Week 6 - WTA International ($500K) - Kaohsiung, Taiwan - Hard

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Week 6 - WTA International ($500K) - Kaohsiung, Taiwan - Hard

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Reix is another player I don't rate too highly. Certainly not an under-ranked 'hot shot', although obviously not completely shabby either. Hasn't been in that great of form recently.

(NB The drawsheets have this as a $500k event, but the general site says $426,750 - not sure which to put......)

Kounosuke · Intermediate Club Player

Coup Droit wrote:
QR1: Emily Webley-Smith WR 428 v Sherazad Reix (FRA) WR 240 (CH 229 six months ago)

H2H is 1-1, both in 2007. The then Ms. Benemar won 6-3 6-2 in a $10k in Jersey, then the following week in the Sunderland $10k Em got revenge with a 6-3 6-4 win. (Em won a $100k qualifying match in 2013 but qualifying matches don't count for official H2H stats.)

The winner plays (q4) Hiroko Kuwata (JPN) WR 197 (CH=152 Nov 2014) for a place in the MD.

I wonder who Em will be playing Doubles with here...

-- Edited by Kounosuke on Friday 5th of February 2016 06:15:35 PM

paulisi · Tennis legend

Coup Droit wrote:
Reix is another player I don't rate too highly. Certainly not an under-ranked 'hot shot', although obviously not completely shabby either. Hasn't been in that great of form recently.

(NB The drawsheets have this as a $500k event, but the general site says $426,750 - not sure which to put......)

It is a higher level WTA International event - the prize money is higher, but the points are the same.

WTA classify into Premier Mandatory, Premier 5, Premier 12, International and then 125

Peter too · Tennis legend

H2H is actually 2-1 to Emily. She played Sherazad in the Q event in Vancouver in 2013 and won 5-7 6-4 6-3

PaulM · Tennis legend

Reix not too disimilar to de Bernardi but hopefully a different result than in Brazil.

steven · Tennis legend

Coup Droit wrote:
Reix is another player I don't rate too highly. Certainly not an under-ranked 'hot shot', although obviously not completely shabby either. Hasn't been in that great of form recently.

(NB The drawsheets have this as a $500k event, but the general site says $426,750 - not sure which to put......)

The WTA call anything close to $250,000 an "International 250K" and anything close to $500,000 an "International 500K"

wimdledont · Challenger level

Em has just broken back for 2-3, on serve in the first.

insomniacfolder · Challenger level

Getting a foothold, 5-7 3-1*

insomniacfolder · Challenger level

Close match, no cigar.
QR1: Emily WEBLEY- SMITH (GBR) 428 lost to Sherazad REIX (FRA) 240 5-7 5-7

wimdledont · Challenger level

Lost 5-7, 5-7.

And in rather alarming news, there was a large earthquake in the region this morning...

www.latimes.com/world/asia/la-fg-taiwan-earthquake-20160205-story.html

insomniacfolder · Challenger level

Kaoshiung is only 30 miles away from the earthquake in Tainan that has brought down some buildings, so we hope everyone stays safe in any potential aftershocks.

PaulM · Tennis legend

Shame she couldn't serve out the second set from 30-15 but a 19hr flight and being woken up at 4am by a massive earthquake is not exactly great match prep. Im still hopeful there's a few good singles wins in there. Just not today

Interested to see who she enters doubles with.

-- Edited by PaulM on Saturday 6th of February 2016 12:36:21 PM

vohor · Grand Slam Champion

Yep very decent effort by Em there; hope the earthquake wasn't too scary :(

Kounosuke · Intermediate Club Player

Doubles draw is out now.

R1: NAMIGATA, Junri (JPN) & WEBLEY-SMITH, Emily CR 268 (151+117) vs PLISKOVA, Kristyna (CZE) & VOEGELE, Stefanie (SUI) CR 592 (201+391)