Week 25 - WTA Premier $690K - Eastbourne, UK - grass

Bob the Ball Boy · Junior player

RE: Week 25 - WTA Premier $690K - Eastbourne, UK - grass

blob · All-time great

Brit women interests for tomorrow:

Laura 3rd after 11:00 (and not before 13:00), on Centre Court
Heather 4th after 11:00, on Court 1
Elena 2nd after 11:00, on Court 2

Anne/Samantha doubles 1st up at 11:00 on Court 4

Mervatron · Masters Series Champion

Well Done Bally and Laura. Good wins for different reasonds. I hope Laura can do the business in round 2, i just feel like she's due another big tournament.

Shame for Johanna, thought she'd win that one. But maybe i'm expecting too much

philwrig · Hall of fame

My summary of the day:
Jo's best shots neutralised by Hsieh, Jo has a great record against Asian players but unfortunately Hsieh doesn't play to that typical style.
Bally was just terrific, loads of long punishing rallies in a high quality match, looking back to her best is my honest opinion.
Laura seemed happy afterwards and was straight onto the practice courts. From my seat up in the sky's it seemed like a solid performance but will really need to step it up tomorrow to have any chance of bearing Woz. Did anyone hear my tame efforts of shouting out Come on Laura?!Woz and Rors left halfway through the second set after having seen enough.

Helen40 · Grand Slam Champion

Hey philwrig, wondered whether your were still there, I did try and spot you in the crowd in Laura's game.

I am glad for Laura. Her service percentage was up and her action seems to have changed - Miles maybe? That to me seemed to be her playing middle of the road, so plenty of scope for playing better or worse against Caro. We'll just have to see which Robbo turns up tomorrow. I have no doubt she can beat Caro if duff Laura doesn't make a showing..

I was really pleased especially for Bally too as she's had such a hard time in the last year. Nice that her wildcard was justified

Congrats to Hev too as that is her second highest scalp.

I'm really hacked off with the Beeb though. On their text service (red button), they've only reported on Robbo's win, and not even mentioned the other two. Ironical thing is if they had both lost I would have bet on her losing too.

tony_orient · ATP qualifying

Good win for Bally and Laura got the job done against a limited opponent though she will need a better showing against Wozniacki.

A shame Heather isn't on centre as she deserves a match on the BBC after such a good win. She might settle for an outside court but avoiding a top 20 player though

LordBrownof · Futures level

Bartoli has pulled out so Li will play winner of Watson/Vesnina.

-- Edited by LordBrownof on Wednesday 19th of June 2013 10:06:28 AM

jake270392 · Intermediate Club Player

blob wrote:
Didn't quite seem to believe despite getting in to good positions against heavy favourites.

Given a reasonable draw at SW19 though, Sam & Jade could win a round.
I think, well, um, doubles is not Johanna's strongest point, so Anne may struggle to carry her.

If you saw the doubles match at Nottingham the other week, then Anne and Jo were equally as bad and I have never rated Anne as doubles player, her volleying is dire to say the least!!

-- Edited by jake270392 on Wednesday 19th of June 2013 11:44:38 AM

Julia Carrot · All-time great

philwrig wrote:
Did anyone hear my tame efforts of shouting out Come on Laura?!Woz and Rors left halfway through the second set after having seen enough.

Unfortunately I could only follow scores yesterday. Today I will hopefully be glued to the screen and expect to see and hear you fully representing British Tennis Forum members

PockyTastic · Futures level

philwrig wrote:
My summary of the day:
Jo's best shots neutralised by Hsieh, Jo has a great record against Asian players but unfortunately Hsieh doesn't play to that typical style.
Bally was just terrific, loads of long punishing rallies in a high quality match, looking back to her best is my honest opinion.
Laura seemed happy afterwards and was straight onto the practice courts. From my seat up in the sky's it seemed like a solid performance but will really need to step it up tomorrow to have any chance of bearing Woz. Did anyone hear my tame efforts of shouting out Come on Laura?!Woz and Rors left halfway through the second set after having seen enough.

Where you there on Monday Phil? I thought I spotted you crouched down watching Laura and Lisa on court 2. Perhaps it was a doppelgänger...

Peter too · Tennis legend

Anne & Sam *1-2

WD40 · Club Coach

Heather's match will be streamed, in case the Beeb don't show it!

blob · All-time great

Very evenly matched until game 10 when the seeded pair broke, and took the first set with it.
Sam/Anne: 4-6

tony_orient · ATP qualifying

Lot's of exciting matches today both at Eastbourne and Wimbledon qualies. The British girls are underdogs in all of them so it is a case of who can raise their game and spring an upset.

SMC1809 · All-time great

Anne & Sam lose 4 games in a row from a break up at *3-2 to lose 4-6 3-6.