Heather Watson

ROSAMUND · Futures level

RE: Heather Watson

ROSAMUND · Futures level

Heather has entered the event starting 14th July as a wildcard.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

She confirmed she is intending to play the US Open and the French

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

I commented in another thread that Dan is 11th (really 10th with Fed out for the season) in the Mens Race, with Joe and Jonny both top 8 pairings in doubles. All stand a chance of reaching the Tour Finals, if they happen.

Well, Heather isnt too far off herself, she is 17th (something I had forgotten) and could reach the WTA Tour Finals or, more plausibly, the Elite Trophy Finals, both of which are planned to take place in the revised calendar.

live-tennis.eu/en/wta-race

It could very well require just two or three really strong weeks, and given the big events coming up there are lots of points on offer in a short period of time. Heather's biggest issue maybe making the draw of some of the Premier events (as she is 50th in the rankings) but she should have a shot of playing most events that she attempts to play. The US swing and later Asian/Chinese swing will be where she will focus her efforts no doubt, time to come out of the blocks quickly I would say

ROSAMUND · Futures level

JonH comes home wrote:
I commented in another thread that Dan is 11th (really 10th with Fed out for the season) in the Mens Race, with Joe and Jonny both top 8 pairings in doubles. All stand a chance of reaching the Tour Finals, if they happen.

Well, Heather isnt too far off herself, she is 17th (something I had forgotten) and could reach the WTA Tour Finals or, more plausibly, the Elite Trophy Finals, both of which are planned to take place in the revised calendar.

live-tennis.eu/en/wta-race

It could very well require just two or three really strong weeks, and given the big events coming up there are lots of points on offer in a short period of time. Heather's biggest issue maybe making the draw of some of the Premier events (as she is 50th in the rankings) but she should have a shot of playing most events that she attempts to play. The US swing and later Asian/Chinese swing will be where she will focus her efforts no doubt, time to come out of the blocks quickly I would say

Heather will surely need to do better in the 2 remaining Grand Slams than she has managed in the past. Otherwise I don't think she will reaching either the WTA finals or Elite Trophy finals.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

ROSAMUND wrote:
JonH comes home wrote:
I commented in another thread that Dan is 11th (really 10th with Fed out for the season) in the Mens Race, with Joe and Jonny both top 8 pairings in doubles. All stand a chance of reaching the Tour Finals, if they happen.

Well, Heather isnt too far off herself, she is 17th (something I had forgotten) and could reach the WTA Tour Finals or, more plausibly, the Elite Trophy Finals, both of which are planned to take place in the revised calendar.

live-tennis.eu/en/wta-race

It could very well require just two or three really strong weeks, and given the big events coming up there are lots of points on offer in a short period of time. Heather's biggest issue maybe making the draw of some of the Premier events (as she is 50th in the rankings) but she should have a shot of playing most events that she attempts to play. The US swing and later Asian/Chinese swing will be where she will focus her efforts no doubt, time to come out of the blocks quickly I would say
Heather will surely need to do better in the 2 remaining Grand Slams than she has managed in the past. Otherwise I don't think she will reaching either the WTA finals or Elite Trophy finals.

It's definitely a long shot but at least she is in touching distance, something new for her at what will be the end of season calendar. But, yes, a longer shot by far than Evo or Joe, jonny.

ROSAMUND · Futures level

Re the chances of Heather reaching the WTA Tour finals/Elite Trophy finals there are currently some talented players ranked between 21 and 100. e.g. Svitolina,Keys, Serena,Osaka, Kerber, Gauff, Goerges, Anisimova,Ostapenko and Vondrousova. I think Heather will be hard pressed to stay in the top 20 assuming all these players return. A more realistic goal would be for Heather to win a round at the US Open and thus join Jo and the late Elena Baltacha as the only Britons to win a round of all the Grand Slams in the 21st century. If Heather were to reach the 4th round of either the US Open or the French Open then she would join the small group of 4 British players who have reached the 4th round of a Grand Slam since the US Open of 1987. (only 33 years ago!) Jo Konta has done it 8 times, Laura Robson twice , Sam Smith and Jo Durie each once. This is a far worse record than the mens game.

ROSAMUND · Futures level

Heather is on again with Sue Barker on Friday at 7.00. Features her 2015 match against Serena.

ROSAMUND · Futures level

ROSAMUND wrote:
Heather is on again with Sue Barker on Friday at 7.00. Features her 2015 match against Serena.

Looks like Heather is on again with Jo on Tuesday at 8.00 pm BBC2.

ROSAMUND · Futures level

ROSAMUND wrote:
ROSAMUND wrote:
Heather is on again with Sue Barker on Friday at 7.00. Features her 2015 match against Serena.
Looks like Heather is on again with Jo on Tuesday at 8.00 pm BBC2.

That was correct and Heather has also been allowed to show her presentation skills.

ROSAMUND · Futures level

Heather and Jo are making another appearance on Sue Barker's 8.00 pm Wimbledon BBC2 programme on Thursday.

ROSAMUND · Futures level

Looking on the tennis forum website it looks like Heather along with Jo has entered the Lexington tournament starting on 10th August I think. They look like they've got the intention of playing in the US Open if it takes place. Apart from corona virus issues we don't know how Heather's foot or Jo's knee is at the moment.

ROSAMUND · Futures level

Heather has drawn Jennifer Brady in the 1st round in Lexington .

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Jo and heather in Italian open field

twitter.com/LucaFiorino24/status/1295672517361885185

ROSAMUND · Futures level

If Heather were to beat Jo in the 1st round of the US Open it would get a monkey off her back. She would get her first singles win in the main draw of the US Open and also have a singles win in each of the 4 Grand Slams.