Week 41 - WTA ($220K) - Osaka, Japan - Hard

Julia Carrot · All-time great

RE: Week 41 - WTA ($220K) - Osaka, Japan - Hard

philwrig · Hall of fame

Julia Carrot wrote:
Did you see the post match interview ?

http://hp-open.jp/?p=1182 (not a barrel of larfs but very composed & confident I thought)

Just watched it now thanks, I see what you mean , maybe if they had asked her about her video directorial debut she might of lightened up a bit more.

Interesting that she is needing physio treatment, so body not 100%(maybe shoulder) but not severe enough for her to pullout.

philwrig · Hall of fame

Just saw Hev's interview as well with Kimoko, quite cute.

RBBOT · Futures qualifying

So do you think we ought to alert the people in Japan who do the seismic monitoring about the potential for a false alarm when Laura wakes up and looks at her phone?

-- Edited by RBBOT on Tuesday 9th of October 2012 10:34:26 PM

NotAClue · Lower Club Player

Well played today Hev & Laura. More to come I'm sure

Jan · Hall of fame

Julia Carrot wrote:
Did you see the post match interview ?

http://hp-open.jp/?p=1182 (not a barrel of larfs but very composed & confident I thought)

Thanks for the link. Laura comes across very well.

Must be tricky to keep the interview going with all the waiting for translation.

insomniacfolder · Challenger level

tony_orient wrote:
insomniacfolder wrote:
Tomorrow's OOP is up, and neither of our girls seem to have any matches scheduled at all.
Good news if TV coverage starts on Thursday though

About that... I think I've made an error.

I saw that on the Japanese TV Guide, for Osaka and the surrounding prefecture, on Thursday, there is a Tennis program scheduled.

However, my Japanese friend (thanks Atsuko) tells me though that it's a highlights or clips programme, and not full coverage per se. Even on the day of the finals, there is only the same format of programme scheduled.

I can't see that they, the WTA live service or anyone else at all will actually be carrying full coverage/streaming of matches unfortunately.

Apologies for any false impression given - I'll remember in future that my Japanese, especially reading comprehension, is still nowhere near as good as it needs to be.

NotAClue · Lower Club Player

Off topic, as there's not really much tennis content, or, well content of any kind really, and at risk of riling Ratty some more...

A member of current pop flavours of the month, One Direction, re-tweeted posts by both Heather and Laura about their video. As he has 6 million followers, that's pretty high profile exposure. Heather's picked up about 1000 extra followers as a result.

Fortunately they both have always seemed very well equipped to keep their feet on the ground and focused despite such potential distractions.

RBBOT · Futures qualifying

Speaking of tweet's I'm wondering if a certain forum regular isn't getting a bit too close to the players:

@TaraMoore92

@lisawhybourn steven is good think I'll need to give him a wash before glasgow! Can't wait to see you all! :) x

SMC1809 · All-time great

Haha, I saw that and thought the same. But surely if it was our S.t.e.v.e.n. it would be a quick once-over with an anti-static cleaning wipe.

steven · Tennis legend

SMC1809 wrote:
Haha, I saw that and thought the same. But surely if it was our S.t.e.v.e.n. it would be a quick once-over with an anti-static cleaning wipe.

I was a bit concerned when Jade Windley started off that conversation by saying "bunny went in washing machine today smells amazeballs now" - it only dawned on me later when Lisa and Tara got in on the act that they weren't talking about living things and were instead arranging a kind of teddy bears' picnic biggrin

steven · Tennis legend

NotAClue wrote:
Off topic, as there's not really much tennis content, or, well content of any kind really, and at risk of riling Ratty some more...
A member of current pop flavours of the month, One Direction, re-tweeted posts by both Heather and Laura about their video. As he has 6 million followers, that's pretty high profile exposure. Heather's picked up about 1000 extra followers as a result.
Fortunately they both have always seemed very well equipped to keep their feet on the ground and focused despite such potential distractions.

I wonder if that also indirectly explains why three One Direction fans started following me this evening (Tweetdeck shows new followers and the start of their profiles and it's very obvious) - hopefully a few tweets of Futures results will scare them away!

philwrig · Hall of fame

steven wrote:
NotAClue wrote:
Off topic, as there's not really much tennis content, or, well content of any kind really, and at risk of riling Ratty some more...
A member of current pop flavours of the month, One Direction, re-tweeted posts by both Heather and Laura about their video. As he has 6 million followers, that's pretty high profile exposure. Heather's picked up about 1000 extra followers as a result.
Fortunately they both have always seemed very well equipped to keep their feet on the ground and focused despite such potential distractions.
I wonder if that also indirectly explains why three One Direction fans started following me this evening (Tweetdeck shows new followers and the start of their profiles and it's very obvious) - hopefully a few tweets of Futures results will scare them away!

So you won't be buying the new album when it come out next month ;)

eblunt · Club Coach

McHale appears to have gone out from the results I've seen, so that opens things up for a bit thru to the semi's. No easy matches, but you'd expect here to be favourite for the next two games (if she wins rd2 that is of course)

tony_orient · ATP qualifying

Order of Play for tomorrow:

Centre Court (from 11.00hrs - 3am BST)
1. Pauline Parmentier vs. Zheng Jie
2. Anabel Medina Garrigues vs. Heather Watson
3. Zhou Yi-Miao vs. Laura Robson