Week 9 - WTA International ($227K) - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia- Hard

insomniacfolder · Challenger level

RE: Week 9 - WTA International ($227K) - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia- Hard

vohor · Grand Slam Champion

Great job Naomi :D

Our top 3 win WTA MD matches around the world again...could get used to this :D

cwej · Lower Club Player

When was the last time we had 3 women in QFs of WTA tour events on the same week?

insomniacfolder · Challenger level

Don't expect may long rallies in the QF

R2: Naomi BROADY (GBR) 96 defeated (Q) Zhaoxuan YANG (CHN) 176 6-4 6-3

QF: Naomi BROADY (GBR) 96 vs. Sabine LISICKI (GER) [3] 31 (CH 12 05/2012)

insomniacfolder · Challenger level

cwej wrote:
When was the last time we had 3 women in QFs of WTA tour events on the same week?

Well, it's funny you should mention that...

Certainly not this millennium is all I can find so far.

By some measures this is our most successful week on the WTA since at least 2000.
We've never had 3 QF in that time.

We have however won more matches in WTA events in a single week, than the 6 to date this week.
The best weeks (or single tournament slots for multi week events, Slams, Indian Wells, Miami) by total match wins (Main Draw wins only) that I could find are, as follows:

7 Wins
Week of 08/10/2012: Osaka - Heather, 5; Laura, 2
Week of 11/06/2012: Birmingham - Heather, 2; Laura, 1; Annie K, 1; Bally, 1; Tara, 1; Mel South, 1

5 Wins
Week of 18/01/2016: Australian Open - Johanna, 5
Week of 22/06/2015: Eastbourne - Johanna, 3; Heather, 2
Week of 12/01/2015: Hobart - Heather, 5
Week of 15/02/2010: Memphis - Annie K, 3; Bally, 2
Week of 09/08/2008: Birmingham - Mel South, 3; Naomi C, 1; Katie O'Brien, 1

So, as you can see, our 6 this week is currently alone in 3rd place.
Also, having 2 'fronts' open this long in a week is unique in that list - for some reason we have had multiple players do well in a single event of the two or more on offer most weeks, even overseas where the winning effect was not exaggerated by GB WC's - such as at Birmingham 2012, where we got 2 wins from WC.
Laura & Heather both reached at least QF in Osaka in 2012. Bally & Anne did likewise in Memphis 2010.

If you include also include wins in WTA qualifying, then things would look different, and get exponentially harder to research.
For example, by that criteria, we had 8 wins at the US Open in 2015; 5 in Q (Jo, 3; Naomi, 2), 3 in MD (Jo, 3).
I gave up at that point.

Researching match by match, event by event wins, prior to 2000 is something I sadly don't have the resource for at the moment.

One more win though, and we're in millennium equalling territory

indiana · Tennis legend

vohor wrote:
Great job Naomi :D

Our top 3 win WTA MD matches around the world again...could get used to this :D

Indeed

Naomi's live ranking is up 13 at WR 83. Will certainly end the week at a big new CH.

Hev's live ranking is up 11 at 73. Keeping that Broady girl at bay for now.

Jo's live ranking is up 1 at 26. Will end the week at least at WR 26 equalling her CH.

Jan · Hall of fame

Well done Naomi!

Yes - I could get used to all these wins too!

tony_orient · ATP qualifying

Naomi continuing to do really well and an interesting battle of the big servers to come!

indiana · Tennis legend

One thing I really liked reading in kundalini's report ( and thank you for that ) was from the first set when Naomi's serve wasn't functioning as well as it sure can, in amongst being broken twice and some careless errors, "when she did break herself, she won lots of the points with super tennis."

We love that Naomi serve, it's essentially the main cause of her being top 100. But there are also clear signs of significant improvement beyond her serve, just like Fitzy said was happening.

-- Edited by indiana on Thursday 3rd of March 2016 09:41:33 AM

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Echoing Indy's comments.....cheers K for the rundown - interesting reading.

And great to hear (and see on the stream recently) that the back of the court tennis is making big strides too.

Well done, Naomi.

And I really hope the LTA note what Fitzy has been doing !

indiana · Tennis legend

If Naomi had a day serving at her best ( plus first shot after any return ) and putting together one or two really good return games, who couldn't she beat?

-- Edited by indiana on Thursday 3rd of March 2016 09:47:03 AM

vohor · Grand Slam Champion

Many thanks for those stats ISF :D

Given the lack of depth in the post Jo Durie era, there's more than a good chance that we would be talking best return for 30 years if they could squeeze in 2 more wins this week; here's hoping :)

paulisi · Tennis legend

I suspect the new Broady/Watson ranking closeness will spur on Heather a bit - nothing like a bit of competition...

steven · Tennis legend

insomniacfolder wrote:
cwej wrote:
When was the last time we had 3 women in QFs of WTA tour events on the same week?
Well, it's funny you should mention that...

Certainly not this millennium is all I can find so far.

By some measures this is our most successful week on the WTA since at least 2000.
We've never had 3 QF in that time.

We have however won more matches in WTA events in a single week, than the 6 to date this week.
The best weeks (or single tournament slots for multi week events, Slams, Indian Wells, Miami) by total match wins (Main Draw wins only) that I could find are, as follows:

7 Wins
Week of 08/10/2012: Osaka - Heather, 5; Laura, 2
Week of 11/06/2012: Birmingham - Heather, 2; Laura, 1; Annie K, 1; Bally, 1; Tara, 1; Mel South, 1

5 Wins
Week of 18/01/2016: Australian Open - Johanna, 5
Week of 22/06/2015: Eastbourne - Johanna, 3; Heather, 2
Week of 12/01/2015: Hobart - Heather, 5
Week of 15/02/2010: Memphis - Annie K, 3; Bally, 2
Week of 09/08/2008: Birmingham - Mel South, 3; Naomi C, 1; Katie O'Brien, 1

So, as you can see, our 6 this week is currently alone in 3rd place.
Also, having 2 'fronts' open this long in a week is unique in that list - for some reason we have had multiple players do well in a single event of the two or more on offer most weeks, even overseas where the winning effect was not exaggerated by GB WC's - such as at Birmingham 2012, where we got 2 wins from WC.
Laura & Heather both reached at least QF in Osaka in 2012. Bally & Anne did likewise in Memphis 2010.

If you include also include wins in WTA qualifying, then things would look different, and get exponentially harder to research.
For example, by that criteria, we had 8 wins at the US Open in 2015; 5 in Q (Jo, 3; Naomi, 2), 3 in MD (Jo, 3).
I gave up at that point.

Researching match by match, event by event wins, prior to 2000 is something I sadly don't have the resource for at the moment.

One more win though, and we're in millennium equalling territory

Oops, I should have looked here first after someone asked me the same question on Twitter!

Finding where Brits made QFs at the same events isn't too difficult (though it isn't too easy either - ISF will have had to do quite a bit of work to get the figures she did!) but checking whether a third player made a QF at a different event in the same week is where it gets much harder. I'm confident it hasn't happened since 1995, for the simple reason that no Brits reached WTA main tour singles QFs at all in the last 5 years of the 20th century, but I'm not sure whether it last happened in the early 1990s or back in the 1980s - as an educated guess, I'd go for the latter.

I think the last time we had two Brits in singles QFs at the same WTA main tour event was Guangzhou 2013, when Laura lost to Zheng and JoKo lost to Zhang, while the previous two times were the ones ISF mentioned, when one of the Brits went further each time - AK to SFs in Memphis, HW to the title in Osaka.

-- Edited by steven on Thursday 3rd of March 2016 04:21:03 PM

christ · Futures level

I hope all y'all are sharpening your pencils for the last time we had three in the semis in the same week.

Just in case.

(... and, for the record, when was the last time two Brits met in the final?)

-- Edited by christ on Thursday 3rd of March 2016 04:26:51 PM