is Katie playing Rogers quals net week as I see she is pretty much the only Brit of the group not featured in Landisville.




Original Q cut-off was 108 so there would need to have been a few withdrawals for her to be there

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Definitely need to address this H2H at some point in the career. Seems like just a bad match-up for Katie, for whatever reason.

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Shame for Katie. As an aside I noticed in us open qualies she is joined by 5 others Brits as well as jo in main draw. 6 in qualies must be a recent high mark?

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JonH wrote:

Shame for Katie. As an aside I noticed in us open qualies she is joined by 5 others Brits as well as jo in main draw. 6 in qualies must be a recent high mark?


No, no, no!
This is the wrong question!
I'm currently looking at GB main draw participation at general WTA level events; not qualification!

So here is the numbers for that, which shows just how sparse our WTA main draw presence has previously been.
The lines are deliberately broken if we have no players in a WTA main draw in any given week, so as to show the gaps.
A single dot shows that we had a player in that week, but nothing the weeks either side. A continuous line shows that we had players in contiguous weeks for the duration of the line.

I've highlighted the weeks of the GB events, and if we had a player in an overseas event in those weeks, they are plotted in the standard colour (it's Laura twice in 's-Hertogenbosch, and JoKo once in Copenhagen that ventured to other grass events during GB weeks)

Slams are excluded, as are year end events and Fed Cup, and $125K challengers.

The longest continuous stretch of weeks where we had GB participation was 6 weeks, weeks 38-43 of 2012 - the period that included Laura's Guangzhou final, and Hev's first GB WTA title in 30 years, In Osaka.

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If I include Slams and $125K, then we get this:

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Qualifying though, is in a whole other set of files that I'd need to download to look at it



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Wrong question but good answer!

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JonH wrote:

Wrong question but good answer!


To answer the question which was actually asked:

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So Wimbledon is the only GS we haven't had a women qualifier in over the last decade...  confuse



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So Wimbledon is the only GS we haven't had a women qualifier in over the last decade...  confuse


Yup. Our better players get MDWC, where as they have to qualify at the other Slams.

Edit: which naturally means that our actual entrants in to Wimbledon qualifying are themselvew QWC, and playing above their level. They thus find it harder to qualify than do our good players playing at an earned level, as of right, and of which they have proven capable on merit, in the other Slams.



-- Edited by AliBlahBlah on Saturday 4th of August 2018 12:54:24 PM

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Kiick-Zheng underway here. Kiick's left thigh looks well strapped - did she have that vs Katie the other day?

Kiick has started well anyway, breaking to love in the opening game.

1-1 now. Could quite feasibly have been watching Swan vs Boulter now, but Katie B would obviously not have had this Canadian opportunity if that was the case.



-- Edited by Ace Ventura on Saturday 4th of August 2018 04:53:52 PM

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[...] Kiick's left thigh looks well strapped - did she have that vs Katie the other day?


No, against Katie, for once, she was (seemingly) injury free.
She does have a heck of a story though: https://www.citiopentennis.com/news/american-allie-kiick-continues-long-road-back-123



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Ace Ventura wrote:

Kiick-Zheng underway here. Kiick's left thigh looks well strapped - did she have that vs Katie the other day?



I'm not watching the Zheng match but she did have strapping on a thigh against Katie when the match was initially played prior to the rain break. It was quite noticeable. She may have more strapping today than against Boulter. 

I would say her movement around the court was excellent so the injury wasn't having much impact on her performance. 



-- Edited by kundalini on Saturday 4th of August 2018 06:49:37 PM

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AliBlahBlah wrote:
JonH wrote:

Wrong question but good answer!


To answer the question which was actually asked:

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 ah- ha! So this us open is indeed the overseas slam event with the most entries in qualies from the women's side. !

 

Thanks ABB 



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