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

Maza1987 · Challenger level

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

Spectator · All-time great

So frustrating that at least per Google news and a quick trawl of non-gated sites, only Daily Mail covered the remarkable wins in B'ham. Wouldn't mind, except non-coverers generally (though not uniformly) are far faster to run stories about "pathetic" Brits who don't go beyond first round at Wimbledon and "shouldn't have been there." Sigh.

-- Edited by Spectator on Wednesday 13th of June 2012 04:51:24 AM

Miriambee · Futures level

These guys saw it too !

http://twitpic.com/9vrms7

I've just looked at this! how embarrassing, I recognise philwrig - if that's you 2nd on the right - I was the person who asked you to move out of my seat!! near the beginning of Laura's match. I'll say hello properly next time!

I'm coming tomorrow after 4pm if the weather's OK, and then Thursday daytime, again assuming weather OK, I'll look out for you guys!

Julia Carrot · All-time great

steven wrote:
This is only the 3rd time in the 31-year history of Birmingham WTA that 4 Brits have reached R2 - 1982, 1985 & 2009 were the others.

Unless I missed something when I trawled through, there have never been more than 4 Brits in R2 before - so come on Hev & Bally!

Yes, your name did come up Steven, as we were sitting there watching the 5th win taking shape

Now what about 5 or even 6 in the second round of any WTA tournament ?

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

^^^^^^

Steven's researches confounded by no less august a source than the LTA web site:

It is the first time in the history of the tournament that five British players have made the second round at Edgbaston Priory Club.

Let's make it six, Bally, !

Priesty · Challenger level

Had a brilliant day today, great to meet up with a few other forumites too. Wish I'd booked for tomorrow too now...

Helen40 · Grand Slam Champion

Miriambee wrote:

These guys saw it too !

http://twitpic.com/9vrms7
I've just looked at this! how embarrassing, I recognise philwrig - if that's you 2nd on the right - I was the person who asked you to move out of my seat!! near the beginning of Laura's match. I'll say hello properly next time!
I'm coming tomorrow after 4pm if the weather's OK, and then Thursday daytime, again assuming weather OK, I'll look out for you guys!

Thanks for the pic, great to put faces to names

wolf · Tennis legend

Benesova should be fined for lack of effort against Tara, she wasn't even trying. Sorry if that takes something away from Tara, but it's the truth...

Anne punished the weak Paszek serve well, but her own serve went AWOL towards the end of the second set which is why it was so close.

Sam played well enough, she is a decent baseliner. Only breaks of the match were at 4-5 each set. Perhaps Sam could play a more agressive game style, she seems phyically strong enough?

Just caught the end of Mel and the start of Laura, both were serving well. The only break in the final set of Mel's match came when Mel at full stretch just got the return back, Lucic moved in for a drive volley and then decided to leave it and it landed on the baseline.

I forgot to take down the number of where Sally was sitting, I had my eye on someone I thought was Sally but looking at the picture above it clearly wasn't her. My fault but I only made a last minute decision to go today.

daisy · County player

Jankovic broke back and has just held serve for 4-4 in the 2nd set.
Mel clinging on now; about to serve at 5-5

Jankovic wins 6'1, 7'6(3), looks as though Mel put up quite a fight in that 2nd set.

Moore v Dellacqua up on livescore now.

-- Edited by daisy on Wednesday 13th of June 2012 11:51:34 AM

daisy · County player

Great to meet up with some 'forumites' yesterday and share tennis chat - thanks for your company JuliaCarrot, Philwrig and Priesty.
Sorry to have missed you Wolf; I remember you from Tipton so had I known you were there could have kept a look out.
As it goes I didn't end up in the seat I'd booked so, erm, that confused a couple of the others too.

So good to watch the girls getting through and I hope the overnight 'stop' will help Bally get her game back on track and make it 6.

daisy · County player

I'm having trouble viewing the OOP for B'ham today; maybe my computer doesn't like the LTA links but it's not been a problem before. Can anyone else see it?

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

daisy wrote:
I'm having trouble viewing the OOP for B'ham today; maybe my computer doesn't like the LTA links but it's not been a problem before. Can anyone else see it?

No, but you can get at it via the Tennis Europe site. wink

Julia Carrot · All-time great

A slightly unclear copy/paste, but better than nothing............

Centre Court

M.South (GBR) v J.Jankovic (SRB) [5]
Women's Singles - 2nd Round
1-4
K.Chang (TPE) v E.Baltacha (GBR) [15]
Women's Singles - 1st Round
A.Keothavong (GBR) v J.Zheng (CHN)
Women's Singles - 2nd Round
F.Schiavone (ITA) [1] v M.Doi (JPN)
Women's Singles - 2nd Round
U.Radwanska (POL) v S.Lisicki (GER) [2]
Women's Singles - 2nd Round
M.Czink (HUN) v D.Hantuchova (SVK) [3]
Women's Singles - 2nd Round

Court 1

E.Makarova (RUS) [8] v S.Karatantcheva (KAZ)
Women's Singles - 2nd Round
5-4
T.Moore (GBR) v C.Dellacqua (AUS)
Women's Singles - 2nd Round
L.Robson (GBR) v M.Erakovic (NZL) [9]
Women's Singles - 2nd Round
H.Watson (GBR) v
Women's Singles - 2nd Round
v
Women's Singles - 2nd Round

Court 2

Y.Chan (TPE) / H.Chan (TPE) v K.Jans-Ignacik (POL) / A.Rosolska (POL)
Women's Doubles - 1st Round
6-2 0-0
I.Benesova (CZE) / A.Kudryavtseva (RUS) v S.Mirza (IND) [2] / Y.Shvedova (KAZ) [2]
Women's Doubles - 1st Round
L.Dekmeijere (LAT) / A.Tatishvili (GEO) v N.Grandin (RSA) [3] / V.Uhlirova (CZE) [3]
Women's Doubles - 1st Round
S.Cirstea (ROU) / A.Keothavong (GBR) v S.Zhang (CHN) / J.Zheng (CHN)
Women's Doubles - 1st Round

Court 3

C.McHale (USA) [7] v E.Vesnina (RUS)
Women's Singles - 2nd Round
1-6 1-0
T.Babos (HUN) [14] v A.Riske (USA)
Women's Singles - 1st Round
S.Hsieh (TPE) [13] v V.Dushevina (RUS)
Women's Singles - 1st Round
M.Larcher De Brito (POR) v M.Oudin (USA)
Women's Singles - 2nd Round
R.Vinci (ITA) [4] v V.Razzano (FRA)
Women's Singles - 2nd Round

Court 4

A.Hlavackova (CZE) v M.Barthel (GER) [6]
Women's Singles - 2nd Round
3-4
A.Panova (RUS) v S.Dubois (CAN)
Women's Singles - 1st Round
A.Rodionova (AUS) v S.Foretz Gacon (FRA)
Women's Singles - 2nd Round
v I.Falconi (USA)
Women's Singles - 2nd Round

Julia Carrot · All-time great

daisy wrote:
Great to meet up with some 'forumites' yesterday and share tennis chat - thanks for your company JuliaCarrot, Philwrig and Priesty.

And nice to have your company too Daisy. Look forward to the next time.

daisy · County player

Thanks for OOP!

Jankovic took the first set 6'1 but Mel is fighting back and is 3'0 up in the 2nd.