Heather Watson Interview

RBBOT · Futures qualifying

Heather Watson Interview

murray_2k9 · Challenger qualifying

God Ive had enough of Inverdale during Wimbledon. Even before the interview started he annoyed me with 'Eleanor Baltacha'

Heather always comes across as very motivated and very hard working which is great to hear. The interview was pretty dull though, didnt asked anything particularly interesting!! Would rather have heard her plan for the US HC series, since she should have a decent chance of WCs as the USO junior winner and a US based player. Hoping to get her and Laura into, and hopefully through the USOQ draw.

Interesting that Oprandi moved back into the top 100 after winning a 100k in Italy after beating Heather, not dropping more than 6 games in any of her matches!!

Maza1987 · Challenger level

i have a serious antipathy for inverdale. can anyone just gimme the gist of it.

Tutu · Club Coach

Lord.

You're right, he's just awful. The questions were dire and uninteresting and he kept on cutting Heather. He could have asked about how she plays, her future goals, how she felt she played at Wimbledon, how she feels she has progressed so far etc. etc. But some of those questions were just stupid and most of them were so similar but just phrased in a different way. I really don't like him either.

thegingerlightbulb · Intermediate Club Player

The interview was dull but to be fair, the hunt for that Raul nutter was dominating the airwaves.

I like Inverdale, he has great chemestry with McEnroe and is a far better host than Sue Barker

-- Edited by thegingerlightbulb on Thursday 8th of July 2010 08:33:17 AM

indiana · Tennis legend

There's something about Inverdale and I have never really put my finger on it but I have never really taken to him as a presenter.

McEnroe has good chemistry with most folk. I hardly think it is Inverdale bringing him out of himself smile

Sue over Inverdale any day, especially in a tennis context.

steven · Tennis legend

More Hev - 3 minutes on Radio 2 Drivetime this evening - http://bbc.in/VRdDN7 - near the end of the programme, starts at 1:45:25.

She knows what she wants to achieve! smile (and given her past record or achieving what she sets out to do, who's to say she can't do it)

-- Edited by steven on Tuesday 6th of November 2012 08:15:12 PM

philwrig · Hall of fame

Interesting that she is training with Laura at the moment, I know that she officially started her winter training block yesterday and I wonder whether the two are going to do it together this year. Maybe both going out to Florida for the warm weather and hitting part with their coaches.

tony_orient · ATP qualifying

Quite an extensive interview with both Heather and Laura as part of 5 Live's coverage of the Sunday Times Sportswomen of the year awards.

The interview starts 1 hour 19 mins in to the podcast which can be found here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/5lspecials

It's a very light-hearted interview, and both girls seem to be in pretty good spirits, probably enjoying being away from the difficult first few days of fitness training for a bit.

philwrig · Hall of fame

I heard that live on radio5live tonight, yes I thought in particular Laura was very relaxed, scoffing down a bit of chicken whilst answering questions. Hev had to answer where you not devastated by not being picked for the Olympics mixed doubles again. Also I think it was Karen Pickering who said she was impressed how confident she thought the two came across in the interview.

Also great decision to give a joint award to both of them.

tony_orient · ATP qualifying

philwrig wrote:
I heard that live on radio5live tonight, yes I thought in particular Laura was very relaxed, scoffing down a bit of chicken whilst answering questions. Hev had to answer where you not devastated by not being picked for the Olympics mixed doubles again. Also I think it was Karen Pickering who said she was impressed how confident she thought the two came across in the interview.

Also great decision to give a joint award to both of them.

The amount of interviews Heather has done recently has led to a fair amount of repetition. The Olympics mixed double question is one, but I'm not sure I can bear to listen to one more interviewer ask what her goals are for next season as she said first time round she hasn't set them yet.

Also, I can't believe I forgot to mention in my post that they won the Young Sportswomen of the year award Agreed, a joint award was clearly the best way to go.

philwrig · Hall of fame

Yes Hev's goal of top 30 for 2013 eventhough she hasn't officially set any yet seems to be her stock answer.

tony_orient · ATP qualifying

Heather is 33rd in the WTA website's list of most popular players in 2012 (based on clicks on the player's name on the site).

Will be interesting* to see just how high up Laura is (I would expect top 20).

*I say interesting, it isn't really but it is the off season cry

tony_orient · ATP qualifying

The WTA site has links to the top 100 players on the players page, so Laura being outside the top 100 for half the season would have reduced visits to her page.
Would would be interesting would be to see how clicks for each play breaks down by country (at least own country v ROW).

Note sure if it's been mentioned anywhere that Heather and Laura are both nominated for the WTA newcomer of the year. http://www.lta.org.uk/News/2012/November/2012-11-05/Heather-Watson--Laura-Robson-nominated-in-WTA-Awards/

Laura probably more likely to win this award - whilst from a British perspective they have both had equally good seasons, the fact Laura is younger and achieved success on a big stage in New York makes her performance more standout from an International viewpoint. Sloane Stephens and Kiki Bertens are the other nominees.

-- Edited by tony_orient on Thursday 15th of November 2012 01:47:36 PM

steven · Tennis legend

philwrig wrote:
Also per Sunday Times piece last Sunday, both Hev and Laura are heading stateside shortly to continue their offseason training schedule. Hev to Bradenton, Laura to Evert's academy in Boca Raton. As Hev has an important mixed doubles match partnering Tim against Annie K and Philippoussis on the 6/12 at the Royal Albert Hall it will only be for a few weeks.

It seemed appropriate to me to emphasise the operative word in an iron-y colour wink

-- Edited by steven on Thursday 15th of November 2012 08:53:55 PM