Week 19 - ITF ($100K) - Prague, Czech Republic - Clay

steven · Tennis legend

Week 19 - ITF ($100K) - Prague, Czech Republic - Clay

Portsey · Intermediate Club Player

Steven, I live in Prague and may be able to get down to see something providing it's in the evening, I guess the OOP has evening matches so hopefully Anne and Bally are scheduled then. Real shame on the draw - anyone bar Kvitova!

tony_orient · ATP qualifying

Pretty unlucky to draw last week's WTA premier champion in an ITF tournament. I guess there is no WTA even in the Czech Republic (can't be bothered to check) which is why Kvitova is playing in this. Someone should tell her there's a perfectly good tournament on in Rome this week where top 10 players should be.

Shhh · Challenger level

Its quite possible that Petra simply wont be up for this tournament, more chance of an upset here than a main tour event.

DavidC · Tennis legend

I guess it's similar to Caro playing a 100K in Denmark 18 months ago. Players like to support their home tournaments, and this is the biggest in the Czech Republic this year (it was a WTA International event in July last year).

Tomorrow's oop is out, and there are no evening matches (last is not before 16.00 CET). However one of the last matches on court is Anne playing doubles with Jessica Moore against Ksenia Pervak and Lesia Tsurenko. Both Anne and Bally play singles on Wednesday

PockyTastic · Futures level

Surely Petra will withdraw though? I mean all very well supporting her home tournament, but she has so little to gain from playing singles here, so fingers crossed she pulls out and just plays doubles if at all?

tony_orient · ATP qualifying

PockyTastic wrote:
Surely Petra will withdraw though? I mean all very well supporting her home tournament, but she has so little to gain from playing singles here, so fingers crossed she pulls out and just plays doubles if at all?

She may have nothing to gain but probably she wouldn't to withdraw from her home tournament at such short notice as I doubt the tournament organisers would be impressed. There is a much higher chance that she won't be particularly bothered about doing well though.

PockyTastic · Futures level

tony_orient wrote:
PockyTastic wrote:
Surely Petra will withdraw though? I mean all very well supporting her home tournament, but she has so little to gain from playing singles here, so fingers crossed she pulls out and just plays doubles if at all?
She may have nothing to gain but probably she wouldn't to withdraw from her home tournament at such short notice as I doubt the tournament organisers would be impressed. There is a much higher chance that she won't be particularly bothered about doing well though.

So a win over Anne and then a tame loss to Bally/Gavrilova? Yeah, I guess we should respect her for sticking to what she agreed to and for not disappointing her fans. And who knows maybe Anne will pull something out of the bag?

tony_orient · ATP qualifying

I just hope Anne can play well enough to put Petra's commitment to this tournament to the test.

steven · Tennis legend

Portsey wrote:
Steven, I live in Prague and may be able to get down to see something providing it's in the evening, I guess the OOP has evening matches so hopefully Anne and Bally are scheduled then. Real shame on the draw - anyone bar Kvitova!

Our correspondent in Prague, eh? I like the sound of that

I guess one good thing about them playing/potentially playing Kvitova is that they should get evening matches when/if they play her!

Portsey · Intermediate Club Player

Or if one of them makes it through to the late rounds I can go watch on Saturday - too much to ask?......

Julia Carrot · All-time great

This tournament actually has 'live scores' on it's website. Hooray!! http://www.spartapragueopen.cz/en

No singles for our girls today but Anne is playing dubs last on the 3rd court

-- Edited by Julia Carrot on Tuesday 10th of May 2011 10:12:30 AM

Julia Carrot · All-time great

Keothavong/Moore def Pervak/Tsurenko 6-1 6-3

DavidC · Tennis legend

Only doubles on late tomorrow.

Bally is second on court A (follows Brengle v Birnerova which starts at 10 BST) whilst Anne is second on Center (after Cepelova v Cirstea and not before 1pm BST)

SMC1809 · All-time great

The match before Bally's has just finished. Scores on here shortly.

http://www.protenis.cz/ls/scoreboard.php?t=10990