They should have entered the "World Super Junior Tennis Championships" GA in Osaka next week instead.
Every player in the qualifying and alternates list is Japanese and if they give the wildcards to the strongest 8, the average number of career wins across the 32-player qualifying field will be 1.34 matches.
In fact, the 24 wins that occur during the two rounds of qualifying will exceed the 17 the field have attained so far this year!
-- Edited by RBBOT on Wednesday 13th of October 2010 08:33:07 PM
They should have entered the "World Super Junior Tennis Championships" GA in Osaka next week instead.
Every player in the qualifying and alternates list is Japanese and if they give the wildcards to the strongest 8, the average number of career wins across the 32-player qualifying field will be 1.34 matches.
In fact, the 24 wins that occur during the two rounds of qualifying will exceed the 17 the field have attained so far this year!
-- Edited by RBBOT on Wednesday 13th of October 2010 08:33:07 PM
My those are obscure stats
I think on balance the quartet are better off gaining experience in Malaysia at this stage in their careers rather than potentially being overwhelmed by one of the stronger players in Osaka.
Katie though has produced a performance today to support your suggestion. The Belgian she beat is not one of the fast rising players ranked around 100 ( in fact probably not as strong as the third seed who Grace plays next), but nevertheless is her best win on ranking by a long way
R2
Katie Boulter (GBR) d. (1) Elke Lemmens (BEL) 3-6 7-5 6-4 Grace Dixon (GBR) d. (6) Kanika Vaidya (IND) 6-1 6-2
QF
Katie Boulter (GBR) v Xi-Wei Cai (CHN) Grace Dixon (GBR) v (3) Justine De Sutter (BEL)
A stunning win for Grace to reach her first ITF semi, given that De Sutter led the Belgian team to victory in the European Winter Cup last year, defeating a strong Russian team (Putintseva /Khromacheva) in the final
