Week 34 - US Open women's qualies

Julia Carrot · All-time great

Week 34 - US Open women's qualies

philwrig · Hall of fame

RE: US open qualies - draw is out

Julia Carrot · All-time great

Am I right in thinking Dokic also trains at the Moraglou.... thingamy Academy in Paris and that she and Laura are good friends - or am I just confused?

-- Edited by Julia Carrot on Monday 23rd of August 2010 09:31:26 PM

murray_2k9 · Challenger qualifying

Heather has a great draw IMO and is most likely to qualify.

Laura I feel will qualify if she can beat Dokic but thats a big IF. That said, playing without the pressure should help.

Katie and Cavaday have good draws too with Katies opponents losing to Cav in R1 of Wimbledon qualies. As always though it depends what sort of form theyre in.

Tennis36 · Masters Series Champion

ffs laura lately is getting very tough draws, even for frustrating due to tourny restrictions

philwrig · Hall of fame

Julia Carrot wrote:

Am I right in thinking Dokic also trains at the Moraglou.... thingamy Academy in Paris and that she and Laura are good friends - or am I just confused?

-- Edited by Julia Carrot on Monday 23rd of August 2010 09:31:26 PM

Yes they struck up a friendship following their offseason training block last December. I'm not sure how much their paths have crossed recently though as Laura has not trained in Paris I believe for several months.

SMC1809 · All-time great

murray_2k9 wrote:

Katie and Cavaday have good draws too with Katies opponents losing to Cav in R1 of Wimbledon qualies. As always though it depends what sort of form theyre in.

Tsurenko did beat Cav on a hard court earlier in the year though.

murray_2k9 · Challenger qualifying

True, I wasnt really reading too much into either matches v Cav though since Katie is much better on hards anyway

indiana · Tennis legend

What a cracking draw NOT for Laura. At least could Dokic not have been saved until Q2 and let laura pick up these 40 points that go for winning Q1 against a rather easier opponent.

Yes, great run Dokic is on with two 75k titles and a 50K title ( two clay and one hard ) in a 15 match run from the end of June. Half a dozen top 200 players beaten in that if no top 100 players. Dokic herself is now up to WR 82.

Of course Laura can rise to the occasion, so not totally without hope, but it's just not nice cry

I remembered there was an article mentioning Laura and Jelena being friends and going shopping at the time of the Australian Open. Found : http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2010/jan/21/laura-robson-jelena-djokic-australian-open which has as part :

"After playing her second-round doubles match , Robson was due to hit the stores with a rather special personal shopper Jelena Dokic. The Australian has formed a strong friendship with Robson through the Mouratoglou tennis academy they attended together in France and the former world No4 Dokic is full of admiration for the teenager.

"We arrived at the same time at Mouratoglou," Dokic said. "We didn't know each other at first and we didn't talk that much but then we went to do the off-season together and now we're really, really good friends. She's a great girl. It's funny, because she's 16 and I am 26 I could nearly be her mother but we get along great. It's actually her birthday. We're going shopping so it's good." "

DavidC · Tennis legend

RE: Week 34 - US Open women's qualies

indiana · Tennis legend

Yes, certainly agree that Katie's draw looks pretty good, and I'd say is the best of the 4 girls. The others look like having a rather tough job. I'm afraid with Laura "if she can beat the Dok" is the rather big problem.

steven · Tennis legend

Laura seems less worried than us ... "Playing Dokic on wednesday, can't wait!"

steven · Tennis legend

Katie is a break down already - oops!

1-2* v Tsurenko

http://www.usopen.org/en_US/scores/index.html?promo=topnav

steven · Tennis legend

Just seen the stats for this match - Katie has failed to win a single point on serve so far (50% 1st serves in, 2 DFs) while her opponent has won just 1 point on her serve (20% 1st serves in, 2 DFs)

indiana · Tennis legend

Play suspended while they get serving lessons. No, actually other matches suspended too.

Early days, so certainly hope stats pick up.

Still for many women's matches "serve up" almost seems more relevant than "break down"

At best, it's certainly not as significant as in the men's game.