Week 12 - WTA Premier ($6.1M) - Miami, USA Hard

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

Week 12 - WTA Premier ($6.1M) - Miami, USA Hard

greatunclebulgaria · Lower Club Player

well done Heather now lets keep fighting, your stronger & fitter than her

-- Edited by greatunclebulgaria on Saturday 26th of March 2016 07:23:46 PM

vohor · Grand Slam Champion

Good fight :D
Knock out now please Heather :)

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

Twice at deuce in that game Hev served a DF to give Wicky BP's All saved, and held. Crowd doing sterling work to encourage her along

3-6 7-5 3-2*

vohor · Grand Slam Champion

Weird 5th game: no BPs either way this set in the first 4 games but then Heather in peril after 2 DFs including a footfault call; but she also has 2 aces and holds :)
3-2*

Jan · Hall of fame

*5-3

vohor · Grand Slam Champion

Heather breaks :D
5*-3

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

Breaks! Wicky very unhappy on a call (which I missed).

rebel_rebel · Lower Club Player

Yeeeeeessssss!

Jan · Hall of fame

very well done Heather!

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

Not really sure how she's done it, but she's done it!

Winning ugly is still winning.
Crowd the MVP.
GSM Hev 3-6 7-5 6-3

Dubs later, which might not help.

nicofrance · Strong Club Player

Heather held herself together well on the key points, overall it wasn't pretty and she can play a lot better but as long as you get the win then it doesn't really matter.

Winning this type of match is much more impressive than an easy two set win, mentally when your games not clicking as you'd like its easy to get frustrated. So I'd give Heather 10/10 for battling, 10/10 for having the right mental approach but just a 6/10 for her play.

I'm sure she'll play better in the next round.

vohor · Grand Slam Champion

YAY; had to leave it at 5*-3; delighted that she closed it out there biggrin
Well done Heather; turned that H2H on its head

Leap-frogs plenty in the live rankings...up to #54 biggrin

Halep next...

-- Edited by vohor on Saturday 26th of March 2016 08:43:03 PM

-- Edited by vohor on Saturday 26th of March 2016 08:50:24 PM

insomniacfolder · Challenger level

R3: (WC) Heather WATSON (GBR) 69 defeated Yanina WICKMEYER (BEL) 47 3-6 7-5 6-3

R4: (WC) Heather WATSON (GBR) 69 vs. Simona HALEP [5] 5 (CH 2 08/2014)
H2H 0-2
2014 Roland Garros, Paris, France - Grand Slam - Clay - HW(Q) SH[4] - R64, SH won 6-2 6-4
2013 US Open, NY, USA - Grand Slam - Hard - SH[21] - R128, SH won 4-6 6-4 6-2

insomniacfolder · Challenger level

AliBlahBlah wrote:
Jo and Heather I think are vying to be the first Brit to reach both L16 at Indian Wells & Miami in their career, and Jo would definitely be the first to do it in the same year.

Only Heather (2015), Jo (2016) and Clare Wood (1993) have ever made the last 16 at Indian Wells.
Clare Wood never played in Miami as such, it was before her time, or called the Lipton Championships or other things. She did however reach the last 32 of it's strict predecessor, Key Biscayne, in 1991.

As this is Jo's debut in Miami and she is yet to play her R3, Heather is indeed the first Brit ever to reach the Last 16 of each of the top tier multi-week, non-slam, US events.
Let's hope that select group swells to two members before the weekend is out

And greedily that there is healthy competition for first to make the QF, SF... total world domination! M'wah ha ha! (Oops! that was supposed to be sotto voce!)