Week 28 - WTA Premier ($740K) - Stanford, USA Hard

Jeff Stelling · Club Coach

RE: Week 28 - WTA ($740K) - Stanford, USA Hard

Maza1987 · Challenger level

Indeed a poor result. I cannot foresee anyone not named Laura overtaking Heather for the next 10 years. Injuries permitting of course.

Helen40 · Grand Slam Champion

Sooo dissapointed for Anne. I wonder how she played? Even sadder now that they didn't do the Olympic wildcards the other way around.

Laura's got a tough opponent next though, but hopefully we'll be pleasantly surprised

Really miss the 'thanks' button on AM forums. So thanks to the two of you above

Armchair · County player

I'm suffering my usual post Wimbledon tennis withdrawal problems. So it's good to see Brits playing in good tournaments and doing well.
Congratulations to Heather and Laura.

I'm sad to see Anne's result and don't have high hopes of her improving her game greatly in the future. Let's just hope that Anne & Elena perform
to the best of their abilities at the Olympics.

Helen40 · Grand Slam Champion

Armchair wrote:
I'm suffering my usual post Wimbledon tennis withdrawal problems. So it's good to see Brits playing in good tournaments and doing well.
Congratulations to Heather and Laura.

I know how you feel

Also from being able to watch the games, and know whether Anne just came up against someone who as Steven says isn't ranked because she's at college, someone doing a Rosol, of just playing badly herself.

Helen40 · Grand Slam Champion

Thanks steven, gives it abit more context.
Glad to see Hev as no 1 though.

tony_orient · ATP qualifying

1-1 after two breaks, and already looking like it could be a long match

*2-1 to Heather as Wickmayer has a real struggle serving into the sun. Hev took full advantage of some weak serves with return winners

-- Edited by tony_orient on Wednesday 11th of July 2012 08:04:32 PM

Maza1987 · Challenger level

is she on court one, in the blue hat?

edit- yes it is her.

never

-- Edited by Maza1987 on Wednesday 11th of July 2012 08:06:16 PM

tony_orient · ATP qualifying

Jan wrote:
yes - and it looks really tricky serving into the sun from the ad court this end.
Come on Heather!

And you always favour Heather to approach these problems with a more positive attitude than her opponents.

Plus I've been betting on Heather to break when Wickmayer's serving into the sun with 100% success so far smile

Edit: Damn, tried that tactic once too often and Wickmayer holds to love cry

-- Edited by tony_orient on Wednesday 11th of July 2012 09:01:18 PM

philwrig · Hall of fame

The bookies gave Annie a 91% chance of victory beforehand, so not a complete shocker, but obviously a bad result.
The number 1 position could easily reverse itself in the next 3 months owing to the fact that Anne is defending very little until October, bot she'll clearly need to start playing better.

philwrig · Hall of fame

Bookies have gone quite short on Heather for tonights match.
I would say that she had a 1 in 3 chance as Wickmayer although a bit up and down has had some good wins recently.

Maza1987 · Challenger level

butcher's dog^^

you need not worry.:)

-- Edited by Maza1987 on Wednesday 11th of July 2012 09:44:04 PM

Jan · Hall of fame

??? what does that mean? (the butcher's dog bit)

-- Edited by Jan on Wednesday 11th of July 2012 09:48:08 PM

Priesty · Challenger level

3 mps saved now 4-5*.....c'mon Hev!!

-- Edited by Priesty on Wednesday 11th of July 2012 10:04:52 PM

Rich · Lower Club Player

Such a pity to see Anne's result. It looked the perfect match for her on paper and a chance of 60 points. But in the end a very poor result. It surely can't sit very well with her mentally losing to an unranked college player the tennis world has never heard of. Anne can usually be up and down with her form but even this for her is shocking. Let's hope she can bounce back quickly.