Very easy, nicely done and no little hiccups or concentration lapses along the way! Perhaps Muhammed had an eye on qualifying sign-in for the $50k tomorrow....
New honorary Brit Laura Thorpe+JoKo (now that Laura's going to get JoKo a French Open WC, according to me) have a walkover into the doubles final; guaranteeing that we have at least one doubles champ.
JoKo is thus already at a new doubles CH WR216, well past her previous CH WR240. Jos and Anna would need to win the final for a new career high.
SF: Jo Konta & Laura Thorpe (FRA) CR 438 (284+154) "defeated" Daria Gavrilova & Alison van Uytvanck (UKR/BEL) CR 573 (378+195) by a walkover SF: (2) Joss Rae & Anna Smith CR 188 (94+94) defeated Nicole Melichar & Asia Muhammed (USA/USA) CR 242 (100+142) by 2 & 1
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Final: Jo Konta & Laura Thorpe (FRA) CR 438 (284+154) vs (2) Joss Rae & Anna Smith CR 188 (94+94)
JoKo+Laura's doubles SF is listed on the livescores for later today, though still showing as a walkover on the ITF main site. Anybody's guess whether it's going ahead or not...
JoKo+Laura's doubles SF is listed on the livescores for later today, though still showing as a walkover on the ITF main site. Anybody's guess whether it's going ahead or not...
I don't think so: Jo's & Laura's names are shown in brown or whatever the colour is & if you click on the match, it actually says "walkover"!