Australian Open Entry List & Qualifying Draw - Women

djlovesyou · Strong Club Player

RE: Australian Open Entry List & Qualifying Draw - Women

goldfish · Futures qualifying

Excellent tie-break. Well done Katie - a magnificent victory.

airsmashers · County player

Well done katie looks to have made light work of that tie break

goldfish · Futures qualifying

Katie O'brien GBR 6 77
Match Completed

Betina Jozami ARG (21) 0 62
SlamTracker Match Statistics

Elapsed Time by Set: 19 45

Match Summary
O'brien(GBR) Jozami(ARG)

1st Serve % 40 of 61 = 66 % 32 of 54 = 59 %

Aces 1 2

Double Faults 3 4

Winning % on 1st Serve 23 of 40 = 57 % 18 of 32 = 56 %

Winning % on 2nd Serve 17 of 21 = 81 % 8 of 22 = 36 %

Receiving Points Won 28 of 54 = 52 % 21 of 63 = 33 %

Break Point Conversions 5 of 6 = 83 % 2 of 3 = 67 %

Total Points Won 68 47

steven · Tennis legend

OMG she's done it!! biggrin

4 in the main draw without a WC, W 7 L 1 in qualifying ... unbelievable biggrin

djlovesyou · Strong Club Player

It's been a crazy few days to be fair.

Long may it continue.

gjr · Club Coach

steven wrote:

OMG she's done it!!

4 in the main draw without a WC, W 7 L 1 in qualifying ... unbelievable

Steven I know you did some stats earlier but when was the last time we had 4 in a main draw with no wild cards?

steven · Tennis legend

Can you imagine the look on Katie's face when she won that last point ... and how ecstatic the GB team out there must be.

djlovesyou · Strong Club Player

Think that's going to take some digging.

steven · Tennis legend

gjr wrote:

steven wrote:

OMG she's done it!!

4 in the main draw without a WC, W 7 L 1 in qualifying ... unbelievable

Steven I know you did some stats earlier but when was the last time we had 4 in a main draw with no wild cards?

I'm checking ... I know there were 5 in a slam without WCs in the mid-80s, just checking the intervening years.

djlovesyou · Strong Club Player

I would imagine it was better than the look on her face on most of her pictures. She does have a rather interesting array of 'effort' faces.

steven · Tennis legend

LOL like her pic onthe AO site, you mean?

steven · Tennis legend

Would you believe the last time we had four GB women in a main draw without needing WCs was only a year before the last time we had two?

1992 US Open - 3 DAs (Jo Durie, Sara Gomer, Monique Javer) all lost in R1 and Clare Wood qualified and beat Jo before going out in R2 to Sabine Appelmans, so there were no GB wins against non-Brits in the main draw.

The last time we had more than two Brits in the main draw at the AO was also 1992, when we had 5 DAs - Clare Wood, Sam Smith (in her first successful period before she went AWOL), Monique Javer and Sara Gomer all went out in R1 and Jo Durie reached R2.

Now to find the last time two GB girls qualified for the same slam ..

-- Edited by steven at 06:29, 2009-01-17

gjr · Club Coach

Nice work Steven.

steven · Tennis legend

The last time we had two GB women qualify for the same slam was in 1990, coincidentally also at the AO and also joining two DAs in the main draw.

Back then, they all avoided seeds in R1 and either lost there or the first timethey had to play a seed. The two DAs were Jo Durie, who got to R2, and Sara Gomer, who lost in R1, while the qualifiers back then were Clare Wood, who lost in R1 and Sarah Loosemore, who made it to R3. Amanda Grunfeld was also in the FQR where she lost to Clare.

So, this is the best GB women's performance in qualifying for a slam for 19 years and here's a full summary of it:

QR1: (q19) Elena Baltacha WR 134 beat Anastasija Sevastova (LAT) WR 193 (CH=191 10/2008) by 3 & 4 smile

QR1: Katie O'Brien WR 160 beat Sandra Zahlavova (CZE) WR 164 (CH=139 5/2007) by 5 & 3 smile

QR1: Georgie Stoop WR 216 beat Alexa Glatch (USA) WR 150 (= CH) by 6-0 7-6(5) biggrin

QR2: Georgie Stoop WR 216 lost to Kathrin Wörle (GER) WR 162 (CH 138 6/2006) by 3-6 7-5 14-12 cry

QR2: (q19) Elena Baltacha WR 134 beat Carly Gullickson (USA) WR 151 (= CH) by 5-7 6-0 6-0 smile

QR2: Katie O'Brien WR 160 beat (q3) Julie Ditty (USA) WR 115 (CH 89 3/2008) by 3-6 6-3 6-3 biggrin

FQR: (q19) Elena Baltacha WR 134 beat (q1) Jelena Kostanic Tosic (CRO) WR 112 (CH 32 7/2004) by 1 & 3 biggrin
FQR: Katie O'Brien WR 160 beat (q21) Betina Jozami (ARG) WR 137 (= CH) by 6-0 7-6(2) biggrin

- won 7 matches, lost 1
- won 15 sets, lost 4
- 4 bagels and 1 breadstick handed out on the way wink

-- Edited by steven at 07:36, 2009-01-17