Weeks 25-26 - Wimbledon Singles Main Draw

PaulM · Tennis legend

Weeks 25-26 - Wimbledon Singles Main Draw

indiana · Tennis legend

I agree Hantuchova will be a great experience for Laura and I think that draw makes it very likely she'll be on a show court.

How's Hantuchova's mind these days ? I know she used to have the ability to self destruct.

I see she tookthe first set v Safina yesterday before losing the next 2 fairly comfortably or at least so the score would indicate.

By the way, I thought Wimbledon would have saved Safina from the no 1 seeding ( can't they theoretically do as they wish on the women's side although they don't often do that much, I see shoved Sharapova up this year ), more as an act of mercy than anything else smile

murray_2k9 · Challenger qualifying

Hantuchova isnt a terrible draw. I can see Laura keeping it competitive, which is important. Anne has hit the jackpot, she should comfortably defend her points from last year, and then Chak, who she almost beat in Aus or Lisicki, she could maybe go a round further. I think its a very, very nice draw.

wolf · Tennis legend

Perfect draw for Anne, and Mel can't complain either.

I had hoped Bally would get a good draw so she could defend her win from last year and launch an assualt on the top 100, but not to be.

ForeverDelayed · Grand Slam Champion

Chakvetadze beat Jankovic at Eastbourne this week so is in a bit of good form on a grass court, so it would be tough for Anne to beat her, especially as she herself is not in the best of form at the moment.

At least she'll defend her points from last year which is the main thing from that I would suspect.

Of the others, Mel has the best chance of getting a win, while Bally and Katie have small chances of winning their matches as well.

alex03maccy · Grand Slam Champion

anne and mel SHOULD win.
bally COULD win.
kob, stoopy and laura will hopefully make it close ish.

jb288 · Satellite level

Can't really complain about that, can we?
Really hope Bally can get the win, will doubtless be pretty tough - though Bondarenko just lost to Schiavone on grass at Ordina, which might bode well, and she lost in straights to Erakovic at Birmingham last year...not sure what that suggests!
If Mel can't win that, well, she's not going to get a much better draw on her favourite surface...

steven · Tennis legend

Laura 1st on Court 2 at 12 BST

Georgie 4th on Court 4 after Kohli, Peer & Mahut

Mel court TBA - I assume they'll put her on whichever show court (C, 1, 2 or 3) runs out of matches first.

Silver · County player

I'm interested in seeing the Georgie-Vera match, just to see where she is right now. Vera's just coming back from injury though so it's possible it could be closer than expected. She did lose last week at Eastbourne.

WE SHALL SEE!

Anne and Mel ftw!
Bally's got a tough one but I've got my fingers crossed for that one
Granted Benesova's a tough prospect but on grass, again it might not be too bad. Again, WE SHALL SEE!

I'm remaining positive at the moment.

steven · Tennis legend

The bookies make the Brits' chances of winning a match:

Anne 78%
Mel 64%
Katie 35%
Elena 29%
Laura 20%
Georgie 7%

That works out to a 97% chance of at least one winner, an 88% chance of at least one winner other than Anne and a 66% chance of at least one winner other than Anne or Mel.

Tutu · Club Coach

Lol, they underestimate bally against a player who just isn't great on grass. She did play a great match vs Mel last year tho, because Mel was playing GREAT herself.

And btw welcome back to the top 250 to Naomi! In at 249. When is the USO cutoff? She will need to rise about 25 places to get in there.

Ratty · County player

How pleasing to see that the new hard-headed, mathematical, rational approach (the "Ratty Factor"?) is now supplanting the usual mixture of sentimental optmism, inevitably followed by desolation and despair ...

But in the meantime, as a PS - Come on Boggo, you know you want to stick it to John Lloyd!!!

Mervatron · Masters Series Champion

I'd put Katie at 40% and Bally somewhere similar actually. Can't really complain about ther others.

I'm excited to get to see Georgie play again. She better be on TV now. I haven't see her play live since wrexham 10k in 2004/5, i saw so much potential there, huge forehand. I hope she gives a good account of herself.

Peter too · Tennis legend

Laura's match is now live on BBC channel 301.

ForeverDelayed · Grand Slam Champion

Very good start by Laura! Doesn't look at all nervous and she's playing some good tennis, and serving really well.

If she can keep this up and keep the errors in check, then she's got a great shot of winning this match.