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

steven · Tennis legend

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

Maza1987 · Challenger level

Top 300 if she can win one more match.
I'm salivating at that prospect.

-- Edited by Maza1987 on Sunday 11th of April 2010 07:17:02 PM

indiana · Tennis legend

Maza1987 wrote:

Top 300 if she can win one more match.
I'm salivating at that prospect.

-- Edited by Maza1987 on Sunday 11th of April 2010 07:17:02 PM

Oh, my. Steady

Maza1987 · Challenger level

indiana wrote:

Maza1987 wrote:

Top 300 if she can win one more match.
I'm salivating at that prospect.

-- Edited by Maza1987 on Sunday 11th of April 2010 07:17:02 PM

Oh, my. Steady

Tutu · Club Coach

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 ?

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

Not sure! I got Heather's points from here where it says she has 83 points. http://www.tennisforum.com/showpost.php?p=17302792&postcount=5

steven · Tennis legend

Tutu wrote:
Not sure! I got Heather's points from here where it says she has 83 points. http://www.tennisforum.com/showpost.php?p=17302792&postcount=5

I think that must be wrong - she was shown on the WTA list as having 82 points last Monday http://www.sonyericssonwtatour.com/page/RankingsNSingles/0,,12781~0~70,00.html and she has 1 (for qualifying) + 14 (for reaching the QFs) to add for the week just finishing + 12 so far for the week about to start, all of which will be added on Monday week.

TBE's rankings on tennisforum are sometimes a point or a ranking position or two wrong, though it's a fabulous source and I don't know how he manages it - I have enough trouble keeping up with the 50 Brits on my tables, and I'm not immune to being the odd ranking point out either, albeit usually not for long!

-- Edited by steven on Sunday 11th of April 2010 09:49:57 PM

RBBOT · Futures qualifying

She's not on Monday's OOP which rules out the two spots against non-seeded main draw players. Therefore, it's a seed or another qualifier, with the odds 2:1 in favour of the later.

As for top 300, Laura is only 15 points away too - if things go well we could have the top 10 GB players inside 300 after these tournaments.

-- Edited by RBBOT on Sunday 11th of April 2010 11:02:42 PM

SMC1809 · All-time great

Heather's been drawn against Vesnina.

SMC1809 · All-time great

Which was the worst draw for a qualifier. cry

The one thing in Heather's favour is that she has played a lot of games on clay recently so should be used to the speed of the courts by now, whereas this is Vesnina's first clay tournament of the year. I'm clutching at straws though.

-- Edited by SMC1809 on Sunday 11th of April 2010 11:05:52 PM

RBBOT · Futures qualifying

Not good. Still look on the bright side: Vesnina has only won 4 matches since September and one of those was by retirement.

Maza1987 · Challenger level

SMC1809 wrote:

Heather's been drawn against Vesnina.

All together now

****

steven · Tennis legend

SMC1809 wrote:

Which was the worst draw for a qualifier.

The one thing in Heather's favour is that she has played a lot of games on clay recently so should be used to the speed of the courts by now, whereas this is Vesnina's first clay tournament of the year. I'm clutching at straws though.

Both clutching at non-existent straws unfortunately - Vesnina won 3 matches on clay this week, reaching the Ponte Vedra semis and taking Wozniacki (who won the title) to 3 sets when she got there.

Tutu · Club Coach

The only straw left to clutch on is the hope that Vesnina is mentally scarred in some way from her choke to Wozniacki yesterday. I hope Heather can just stay with Vesnina and keep it close because she really is prone to breaking down.

indiana · Tennis legend

Ha, Heather's got her if it goes to 3 sets. Heather's 6 - 2 for the year and Vesnina is 0 - 3.

Now, how to win one of the first 2 sets....

-- Edited by indiana on Monday 12th of April 2010 12:28:57 AM

Tutu · Club Coach

Family Circle Cup--day 2 of qualifying

Today, I made a point of watching, in its entirety, the qualifying match between Heather Watson and Zarina Ziyas. Watson won, 7-5, 2-6, 6-1; the twists and turns within the 2-hour and 19-minute match were many and interesting. A word about Diyas: Strong on both sides, she is as aggressive a player as you will see. She took balls out of the air that most players would let bounce, and if Watson even thought about hitting a ball, Diyas was on it. It was a pleasure to see a young player rushing the net so much, and working so hard to take control of points.

The first set was close, with seven breaks of serve, ending with some good strategic play by Watson. In the second set, Diyas dominated Watson at every turn, repeatedly finding corners in the deuce court. At this point, most of Diyas's errors were "good" errors--a few shots gone wrong as she went for lines and corners. At the beginning of the third set, when she went up a break, it looked as though Diyas's dominance would continue. Watson, however, found her good serve again, and--just as important--she started taking the ball faster. She got a crucial break when Diyas served at 1-2, and the roles reversed. Diyas became more tentative and made more errors.

A funny thing happened during the first set. A ball bounced off of Diyas's racquet and went into the stands. It then bounced off a seat, hit a lower-tiered seat, and bounced back into the court.

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