Week 31 - WTA Tier I - Montreal, Canada

Tutu · Club Coach

Week 31 - WTA Tier I - Montreal, Canada

Tutu · Club Coach

Quali Draw:

O'Brien [11] - Mills [WC]
Dabrowski [WC] - Scheepers [18]

South [12] - Douglas-Miron [WC]
Lee-Waters - Jidkova [23]

Good draws for both. :D Definatly. Isn't Lindsay Lee Walters still in a tournament Lexington I think?

seagull · Hall of fame

No Bally?

DavidC · Tennis legend

Anne becomes the first British direct entry into a Tier 1 since 1999.

No Bally - hope she is ok.

Lee Waters lost in singles today, but plays doubles sf with Oudin against Georgie and partner shortly. If she wins then assuming the doubles final is on Saturday daytime she should still be able to make Montreal in time to play two matches on Sunday.

Tutu · Club Coach

MD. Tough but I think doable. The upside about losing early this week is that she has had time to rest and should be really fresh come monday. Kirilenko is a tough cookie but she is still very inconsistent and just lost to Errani today. Cmon Anne.

(13) Kirilenko - Keothavong
Govortsova - (WC) Dubois
Chan - Wozniak
Bye - (2) Jankovic

Im not so happy about Anne getting into the MD, knowing that it has come at the expense of Venus. :(

DavidC · Tennis legend

Tough main draw for Anne, but lucky qualy draw for both. You don't normally get seeded to qualify for a Tier 1 ranked around 150, but the Olympics means a clash with a Tier 4 and a great opportunity.

Katie is second match on court 5 (following Lepchenko)
Mel is third match on Court Banque National (following Spears)

First matches start at 11am (3pm BST)

Mervatron · Masters Series Champion

Isn't that 4pm uk time?

Great chance for Katie and Mel to pick up some big points here and keep on climbing. Katie seems to be rebounding well from her major points loss from the grass, slow and steady does it. I'm hoping all 3 can manage to get a seeding for US open quallies.

jamatthews · Strong Club Player

It is, but plays starts at 10 am, not 11.

Mervatron · Masters Series Champion

ah, so not long untill Katie will be on then

jamatthews · Strong Club Player

If Lepchenko can keep this up then yes. wink

Peter too · Tennis legend

katie *1-0

Salmon · Tennis legend

6-4 2-2 now. Katie was a break up in the second but Mills broke her a few seconds ago.

DavidC · Tennis legend

Katie won 6-4 6-3. On the plus side her returning stats were good converting 6 out of 7 break points. On the negative side her achilles heel of second serve was in evidence, and overall she only won just over half of her serving points. Still a win is a win (and 10 points!)

DavidC · Tennis legend

Mel is on the scoreboard

johnnylad · Tennis legend

Mel leads 2-0 first set