Q2: SIMPSON, Jessica (GBR) 3 1153 v YE, Qiu Yu (CHN) UNR

4-0 down - no surprise to me. Jess hasn't progressed and she is playing a decent junior.

R1: SIMPSON(GBR)/GIOVINE(ITA) 2 v DEGTIAREVA(RUS)/MANEKINA(RUS)

That's her first 10K main draw singles win since May. A pretty good one too, given that she was playing an ex-top 100 junior and had to come from a set down

L32: (LL) Jessica Simpson WR 1186 beat (Q) Zhang Ying (CHN) UNR (CH 999 last month; 18yo former top 100 junior) by 4-6 6-1 6-1

L16: (LL) Jessica Simpson WR 1186 v (2) Katerina Kramperova (CZE) WR 400 (CH 314 in 2013)

Jessica's unexpectedly Terrific Tuesday continues, although this result was a tad more expected than the first :)


R1: SIMPSON(GBR)/GIOVINE(ITA) 2 def. DEGTIAREVA(RUS)/MANEKINA(RUS) 6-2 6-2

-- Edited by Coup Droit on Tuesday 30th of September 2014 01:40:29 PM

Live scores is going a bit odd, but showing Jess at 1 set all

this may well not end well (and the ranking difference would say it won't) but what a great effort so far from Jess Simpson, who lost her third round quali match (as expected, by some) and then won her next round and is currently playing the WR 400 second seed, where the score is all square:

Jess won the first set 6-4. Lost the second by a whisker 5-7.