Week 23 - WTA International ($220K) - Birmingham, Grass

DavidC · Tennis legend

RE: Week 23 - WTA International ($220K) - Birmingham, Grass

DavidC · Tennis legend

Naomi's service games are becoming more competitive with the finishing line in sight. She held game 6 from 30-30 and game 8 from 15-30

Naomi 5-3*

DavidC · Tennis legend

Naomi gets 15-30 and a rare (first?) deuce but Sloane holds

5*-4

DavidC · Tennis legend

15-0 (ace)
30-0
30-15
30-30
30-40 (Sloane's first bp of the match)
40-40
A-40 mp
40-40
A-40

GSM Naomi 6-1 6-4

Some good possibilities for qualifiers in the main draw

steven · Tennis legend

DavidC wrote:
I saw Sloane playing MldB at Nottingham, and although she tried to adapt to playing on grass more than the Portugese (who was content to just trade heavy groundies from the back, and offered virtually no variety unlike the American) her front court game needs a lot of work, so at this stage Naomi must have a realistic chance of an upset.

Sounds like your analysis may have been spot on, but that's an impressive scoreline, a really good win

Julia Carrot · All-time great

Well done Naomi - excellent

indiana · Tennis legend

Well done to Naomi, she's really had a pretty good year with the odd unexpected loss.

She'll be up to GB No 5 in Monday's rankings and the 10 points she will have earned for qualifying here could take here past her CH of WR 231 the next week, I think there is fair chance of more good things from her either here or in the following weeks.

DavidC · Tennis legend

Doubles MD

(wc) Rae/Watson v (2) Govortsova/Kudryavtseva (BLR/RUS)

scottie1 · Futures level

i like naomi broady as a player has potential to be top 150 I think

DavidC · Tennis legend

Naomi gets a good draw against talented French youngster Caroline Garcia (WR188), who was a set and 4-1 up against Maria Sharapova at the French, but hasn't played any senior tournaments on grass. All the other Brits play tomorrow

Centre Court (11am start)

Heather Watson vs. Chanelle Scheepers
Emily Webley-Smith vs. Magdalena Rybarikova
Rebecca Marino vs. Melanie South
Kimiko Date-Krumm vs. Sabine Lisicki

Court 1

Samantha Murray vs. Anna Tatishvili

steven · Tennis legend

Garcia has only one grass court match recorded on ITF at all - a 2&2 loss to Ons Jabeur (who just won RG girls today) at junior Wimbledon last year.

Maza1987 · Challenger level

will be tough for Broady against the 'future world no.1'.

murray_2k9 · Challenger qualifying

Cant really ask better than that!!

steven · Tennis legend

Heather had to save 4 bps in the first game of her match v Scheepers.

Samantha is *1-3 down v Tatishvili.

SMC1809 · All-time great

Heather breaks and had 3 set points before securing the set at the third time of asking. 6-3