Week 24 - WTA ($220K) - AEGON Classic, Birmingham - Grass

tony_orient · ATP qualifying

RE: Week 24 - WTA ($220K) - AEGON Classic, Birmingham - Grass

Julia Carrot · All-time great

0 - 2 Please don't fade Naomi

Break back now !!

RainDelay · Pro player

4-1 down now in final set

philwrig · Hall of fame

Robbo plays Min who is on a major winning streak albeit at a lower level. Probs 50/50 on current form, hopefully can start to play a bit better this week. Shocking forecast for tomorrow but then again I'm used to that.

tony_orient · ATP qualifying

philwrig wrote:
Robbo plays Min who is on a major winning streak albeit at a lower level. Probs 50/50 on current form, hopefully can start to play a bit better this week. Shocking forecast for tomorrow but then again I'm used to that.

Won't be easy for Robson, but Min was was one of the better opponents to get from the qualifiers

Julia Carrot · All-time great

Did you watch Naomi's match today? Did she run out of steam or did Makarova just step it up?

Julia Carrot · All-time great

tony_orient wrote:
philwrig wrote:
Robbo plays Min who is on a major winning streak albeit at a lower level. Probs 50/50 on current form, hopefully can start to play a bit better this week. Shocking forecast for tomorrow but then again I'm used to that.
Won't be easy for Robson, but Min was was one of the better opponents to get from the qualifiers

Agreed on both counts. But, if Laura is on form, her grass court experience should give her some advantage. Plus playing in home country etc.

philwrig · Hall of fame

Julia Carrot wrote:
Did you watch Naomi's match today? Did she run out of steam or did Makarova just step it up?

I only watched the second set TB which was very good, so can't really comment. Courts are not in great shape though, centre by far being the best, but very impressed with the venue and the improvements being made.

Helen40 · Grand Slam Champion

steven wrote:
Helen40 wrote:
Can someone explain, the reason why Robbo is the last direct entrant to the MD whilst we have higher WRs in qualies, I'm still confused by it.
There are two reasons why this can happen.
1) Late entrants
If a player who would have been a direct entrant had they entered on time fails to enter on time but then decides that they want to play anyway, they can play in qualifying - either by entering that on time, by just signing in if there are spare places in the qualifying draw or by being given a QWC.
Though there can be genuine unforeseen reasons for a player's tournament plans to change, I often think that this is very unfair to the unfortunate players who end up in the very high-ranked player's qualifying section, in the sense that the player whose fault it is likely to qualify easily whereas those who haven't done anything wrong end up with next to no chance.
2) Ranking changes since the entry deadline
A player who is now ranked above the last direct entrant could have to play qualifying if they were ranked below that player at the entry cut-off date.
Full entry lists aren't available for WTA Tour events in the same way as they are for ITFs, but it seems clear that Zheng (now WR 34) and Dushevina (now WR 82) fall into the first category, whereas Karatantcheva (now WR 125, i.e. one place above Laura) falls into the second category.

Thanks steven, I thought it would be something like that, but it didn't compute that in the first scenario that they would have a WC by their names.

Miriambee · Futures level

been raining in Brum since 10am. this afternoon even heavier than this morning.

Madeline · Admin:Moderator + Tennis Legend

They should move Birmingham and Queen's "oop North". It's been fine here all day.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Madeline wrote:
They should move Birmingham and Queen's "oop North". It's been fine here all day.

Your turn on Friday, I believe. wink

Julia Carrot · All-time great

Tuesday OOP + Scores

Tuesday, June 12, 2012

Centre Court (from 11.00hrs)
1. Melanie Oudin vs. Sorana Cirstea
2. Tamira Paszek vs. Anne Keothavong
3. Mirjana Lucic vs. Melanie South
4. Laura Robson vs. Grace Min
5. Paula Ormaechea vs. Heather Watson
6. Chang Kai-Chen vs. Elena Baltacha

Court 2 (from 11.00hrs)
1. Iveta Benesova vs. Tara Moore
2. Michaella Krajicek vs. Andrea Hlavackova
3. Samantha Murray vs. Urszula Radwanska
4. Tamarine Tanasugarn vs. Sesil Karatantcheva
5. Ayumi Morita vs. Marina Erakovic
6. Alberta Brianti vs. Virginie Razzano

Court 3 (from 11.00hrs)
1. Casey Dellacqua vs. Garbiñe Muguruza Blanco
2. Elena Vesnina vs. Olivia Rogowska
3. Noppawan Lertcheewakarn vs. Misaki Doi
4. Abigail Spears vs. Anastasia Rodionova
5. Timea Babos vs. Alison Riske
6. Hsieh Su-Wei vs. Vera Dushevina

Court 4 (from 11.00hrs)
1. Bojana Jovanovski vs. Michelle Larcher de Brito
2. Zheng Jie vs. Lesia Tsurenko
3. Melinda Czink vs. Anna Tatishvili
4. Stéphanie Foretz Gacon vs. Eleni Daniilidou
5. Irina Falconi vs. Alexandra Cadantu
6. Alexandra Panova vs. Stéphanie Dubois

daisy · County player

That's a tasty OOP!!! Glad I have a ticket for tomorrow booked.

Message for Priesty - have sent you a PM with my mobile number.
Going to contact Philwrig too.
Hope we can meet up.

Julia Carrot · All-time great

I think I can't resist. Will get there about 1pm. Probably just when the rain starts !