Week 6 - ITF ($25K) - Stockholm, Sweden Hard

Peter too · Tennis legend

Week 6 - ITF ($25K) - Stockholm, Sweden Hard

indiana · Tennis legend

Good to see Naomi ssems OK after her retiral in Sutton. Though having played quite a few matches recently and retired from her last one she would no doubt have been happier to have slipped into the main draw rather than be the q1 seed.

philwrig · Hall of fame

It may also mean finally JoKo makes her first main draw of the year.

SMC1809 · All-time great

QR1: BROADY, Naomi (GBR) 1 292 beat MELANDER, Hilda (SWE) WC 1149 7-6(3) 7-6(5) smile

QR2: BROADY, Naomi (GBR) 1 292 v BARBIERI, Gioia (ITA) 14 404

-- Edited by SMC1809 on Sunday 6th of February 2011 07:27:55 PM

indiana · Tennis legend

Rather closer sets than might have been expected, but at least she's through.

Naomi sure seems to like to keeping playing. This will be her 5th week in a row, with 17 matches in these first 4 weeks up to and including her retiral after one set last week. She played in 30 weeks WTA / ITF last year.

Also I have looked and since the start of March last year she has only three times missed at least two successive tournament weeks. That was after Wimbledon qualifying last year, when she had 4 weeks off ( assuming you do allocate qualifying to the week before the Wimbledon main draw started ), her "close season" which was just 3 weeks and a 2 week period in late August / early September.

-- Edited by indiana on Monday 7th of February 2011 11:44:22 AM

SMC1809 · All-time great

QR2: BROADY, Naomi (GBR) 1 292 beat BARBIERI, Gioia (ITA) 14 404 6-3 6-1 smile

indiana · Tennis legend

Nice straighforward looking win for Naomi in QR2, now hopefully a good main draw.

Peter too · Tennis legend

R1: KONTA, Johanna (GBR/AUS) 242 v YAKIMOVA, Anastasia (BLR) 3 121
R1 : BROADY, Naomi (GBR) Q 292 v GATTO-MONTICONE, Giulia (ITA) 270
R1: SOUTH, Melanie (GBR) 254 v BEYGELZIMER, Yuliya (UKR) 8 197

philwrig · Hall of fame

JoKo in tough section, the Impaler in the second round if in the unlikely event of an upset in the first round. Note for Indy that Mlad won the Sutton event so clearly back in top form( finally showing HC form in a ranking tournament).

Naomi in best section of draw.

Mel's section pretty tough as well.

SMC1809 · All-time great

Doubles:

L16: BURYACHOK (UKR) / SOUTH (GBR) (4) BYE

QF: BURYACHOK (UKR) / SOUTH (GBR) (4) Vs MARTINOVIC (BIH) / NOWAK (GER)

SMC1809 · All-time great

All 3 players are in action tomorrow: Joko and Naomi in singles starting at 1.00, and Mel is playing doubles, 2nd match on court 2, approx 2.30. Live scoring should be available here -

http://www.tennisscores.de/livescore/itfswe/livescorer.html

philwrig · Hall of fame

Started.

albino · Intermediate Club Player

Early break for Naomi, 2-0
Jo 0-1 on serve

philwrig · Hall of fame

Naomi *2-0
JoKo *0-1 missed bp.

philwrig · Hall of fame

Naomi takes the first set 6-4 in a tight match so far, JoKo down *0-5 but if its any consolation playing much better than that.