Week 20 - Roland Garros women's qualifying 2011

Smidster · Challenger level

RE: Week 20 - Roland Garros women's qualifying 2011

Julia Carrot · All-time great

A true champ in the making. Well done our Hev !!!

Armchair · County player

Bit of a nailbiter smile

indiana · Tennis legend

YES !!

Quite right to take the chance of getting a little extra practice in rather than have two very quick matches wink

tony_orient · ATP qualifying

Well done Heather! A nervy half hour but she pulled through. Hard to know exactly what to make of that match as it was either very competitive (at the start and the end) or very one sided (for 7 games in the middle)

-- Edited by tony_orient on Thursday 19th of May 2011 12:35:09 PM

Madeline · Admin:Moderator + Tennis Legend

I was out, so missed this angst. Well done Heather!

steven · Tennis legend

If you think that was angst, you should have seen the Muzz poss out of RG - prob in - def out - def in saga on twitter over the last hour LOL

RBBOT · Futures qualifying

Voegele beat Doi 4-6 6-1 6-3

British_is_Best · County player

Potential banana skin there for Heather as Voegele has been ranked in the 60s although hasn't had a good year this season

philwrig · Hall of fame

I would probably make Voegele the marginal favourite, given what happened today in the second set in Hev's match. Saying that I did think it was possible that Peers would raise her game today given that it was a GS so who knows. TOOCLOSETOCALL.

tony_orient · ATP qualifying

I'm fairly confident of Heather qualifying now, though if Voegele can reproduce her form of last year it will be tough.

What would the chances be of a lucky loser spot for Heather if she doesn't win tomorrow? I think it has something to do with ranking of players who lose in the final qual round but I don't know the details.

indiana · Tennis legend

tony_orient wrote:
I'm fairly confident of Heather qualifying now, though if Voegele can reproduce her form of last year it will be tough.

What would the chances be of a lucky loser spot for Heather if she doesn't win tomorrow? I think it has something to do with ranking of players who lose in the final qual round but I don't know the details.

I just lean to Heather qualifying, but I do think she will have to be at least near her best.

If she didn't win, she would be in the shake up for LL. In Grand Slams it is a random draw of the top 4 ranked players who lose in the FQR for the order in which they would enter the main draw. Two of the top five qualifying seeds are already out, so Heather as 6th seed would certainly be one of the top 4 ranked FQR losers if the worst came to the worst. However with just one wihdrawal she would just have a 25% chance of getting in.

RBBOT · Futures qualifying

Voegele seems to be fairly inconsistent: last year she beat Kvitova but lost to Naomi Cavaday. She doesn't seem to have any particular affinity with clay though which is of the good.

DavidC · Tennis legend

We really need Heather to qualify, and get rid of one of the many embarrassing records in British tennis. The last qualifier I think was Kate Brasher in 1983 (though we have had Lucky Losers, such as Katie O'Brien in 2009).

Heather plays second on court 8 following Hampton v Wozniak (which is at 9am BST)

Julia Carrot · All-time great

Was absolutely confident having seen Voegele play once, but then I checked her clay form and she took Serena to a tiebreak in the 1st round here last year !! HELP (Sorry if someone else has already mentioned that)