Week 10 - WTA Premier ($5.4M) Indian Wells, USA Hard

Peter too · Tennis legend

Week 10 - WTA Premier ($5.4M) Indian Wells, USA Hard

vohor · Grand Slam Champion

Toughie...

DF · Tennis legend

Jo's match starting.

PaulM · Tennis legend

Hev gets Goerges

steven · Tennis legend

JoKo is *3-2 up

L96: Heather Watson WR 43 v Julia Görges (GER) WR 62 (CH 15 in 2012)

H2H 0-1 - Görges won 3 & 4 in R2 at Roland Garros in 2012

paulisi · Tennis legend

Joko won the first set 6-4

paulisi · Tennis legend

Joko 4-0 up in second. Winner plays Kozlova for a place in main draw.

steven · Tennis legend

JoKo gets a very good win (a bit of a nemesis for Doi now, 3-0 H2H, but this is the first time she has beaten her in straight sets)

QR1: Johanna Konta WR 151 beat (q10) Misaki Doi (JPN) WR 101 (CH 75 in 2013) by 4 & 2

FQR: Johanna Konta WR 151 v (q14) Kateryna Kozlova (UKR) WR 105 (= CH)

PaulM · Tennis legend

Superb serving. Lost only 5points behind her second serve and 3 were doubles. High first serve percentage too.

Let's see if she can keep that level tomorrow. Hope so.

BeefyDeedz · Pro player

Well, that's a pleasant surprise. Hopefully she can push on and maybe qualify, although Kozlova could be tough (don't know much about her).

indiana · Tennis legend

Good stuff. Now hopefully FQR Jo bears a reasonable resemblance to QR1 Jo.

vohor · Grand Slam Champion

Great win Jo :D
More of the same please :)

vohor · Grand Slam Champion

Heather would face 29th seed Giorgi in R2 if she beats Georges so draw could've been worse.
GL Heather :)

Sim · County player

vohor wrote:
Heather would face 29th seed Giorgi in R2 if she beats Georges so draw could've been worse.
GL Heather :)

I think it is as good as she could have hoped for. Draws a lower ranked player in R1, and then one of the lowest seeds in round 2 (but avoids the no. 32 seed which would have been nasty!). Worry about R3 if and when she gets there.

Hope Jo-Ko can join Hev in Round 1.

tony_orient · ATP qualifying

I think it's a nice draw for Heather...probably. Both Görges and Giorgi are very hit and miss type of players who will beat Hev if their game is on but will give hev a great chance of winning otherwise.