Week 15 - WTA Premier - Charleston, SC, USA - green clay

DavidC · Tennis legend

RE: Week 15 - WTA Premier - Charleston, SC, USA - green clay

DavidC · Tennis legend

Double fault hands Heather a break point - saved
and a second bp - saved
and a third bp - taken

5*-1

Tennis36 · Masters Series Champion

5-1 30-0, so happy for heather :)

Tennis36 · Masters Series Champion

superb win, and in the main draw!!!

DavidC · Tennis legend

15-0
30-0
40-0

GSM Heather Watson 7-5 2-6 6-1

Good luck in the main draw Heather

indiana · Tennis legend

Great stuff. After a real battle between the two of them for the first 2 sets, Heather really pulled away there at the end smile

Main draw of a WTA Premier through her own qualification efforts and flying in from playing 800 miles away the day before her Q1, so little time for prep. Impressive !

Peter too · Tennis legend

In the main draw 4 qualifiers play each other, two places are against seeds and there are 3 other places (one LL I guess).

RBBOT · Futures qualifying

Awesome - two more wins here, and it should be enough to see her into the French Open qualifiers, and given she's actually been playing on clay rather than avoiding it like most Brits, a chance of doing something when she gets there! The possible Q v Q spots give her a good chance of doing so too.

-- Edited by RBBOT on Sunday 11th of April 2010 04:49:50 PM

Maza1987 · Challenger level

Superb!

Gotta keep these young whipper snappers in their place.

lol.

Maza1987 · Challenger level

RBBOT wrote:

Awesome - two more wins here, and it should be enough to see her into the French Open qualifiers, and given she's actually been playing on clay rather than avoiding it like most Brits, a chance of doing something when she gets there! The possible Q v Q spots give her a good chance of doing so too.

-- Edited by RBBOT on Sunday 11th of April 2010 04:49:50 PM

Wow, you made that sound so easy biggrin

Tutu · Club Coach

HUGE. Amazing win against a fellow prodigy who, although is a year younger, has much more experience as a professional. I guess we're going to start calling Heather the '3 Set Warrior' because her record is truly impressive. Hopefully she can work on playing the big points as well as possible because the top players really won't be very forgiving.

Anyway, that's 12 points in addition to the 15 points earnt in Missisippi this week. Therefore she's upto 110 points and, at worst, will be at 351 in a week's time. Here's how the points go:

R2: 40 points - #292
R3: 60 points - #270
QF: 120 points - #225

Anything else after today will be a bonus but she is certainly more than capable of going further. C'mon Heather!

-- Edited by Tutu on Sunday 11th of April 2010 05:10:04 PM

indiana · Tennis legend

Yes, it's great to look at possibilities. Certainly with a good draw the 40 additional points for reaching the L32 is very possible, but who knows...

Disagree by one point, being pernickety smile

82 + 15 + 12 = 109 points ( edit, ah, do you get the one point for 1st Round main draw as well in WTA ( Premier ) events ? )

Re RBBOT's point, surely she needs 3 main draw wins at least, i.e. reach the quarter finals to get into Roland Garros qualifiers. I would have thought the required mark would have been well under 270th place in the rankings. Or is it quite a bit higher for the French Open ?

-- Edited by indiana on Sunday 11th of April 2010 05:31:34 PM

steven · Tennis legend

indiana wrote:

Yes, it's great to look at possibilities. Certainly with a good draw the 40 additional points for reaching the L32 is very possible, but who knows...

Disagree by one point, being pernickety 82 + 15 + 12 = 109 points ( edit, ah, do you get the one point for 1st Round main draw as well in WTA ( Premier ) events ? )

Re RBBOT's point, surely she needs 3 main draw wins at least, i.e. reach the quarter finals to get into Roland Garros qualifiers. I would have thought the required mark would have been well under 270th place in the rankings. Or is it quite a bit higher for the French Open ?

In the WTA rankings, if you lose in R1 after qualifying, you only get the qualifying points, so your calculation is the more accurate one.

indiana · Tennis legend

I've got at the back of my mind that in one of the Grand Slams the qualifying draw is 128 women ( 16 qualifiers ) and for the rest 96 women ( 12 qualifiers ) but, assuming this is the case, i don't know which is the 128 women draw.

Clearly better chance of getting into French qualifiers if it is the 128 women draw.

RBBOT · Futures qualifying

I never counted the size of the main draw - incorrectly assumed it was 32, hence I thought 2 wins would be QF.