Anna Smith here in qualifying. From her twitter Katie is playing here and is in the main draw.
(1) SAVCHUK, Olga UKR v (WC) FEI, Yue CHN SUN, Shengnan CHN v PALKINA, Ksenia KGZ SMITH, Anna GBR v LIU, Chang CHN (WC) XU, Baoyi CHN v (5) PEERS, Sally AUS
Anna first on Court 3 at 10am Local time (about 3am BST I think).
-- Edited by Danjn on Friday 10th of September 2010 10:08:21 PM
Shame for Anna, but if the weather is the same as it was when I visited Guangzhou then it would be uber humid and sticky and no fun to play tennis in. Hopefully she'll stick around and play doubles there?
Shame for Anna, but if the weather is the same as it was when I visited Guangzhou then it would be uber humid and sticky and no fun to play tennis in. Hopefully she'll stick around and play doubles there?
Katie tweeted: "Hotel here in Guangzhou is very nice, but I can't understand why there's a sauna...all you have to do is go outside to get the same effect." which bears out your point. Given that Anna is down for a big challenger in China at the end of the month (and presumably Tour qualifying in Korea next week) I'm confident she will hang around for the doubles