Week 12 - Womens WTA ($4.5M) - Miami, USA, Hard

steven · Tennis legend

Week 12 - Womens WTA ($4.5M) - Miami, USA, Hard

steven · Tennis legend

Play starts at 14.00 GMT on Monday, Elena (nice to see her in action again after a 6-week break, though she's going to have to go some here to defend the Torhout and Jersey winner points due to come off at the end of Miami) is 4th on Court 7 (maybe 18.30 GMT?) with Mel to follow on the same court.

wolf · Tennis legend

Dubois will be very tough, Mayr less so.

Peter too · Tennis legend

R1: KEOTHAVONG, Anne (GBR) 51 v SAFAROVA, Lucie (CZE) 48

DavidC · Tennis legend

Safarova has beaten Mel twice and Bally in the last few months, so hopefully Anne can redress the balance against a powerful but inconsistent player.

Mayr has entered the top 100 primarily thanks to consistency in weakish Challenger events, so a fully-fit Bally would be favourite, but it won't be easy after her layoff. Dubois is strongest on hard courts, but has had a mixed year. She did however qualify in Indian Wells.

The match before Bally's is currently in the first set.

Smidster · Challenger level

Winner plays Schynder in R2

Kind of draw, at least in R1, which Anne needs to take advantage of

Portsey · Intermediate Club Player

Baltacha is 3-0 down

wolf · Tennis legend

Bally trails 0-6, 0-1*. Not to make excuses but surely she has some kind of an injury?

Simmy26 · Lower Club Player

Bally having a nightmare, loses first set 6-0 and is a break down at the start of the 2nd.

Simmy26 · Lower Club Player

You beat me to it! My thoughts exactly.

Simmy26 · Lower Club Player

Score is taking a while to refresh, maybe she has retired?

Simmy26 · Lower Club Player

Score back on but Bally struggling to win a point, she has only won 12 so far in the match and is now 2-0 down in the 2nd.

steven · Tennis legend

She hasn't played for 6 weeks, so that suggests something was wrong and she might not have completely recovered from it.

Simmy26 · Lower Club Player

Bally has retired, hope she is ok.

wolf · Tennis legend

She clearly took a medical time out but it just didn't help at all. She pulled out of one of the Mexican WTA events with a inflamation of the elbow. Oh for an injury free run..possibly one of the unluckiest players in tennis and this latest one was just when she was on the verge of the top 100. Now with her Jersey and Tourhout points coming off at the end of Miami she will drop big time unless she can do well (and if she plays) at Tourhout next week which has been upgraded to a $100k event.