Wimbledon Ladies' Draw 2015

Rich · Lower Club Player

RE: Wimbledon Ladies' Draw 2015

tony_orient · ATP qualifying

Great to see that Joss and Anna won too and won well. With Anna's complexion and today's weather it's probably a good thing they won so quickly too!

Jan · Hall of fame

Fantastic Hev!!
And the 2 doubles teams!

Babfive · Satellite level

Great wins for Heather, Jo and Joss/Anna today. biggrin

philwrig · Hall of fame

Hev did a great professional job today, a bit more relaxed and made it look very comfortable. Really hope she can give Serena a good match, well win 6 games would be good.

Great win in the doubles for Joss/ Anna, just a massive shame about their draw. With a better draw I could have seen them reach the quarters. Also happy to see Jo get her win as well.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

R1: Joss Rae & Anna Smith CR 148 (74+74) defeated (LL) Jana Cepelova & Stefanie Vögele (SVK/SUI) CR 344 (200+144) by 2 & 1

R1: (WC) Jo Konta & Maria Sanchez (USA) CR 291 (195+96) defeated (LL) Misaki Doi & Stephanie Vogt (JPN/LIE) CR 244 (137+108) by 6-3 7-6(5)

*****

R2: (3) Bethanie Mattek-Sands & Lucie Safarova (USA/CZE) CR 11 (5+6) vs Joss Rae & Anna Smith CR 148 (74+74)

R2: (WC) Jo Konta & Maria Sanchez (USA) CR 291 (195+96) vs Chan Hao-Ching & Alison van Uytvanck (TPE/BEL) CR 217 (36+181)

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

wimdledont wrote:
So that's why the Williams sisters withdrew. Scared.

Not according to today's Evening Standard.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

wimdledont wrote:
Mixed doubles draw is up, featuring only JMarray+AnnaSmith, KenSkupski+JoKo and NSkupski+Raymond.

Er, I think you'll find that there are others as well (Hev with Max Mirnyi, Joss with Colin Fleming + Dom Inglot with a Ukrainian partner), but, strangely, no Naomi & Liam Broady - cf. the mixed doubles thread in the men's forum. wink

Peter too · Tennis legend

R2: WATSON, Heather (GBR) 59 def HANTUCHOVA, Daniela (SVK) 72 6-4 6-2

R3: WATSON, Heather (GBR) 59 v WILLIAMS, Serena (USA) 1

Edit: just correcting the spelling of Serena's first name. wink

-- Edited by Stircrazy on Wednesday 1st of July 2015 07:04:28 PM

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

R1: (2) Ekaterina Makarova & Elena Vesnina (RUS/RUS) CR 6 (3+3) defeated Madison Keys (USA) & Laura Robson UNR (*) by 4 & 1

(*) Laura currently unranked, of course, but Keys is N° 231.

wimdledont · Challenger level

Stircrazy wrote:
wimdledont wrote:
Mixed doubles draw is up, featuring only JMarray+AnnaSmith, KenSkupski+JoKo and NSkupski+Raymond.
Er, I think you'll find that there are others as well (Hev with Max Mirnyi, Joss with Colin Fleming + Dom Inglot with a Ukrainian partner), but, strangely, no Naomi & Liam Broady - cf. the mixed doubles thread in the men's forum.

Yeah, sorry for getting this wrong. I'm only seeing half the draw on the Wimbledon website.

The Williams sisters can claim they're worried about the heat all they like. I still think they knew they had no chance against JoKo+, and withdrew to avoid humiliation.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Know I'm really late, but just seen the highlights of Heather and didn't the girl do well........

SUCH good play from Hev - well done !

vohor · Grand Slam Champion

Yep, Heather was excellent today :D
GL against Serena

Jaggy1876 · Grand Slam Champion

That's the best Heather has played at Wimbledon by far I wasn't impressed against Garcia. Will need another gear or ten to beat Serena target should be anything more than 6 games and take it from there.

Spectator · All-time great

More than 6 games against a healthy Ms Williams would be a good result for almost any player. For a player whose strength is counterpunching, it feels like quite a lot. But what's the difference? Ms Watson has earned the right to play Ms Williams in the 3rd round of a Grand Slam. That's an extraordinary accomplishment in and of itself. Well done she. And I hope she wins more than the 6!

Really lovely to see so many of our women doing so well. Great work by the two doubles teams, too.