Baptism of fire for Lucy but could have been far worse. UGH. Poor Em. Anna's draw could have been nicer but here's hoping Lucic is having an off day. But HELL, what a crappy section to be in either way. Mayr (BOOOOOOOOOOO) and Krajicek. AS IF.

wait a second...im a little confused...why did Naomi C not get a Wimbledon WC? i had just assumed she did (thus had been complaining only about Naomi B not getting one)

i swear she's ranked like 180 as well

Smidster wrote:

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Naomi asked to go through qualifying

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Interesting.  Does anyone know the reason why?

 

Apart from what's been mentioned Naomi may have felt psychologically more comfortable going through qualifying. If she qualifies then she will be there on merit, and that may help to break her Wimbledon main draw duck - some WC recipients in the past have admitted that they didn't feel they belonged or deserved to be there.

Tomorrow's oop

Lisa 2nd on 12
Lucy 1st on 13
Em 1st on 14
Jos 1st on 15
Naomi C 1st on 16
Naomi B 3rd on 16
Anna 4th on 16

QR1: (WC) Emily Webley-Smith WR 443 v (WC) Marina Erakovic (NZL) WR 466

Erakovic reached R3 in Birmingham last week and has a career high of WR 49, which she reached in 2008. She was out wth injury for much of 2009 and had a bad run after coming back but seems to be coming back into form, unfortunately. Her best performance at a slam was reaching R3 at Wimbledon in 2008, the first kiwi to manage that for 20 years.

QR1: (WC) Lucy Brown UNR v (q17) Shenay Perry (USA) WR 123

Perry reached a CH of WR 40 in 2006, the year she reached the last 16 at Wimbledon, and she beat Mel South on the way to qualifying for the AO this year.

1st on C14 & 2nd on C12, winners to play each other. Other seed in section: (q5) Shuai Zhang (CHN) WR 110

QR1: (WC) Anna Smith WR 265 v Mirjana Lucic (CRO) WR 181

Lucic, reached the Wimbledon semi-finals 11 years ago and hit a career high of 32 the year before that aged 16. Various problems forced her to take many years ought in the last decade but she is now in the middle of making a comeback and, ominously, she beat Anna 2 & 3 in a 25K in Florida last year.

4th on C16 - seeds in section: (q8) Patricia Mayr (AUT) WR 109 & (q13) Michaela Krajicek WR 121

QR1: (WC) Naomi Broady WR 208 v Nikola Hofmanova (AUT) WR 194

Hofmanova has never played in the main draw of a slam and lost to Katie O'Brien in 3 sets in Nottingham, though she beat Naomi Cavaday in Istanbul and Almaty last year, suggesting that the other Naomi is going to have a tough task if she wants to ick up the 40 points on offer (5 times as many as the men get) for reaching QR2.

3rd on C16 - seeds in section: (q14) Stephanie Dubois (CAN) WR 125 & (q9) Sophie Ferguson (AUS) WR 119

QR1: (WC) Jocelyn Rae WR 494 v Monica Niculescu (ROU) WR 139

Niculescu reached a CH of 47 in 2008, the year she won a round in the main draw at Wimbledon. She lost the Final of the Karkow 100K+H to Anne K that year but has since beaten Katie O'Brien in straight sets twice.

1st on C15 - seeds in section: (q19) Kathrin Wörle (GER) WR 134 & (q10) Ekaterina Bychkova (RUS) WR 117

QR1: (WC) Lisa Whybourn WR 410 v Sally Peers (AUS) WR 209

Peers, who just turned 19, is the Aussie who went on that doubles run with Laura at the AO. She reached the Final of the Mildura 25K grass court event in Australia earlier this year, but her win against Danielle Brown in that event was her only win against a Brit in 5 attempts after suffering losses to Bally, Brown (again), Webley-Smith and Windley, though the latter came when she was just 17.

2nd on C12 - seeds in section: (q11) Maria Elena Camerin (ITA) WR 120 & see below.

QR1: Naomi Cavaday WR 192 v Lesya Tsurenko (UKR) WR 189

Tsurenko beat Cav 2-6 6-2 7-6(5) in the Stockholm 25K earlier this year, but you'd hope Naomi would reverse that result on this surface.

1st on C16 - seeds in section (q22) Andrea Hlavackova (CZE) WR 137 & see above.



-- Edited by steven on Tuesday 15th of June 2010 06:35:23 AM

Naomi breaks in the first game