Great stuff, why can't Memphis be on every week?
Now come on Bally :)

Brilliant!

Hard to find the words to do this special effort justice.

Arvidsson it is 6-1 6-3

Arvidsson will be a tough opponent but there is no reason why Anne can't make her first WTA final.

What a chance Anne has here. It's been an incredible return from injury and now she has her best chance yet of making her first tour final.

I watched Anne's match against Arvidsson in Birmingham and the encouraging thing is Anne didn't even play well and she won so easily.

cakj1234 wrote:

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Congratulations Anne. Terrific comeback after injury, keep it up. Congrats to Elena too for a successful start to the year. Hope you both make top 50 before Wimbledon, you are both so capable of doing it.

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Really great for Anne to reach the semis here, and I do think both are capable of being top 50 by end of the year, and the way Bally is going for her even possibly by Wimbledon.

But with the time Anne has had out it is would be one hell of an ask for her to get back to top 50 by Wimbledon.  Effectively it's asking her to make a year's top 50 points in less than 6 months playing time.

Current top 50 ranked player ( Bammer ) is on 1325 ranking points.
Pre this tournament Anne's total points earned that will still be in place at Wimbledon, i.e excluding points due to come off  before Wimbledon  = ( just ) 42 points.
Anne's running pre Wimbledon points total plus 130 earned at Memphis  =  172 points.
Anne's running points total if she manages to add 200 for a semi appearance at Memhis  =  242 points.

To earn so many additional points to get to around an annual 1325 total within so few months, I'd say that she'd really have to be performing pretty close to top 20 level player over that period.

Just making the top 100 by Wimbledon would in my opinion be a pretty good achievement and mean outperforming what she did in the pre Wimbledon period last year.

Sorry for getting all statistically minded and putting my slight damper on such expectations  ( well, for Anne anyway )  

It remains great that they are both playing so well.

-- Edited by indiana on Friday 19th of February 2010 02:20:24 AM