Tara has pulled out been very sick last week and a half.
Who will get her wild card as qualifying already started ?
Of course silly me she didn't get one and she withdrew yesterday before qualifying.
Do all 25 tournaments have only 2 qualifying rounds and 8 qualifiers ?

-- Edited by philwrig on Monday 19th of October 2009 02:57:02 PM

Showing early signs of Dementia.

QR1: no brit (1) BARTHEL, Mona WR 363 v BYE
QR1: ROBINSON, Alicia UNR lost to (10) WATSON, Heather WR 607 0-6 0-6
QR1: (2) GERLOVA, Iveta (CZE) WR 377 beat GIBSON, Aimee UNR 6-1 6-2
QR1: REN, Jessica UNR beat (16) GEORGE, Nicola WR 900 6-3 6-2
QR1: no brit (3) RUCKERT, Katie (USA) WR 407 beat ANDERSON, Kelly (USA) WR 912 6-1 6-2
QR1: (15) VICKERS, Samantha WR 847 beat VAN RIET, Lisanne (NED) UNR 6-2 6-4
QR1: (4) LAINE, Emma (FIN) WR 415 beat ALTON, Henrietta UNR 6-2 6-0
QR1: REN, Jennifer WR 945 lost to (9) BOCZOVA, Klaudia (SVK) WR 590 5-7 6-3 7-5
QR1: (5) PERKOVIC, Korina (GER) WR 418 beat SEABORNE, Ruth UNR 6-4 7-5
QR1: (11) ELLIOTT, Amanda WR 639 beat HUME, Hannah UNR 6-2 6-4
QR1: no brit (6) MAYR, Julia (ITA) WR 441 beat BOWTELL, Amy (IRL) 6-1 6-2
QR1: (WC) FARLEY, Michelle UNR beat (14) THOMAS, Elizabeth WR 717 w/o
QR1: (7) MAYR, Evelyn (ITA) WR 462 beat WALKER, Alexandra UNR 6-2 6-3
QR1: PARISH, Helen WR 928 beat (13) PIGOVA, Eva (CZE) WR 674 w/o
QR1: (8) SMITH, Anna WR 466 beat BIRNIE, Claire UNR 6-2 6-2
QR1: (12) KHAN, Natasha WR 660 beat PURBA, Jotie UNR 6-0 6-1

-- Edited by DavidC on Monday 19th of October 2009 06:51:08 PM

hopefully heather will be able to come through.

-- Edited by alex03maccy on Monday 19th of October 2009 06:51:57 PM

Hopefully Barthel is not on Shrewsbury form. But even if she is Heather can still take her.

Heather won in straight sets.

Gerlova beat Ren 7-6 (7-5) 6-2
Laine beat Boczova 6-0 6-2
E Mayr beat Parish 6-1 4-6 6-2
J Mayr beat Farey 6-1 6-1
Smith beat Khan 6-1 6-3
Watson beat Barthel 6-1 7-6 (7-3)

Good performance from Watson. Great first set performance with three service breaks. Barthel was making several unforced errors. She is a strong hitter but was struggling with consistency highlighted by the last game of the first set where she was 40-0 up through 3 stunning points but then lost the next five points including a double fault at the end to lose the set 6-1.

However, Barthel came back into it in the second set and actually served for it twice at 5-4 and 6-5. Watson managed to take the set into a tiebreak and played well throughout, including a stunning point at 4-2, to take the match.