Heather Watson Interview

indiana · Tennis legend

RE: Heather Watson Interview

Ratty · County player

Goodness, thanks for letting me know. A match where the contestants couldn't give a stuff whether they win or lose! A doubles match too! And on a polished wood court where rallies are impossible! Awesome!

tony_orient · ATP qualifying

Ratty wrote:
Goodness, thanks for letting me know. A match where the contestants couldn't give a stuff whether they win or lose! A doubles match too! And on a polished wood court where rallies are impossible! Awesome!

And yet the tickets are generally more expensive than for the ATP Tour finals

indiana · Tennis legend

I really don't see it as too big for Heather to turn down if it was going to have any significant impact on her close season training and practice.

So hopefully it won't, and a few days relatively off with this pap maybe fits in not too bad. Otherwise she's a top 50 player now with clear ambitions to go higher so she doesn't really need it, and does need to be fully fired up ready to go come the start of next season.

Disclaimer : I come to this as a general lover of sport, but real competitive sport. I really like my football too, but can never understand how some folk can get really quite enthused about club or international friendlies, even if in theory sometimes for some meaningless throphy. So effectively exhibition tennis never will seem a priority to me.

-- Edited by indiana on Monday 3rd of December 2012 03:40:47 PM

philwrig · Hall of fame

Maza1987 wrote:
The Tennis Masters is on next friday on itv4.
Heather is playing mixed with Tim. Hopefully they televise it.

I looked this up a couple of weeks ago, and it it would seem that there is only tv coverage later in the week after Hev's and Annie K's mixed match.

Hopefully playing this event too big to turn down hasn't disrupted her preseason training camp which probably would have taken her up to the end of next week.

insomniacfolder · Challenger level

Without prejudice, the counterpoint, for the disdainful: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wjn_XUWgS0Y

Corporate gloss, almost certainly, but at least laudable corporate gloss. A purpose beyond a meaningless match, or 'sport' - how novel.

Cynics are - beneath it all - only idealists with awkwardly high standards.

- Alain de Botton

RBBOT · Futures qualifying

Henman/Watson d Philippoussis/Keothavong 6-3 6-4. You can all sleep easy now.

-- Edited by RBBOT on Friday 7th of December 2012 05:07:11 PM

RBBOT · Futures qualifying

Well? We're all waiting on tenterhooks...

Maza1987 · Challenger level

thank heavens for that.

indiana · Tennis legend

Great. My day is complete biggrin wink

insomniacfolder · Challenger level

Methinks Heather will think the trip worthwhile: https://twitter.com/HeatherWatson92/status/277560201136201729/photo/1/large

tony_orient · ATP qualifying

New interview with Heather Watson from the Daily Mail: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/tennis/article-2251820/Heather-Watson-aiming-stay-Brit.html

Meanwhile an article on the BBC website states that both Heather and Laura will play in Hobart as a warm up to the Australian Open