The impact of the global recession has been particularly strong in the USA, leading to a dearth of tournaments this month, and consequently high cut-offs for those still in the calendar. As a result Elena Baltacha just scraped in to qualifying here at the last minute.
(8) Ayumi Morita (JPN) v Elena Baltacha (GBR) Jill Craybas (USA) v (16) Viktoriya Kutuzova (UKR)
Bally attempts to break her US duck first match on court 4 at 3pm BST. Morita retired from her last match, which may give hope.
Yeh with gastro-intestinal illness - grim! Sadly she may have recovered from it, but Morita does always seem to retire...
In fact, Morita hasnt won since before the French, and is on a 7 loss streak, though tbf, she has lost to pretty decent players so that shouldnt be looked into too much
-- Edited by murray_2k9 on Saturday 8th of August 2009 11:43:22 AM
