Girls: 4th Junior Open der Stadt Wels - ITF Grade 1 - 2008.

Salmon · Tennis legend

Girls: 4th Junior Open der Stadt Wels - ITF Grade 1 - 2008.

Salmon · Tennis legend

What luck! Jessica got an unranked wild card.

Jessica REN (GBR) Vs Christine KANDLER (AUT)
Heather WATSON (GBR) Vs Paula KANIA (POL)

Kandler is 1994 born, though, so she's going to improve. Kania is ranked 166 and is definitely beatable.

Salmon · Tennis legend

Jessica won 36 62 62. First set scare, but then she remembered that losing this one would be a huge opportunity wasted.

Heather demolished her opponent by 2 and 0.

Jessica plays Martina Trevisan of Italy, who is November 1993 born but already ranked 88. I guess Jessica will have played her sometime in singles or doubles on the 14s circuit?
Will be very tough, though, and she needs to step up a lot.

Heather gets Anastasia Mukhametova of Russia, 1992 born and ranked 108. Seems to be a good clay player as she beat Rus this year, plus reached the quarters of Santa Croce (losing to Konta). Tough, but very winnable if Heather plays like she did today.

Simon · Lower Club Player

Jen Ren managed to sneak in a last minute LL and proceeded to beat her R1 opponent:

Jen Ren beat Andrea Konjuh (Cro) (108) 7-5 3-4 ret.

She now plays Sofie Oyen of Belgium.

All 3 girls are playing doubles - interesting that Jen and Jess are ot playing together.

Salmon · Tennis legend

Jennifer lost 75 36 36.

Good fight against the seed.

Jessica lost by 63 61.

Not a surprise and it's okay.

Heather won by 5 and 1.

Now Heather plays second seed Richel Hongenkamp, who's a fine player. Not much chance there, but Heather is playing very well here, so who knows.

Salmon · Tennis legend

Singles results not up, but Heather and Sally Peers of Australia are through to the doubles semis.

So the US Open dream lives on for Heather - She just needs both the titles here, haha.

She'll do qualies anyway, I believe.

Salmon · Tennis legend

Heather beat Hogenkamp by 76 76.

She followed that by a 62 63 win over Sophia Kovalets, which means she is in the semis.

The US Open dream still lives on!

-- Edited by Kung Fu Panda at 17:50, 2008-07-18

Salmon · Tennis legend

Heather now plays Sandra Roma [36], who is the younger sister of the serial Brit killer, Nadja Roma. Nadja beat almost everyone in our top 1000 (including Anne and Mel) in 2006.

Anyway, Sandra Roma returned from an injury this May and she found form instantly, with an 18-4 record since then, including the Grade 1 title in Germany last week. Heather will need to play like against Hogenkamp to have a chance.

Whatever the result, she has done brilliantly this week. This is one of the strongest Grade 1s out there that's not a warm up to a Slam, and if she can make semis here then she has a great chance of doing well at 10Ks/25Ks, if she does them later this year.

Mervatron · Masters Series Champion

Great to see Heather finally getting som results togeher QF in Roehampton and a SF here. Great stuff

Salmon · Tennis legend

Lost by 36 76 62.

Into the doubles final, though.

If only the LTA had let her play 18s in the the Euros, she would have had a good chance of getting into the USO.

Mervatron · Masters Series Champion

Thats a good score agauinst a player thats been ripping this draw apart and last week. Shes up to around 85 now I think. Good to see another brit top 100 in juniors.

Salmon · Tennis legend

She got the doubles title.

What a week it has been!

Her ranking will go up to roughly 83 from 150. May not get her a top 8 seeding at USO qualies, but there's a Grade 3 two weeks before USO that she could do.