Week 21 - Roland Garros women's qualifying

Julia Carrot · All-time great

RE: Week 21 - Roland Garros women's qualifying

Madeline · Admin:Moderator + Tennis Legend

Wow - I didn't even know she was playing. Well done Heather.

indiana · Tennis legend

Wow, wasn't expecting that to be quite so plain sailing.

Hev's been really impressive this year ( now goes 29-7 for the year ), but had seemed rather less than her best self this week.

Today suggests it was maybe more that she was just feeling under the weather earlier, and that weather was just a lead up to a hurricane :)

Now Laura 724 ranking points, Hev 720 points.

Hev will now certainly be GB no 1 after Eastbourne, but be great if it happens here. And good that she'll go into Wimbledon as no 1 rather than just kind of inheriting it when poor Laura's big Wimbledon points from last year drop off.

indiana · Tennis legend

And I see that that will now be Hev over 500 points from just this year so far. 509 to be precise.

steven · Tennis legend

8 wins in a row for Hev now, with only 1 set lost in that run A quick recap of qualies here:

QR1: (q2) Heather Watson WR 92 beat Irina Falconi (USA) WR 162 (CH 73 in 2011) by 2 & 4
QR1: (q4) Johanna Konta WR 102 beat Sachia Vickery (USA) WR 185 (CH 178 in Jan) 2 & 3

QR2: (q2) Heather Watson WR 92 beat Kateryna Kozlova (UKR) WR 184 (CH 177 last Aug) by 4-6 6-2 7-5
QR2: (q4) Johanna Konta WR 102 beat Paula Kania (POL) WR 170 (CH 164 in Mar) by 6-4 2-6 6-3

FQR: (q2) Heather Watson WR 92 beat Anett Kontaveit (EST) WR 188 (CH 187 earlier this month) by 1 & 1
FQR: (q4) Johanna Konta WR 102 lost to Yuliya Beygelzimer (UKR) WR 161 (CH 83 in 2006) by 6-7(5) 7-5 6-0

Hev is now 9-0 in Roland Garros qualifying, having qualified here in 2011 and 2012 as well!

-- Edited by steven on Saturday 24th of May 2014 10:53:14 AM

steven · Tennis legend

This one required a bit of checking, but I'm pretty sure it's correct to say that this is the first time in the Open Era that Brits have come through both men's and women's qualifying at Roland Garros in the same year.

That probably means the first time ever - I don't think there was a qualifying competition for the women (possibly not for the men either) before that.

Helen40 · Grand Slam Champion

So happy for Hev

Well done, lookinf forward to MD now

PockyTastic · Futures level

Beygelzimer has drawn Suarez-Navarro and they are playing today (sorry if this has already been said). Wouldn't have been a good draw but still would have been good for Jo to have played it. There are reports on TF that there was a dubious call involving a mark that went against Jo deep in the 2nd set which then caused her to lose focus (and the match).