Week 44 - ITF ($50) - Toronto, Canada Hard

Peter too · Tennis legend

RE: Week 44 - ITF ($50) - Toronto, Canada Hard

indiana · Tennis legend

steven wrote:

That means she will go 1 point ahead of Laura, and probably (based on this week's rankings anyway) into the top 200

Btw I'm not sure why Heather was first on court playing R2 today when the other players in her section were still to play R1!

-- Edited by steven on Wednesday 3rd of November 2010 07:29:57 PM

Nice though once you've played your R2 match and can have a day off while the rest sort themselves out smile

chavkev · Intermediate Club Player

Quite gutted that Heather is above Laura now. Betfair had her at nearly 3/1 to be above Laura and I wanted to put some money on in January and wimped out. I was sure age eligibility would give her the edge. A missed opportunity.

steven · Tennis legend

Looking at TBE's table on tennisforum, so many of the players around the 200 level are doing well this week that Laura is already out of the top 200 (despite her points total not changing this week), Heather is virtual 200/201 (one of the Pliskovas was among those overtaking today) and Cav is currently down on last week even though her points total has gone up!

RBBOT · Futures qualifying

Laura still has points to come off before year end so its fairly academic whether she's inside/outside the top 200 this week.

Peter too · Tennis legend

QF: WATSON, Heather (GBR) 7 209 v ALBANESE, Lauren (USA) 217

We have 10 quarter finalists this week, must be some sort of record.

steven · Tennis legend

Peter too wrote:

QF: WATSON, Heather (GBR) 7 209 v ALBANESE, Lauren (USA) 217

We have 10 quarter finalists this week, must be some sort of record.

... and 15 Brits (10 women and 5 men) still in main draws going into Friday, which I'm pretty sure is the record for the years since I started taking a close interest, at least when there haven't been serious rain delays!

Women surviving in ITF & Bali singles main draws to Friday this week - top 4

1 GBR 10
2= FRA, GER, USA 9

Men & women surviving in ATP, Challengers, Futures, ITF & Bali singles main draws to Friday this week - top 7

1 USA 20
2 GBR 15
3= AUS, FRA, ESP 13
6 GER 12
7 RUS 11

biggrin

(E&OE)

-- Edited by steven on Friday 5th of November 2010 06:15:15 AM

Julia Carrot · All-time great

7)Heather Watson (GBR) d. Lauren Albanese (USA) 75 46 63

steven · Tennis legend

... in a three and half hour marathon according to Tennis Canada. She's definitely top 200 now

philwrig · Hall of fame

Great effort, would be superb if she could win another title.

steven · Tennis legend

Btw the semis are being live streamed on the love means nothing (Tennis Canada) site tomorrow - more details later.

Maza1987 · Challenger level

GET IN THERE!

albanese is playing well, as she knocked out the in form Riske the previous round.

hopefully heather wont be too tired for the next rnd.

great to have live stream

indiana · Tennis legend

Wow, Heather can certainly keep going in matches, they'll be calling her Miss Duracell wink

Anyway if she was to go on and win the title she only goes and replaces Katie as GB No 3.

Her QF win takes her to a nice round 300 points, but bah to round numbers. If she was to go on and win the title she goes to 338 points. Katie meantime will be dropping back 11 points to 331 points in the next rankings.

Maza1987 · Challenger level

It's a match up with her "bestest friend" Sloane Stepehens in the semi.

Sloane Stephens (USA) d. Jelena Pandzic (CRO) 62 64

Ordinarily, I would say this is a 50/50 match, as I rate them equally as talented young players.
But after Heather's marathon, she could be at a disadvantage.

-- Edited by Maza1987 on Friday 5th of November 2010 07:42:30 PM

RBBOT · Futures qualifying

The stream is at http://www.lovemeansnothing.ca/media/lmn-tv/watch-live but they're only just starting the 2nd set of the preceding match so it will be a while before they start.

-- Edited by RBBOT on Saturday 6th of November 2010 04:07:30 PM