Week 42 - WTA ($220K) - Luxembourg, Hard

Peter too · Tennis legend

RE: Week 42 - WTA ($220K) - Luxembourg, Hard

steven · Tennis legend

Great stuff from Anne this week

- she is now up to the 120s in the rankings and 6-0 in WTA main tour QFs but 0-5 in WTA SFs.

She should have a decent chance of ending the latter streak tomorrow, because Vinci is unseeded, WR 45 and Anne actually leads the H2H 1-0, albeat a 46 64 61 win in Surbiton 7 years ago!

-- Edited by steven on Friday 22nd of October 2010 06:55:10 PM

Smidster · Challenger level

Anne's prior excursions perhaps catching up with her as they lose first set in doubles 6-2

In the Semi Final tomorrow Anne will play WR45 Roberta Vinci. Anne leads the H2H 1-0 after a 3 set win at Surbiton 2003

Peter too · Tennis legend

SF: KEOTHAVONG, Anne (GBR) 143 v VINCI, Roberta (ITA) 45

The last time they played was 2003 at Surbiton when Anne won in three.

indiana · Tennis legend

DavidC wrote:

Very encouraging performance. It would have been easy to fall away after losing the first set, wihere she had so many breakpoints and setpoints, but she buckled down and played disciplined tennis sprinkled with some potent forehand winners. It means she bookends the season with WTA semifinals, and one more win here would almost certainly be enough to make the Australian Open main draw.

Really good stuff from Anne. I guess be good if she made the Aussie Open maindraw but not so good if she loses in the first round and gets another mandatory 5 points. With her 6 very low mandatories just now, she's sort of living off 10 counters.

wolf · Tennis legend

steven wrote:

Great stuff from Anne this week - she is now up to the 120s in the rankings and 6-0 in WTA main tour QFs but 0-5 in WTA SFs.

Anne lost in Fes QFs this year.

Doubles - Quarterfinals
Hercog/Martic (SLO/CRO) d. Borwell/Keothavong (GBR/GBR) 62 64

philwrig · Hall of fame

Vinci will be very tough, I've seen her a couple of times recently and yes she doesn't have any major weapons but she is very tough to break down. Given the marathon that Anne played today and the poor SF record she has, this will comfortably need to be her biggest performance to date this week to enable her to get the win.

steven · Tennis legend

wolf wrote:

steven wrote:

Great stuff from Anne this week - she is now up to the 120s in the rankings and 6-0 in WTA main tour QFs but 0-5 in WTA SFs.
Anne lost in Fes QFs this year.

Doubles - Quarterfinals
Hercog/Martic (SLO/CRO) d. Borwell/Keothavong (GBR/GBR) 62 64

Doh! * Reminds self again never ever to say stuff like this without properly checking * - I remembered her getting to 6-0 and didn't remember her losing a main tour QF since (forgot Fes was a WTA), one of the other tennis sites had just tweeted something similar too and I was in such a rush (getting back from 24 hours away with loads of work to do as well as trying to catch up on the results) that I just went with it without doing a full check on ITF. Unacceptable ashamed

-- Edited by steven on Saturday 23rd of October 2010 05:42:19 AM

Madeline · Admin:Moderator + Tennis Legend

That's why I don't post as much these days! By the time I have double-checked to make sure what I am about to post is correct, half-a-dozen other posters have got in before me!

LordBrownof · Futures level

Is the match streaming anywhere?

Danjn · Lower Club Player

I believe this is the link you'll need :)

http://www.livescorehunter.com/index.php?option=com_lsh&view=lsh&event_id=28245&tv_id=397&tid=2908&channel=0&tmpl=component&layout=popup&Itemid=190

edit: Although this now appears to be the event in Moscow... eh? confuse

-- Edited by Danjn on Saturday 23rd of October 2010 02:36:39 PM

rebel_rebel · Lower Club Player

Anne is broken in the first game

rebel_rebel · Lower Club Player

but breaks straight back

RCD · Intermediate Club Player

Try Bet365 for a live feed, http://www.bet365.com/EXTRA/?ContentPath=LiveStreaming%252cStreaming&affiliate=365_009341

Vinci's just broken Anne (3-2 to RV), Nigel Sears just doing a bit of coaching

-- Edited by DavidC on Saturday 23rd of October 2010 02:31:33 PM

DavidC · Tennis legend

Danjn wrote:

I believe this is the link you'll need :)

http://www.livescorehunter.com/index.php?option=com_lsh&view=lsh&event_id=28245&tv_id=397&tid=2908&channel=0&tmpl=component&layout=popup&Itemid=190

edit: Although this now appears to be the event in Moscow... eh?

-- Edited by Danjn on Saturday 23rd of October 2010 02:28:18 PM

I'm also struggling with the Livescorehunter links so have changed to Bet365.com

Meanwhile Anne is down a break again at 2-3*