Week 15 - WTA ($220K) - Copenhagen, Denmark Hard

thegingerlightbulb · Intermediate Club Player

RE: Week 15 - WTA ($220K) - Copenhagen, Denmark Hard

steven · Tennis legend

thegingerlightbulb wrote:
I don't Czink so

... and that one made me laugh more than any of the others! smile

Anyway, belated but no doubt satisfying revenge for two Fed Cup defeats 6 & 9 years ago.

2nd seed Kerber or Foretz Gacon to follow in R2 and *Fed Cup watch* Larsson out in R1 in straight sets to Barthel make it a good day in Denmark!

steven · Tennis legend

JoKo is already 3-0* up on the world no. 38

Long way to go though.

Maza1987 · Challenger level

keep it up joko

steven · Tennis legend

JoKo serves out to love to win the 1st set against Pervak 6-3

Maza1987 · Challenger level

daisy wrote:
JoKo off to a decent start; she broke Kerber in game 2 but the Kazakh just held her 2nd service game.
JoKo now serving at *3-1.

-- Edited by daisy on Tuesday 10th of April 2012 04:02:30 PM

sheesh. The kazakh federation have poached kerber as well as pervak, huh? :)

philwrig · Hall of fame

A win by retirement, so no idea how well JoKo had to play to get the win, will play a non seed next so more chances to progress.
That should secure her spot on the French Open qualie field ranking wise.

First year she has been injury free, and now we're really seeing how good she is. Got a big game and thats what you need to really progress.

daisy · County player

Maza1987 wrote:
daisy wrote:
JoKo off to a decent start; she broke Kerber in game 2 but the Kazakh just held her 2nd service game.
JoKo now serving at *3-1.

-- Edited by daisy on Tuesday 10th of April 2012 04:02:30 PM
sheesh. The kazakh federation have poached kerber as well as pervak, huh? :)

Lol. NO idea why I wrote Kerber instead of Pervak. Age probably.

evileye

Ah well, Joko is through.

philwrig · Hall of fame

Both JoKo and Laura scheduled to play on the live streamed court tomorrow from 3pm our time one after the other.

thegingerlightbulb · Intermediate Club Player

If she is a good as we all hope, she will hopefully be battling up with Hev and Laura rather than with Naomi

Maza1987 · Challenger level

I'll take the win whichever way we can. She's done well to qualify and you get your rewards.

philwrig · Hall of fame

thegingerlightbulb wrote:
If she is a good as we all hope, she will hopefully be battling up with Hev and Laura rather than with Naomi

I think she's already on a par with Hev and Laura, just hasn't had the same opportunities due to the citizenship process taking so long, and niggly injuries.

steven · Tennis legend

thegingerlightbulb wrote:
If she is a good as we all hope, she will hopefully be battling up with Hev and Laura rather than with Naomi

I haven't given up hope of Naomi one battling up with Hev and Laura either wink ... but yes, although the three pairs I mentioned look like the main GB ranking battles in the short term, it's more than possible that one or more of them could bridge one of the gaps - hopefully by moving up rather than becauise someone else drops down!

Looking at the YTD points (2012 only, not the WTA race), the six of them are in a very different order:

264 Anne (234 before Copenhagen)
151 JoKo (105 before Copenhagen)
139 Heather
93 Laura
92 Bally
73 Naomi

... then a big gap to Samantha with 29 and Fran with 24, who are the only other Brits to have picked up more than 20 WTA singles points so far this year.

Maza1987 · Challenger level

I thought the wta race was 2012 points only.

steven · Tennis legend

Maza1987 wrote:
I thought the wta race was 2012 points only.

If I remember right, it's points since the last WTA YE champs (since it is the race to those championships, that would make sense) - similarly with the ATP race, it's points since the last WTF. That's a bit of an arbitrary cut-off for most of the Brits, who won't get to the YECs and whose 2011 season continued after this year's YECs, which is why I count from 1 Jan ... even though it could be argued that's a bit arbitrary too!