Week 34 - US Open Qualifying - New York

murray_2k9 · Challenger qualifying

RE: Week 34 - US Open Qualifying - New York

dougie · Club Coach

Bally wins 6-1, 6-1.. looking good for the girls.

philwrig · Hall of fame

I'm as confident as I can be that Bally will qualify.

Peter too · Tennis legend

Q2: BALTACHA, Elena (GBR) 2 102 v HLAVACKOVA, Andrea (CZE) 189

alex03maccy · Grand Slam Champion

good stuff so far, especially laura. unlucky georgie.

helki · Futures qualifying

Well done girls.

Good comeback by Laura after a shaky start and an excellent work out for Bally. Fingers crossed Mel can carry on the good work and make it three into the next round from today's efforts to join Katie O'B.

DavidC · Tennis legend

Very impressive from both, and pleased to be wrong about Laura's chances. It's a good scalp (she accounted for Michelle Larcher de Brito in her first Grand Slam qualifier last year) even if it leads to no points. So we now have a battle between two former (and in one case hopefully future) junior world top 2s. Kapros hasn't achieved as much as you would expect from someone who was a top junior at a young age, but has been blighted by injuries.

Hlavackova is primarily a doubles specialist so Bally, who appears to have thrown the North American monkey off her back, should be able to make final qualifying for the second successive year.

Tennis36 · Masters Series Champion

the other seed in laura's section, 7th seed, is also out, so fingers crossed, but still one match at a time

djlovesyou · Strong Club Player

I think Laura will be alright in terms of the rules.

I'm thinking she's only allowed one slam main draw WC and a max of three WCs altogether. (including slam qualies)

The only WCs she's got this year are this one and Wimbledon. (I think)