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R1: Heather WATSON/Jarmila GAJDOSOVA (GBR/AUS) 256 vs. Chen LIANG/Yafan WANG (CHN/CHN) [3]



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Heather gets an opponent that she will remember rather well, as she won their only other previous meeting

R1: Heather WATSON (GBR) 62 vs. Kai-Chen CHANG 126 (CH 82 05/2010)
H2H 1-0 Osaka final 2012

Winner to play Caroline Garcia/Lauren Davis, and then potentially Kerber.

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Here's hoping that helps Heather channel all positive thoughts for this week's endeavours :)

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Heather has since been moved in the draw - top seed Muguruza withdrew, so under WTA rules about withdrawals of seeds before play starts, 3rd seed Venus took her slot, 5th seed Stosur moved into Venus's slot, Hev moved into Sam's slot and a lucky loser moved into Hev's slot. So:

L32: Heather Watson WR 62 v Zhang Kai-Lin (CHN) WR 187 (CH 146 in Jul)

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steven wrote:

Heather has since been moved in the draw [...]

Overall draw looks more favourable now for Heather, but let us take one step at a time...



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Ah, so Heather is effectively "seed 9" even if the drawsheet hasn't given her that billing.

Winner of her R1 match plays the winner of two qualifiers. In Stosur's quarter.

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Yes that does look slightly better; go deep this week please Heather :)

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Heather getting rather beaten up here, down 1-4*

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Ouch, serving to stay in the first set 1-5

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Heather lost the first set 3-6

A very fair score

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Heather breaks again to take it to 4-1 in the second.

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And charges through the next two games. 6-1. Hopefully she's into her stride now.

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Phew; Heather saves 3 BPs and holds at the start of the decider
1-0*

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Holds to 30 :)
2-1*

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Long game but Heather gets the break at the 3rd opportunity :)
3*-1

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