Week 24 - WTA Premier series - AEGON International, Eastbourne ($618,000) - grass

DavidC · Tennis legend

RE: Week 24 - WTA Premier series - AEGON International, Eastbourne ($618,000) - grass

DavidC · Tennis legend

Naomi broken again: 4-5*

DavidC · Tennis legend

The Spaniard serves out to 30 - over to someone else

4-6 0*-0

Jajon · Strong Club Player

Broady was a double break down , but has just broken back for *1-3

Jajon · Strong Club Player

Mmmm, Broady lost 4-6 2-6, i think, judging from what i saw in birmingham, her serve is the most important factor in her game and seeing as she had 6 aces in first 2 games and then only 8 overall in the match would indicate it wasn't a great serving day (except the beginning obviously haha!). Oh well, lets hope she can do something good at wimbledon, i do think she has the weapons to do something interesting there!

tony_orient · ATP qualifying

steven wrote:
WTA are reporting that Heather has drawn world no. 3 Vera Zvonareva in R1 ...

Will be good to see Heather have another chance to test herself against one of the worlds top players, will definitely be a good experience and I guess this match will be on TV as well.

The downside is that it makes it very tough for Heather to defend all her points from last year's Eastbourne

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

EWS on her way out of qualies: 2-6 4-5*. cry

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Stircrazy wrote:
EWS on her way out of qualies: 2-6 4-5*.

2-6 4-6. cry

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Early break for Anne: *1-0. smile Hang on to your service from here on in, girl, !

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Anne consolidates: 2-0*, but there are at least four more games to go in this set...

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Anne hanging in there: 4-2*.

indiana · Tennis legend

Some draw for Heather disbelief

Bally on the other hand is now going to have gone a year without meeting a seed in her first round match, i.e. the last time was when she met Li Na here last year with a great result smile ( that's probably done it for Wimbleom now )

In her 25 tournaments since ( incl this one ), she has been seeded herself 8 times ( generally in WTA Q or ITF ) but has not met a seed in R1 in any of the 17 times she herself was unseeded ( should be a 1 in 3 chance ). In 13 of the 16 such occasions ( so far ) she has progessed through R1. She has then 12 times out of 13 met the anticipated seed in R2 ( the recent French Open was the exception ). This largely explains the large number of R1 wins, but subsequent R2 defeats Bally has had in the last year.

-- Edited by indiana on Saturday 11th of June 2011 02:47:26 PM

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Anne getting there slowly: 5-3*.

Anna Fit has done well to recover a break against Jovanovski: *3-3.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Anne wraps up the first set by 6-4. $64,000 question is: can she keep the momentum going in the second?

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Anne gets the early break again in the second: *1-0. smile