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The qualifying draw for this is out very early, with qualifying starting tomorrow, Friday:

QR1: (q4) Elena Baltacha WR 50 v (WC) Sachie Ishizu (JPN) WR 316

Winner to play (q11) Chan Yung-Jan (TPE) WR 68 or Greta Arn (HUN) WR 106 in the FQR.

QR1: (wc) Laura Robson WR 227 v (q6) Anastasija Sevastova (LAT) WR 57

Winner to play (q14) Kirsten Flipkens (BEL) WR 77 or Simona Halep (ROU) WR 100 in the FQR.

Laura starts at 04.00 BST with Elena on the same court two matches later.



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How many times has Bally drawn a local WC this year? Good chance to qualify.
Laura I expect to lose 2 and 2, but I'm keeping my fingers crossed for something alot better.
I think its only 2 qualifying rounds, with main draw starting on Sunday, 30 points for qualifying.
Weather forecast wet and windy for tomorrow, ideal.

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Ideal, not, for Laura, she doesn't like it blowing. So better if it does rain too and is posponed.  Be a tough enough task whenever it is played.

Sevastova has been having a pretty good year and tends to consistently beat those you'ed expect her to.  Since losing to Rebecca Marion in January ( then WR 178 but improved to WR 137 since ) the lowest ranked player she has lost to is Kaia Kanepi ( WR 124 in March but now WR 26 ).

Laura on her day ( and iff she had had more tournaments ) is though easily well within top 200 class.  But would be quite a victory if she pulled this one off.

I guess she wouldn't have minded Bally's draw !

-- Edited by indiana on Thursday 23rd of September 2010 03:25:31 PM

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^true, but ishizu is the girl who knocked her out of junior wimby.



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This should be a stroll in the Ishizu park. bleh

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Sevastova's current  50 something ranking is partly due to 100 points gained for reaching the 2nd round at USO - but her first round opponent retired early in the second set.

But then Laura's rank is also partly due to her  main draw win at Birmingham (also down to a retirement)

Both girls were ahead in their matches but clearly had  below par opponents.

Not quite sure what my point is, but when I  saw the huge gap in rank I reckoned that Sevastova would be nearer 80 something were it not for that 'win', and thus seemed slightly less of an impossibility for Laura to take on.


-- Edited by Julia Carrot on Thursday 23rd of September 2010 03:22:37 PM

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Looking forward to following this on Live scores today. Will keep me going through the afternoon :)

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im also looking forward to following this.
although here it's 3.30am.

actually, on second thought, im off to bed.lol. enjoy the live scoring, mate.

hopefully i'll wake up to wins for bally and laura.

-- Edited by Maza1987 on Friday 24th of September 2010 02:30:39 AM

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Laura to serve first

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Laura holds 1-0

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Matches on other courts are started to be suspended by rain :(

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1-1

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2-1 LR

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Laura breaks 3-1

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4-1*

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