Week 12 - WTA ($4.5M) - Miami, USA Premier Hard

Peter too · Tennis legend

Week 12 - WTA ($4.5M) - Miami, USA Premier Hard

philwrig · Hall of fame

Bally gets another great draw in qualies against Ditty and Katie plays American wild card McHale.

SMC1809 · All-time great

Peter too wrote:

Anne Keothavong 127
Heather Watson WC 484

Couldn't agree more. wink

steven · Tennis legend

Ditty beat Elena 2 & 4 the last time they met (Lexington 2007) but she is 1-5 against Brits since, having lost to Georgie (twice), Mel (1 & 0), Cav and Katie, her one win coming against Tara Moore. Her CH was 89 in March 2008, she is now ranked 397, having been out of action between August last year and her first match back earlier this month, which was one of the two losses to Georgie.

SMC1809 · All-time great

Phil, is the draw posted somewhere?

Danjn · Lower Club Player

You'll find the draw here:

http://www.sonyericssonwtatour.com/SEWTATour-Archive/posting/2010/902/QS.pdf

Vamos08 · Intermediate Club Player

Hopefully another bonus 30 points for Elena here, and the last time she'll have to play qualies for these big events for a while!

steven · Tennis legend

She'll miss the extra points if she starts getting straight in! LOL Though the other Premier Mandatories must have smaller draws, so maybe she still won't.

Peter too · Tennis legend

Q1:BALTACHA, Elena (GBR) 2 65 v DITTY, Julie (USA) 397
Q1: OBRIEN, Katie (GBR) 17 100 v MCHALE, Christina (USA) WC 206

Tennis36 · Masters Series Champion

MAIN DRAW IS OUT AND HEATHER DREW A QUALIFER!!, great draw, real chance for big points

Tutu · Club Coach

Draw is out, Heather got a qualifier and Wozniacki in R2, Anne got Paszek and Pavly in the next round, providing they win their matches of course.

I actually think some of the qualifiers (like Sevastova and Bally) are tougher than many of the MD players.. I just hope she avoids top top 6 seeds really, and even then it's tough but we'll see. If she's up for it and ready to beat top 100 players then I would LOVE to see her play Wozniacki. Wozniacki doesn't have any weapons regardless of what her rank says so if Heather is patient and willing to come to the net then she wouls have a chance of at least pushin g(excuse the pun) Wozniacki. But anyway, hopefully we can have 3 brits in R2. It's doable if Bally doesn't draw Heather, in which case I would probably jump off a cliff..

-- Edited by Tutu on Monday 22nd of March 2010 05:44:53 PM

Vamos08 · Intermediate Club Player

"Wozniacki doesn't have any weapons regardless of what her rank says..."

Can't say I agree with this! Indian Wells final last week and of course the US Open final show she's no mug!

Mel, Katie and Anne all played her once last year, and collectively won 4 games.

Tutu · Club Coach

No, I mean she is a good player. But her game in a nutshell is consistency, moonballs and defence. Although we didn't see it, I can imagine all three simply went for every single shot and eventually the ball would fly out, but Caroline struggles with players who come to the net. Sure she did well to make those two finals but most of her big results are the product of collapsing draws rather than taking out the biggest names in tennis.

Anyway my point is that if they were to play, Wozniacki wouldn't hit Heather off the court compared to if she was to play, say, the Williams Sisters or Sharapova. Anyway, it doesn't matter yet, she is still a long way from that. Good luck Heather!

indiana · Tennis legend

Would be great to see Heather win a round ( and all these luvly luvly points ) and then face Wozniacki. The qualifier is still likely to be decently ranked though, in fact quite likely to a top 100 player so a tough task.

Don't think she'd get particularly close to Wozniacki in term of games won, but it would still be a great experience.

Anyway, was just looking at Wozniacki's WTA page really re her activity and I must admit draws have opened up for her more than I realised. She's still a heck of a good player though. Re her WTA page, I do approve of her pic biggrin

-- Edited by indiana on Tuesday 23rd of March 2010 12:01:49 AM

philwrig · Hall of fame

Caro is not the second best player in the world for sure but she would make the top 10. Heather will have to play a qualifier who will be used to the conditions etc. and as Indiana said most likely a top 100 player so a very tough ask but dare I say not impossible.

Very good draw for Anne as Paszek is a fraction of the player that emerged with so much potential when she was just 16.