Week 34 - WTA ($220K) - Texas, USA Hard

philwrig · Hall of fame

RE: Week 34 - WTA ($220K) - Texas, USA Hard

insomniacfolder · Challenger level

The Heatina team will be ~26 in the doubles WTA Championships race. Based on 2 events.

Arguably it's actually 23rd because three pairings above them include a player that is included twice or more in the rankings #1-25. with different partners.
As they cannot play with both partners at the year end tourney, those secondary partnerships effectively drop off the list when crunch time comes, and a player has to choose which of their partners to play with in the event.

Had they played the full season together, or at least the top 25 average of 8 tournaments together, they would have been reasonably close to making the finals. The Williams sisters do rather throw all statistical measure off whack in this area though with their 1 tournament entry and 2000 points from it.

However, even allowing for the fact that they can't possibly carry on undefeated and thus moderating their results down 33% (a crude guess on my part), and also accepting that they probably wouldn't play any higher than Premier 700 level outside the Slams, they'd be about 13-18th.

insomniacfolder · Challenger level

philwrig wrote:
Another title for Hev and Marina, well done girls.

For a limited amount of coverage of the final go to about 5 mins 20 secs on this you tube clip. Not great but it gives a little bit of the flavour.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDfEXOnbGDQ

Good find. That was a far better experiebce than watching it live!

They squeezed pretty much every half decent point in to that reel.

Heather needs to brush up on her victory speeches - hopefully she'll be needing lots of them in years to come so nows the time to polish them up a bit - as here, and at Stanford she went from the bubbly vivacious girl we know her to be, to a deer caught in headlights as soon as the microphone was put in fromt of her.

steven · Tennis legend

Heather's 2nd WTA doubles title in as many months has seen her jump 15 places in tomorrow's new rankings to DWR 64. That's quite a significant ranking, because it edges out Sarah Borwell's CH of 65 in 2010 (Sarah's wikipedia profile needs an update btw!) to make her, I think, the highest-ranked Brit in the WTA doubles rankings this century.