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steven


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Peter too wrote:

R1: KEOTHAVONG, Anne (GBR) 108 v BROADY, Naomi (GBR) WC 253
R1: WEBLEY-SMITH, Emily (GBR) WC 241 v STEPHENS, Sloane (USA) 143
R1: WATSON, Heather (GBR) 117 v Q
R1: ROBSON, Laura (GBR) WC 237 v SAVINYKH, Valeria (RUS) 138
R1: OBRIEN, Katie (GBR) WC 221 v VOEGELE, Stefanie (SUI) 160
R1: MURRAY, Samantha (GBR) Q 730 v

Some preview snippets:

Anne v Naomi H2H - Anne won 2 & 2 in R2 here last year.

Stephens had won 8 matches in a row (including qualifying for the French Open) before losing the Elena in R1 at RG.

This year, Savinykh has beaten Anne (by ret.) and Tara but has lost to Naomi B and Hev.

Vögele was ranked as high as 68 last year.

 



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8 participants in the doubles:

BROADY (GBR) / WEBLEY-SMITH (GBR) vs BORWELL (GBR) / SOUTH (GBR)

KEOTHAVONG (GBR) / ROBSON (GBR) vs DATE-KRUMM (JPN) / ZHANG (CHN)

RAE (GBR) / WATSON (GBR) vs BLACK (ZIM) / RODIONOVA (RUS)

The first two matches are last up today on centre court. Tough matches for Anne/Laura and Heather/Jocelyn.



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Filling in the qualifier draws:

R1: KEOTHAVONG, Anne (GBR) 108 v BROADY, Naomi (GBR) WC 253
R1: WEBLEY-SMITH, Emily (GBR) WC 241 v STEPHENS, Sloane (USA) 143
R1: WATSON, Heather (GBR) 117 v CZINK, Melinda (HUN) Q 282
R1: ROBSON, Laura (GBR) WC 237 v SAVINYKH, Valeria (RUS) 138
R1: OBRIEN, Katie (GBR) WC 221 v VOEGELE, Stefanie (SUI) 160
R1: MURRAY, Samantha (GBR) Q 730 v LARCHER de BRITO, Michelle (POR) 170

Czink was ranked as high as 37 in 2009 and has won 16 of her last 17 matches, having come into Nottingham qualifying after taking the Indian Harbour Beach 50K title earlier this month, so this looks like a tough draw, though the Hungarian has only won one main draw match at Wimbledon in 6 attempts.

Larcher de Brito, ranked as high as 76 in 2009, probably needs little introduction.



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Definitely a tough draw for Heather - I saw a bit of Melinda Czink in the final of that Indian Harbour Beach tournament and she was playing well. Given that Heather was playing on the clay only a few days ago and Czink has qualified I wouldn't be surprised if Heather lost that one.

Anne and Laura probably favourites to win their matches and if one other Brit gets through round 1 it won't be a bad effort

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Hoping Murrays tricky game could get the better of de Brito. Failing that, I'd say Webbers and Katie arent massively out of their matches, Voegele can be very hit and miss and Sloane may struggle to get down to the lower balls having switched from clay so quickly and obviously inexperienced.

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I'll get to hear De Brito all the way here in the states.

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tony_orient wrote:

Definitely a tough draw for Heather - I saw a bit of Melinda Czink in the final of that Indian Harbour Beach tournament and she was playing well. Given that Heather was playing on the clay only a few days ago and Czink has qualified I wouldn't be surprised if Heather lost that one.

Anne and Laura probably favourites to win their matches and if one other Brit gets through round 1 it won't be a bad effort

 Heather likes to hit the ball one short one long one short one long..... I hope it work vs Melinda Czink. Or she needs some bigger shorts.

I think Laura left her ex-coach was a mistake.



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^^I don't think she left him. He and his wife had a baby, and wanted to be home in Holland.

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I quite fancy Naomi to win against Anne. Not sure why, just a hunch.

Any streams for this tourney?

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Yes, he couldn't travel with Laura any more. And by all accounts the new French set of coaches have already improved her movement massively, which is so important in the women's game.

Isn't her old coach now working with Eleanor Dean? I was surprised that she didn't enter RG Juniors.

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He is, but Eleanor's ranking wasn't high enough to get in to RG.

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murray_2k9 wrote:

Hoping Murrays tricky game could get the better of de Brito. Failing that, I'd say Webbers and Katie arent massively out of their matches, Voegele can be very hit and miss and Sloane may struggle to get down to the lower balls having switched from clay so quickly and obviously inexperienced.

 

Heather likes to hit one ball short one ball long, and De Brito pattern is very similar. She likes to hit forehand cross court short and backhand down the line long. Murrays has a chance to win.

 



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briteny wrote:
tony_orient wrote:

Definitely a tough draw for Heather - I saw a bit of Melinda Czink in the final of that Indian Harbour Beach tournament and she was playing well. Given that Heather was playing on the clay only a few days ago and Czink has qualified I wouldn't be surprised if Heather lost that one.

Anne and Laura probably favourites to win their matches and if one other Brit gets through round 1 it won't be a bad effort

 Heather likes to hit the ball one short one long one short one long..... I hope it work vs Melinda Czink. Or she needs some bigger shorts.

I think Laura left her ex-coach was a mistake.

 I don't think Heather's game matches up particularly well against Melinda's hard-hitting style, but hopefully I'm proved wrong she will find a Czink in her armour biggrin



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Czink breaks in the first game after a deuce. Emily breaks in the first game too but gets broken straight back.

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All holds since - Hev *1-3, Emily 2-2*

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