Week 39 - WTA $125K Series - Ningbo, China - Hard

TomTraubert · Futures level

Week 39 - WTA $125K Series - Ningbo, China - Hard

steven · Tennis legend

This is definitely the strongest 125K field I've seen and I'm sure you're right about the reason. A bit more about Jo's opponent:

L32: Johanna Konta WR 141 v (8) Lauren Davis (USA) WR 75 (CH 63 in Apr)

The winner plays the winner of a Q v Q match in R2.

Davis has already won a 100K title this year (Midland in February) and reached the QFs at Québec Ciity WTA a couple of weeks ago.

H2H 1-1, both in early 2012 in 25Ks - JoKo got thrashed 1 & 0 by Davis in Innisbrook but then beat her 1-6 6-1 6-3 in Rancho Mirage the following month on her way to the title there.

tony_orient · ATP qualifying

You know what you are going to get from Lauren Davis, so if JoKo can recreate her recent form it will probably be enough to win. Equally the scores in the first 3 sets of their past meetings suggest that there could be trouble if JoKo isn't on her game.

philwrig · Hall of fame

Seeing how Zhang wiped her SF and F opponents, Jo's performance last week without question looks very very good.

steven · Tennis legend

Another top 100 scalp for JoKo - this one very hard work by the looks of it, she did extremely well to come through in just over 3 hours:

L32: Johanna Konta WR 125 beat (8) Lauren Davis (USA) WR 82 (CH 63 in Apr) by 6-4 4-6 6-3 biggrin

-- Edited by steven on Monday 23rd of September 2013 07:21:59 AM

steven · Tennis legend

From *2-4 down, JoKo wins 4 games in a row to take the 1st set 6-4

DF · Tennis legend

Into the final set Jo takes the first game.
and the are at deuce and struggling for the next game on Laura's serve.

Come on Jo !

DF · Tennis legend

which Laura takes 1 - 1

Jo doing well.

Maza1987 · Challenger level

tough it out, joko.

Julia Carrot · All-time great

She did ! Very well done that girl.

PaulM · Tennis legend

Well done Jo. That was a very tough match, both girls saving a lot of break points.

Great to see her toughing out these matches, after a run of tough 3 set losses not all that long ago.

Maza1987 · Challenger level

Trending upwards.

Congrats.

TomTraubert · Futures level

top dollar from joko

katarzyna piter in the next round wr168

those final 20 places to get in to the top 100 are hard work though
still needs 150 more points

Helen40 · Grand Slam Champion

Glad of some good news with Robbo and Hev not doing so well.

Well Done JoKo.

korriban · Challenger level

TomTraubert wrote:
top dollar from joko

katarzyna piter in the next round wr168

those final 20 places to get in to the top 100 are hard work though
still needs 150 more points

Terrific stuff, Ms Konta! There's no doubt she's become more and more competitive against the better players - and her losses (which are fewer and fewer) tend to be close matches, rather than blowouts. I also like the fact she can string a few matches together, even against higher ranked players, and rarely has a surprise let-down when expected to win, after having achieved a big scalp in the previous match.....unlike certain other players we could mention!

I'm quietly confident she'll come through her next round, where she'd expect to win.