Week 7 - ITF ($100K) - Midland, MI, USA - Hard

DF · Tennis legend

RE: Week 7 - ITF ($100K) - Midland, MI, USA - Hard

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

steven wrote:
15-30, cmon Hev, finish her off

Steven's power is growing!

Even Hev obeys his commands now! smile

paulisi · Tennis legend

Easy win and some nice points to start Hev's climb back up the rankings. Next round might be a little more testing.

indiana · Tennis legend

Nice looking win for Hev.

Won't yet effect her ranking points since that's 13 points for reaching R2 and her current lowest non mandatory score is 20. She also has a 15 score as backup to replace the 70 coming off next week.

Where those extra non mandatory scores could begin to help a bit is if and when they replace upcoming low mandatory scores from last year ( if she doesn't make mandatory main draws via qualifying or WC ).

Hopefully, of course, she's going to go quite a bit further this week.

BeefyDeedz · Pro player

Would like to see Hev reach the Semifinals here, and she could get further if she can maintain her Fed Cup form. As has been said, I think tiredness will be the cause of her demise, if it occurs at all.

tony_orient · ATP qualifying

indiana wrote:
Nice looking win for Hev.

Won't yet effect her ranking points since that's 13 points for reaching R2 and her current lowest non mandatory score is 20. She also has a 15 score as backup to replace the 70 coming off next week.

Where those extra non mandatory scores could begin to help a bit is if and when they replace upcoming low mandatory scores from last year ( if she doesn't make mandatory main draws via qualifying or WC ).

Hopefully, of course, she's going to go quite a bit further this week.

It's quite strange that Heather has a lowest non mandatory score of 20 with only 395 ranking points, and Laura has 3 scores of 1 in her 1,033 points. Makes it harder for Heather to climb up the rankings, but as you mention, she could gain raking points without doing anything in March just by not qualifying for tournaments where she had mandatory 5 pts in 2013.

Heather first up at 3pm GMT today, sadly not on the streamed court. Heather and Anna Tatishvili then go from being rivals to friends as they team up in the doubles at 9pm. Nicola and Sam also play as all 3 doubles have some GB interest today.

TomTraubert · Futures level

hev match under way on live score now

TomTraubert · Futures level

very tight match hev just shadeing it 2 breaks to 1
games averaging 7.5 points

5-2*

TomTraubert · Futures level

Hev breaks again to get the first set 6-2
close until heather broke away at the end
hoping that will have broken annas resolve now and set 2 will be more routine

steven · Tennis legend

Perhaps not - Anna ends Hev's 5-game winning streak by breaking at the start of the 2nd.

tommymac · Junior player

broken back its 6-2 3-3 hev to serve :)

steven · Tennis legend

L16: Heather Watson WR 161 beat (7) Anna Tatishvili (GEO) WR 115 (CH 50 in 2012) by 2 & 4

Hev is the first Brit to have picked up more than 100 WTA singles points since the start of this year (i.e. since the start of the first tournaments that ended in the first week of January):

103 Hev
28 Tara
23 JoKo
16 Naomi
11 Laura
9 Jade
4 Samantha, Katy & Eleanor
(nobody else above 3)

If she wins her QF, she'll have picked up more points in 2014 than all the other Brits combined!

-- Edited by steven on Thursday 13th of February 2014 04:55:57 PM

TomTraubert · Futures level

phew! that was a good work out shame it werent streamed
good on hev

onwards!

they will be on stream back together and mebbe even on speaking terms

later for the dubs though

Jan · Hall of fame

great!

Mervatron · Masters Series Champion

Great stuff from Hev. She looks to be back into top 75 and higher form. Good to see. Hopefully she can keep on going this week