Weeks 22 & 23: French Open (Roland-Garros) (red clay)

Jan · Hall of fame

RE: Weeks 22 & 23: French Open (Roland-Garros) (red clay)

jake270392 · Intermediate Club Player

With Elenas loss today, her Olympic dream may well be over (can only realistically get in via a WC now) but Anne can still make it so, here's a list of the players around her and probably around the 1000 points will do it;

51. King - 987 (vs Voskoboeva at French Open) also entered Nottingham
52. Soler-Espinosa - 985 (Pulled out)
53. Wozniak - 980 (vs El Tabakh)
54. Bondarenko K - 970 (vs Chan)
55. Hsieh - 966 (vs Pennetta) also entered Nottingham
56. Begu - 930 ( vs Rezai)
57. Babos - 928 (vs Zvonareva)
58. Oprandi - 893 ( Govortsova)

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59. Tatishvili - 865 ( vs Glatch) also entered Nottingham
60. Cornet - 852 ( vs Zheng)
61. Date-Krumm - 846 ( vs Schiavone) also entered Nottingham
62. Parmentier - 826 (vs Urz. Radwanska)
63. Urz. Radwanska - 811 ( vs Parmentier) also entered Nottingham
64. Krajicek - 810 ( vs Martic)
65. Keothavong - 799 ( vs Czink) also entered Nottingham
66. Bertens - 770 ( vs McHale)

So Anne has a real good chance of making it by merit and has been placed in a good section at the French open and also has Nottingham to fall back on.

Hope this helps and it should be correct.

-- Edited by jake270392 on Sunday 27th of May 2012 04:08:45 PM

Helen40 · Grand Slam Champion

Bally on ITV4 2-5

Helen40 · Grand Slam Champion

Bally's broken back, so back on serve 4-5

DavidC · Tennis legend

Bally doing herself justice, striking the ball well plus a couple of fine lobs and the occasional testing backhand slice deep to Stosur's forehand. First set lost 6-4 but much to be proud of.

tony_orient · ATP qualifying

Good effort from Bally in the first set - playing pretty well and a competitive score even though Stosur is also on her game.

tony_orient · ATP qualifying

That second set disappeared very quickly after a good effort in the first

DavidC · Tennis legend

Unfortunately Bally couldn't maintain her first set form, and lost 6-4 6-0 but at least battled to save a couple of matchpoints

Maza1987 · Challenger level

'Twas always going to be near impossible to upset Stosur here.
Obviously lost points, but will hopefully have a good grass court season to gain them back.

Madeline · Admin:Moderator + Tennis Legend

I don't really follow the ladies and don't understand their points system - but did I hear somewhere that Anne Keothavong moves up to British #1 now?

DavidC · Tennis legend

Madeline wrote:
I don't really follow the ladies and don't understand their points system - but did I hear somewhere that Anne Keothavong moves up to British #1 now?

Not guaranteed. The next rankings come out in 2 weeks time, with Anne currently in pole position after points dropping off. However Heather and Laura could overtake (unlikely) with a very good run at Roland Garros / Nottingham.

Jan · Hall of fame

was out all morning so missed Bally - sounds like she put up a good show in the first set.

Scouseandy · Social player

I'll be at RG on wednesday and I've just heard that Murray definately won't be playing that day so very disappointed. I'm hoping at least one of the women can make it through R1 so I can get the chance to support them. First time there so has anyone got any advice? What's their version of strawberries and cream?

Julia Carrot · All-time great

Laura's up 1st tomorrow on court 6. Can't see Anne or Heather's matches though. Is that right they are not playing until Tuesday or have I missed something?

DavidC · Tennis legend

Julia Carrot wrote:
Laura's up 1st tomorrow on court 6. Can't see Anne or Heather's matches though. Is that right they are not playing until Tuesday or have I missed something?

That's right - the first round is spread over 3 days, and both are in the bottom quarter, which plays Tuesday