Week 35 - US Open women's main draw

Danjn · Lower Club Player

RE: Week 35 - US Open women's main draw

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Signs of an all-too-familiar collapse starting to set in: *1-4. cry

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Second set down the pan by 3-6. cry

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Uphill struggle now: opening service game of the third set dropped, 0-1*. disbelief

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

But maybe there's a glimmer of hope: they convert their fourth break point to retrieve the break, *1-1.

SMC1809 · All-time great

Amanmuradova has just lost. Another player unable to overtake Bally at the US Open.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Hope finally extinguished: 6-1 3-6 2-6. bleh

SMC1809 · All-time great

SMC1809 wrote:

Amanmuradova has just lost. Another player unable to overtake Bally at the US Open.

Lucic lost earlier today too, so looking more and more like Bally will finish the US Open in the top 50.

SMC1809 · All-time great

There's a fantastic match in progress between Mattek-Sands (who has to be the American equivalent of Bally) and Petkovic. Mattek-Sands had at least 2 match points in her last service game, but now needs to hold to force a third set tie-break.

SMC1809 · All-time great

And Petkovic beats the American Bally, which will ensure the real Bally stays ahead in the Top 50 race.

SMC1809 · All-time great

Benesova has just lost to Sharapova. It looks like only Peng has a chance of overtaking Bally now.

SMC1809 · All-time great

Peng has lost the first set, so it looks as if Bally will almost certainly have a new CH and likely to be ranked in the top 50.

steven · Tennis legend

Sadly, Radwanska played rubbish most of the time from then on. It was quite intense to follow because Eleanor Preston was watching with Bally in NY and they were both desperate for updates (DM from Eleanor "Yes please. Sitting with Miss B and we're cheering ARad!" LOL), clearly well aware of the rankings implications.

Elena is now virtual world no. 49 after Schnyder overtook on Thursday. Quite a few potential threats went out on Thursday, as SMC mentioned above, but Peng will overtake if she beats Petkovic on Saturday.

However, even if she does, someone else would need to overtake to deny Elena a top 50 place. The other players who still can overtake by the end of the USO are:

- Chan (who beat Anne), who would need to beat (1) Wozniacki and then win an R4 match too
- Dominguez Lino (who beat Heather), Razzano and Minella, all of whom would need to reach the SFs
- Capra, who would need to reach the Final
- 9 players in the virtual 50-59 range who would need to sneak a late WC into the Biella 100K next week and win various numbers of matches there - see http://www.freewebs.com/britishtennis/gbtop25f/ebrnkuso.htm

It seems very unlikely that more than one of these things could happen, so if Petkovic can take out Peng on Saturday, Elena should be able to breathe more easily and she might even be ok for a top 50 place even if Peng goes further.

SMC1809 · All-time great

Three of the MDWCs and one QWC at Biella have been named and none of them are potential threats to Bally's top 50 position.

SMC1809 · All-time great

Steven, I'm sure you can confirm, but it looks like Bally will be overtaking Oudin too. She was ranked 41st with 1272 points. However, she has 500 coming off from last years USO, but only reached R2 this year.