Week 24 - WTA International $235K - Birmingham, UK - Grass

korriban · Challenger level

RE: Week 24 - WTA International $235K - Birmingham, UK - Grass

tharris · Intermediate Club Player

Does anyone have any idea why I can't get the live stream to load? Everytime I click on the stream, it just continues to load and never actually shows any video. I'm not sure if it's just something wrong with my computer, perhaps I need to install a flash update or something along those lines. Anyway, any advice would be greatly appreciated.

RBBOT · Futures qualifying

tharris wrote:

Does anyone have any idea why I can't get the live stream to load? Everytime I click on the stream, it just continues to load and never actually shows any video. I'm not sure if it's just something wrong with my computer, perhaps I need to install a flash update or something along those lines. Anyway, any advice would be greatly appreciated.

If you use adblock, try switching it off.

DavidC · Tennis legend

Robmond open proceedings on Centre tomorrow followed by Daniela and Hev. Court 2 sees Tara followed by Jo whilst the Ninjas are third on court 3

Priesty · Challenger level

I was in attendance today, saw the first set of AK and Riske before going to get some lunch. She certainly had her moments in the first set with some trademark blistering forehands but there were also far too many errors and Riske's greater consistency prevailed. While I was having my lunch I saw Riske on the cafe screen finishing the job off.Don't think I missed much.

paulisi · Tennis legend

Riske was very consistent and didn't make many unforced errors. Anne played quite well in the first set, but made unforced errors at the wrong time. She got frustrated in the second set and didn't play as well.

Mel started well, but was outclassed as Rybarikova upped her game and cut out the errors.

Met up with Philwrig, but we didn't see Priesty.

Disappointed that neither Tara or JoKo made centre court as there isn't much space to watch court 2, so it looks like I will be hovering around court 2 for the first couple of matches before nipping onto centre to see Hev. Not sure why the doubles is on first. They normally save them towards the end of the day.

wolf · Tennis legend

Ratty wrote:
You're being very charitable, because I hardly think the opponents would have been putting in 100%. I fail to see how anyone benefits from this farce.

This was certainly true of Rodionova against Bamburac (who I thought was the the weakest of the 4 in qualies), gifting Sab her first game with a very easy miss.

Fichman was a lot more focused against Silva, Eden had some nice moments especially in the second set, but just didn't have the power to get the ball through often enough.

Borthwick was the best of the 4, had a lot more power on both serve and groundstrokes and Garcia was certainly showing her respect as a serious opponent. Perhaps unlucky not to get a few more games.

Didn't see much of Jess I'm afraid.

Elsewhere, incredible sportsmanship from Tanasugarn who became the first player I've seen lose a match when the umpire had called GSM in her favour, owning up to calling out come on after hitting what she thought would be a winner match up at a set and *5-4 up, and then going on to lose 6-3 in the 3rd and her opponent Kudryavtseva has gone on to qualify and reach the second round.

Also a really funny point in the Dabrowski-Rogowska match, when Dabrowski's cap started to slip off but she caught it just after tried to put it back on but just ended up running about for the next few shots with her hand holding her cap on her head before she finally lost the point.

wolf · Tennis legend

Why have they given Keothavong/Konta a wild card here when they won 3 games in R1 of Nottingham instead of Sanchez/Slater who WON Nottingham?

Helen40 · Grand Slam Champion

wolf wrote:
Why have they given Keothavong/Konta a wild card here when they won 3 games in R1 of Nottingham instead of Sanchez/Slater who WON Nottingham?

Well you know the answer to that as discussed in the Wimbledon thread... Grrrr is all I can say!

Helen40 · Grand Slam Champion

Has anyone got any idea at what time play is likely to finish on Thursday, or at least what time they can play till with it being grass?

Jaggy1876 · Grand Slam Champion

Time for Bally Anne and Mel to call it a day I've said it before but by year end they ll all be outside the top 300.

steven · Tennis legend

I think the time for them to call it a day is when they want to, wherever they are in the rankings.

Bally clearly doesn't think she's done yet and it's far too early into her comeback to write her off, especially when most of her matches so far have been on a surface she has never done very well on.

Anne does seem to be on the way down at the moment, which is a real pity. If it's a confidence thing, then it could turn around if she starts getting through a few of those tight matches, but if it's to do with that ongoing foot injury, then that might be a reason to stop.

As for Mel, the chances of her ever getting near the top 100 in singles again seem very slim to put it mildly, but she's only 27 and could probably have a worthwhile few years as a doubles specialist (suiting her strengths and making her weaknesses less of an issue) if she wanted to and if she wants to have a go at qualifying for some singles events at the same time, then why shouldn't she? (obviously if she does go down that route, I would argue that singles WCs should be given to those who are still trying to make it as singles players instead)

WD40 · Club Coach

Tara and Mel have a brutal section of the doubles draw. That one 1/4 of the draw contains 3 former world doubles #1's. There isn't one former #1 in the whole of the rest of the draw!

kundalini · Specialist Reporter + Intermediate Club Player

Tara rather gifted M the break with 3 awful forehands in a row. Shame because she was playing well until then.

KM does likewise so Tara with a chance to serve out the set.

-- Edited by kundalini on Tuesday 11th of June 2013 11:10:57 AM

kundalini · Specialist Reporter + Intermediate Club Player

Any streams still working ? Mine went down with KM facing 2 bps, apparently both saved.

-- Edited by kundalini on Tuesday 11th of June 2013 11:40:56 AM