Week 19 - WTA Premier ($2M) - Rome, Italy, Red Clay

Miriambee · Futures level

RE: Week 19 - WTA Premier ($2M) - Rome, Italy, Red Clay

tony_orient · ATP qualifying

Heather has saved at least three match points so far

Julia Carrot · All-time great

Hev saves 1st MP

And the second. this is vintage Hevver stuff whatever the outcome

BP Hev
Deuce
BP

Deuce

MP

Deuce !!!!! (I'm trying to eat my lunch here)

MP

Ohhh. And Cmc wins the match -

Peter too · Tennis legend

But sadly not the 4th match point.

Q2: WATSON, Heather (GBR) 122 lost to MCHALE, Christina (USA) 16 91 6-2 1-6 3-6

Maza1987 · Challenger level

another tough tight loss.

keep your head up.

johnnylad · Tennis legend

tony_orient · ATP qualifying

She battled right to the end as always but McHale is becoming an very annoying opponent.

LordBrownof · Futures level

Cibulkova and Georges have both just withdrawn, any chance of a LL?

Jajon · Club Coach

LordBrownof wrote:
Cibulkova and Georges have both just withdrawn, any chance of a LL?

i hope so.. when do we find out?

indiana · Tennis legend

Jajon wrote:
LordBrownof wrote:
Cibulkova and Georges have both just withdrawn, any chance of a LL?
i hope so.. when do we find out?

I don't know how they decide it in WTA. But there are already two qualifying seeds that have lost in FQR ( Kerber and Pous-Tio ) so think they might take priority over a non seed like Heather.

RBBOT · Futures qualifying

Not unless there are more withdrawals - there are plenty of girls losing FQR with a higher ranking than Heather. ATP and WTA rules are the same - only grand slams have any randomness.

-- Edited by RBBOT on Sunday 8th of May 2011 01:59:14 PM

indiana · Tennis legend

Heather and Christina have certainly been very close opponents, just a pity to lose out twice, but looks as if as per usual no lack of fight on Heather's part.

Interesting match statistics in that with level service games many more points played on Christina's service games than Heather's service games ( 99 - 67 ) , so clear where most of the longer games were . She didn't have more BP chances in total ( taking 8 /14 as against McHale's 6 / 14 ), but in the final set where the different length of games was most marked she managed 1 / 3 angainst McHale's 2 / 2. Total points won were 85 - 81 in McHale's favour.

Basically good stuff from Heather, she is playing at a consistent high level, I suspect just as well as earlier in the season when she was playing on a different surface and I feel just getting more good running of draws etc. eg. she probably lost a great deal of points from the previous McHale loss from not just that defeat but what certainly looked like it would have been at least one further win.

Not much to be bothered about with Heather. Hard luck, girl.

-- Edited by indiana on Sunday 8th of May 2011 02:27:16 PM

indiana · Tennis legend

McHale earned a further 70 ranking points, giving 100 in total, by beating Shuai Peng 6 - 3 2 - 6 7 - 6 (7) in R1, before losing 6 - 3 6 - 1 to Schiavone in R2.

So not as obviously really good points winning chances missed as in Heather's previous close loss to McHale. McHale's tight defeat to Peng looks a really good effort against a player who has been in very good form.

-- Edited by indiana on Tuesday 10th of May 2011 07:49:42 PM

Julia Carrot · All-time great

Ah, you just edited out the bit I was going to comment on. Ha ha!