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

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

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

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

Three very hard fought games to open with, break points in all three. Might turn into a real tough match.
*2-1

Mervatron2 · Futures level

Harriet was up *4-1 but has been broken back 4-2*

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

Scoreline doesn't seem to really reflect the competitiveness of the games based on the socrelines, but at least Harriet came out on the right end of set 1, 6-2 2-0*

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

6-2 4-2*

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

2 BPs here for Dart. Looking good

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

Takes the 2nd one and is in a commanding position 6-2 *5-2. 2 chances to serve it out.

3 MPs

and that's the match. 6-2 6-2 smile

-- Edited by Ace Ventura on Sunday 29th of July 2018 09:44:44 PM

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

Congrats Harriet, joins KB and KS in the main draw - really looking forward to this event now with the 7pm starts, more so than San Jose to be honest.

Harriet can face:

Wozniacki doh

Bencic cry

Hibino smile

Stollar smile

Han smile

In that order hopefully (Han main preference). Hopefully Zheng doesn't withdraw (if she does) before the Qs are placed as Harriet may then draw Swan and Swan would then play a Q loser rather than a winner.

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

To be honest, on paper you'll struggle to find a more straightforward path to a main WTA draw (even last week) than 340 and 379 who are both more doubles orientated, but the alt Guarachi did beat 5th seed Di Lorenzo yesterday so could have been dangerous and it's great to see Harriet continue where she left off and get some points and wins under her belt and hopefully more to come this coming week.

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

And, Harriet gets the bad draw, Bencic.

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

Yes, not great. Hopefully Belinda is still not up to full speed, but she was looking better at Wimbledon. Could have been far easier, but Hibino / Zhuk in the next round would be a decent opportunity if she can pull off the Bencic upset.

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

Harriet's second time progressing through WTA qualification, after Nanchang almost exactly a year ago.
The two Katie's in the main draw have qualified once each, as has Tara. Gabi & Katy Dunne are yet to manage it.

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

FQR: Harriet DART (GBR) [q4] 167 defeated (Q ALT) Alexa GUARACHI (CHI) 379 6-2 6-2

R32: (Q) Harriet DART (GBR) 167 v. Belinda BENCIC (SUI) [6] 45 (CH 7, Feb. 2016)

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

Katie Boulter 1st up @ 19:00 UK
Harriet 3rd up, after 19:00, and not before 20:30 UK

Katie Swan, Tuesday or later.

PockyTastic · Futures level

AliBlahBlah wrote:
Harriet's second time progressing through WTA qualification, after Nanchang almost exactly a year ago.
The two Katie's in the main draw have qualified once each, as has Tara. Gabi & Katy Dunne are yet to manage it.

Actually Katy D was the first to achieve it - qualifying for Birmingham back in 2014 before retiring in the 3rd set against Giorgi.