Week 25 - WTA - $637K - AEGON International - grass (Eastbourne)

Mervatron · Masters Series Champion

RE: Week 25 - WTA - $637K - AEGON International - grass (Eastbourne)

tony_orient · ATP qualifying

Big win for Laura today. Should put her in the top 100 and also means she has defended her Grass court season points from last year. Surprisingly, this is the first time Laura has been beyond the last 32 of a WTA tournament - all her previous wins have been in 64 or 128 draw events. It's always a good sign when Laura is able to turn round a losing situation, it shows she has a good level of cinfidence in her game at the moment.

Heather's win equally improtant for the rankings although less high profile but puts her in a good position with no further points to defend at Wimbledon. From the scores, it seemed pretty comfortable as well.

murray_2k9 · Challenger qualifying

Im annoyed that Laura (playing a previous champion) hasnt made it to a televised court. Its annoying when we have such few chances to see our guys play that they cant put them on a show court!

Excited to see Heather v Saf though

murray_2k9 · Challenger qualifying

OOP here:

http://www.lta.org.uk/fans-major-events/LTA-summer-grass-court-events/AEGON-International/Match-Centre/

Have they ever had cameras on court 1?

philwrig · Hall of fame

murray_2k9 wrote:
Im annoyed that Laura (playing a previous champion) hasnt made it to a televised court. Its annoying when we have such few chances to see our guys play that they cant put them on a show court!

Excited to see Heather v Saf though

Yes big shame, I mean Bartoli is likely to keep winning, whereas for Laura probably not, so it would be interesting to see what improvements she has made in her game this week.

From a purely selfish point of view I have seen all of Laura's recent matches, but it seems pretty clear she's stepped it up this week, and would have made for interesting viewing.

Helen40 · Grand Slam Champion

Anne and Bally have withdrawn from the dubs, presumably with Bally's neck problem? Hope she's OK for Wimby.

S&V · Club Coach

Good form for the 2 of them going into Wimbly

Madeline · Admin:Moderator + Tennis Legend

Well that's handy - that link to the OOP shows the order of the matches, but if it tells you the time they start I can't see it. . .

I looked it up on the ATP site and the answer is play starts at 11am.

Helen40 · Grand Slam Champion

Madeline wrote:
Well that's handy - that link to the OOP shows the order of the matches, but if it tells you the time they start I can't see it. . .

I looked it up on the ATP site and the answer is play starts at 11am.

I've been going via the tennis Europe site to get OOPs recently as I don't like the 'match centre' format.

Wish I could find something similar for Wimby as I hate what they've done to their website (ie the tiny frame in the middle for the info.

Peter too · Tennis legend

Heather's match about to start.

http://drhtv.tv/streams/drhtv-2.html

Helen40 · Grand Slam Champion

2-2, looks like there's been a couple of breaks already.

Peter too · Tennis legend

Safarova won the first two games then Heather won the next three.

Helen40 · Grand Slam Champion

Peter too wrote:
Safarova won the first two games then Heather won the next three.

Thanks, missed the start. This would be a big scalp with Safrona WR 25, and so far she looks like she's staying with her.

Oops another break - not that that has meant alot in this match so far.

It would be my dream if both of them (and Lisa in Wimbly qualies) made it to the next round.

Helen40 · Grand Slam Champion

Hev's ahead now, hope it stays that way. I never get the sense of panic with her that she's gong to bottle it. Robbo seems to have gotten better of late too, maybe their dubs is helping.
Looks like Lisa is feeding off them too as she's come back from 2-5 to win her first set 7-5

Helen40 · Grand Slam Champion

Hev 4-2 in TB

Bother, what happened there, she was 4-2 up last time I looked and has lost it 7-5?