Week 26 - WTA ($11M) - Wimbledon, UK Grass (Main Draw)

Rich · Lower Club Player

RE: Week 26 - WTA ($11M) - Wimbledon, UK Grass (Main Draw)

murrayman650 · ATP level

Anne wins 6-3 6-3

DavidC · Tennis legend

Anne wins 6-3 6-3

Made a bit of a meal of serving it out (broken to love at 5-1 and went down 0-30 at 5-3 but looked to be playing well earlier on from the little I saw of it)

steven · Tennis legend

Anne's win makes it the first time GB has got more than 2 women into R2 in consecutive years since 1988-89!

Mervatron · Masters Series Champion

Well Done to Anne and Bally. Keeping the flag flying.

3 out of 6 through isn't bad but i had hoped for one more.

Good luck in round 2 girls.

Heather certainly has a winnable 2nd round. Anne has a shot against Errani( if she closes her 1st round out)

Helen40 · Grand Slam Champion

Happy with three as that's what I'd predicted, thought Robbo was goig to make it too at one point. Three bad draws though out of four, what a bummer.

Peter too · Tennis legend

Johanna WR 212 very nearly pulled off the greatest shock of all. Taking Mchale WR 30 to 10-8 in the third was a fantastic effort.

Helen40 · Grand Slam Champion

Peter too wrote:
Johanna WR 212 very nearly pulled off the greatest shock of all. Taking Mchale WR 30 to 10-8 in the third was a fantastic effort.

Yeah, and the beeb didn't even put it on freeview. BOO!!!

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Helen40 wrote:
Peter too wrote:
Johanna WR 212 very nearly pulled off the greatest shock of all. Taking Mchale WR 30 to 10-8 in the third was a fantastic effort.
Yeah, and the beeb didn't even put it on freeview. BOO!!!

But it was streamed live on the web site. wink Agreed, Jo did well to take McHale to the wire, but given that this was her first Wimbledon & the fact that the great British public at large could hardly be expected to recognise the name after her recent switch of allegiance from AUS to GBR, albeit not very sympathetically/accurately documented by Aunty & certain other media, the Beeb would've been hard pushed to justify further sustained terrestrial TV coverage. That said, had she caused an upset by defeating the 28th seed, there's no doubt that they would've been falling over themselves to document the occasion...! wink

steven · Tennis legend

Maza1987 wrote:
Wohoo.
First Brit woman into round 3 for 10 years.

Yes, and the first Brit to get back to back Wimbledon wins against WTA top 100 players since Sam Smith in 1998 (that stat via Ben Rothenburg)

In fact, Heather is only the 4th British woman to reach R3 since 1990 and, unless I've missed one, just the 7th British woman with 2 or more main draw wins at Wimbledon in the last 20 years (i.e. 1993-2012):

7 Baltacha (includes R3 in 2002)
5 Karen Cross (includes R3 in 1997)
4 Anne
3 Smith (includes R4 in 1998) and Latimer
2 O'Donoghue and Watson

Today's win should take her to about WR 80 and she is just 12 points behind Anne, who of course has a 'game in hand'.

-- Edited by steven on Wednesday 27th of June 2012 12:31:04 PM

Maza1987 · Challenger level

heather out on court.
let's go!

Helen40 · Grand Slam Champion

Great start by Hev 3-0. Neither seem settled in yet.

Maza1987 · Challenger level

superb start
now on bbc1 hd

Maza1987 · Challenger level

heather looking assured as she takes a 5-0 lead.
hamton looks rattled.

rebel_rebel · Lower Club Player

Great first set from Heather! 6-1