Week 7 - WTA Premier - Doha, Qatar - Hard

steven · Tennis legend

Week 7 - WTA Premier - Doha, Qatar - Hard

Julia Carrot · All-time great

Qatar Ladies Open 2012

Jan · Hall of fame

RE: Week 7 - WTA Premier - Doha, Qatar - Hard

philwrig · Hall of fame

Winner of Anne/Laura likely to play Hev in QR2......unbelievable.

Shhh · Challenger level

....and......the winner of Anne vs Laura faces the winner of Heather vs Klaudia for a place in the main draw.

If Klaudia takes that spot.......grrrrrrrrr!

tony_orient · ATP qualifying

So Doha qualifying has turned into a contest to determine the British Number 2 (maybe the winner should be given the Fed cup singles spot alongside Bally biggrin )

On current form Anne has to be favourite, but these matches are likely to be very much detemined by psychology especially given how much time Anne, Heather and Laura have spent together recently.

indiana · Tennis legend

Wow, quite some draw.

The good thing is they could hardly have asked for a much better looking choice as the 4th member of their little section. If Klaudia ends up somehow getting that qualiiying spot then that will really indicate that none of them was in decent enough form to really be challenging for a quailfying place.

I would have been much more concerned if the 4th member had been say a player in decent form who was just a bit outisde the qualifying seeds and had more prospect of spoiling the British party all together.

It is quite a pity that they've been lumped together and be maybe rather tricky after all the recent bonding together, but at least we should end up with one qualifier.

Heather defending 80 points this week, so will need to qualify and maybe ( if Laura beats Anne ) win a main draw R1 match to stay ahead of Laura in theh rankings.

-- Edited by indiana on Saturday 11th of February 2012 01:56:35 AM

philwrig · Hall of fame

tony_orient wrote:
So Doha qualifying has turned into a contest to determine the British Number 2 (maybe the winner should be given the Fed cup singles spot alongside Bally)

On current form Anne has to be favourite, but these matches are likely to be very much detemined by psychology especially given how much time Anne, Heather and Laura have spent together recently.

Also a major doubt over Laura's fitness. Laura will have a slight advantage regarding preparation time, so all and all, assuming Laura is near 100 % fit, toss of the coin.

Hev will be the fresh one going into the FQR, which will give her a slight advantage.

Mervatron · Masters Series Champion

Don't know what to expect here really.

May the best woman win

Julia Carrot · All-time great

Jan wrote:
what a shame

Yiou know, I was really pleased when I first saw it. I thought it was funny and I thought it was a great opportunity. However, thinking about the points at stake here, + the money + the travelling, I guess your reaction is the more logical one

Maza1987 · Challenger level

Shhh wrote:
....and......the winner of Anne vs Laura faces the winner of Heather vs Klaudia for a place in the main draw.

If Klaudia takes that spot.......grrrrrrrrr!

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Julia Carrot · All-time great

Has anyone managed to find an OOP for tomorrow and/or work out time differences. I find an OOP referred to on TF but cannot actually track one down anywhere. WTA, official website etc.

Maza1987 · Challenger level

doha, i think, is 4 hours ahead.

Julia Carrot · All-time great

Ta. That's a start !! (And not too early a one, thank goodness)

philwrig · Hall of fame

Julia Carrot wrote:
Has anyone managed to find an OOP for tomorrow and/or work out time differences. I find an OOP referred to on TF but cannot actually track one down anywhere. WTA, official website etc.

Doha is 3 hours ahead, Hev starts us off 2nd on her court after an 11a.m(8a.m GMT) start, then Anne/Laura is the 4th match on their respective court.