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

steven · Tennis legend

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

indiana · Tennis legend

Yep, and she's smashing up her CH of 231 which she had equalled in Monday's rankings. Katie, who as we say she is now just passing, is WR 216.

sd51rby · Lower Club Player

tony_orient wrote:
I just found out that it was the bet265 scoreboard which was the one up to date one in time to follow the last game.

Naomi served for the match in the second set at 6-5 and was broken before losing the tie break, so to come back and win from those setbacks shows good resolve.
I Dont think she did mate, i dunno if thats what bet365 said, but i listened to the bbc live commentary and she served to take it into the breaker. She saved a set point at *5-6 but she wasnt broken at all during the match.

-- Edited by sd51rby on Tuesday 7th of June 2011 04:21:43 PM

indiana · Tennis legend

Reasonable little test for Naomi in round 2 :

L32 : (3) Shuai Peng (CHN) WR 20 vs (Q) Naomi Broady WR 231

Peng is at a CH of WR 20, after interestingly retiring in the last 32 of the French Open when 6 - 3 1 - 2 down to Schiavone ( hasn't played since having got a 1st round bye here ). She is having a very good year, and is ranked 12 in the WTA race and is a Wimbledon quarter finalist from 2007 ( has reached at least the QFs of all four slams ).

-- Edited by indiana on Tuesday 7th of June 2011 03:38:04 PM

alex03maccy · Grand Slam Champion

Chuffed for Naomi to say the least!

Ratty · County player

Maza1987 wrote:
will be tough for Broady against the 'future world no.1'.

Quite so, and a good win of course, but Garcia is of course the current world no 188 (whoops, 150 actually) - which is probably a reasonable indication of her ability.

Apropos of that, I remember like it was yesterday seeing the 17-year old Maria Kirilenko pushing Serena Willams very hard before losing in 3 sets at the French Open in 2004. Future No 1? - you betcha!

I've always thought it a bit of a shame that Maria never quite got there - although I confess that my regret may not be entirely related to her tennis abilities - as it would have meant she'd have been on the telly more - although she was on for a couple of matches at the 2011 French Open, I'm glad she's got rid of that horrible "peak" thing she used to wear on her head, good lord what does she see in Igor Andreev? ....

Now where was I ... can't remember, oh well!

smile

-- Edited by Ratty on Tuesday 7th of June 2011 05:00:19 PM

-- Edited by Ratty on Tuesday 7th of June 2011 05:02:43 PM

indiana · Tennis legend

Ratty wrote:

Quite so, and a good win of course, but Garcia is of course the current world no 188 (whoops, 150 actually) - which is probably a reasonable indication of her ability.
Apropos of that, I remember like it was yesterday seeing the 17-year old Maria Kirilenko pushing Serena Willams very hard before losing in 3 sets at the French Open in 2004. Future No 1? - you betcha!

Allow me to be suggest that the actual WR of the majority of improving young players is not that reasonable an indication of their ability. Gee, see how quickly they can go from say WR 188 to WR 150 wink

Garcia I'd say is such a young improving player, probably indeed shown in her taking that set of Sharapova in the French Open R2 after beating the WR 91 in straight sets in R1.

Her WTA race position of 110 race I would suggest is more indicative. Even their race position would be underestimating the linearly improving player, but then again I am not sure I really like linear players, especially females.

Who knows where she will end up, almost certainly not WR 1, maybe a never really made it at all.

Anyway, just saying. Hey - ho smile

-- Edited by indiana on Tuesday 7th of June 2011 05:58:40 PM

Ratty · County player

indiana wrote:
Allow me to be suggest that the actual WR of the majority of improving young players is not that reasonable an indication of their ability.

Don't you mean "improved young players", rather than "improving young players".

Or if you can predict the future, then one might assume that you have made a fortune on the National Lottery, and are messaging from your super-yacht in the Caribbean.

smile

And please, no more sexist remarks from you about the appearance of women players on this forum, better suited to the Sun readers' comments I think ...

-- Edited by Ratty on Tuesday 7th of June 2011 06:07:03 PM

indiana · Tennis legend

Ratty wrote:
indiana wrote:
Allow me to be suggest that the actual WR of the majority of improving young players is not that reasonable an indication of their ability.
Don't you mean "improved young players", rather than "improving young players".
Or if you can predict the future, then one might assume that you have made a fortune on the National Lottery, and are messaging from your super-yacht in the Caribbean.

Most "improving to date" and hence "improved" players don't really stop improving any more on the date we happen to be discussing them, generally it's part of a continuing process for a time, which I made clear I have no idea where it will end in Garcia's case, so I shall stick with "improving" and you can continue to reside in Pedant City, my friend smile

wolf · Tennis legend

Ratty wrote:
good lord what does she see in Igor Andreev? ....

Maybe it was his super duper inside out forehand.

wolf · Tennis legend

Twenty aces from Naomi, and only one break point faced in 15 service games. That's pretty impressive serving consistency. smile

wolf · Tennis legend

OOP out for Wednesday (and I wish I was there)

Centre Court (from 11.00hrs)
1. Sorana Cirstea vs. Daniela Hantuchova
2. Misaki Doi vs. Heather Watson
3. Anna Tatishvili vs. Ana Ivanovic
4. Peng Shuai vs. Naomi Broady
5. Rae/Watson vs. Govortsova/Kudryavtseva

Jajon · Club Coach

has anyone found a stream for this? i found one for the other 3 atp/wta tournaments, but not this one!

alex03maccy · Grand Slam Champion

Coverage on TennisTV doesn't start til the 10th so maybe nothing til then but not entirely sure.

indiana · Tennis legend

wolf wrote:
Twenty aces from Naomi, and only one break point faced in 15 service games. That's pretty impressive serving consistency.

Great to see. Clearly when Naomi she gets it right, she can get it very right as opposed to last week when she was reported to be having real serving problems.