Week 7 - WTA Premier - Doha, Qatar - Hard

Julia Carrot · All-time great

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

Maza1987 · Challenger level

one last hurrah from heather
breaks
anne more likely to break for the match than hold for it, i think.

Julia Carrot · All-time great

Hev holds.

*5 - 4

Anne serving for the match. Again

Jan · Hall of fame

Anne wins

RCD · Intermediate Club Player

A 6-4 6-4 win for AK - hope she gets a kind draw in the MD and some more points in the bag.

Julia Carrot · All-time great

I'm glad. Changing of the guard not happening quite yet. (Someone else suggested that in another thread here - 'predictions' I think)

Maza1987 · Challenger level

well done anne.

Mervatron · Masters Series Champion

Well Done Anne.

Teaching the kids a lesson LOL

tony_orient · ATP qualifying

steven wrote:
Strangely, this win means Laura will be GB no. 3 on Monday week when Hev's Memphis WTA Q+QF points come off.

-- Edited by steven on Sunday 12th of February 2012 05:04:25 PM

Yes, Laura's hasn't exactly made it to GB No. 3 in style. However, given that from her tweet today she has Tonsilitis, her result against Anne was no surprise.

It seems that Anne v Heather today went exactly as people on this board predicted, a close match but Anne coming out on top. Anne has now won 9 in a row v GB opponents so it's not something that phases her at all.

RCD · Intermediate Club Player

Anne's been drawn against Paszek (AUT) in R1 - who has a 0-6 record for 2012 (from Steven's tweet), with Agneiszka Radwanska waiting in R2 for the victor

DavidC · Tennis legend

Anne draws Tamira Paszek, so both players will be familiar with each other's games from Fed Cup observation last weekend. The Austrian is 2-0 on Head to Head, the last being in Miami in 2010

indiana · Tennis legend

Julia Carrot wrote:
I'm glad. Changing of the guard not happening quite yet. (Someone else suggested that in another thread here - 'predictions' I think)

Wonder how much the Olympics are concentrating Elena and Anne's minds at the moment.

Like we've been around for a damned long time and carried British women's tennis to an extent. We deserve this and if you think you youngsters are going to deprived us of our places, you have another think coming smile

I was wondering how many places do the Brits / can the Brits get in the singles ( men and women ) and how are these decided ?

DavidC · Tennis legend

indiana wrote:
Wonder how much the Olympics are concentrating Elena and Anne's minds at the moment. .............
I was wondering how many places do the Brits / can the Brits get in the singles ( men and women ) and how are these decided ?

None guaranteed - they are done on ranking, subject to a maximum per country (4 this time I think). However there are some (8 I think) discretionary places. Precedent is that they always ensure the host country has some representation in each event, but they are also looking to ensure participation from countries not represented etc. so not being top 70ish is a hostage to fortune

DavidC · Tennis legend

Anne is first up on court 3 tomorrow (12.30pm GMT) and plays doubles with Sorana Cirstea later on (well, at least we hope they play this time wink ) They are up against Medina Garrigues and Pavlyuchenkova

Julia Carrot · All-time great

Anne on fire now

oops, I read score at 0 -30 on Pazek's serve. But not so.

Anyway, it's 30 - 30 now

2 points would do it.......

-- Edited by Julia Carrot on Monday 13th of February 2012 02:39:53 PM