Week 38 - WTA ($500K) - Seoul, Korea - Hard

TomTraubert · Futures level

RE: Week 38 - WTA ($500K) - Seoul, Korea - Hard

john · Top national player

Wow, that's horrible Hev. Lost to an injured 55 year old serving underarm :( Hope she gets some results before the end of the year. Really feel for her

TomTraubert · Futures level

hev/lourdes take there dubs 10-5 in the MTB

Helen40 · Grand Slam Champion

Hev still doesn't seem herself. Begs the question whether she came back too early as it seems to have dented her confidence now too.

indiana · Tennis legend

Maybe is more just a confidence thing, though she played well against Halep at the US Open, and I presume actually not too bad here. So maybe getting there.

I would imagine she has received very good information and advice re the timing of her comeback and how best to priceed, so difficult from our position to second guess that.

philwrig · Hall of fame

Just hasn't been Hev's year and with confidence low, matches like this one last year she would have found a way to win, but not at the moment.
I don't doubt for a millisecond though that Hev will come through this difficult period and be better for it in the long term.

Helen40 · Grand Slam Champion

indiana wrote:
I would imagine she has received very good information and advice re the timing of her comeback and how best to priceed, so difficult from our position to second guess that.

I agree she was given good advice, but you know what it's like when you receive medical advice. If you really want to do something, you go against it, maybe to your long term detriment, and a Grand Slam is something I'm sure Hev would have wanted to do. so I reckon it'll take Hev longer to recover than if she had waitind longer, but I do agree with philwrig, that she will probably get back to her old self in the end.

Spectator · All-time great

The good thing about a year is that it finishes - one can draw a line under it and start afresh. Of course, it would be good to see her do very well before the end of the year, too! Like others, I have huge confidence in her longer-term resilience.

Jaggy1876 · Grand Slam Champion

Hev must be in danger of dropping out the top 100, missing Aussie Open cut and losing GB no 2 to Jo.

indiana · Tennis legend

Yes indeed, Jo is now ahead of Hev in year to date points.

Their relative rankings points positions and the likely Aussie Open cut off are discussed a bit on page 5 of the Guangzhou thread.

TomTraubert · Futures level

hev & ldl lose 5&2 :(

Julia Carrot · All-time great

They were 5 - 4 up in the 1st then it went downhill from there

Julia Carrot · All-time great

Date-Krumm just beat Maria Kirilenko 6 - 3 6 -1. That puts Heather's efforts in perspective a little.

korriban · Challenger level

Julia Carrot wrote:
Date-Krumm just beat Maria Kirilenko 6 - 3 6 -1. That puts Heather's efforts in perspective a little.

Perhaps. Or it may put Kirilenko's average form into perspective.

indiana · Tennis legend

I think so, korriban. I quite like Maria and her normal feistiness, but she's really been missing something in the last few months.