Week 6 - ITF ($100K) - Midland, USA Hard

jb288 · Satellite level

RE: Week 6 - ITF ($100K) - Midland, USA Hard

RBBOT · Futures qualifying

Q2:

(2)Naomi Broady (GBR) d. April Bisharat (USA) 61 31 Ret.
Yana Koroleva (RUS) d. (6)Tamaryn Hendler (BEL) 26 63 63

Maza1987 · Challenger level

Good stuff naomi

philwrig · Hall of fame

I'm liking her chances.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Maza1987 wrote:

Where can i find the draws?. its not on itf website yet

The ITF site is frequently a waste of time - in more ways than one! hmm

Try here.

RBBOT · Futures qualifying

USTA is even more fail than the ITF.

Tournament site has working draw downloads and HTML results pages on the right of the main menu http://www.dowcorningtennisclassic.com/

Tennis36 · Masters Series Champion

anyone else notice qualifiers have already been placed, naomi qualifed in straights, watson gets capra wr727, great draw, naomi gets beltrame wr195, good draw for her and she has avoided the brits, for at least one round, anne plays lisjak, elena vs drake

Tennis36 · Masters Series Champion

btw wtf is vaidisova ranked so low, last i heard she was in semi's australian open last year, whats happened????

philwrig · Hall of fame

Naomi won 6-4 6-3 solid if not spectacular.
Heather is playing Capra which I think is a decent draw. But don't be fooled by her ranking as she is much better than that. I see Heather as the victor but possibly in three sets. I disagree that Naomi has a good draw as Beltrame is a former top 100 player and therefore it would easily be a career win for Naomi if she was get the 'w' in that one.

Maza1987 · Challenger level

Tennis36 wrote:

btw wtf is vaidisova ranked so low, last i heard she was in semi's australian open last year, whats happened????

Her decline has been highly publicised. I'm suprised you didn't hear.

Basically, she woke up one morning and forgot how play tennis.

RedCabbage · Club Coach

Great opportunity for Heather. Pardon my ignorance, but will the 6 pts for qualifying still be added to the 18 (dunno if figures are right) she would get for getting to the second round? So if she beats Capra she will effectively be getting half-again as many points as she has at the moment? Putting her deep into the top 500?

SMC1809 · All-time great

RedCabbage wrote:

Great opportunity for Heather. Pardon my ignorance, but will the 6 pts for qualifying still be added to the 18 (dunno if figures are right) she would get for getting to the second round? So if she beats Capra she will effectively be getting half-again as many points as she has at the moment? Putting her deep into the top 500?

Heather didn't qualify, she had a WC to the main draw, so no, she won't get the 6 points.

indiana · Tennis legend

As SMC says Heather is a WC here.

On the other hand, she still has her 14 points to be added for her QF in Sutton last week, which combined with one point for 1st round here already puts her on 62 points ( 47 + 14 + 1 ) for next Monday which should be top 500.

If she gets 18 points for a 1st round win, she will go to 79 points, which should take her to around WR 430.

indiana · Tennis legend

Round One draw for the girls :

(4) Katie O'BRIEN WR 84 vs Laura GRANVILLE ( USA ) WR 286
(WC) Heather WATSON WR 556 vs (q) Beatrice COPRA ( USA ) WR 726
(q) Naomi BROADY WR 293 vs Severine BELTRANE ( FRA ) WR 195
(3) Elena BALTACHA WR 83 vs (q) Maureen DRAKE ( CAN ) WR 875
Anne KEOTHAVONG WR 127 vs (q) Ivana LISJAK ( CRO ) WR 204

Katie and Heather in 2nd quarter, Naomi and Elena in 3rd quarter and would meet in 2nd round if both won, and Anne in 4th quarter.

Maza1987 · Challenger level

I would say Heather and Capra are of similiar ability, but heather did have a higher junior pedigree. However, capra has had the qualies to get her in the swing. So will probably be close. I think Naomi might find it tough, but I do expect wins from the other 3.