To put things in perspective this is how many winners we have had in QR1 in recent years

2009 1
2008 2
2007 2
2006 2
2005 0
2004 0
2003 2
2002 1

2001 was the last exceptional year - six won through with Karen Cross going on to qualify

So 2 is reasonable, even allowing for the presence of a higher ranked player than usual. It's a case of good luck for Lisa/Cav possibly at the expense of Jos. Usually when a player (Camerin) is promoted to the main draw on the evening before play starts they replace her with the highest non-seed (Niculescu). For some reason they decided to put the alt (Barthel) directly in Camerin's place, so Jos missed the chance of an easier match, but Cav/Lisa's section is very promising as a result.

Lucy's score against a highly ranked and accomplished grass player is remarkable considering she has only played a handful of 10K matches, whilst Em's defeat must be a heartbreaker for her.

Tomorrow's oop

Court 16

1) Lisa
2) Cav
3) Lisa/Em v (2) Daniilidou/Woehr

Court 13

3) Fitzpatrick/Windley v (7) Craybas/Erakovic

WOMEN'S QUALIFYING ROUND-UP

QR1: (WC) Emily Webley-Smith WR 443 lost to (WC) Marina Erakovic (NZL) WR 466 by 6-7(5) 7-6(6) 6-3
QR1: (WC) Lucy Brown UNR lost to (q17) Shenay Perry (USA) WR 123 by 2 & 5
QR1: (WC) Anna Smith WR 265 lost to Mirjana Lucic (CRO) WR 181 by 4 & 2
QR1: (WC) Naomi Broady WR 208 lost to Nikola Hofmanova (AUT) WR 194 by 4 & 4
QR1: (WC) Jocelyn Rae WR 494 lost to Monica Niculescu (ROU) WR 139 by 3 & 4
QR1: (WC) Lisa Whybourn WR 410 beat Sally Peers (AUS) WR 209 by 6-4 7-6(3)
QR1: Naomi Cavaday WR 192 beat Lesya Tsurenko (UKR) WR 189 by 6-2 3-6 6-3

Looking at the losses, Emily came within two points of victory in a titanic struggle, Lucy did very well to take 7 games off Perry, Anna was always likely to find the former Wimbledon semi-finalist too strong on grass, Naomi B's straight sets defeat was a bit disappointing and Joss will probably be disappointed not to have pushed Niculescu a bit harder.

Moving onto the wins, Lisa did extremely well to beat Laura's AO doubles partner (who also reached a 25K singles Final on glass in Mildura earlier this year) in straight sets, and Cav righting her Stockholm loss to Tsurenko was good news, if pretty much expected.

QR2: (WC) Lisa Whybourn WR 410 v Anna Floris (ITA) WR 150 - 1st on C16

Yesterday's win for Floris was, as far as I can tell, the first match she had ever played on grass! She also came into the tournament on a 6 match losing streak. However, she is on a 10-year, 10-match winning streak against Brits stretching back to a loss to Lorna Woodroffe in the year 2000, including a convincing 1 & 4 win against Katie O'Brien in March this year.

QR2: Naomi Cavaday WR 192 v (q22) Andrea Hlavácková (CZE) WR 137 - 2nd on C16

Hlaváková (who, by the way, has a father called Jan, a mother called Jana and a sister called Jana too!) is 23 and at a career high. She beat Jade Windley, Heather Watson and Anna Smith on her was to the Sutton 25K title earlier this year but Cav has very good memories of playing her, having beaten her in the Final of the Brescia 25K last month to win her first title on clay. She also beat her in Sutton in 2009 having lost to her there in 2008. The H2H is actually 3-1 in Naomi's favour, including a 7-5 ret. win in Stockholm last year.

The winners of the two matches above will play each other in the FQR.

D-QR1 Emily Webley-Smith / Lisa Whybourn v (2) Eleni Daniilidou (GRE) / Jasmin Wöhr (GER) - 3rd on C16
D-QR1: Anna Fitzpatrick / Jade Windley v (7) Jill Craybas (USA) / Marina Erakovic (NZL) - 3rd on C13

-- Edited by steven on Wednesday 16th of June 2010 06:22:00 AM

Mightily impressive so far from Lisa *5-1

6-1 she now just needs to keep her form for another great victory.

Fantastic. C'mon Lisa.

Lisa may, like Heather, be a quick learner. Nice to see.

Really a shame shes in the same section as Cav now the draw has played out this way