Week 34 - US Open women's qualies

SMC1809 · All-time great

RE: Week 34 - US Open women's qualies

indiana · Tennis legend

Yes, definitely rather wet.

They seem to have blocked off and painted part of Broadway in appropriate sea colours. Not many folk people watching from the stand

philwrig · Hall of fame

I'll put my neck on the block and say there's a zero chance Laura will play today, but still confident there'll be play from 3 o'clock local time onwards. Frustrating for players waiting around. Forecast for the remainder of the week and for the first week of the tournament is for it to stay dry and sunny and get increasingly warmer with temperatures up to 30C by next week, heres hoping.

The question is will they expect players to backup and play twice in a day or will they just extend qualifying into Saturday when the weather is certain to be good ?

steven · Tennis legend

philwrig wrote:

I'll put my neck on the block and say there's a zero chance Laura will play today, but still confident there'll be play from 3 o'clock local time onwards. Frustrating for players waiting around. Forecast for the remainder of the week and for the first week of the tournament is for it to stay dry and sunny and get increasingly warmer with temperatures up to 30C by next week, heres hoping.

The question is will they expect players to backup and play twice in a day or will they just extend qualifying into Saturday when the weather is certain to be good ?

Laura: "Was supposed to be on 5th, match is now cancelled. Back to watching How I Met Your Mother. Exciting day!"

I'm pretty sure they've extended qualifying to Saturday in the past, possibly even Sunday, I remember it being annoyingly late from a BOTB point of view one year.

DavidC · Tennis legend

They have definitely extended the US Open qualifying through Saturday on more than one occasion (irritating as like last time they extended I'm off on Saturday morning for a short break so will have to enter the BOTB before qualifiers are placed)

Here's the LTA article about Katie's win with quotes and a photo of her serving with a very high ball toss

http://www.lta.org.uk/News/All-news-items/2010-08-23/OBrien-reaches-second-round-of-the-US-Open/

philwrig · Hall of fame

In regular events they don't generally have spare days so players are expected to play twice in a day to catch up. In grand slams and especially with the weekend to fall back on surely they wouldn't expect players to play twice. Makes sense to complete the first round tomorrow and then play the second round on Friday and FQR on Saturday when dry weather is guaranteed.

philwrig · Hall of fame

Cav's match cancelled.

Spectator · All-time great

Looking better: http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/goes/east/eaus/avn-l.jpg. And lest anyone worry about play for early next week, the hurricane that you can see in the bottom right isn't supposed to come near enough the coast to be a problem There is, however, another potential hurricane, whose path in the North Atlantic can't yet be predicted, behind it.
-- Edited by Spectator on Wednesday 25th of August 2010 07:58:23 PM

-- Edited by Spectator on Wednesday 25th of August 2010 08:01:05 PM

Julia Carrot · All-time great

Play now started, so hoping at least Heather will get hers' played. (I don't think it's been cancelled)

SMC1809 · All-time great

It's still on the revised schedule, so fingers crossed.

Julia Carrot · All-time great

And the preceding match is racing along, at the moment.... but it's bound to go to 3 sets now I've said that !

SMC1809 · All-time great

That match has now finished, so Hev should be on soon.

indiana · Tennis legend

Hope Heather's ready. They fair rattled through thr preceding match.

murray_2k9 · Challenger qualifying

If the tail end of last years US Open juniors is anything to judge by, having matches messed around doesnt seem to affect Heather too badly! That said, it could be more to do with it affecting her opponents.

DavidC · Tennis legend

Well, she hasn't made a good start today losing the first two games to 15, with 2 doubles

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