Week 14 - WTA International ($250K) - Katowice, Poland - Hard, Indoor

paulisi · Tennis legend

Week 14 - WTA International ($250K) - Katowice, Poland - Hard, Indoor

indiana · Tennis legend

paulisi wrote:
i'm a bit mystified as to why Joss and Anna cannot perform on the main tour, but win everything on the ITF. I can only think it is a psychological thing.

Yes, their WTA results have been disappointing, but they've only actually played four ITFs since last June ( ignoring Slams ) : 50K RU in June, 50K QF ( bye, won no matches ) in July, 100K QF ( one win ) last August and last week's 50K title, and given generally better players in WTAs anyway, I just don't see an issue really ITFs vs WTA. Up until then last year they were winning WTA matches as well as ITF, and getting their biggest ranking scores, though generally unsurprisingly not going as far, in WTAs ( WTA SF in May, WTA RU and WTA Prem QF in June ). And I certainly wouldn't read anything into the Australian Open ( L16 ) actually being run by the ITF, it clearly being more WTA like.

They more simply haven't been playing that great, saved rankingswise by the Australian Open.

-- Edited by indiana on Tuesday 5th of April 2016 11:47:19 PM

Oakland2002 · All-time great

Hev obviously likes playing doubles and has had almost a dozen partners over the last year, although singles is obviously her main priority surely it would help her if she had a period of monogamy, or is her doubled outside of Fed cup/Olympics purely an opportunity to play some competitive tennis with friends? I may be being completely naive as I haven't really followed much ladies doubles and there may be an obvious pattern or answer debated ad nauseum on the forum, apologies if so.

vohor · Grand Slam Champion

Heather gets to keep all bar 1 of those 59 points; so well done her :D
Hope Josanna can regain their mojo soon

Michael D · All-time great

vohor wrote:
Heather gets to keep all bar 1 of those 59 points; so well done her :D
Hope Josanna can regain their mojo soon

I wonder what sort of coaching support/ team Josanna have? How regularly does Louis Cayer work with them, and do they have anyone else? It seems to me quite a bit of their problem could be the mental side, and wonder if they have anyone helping on that front. They lose a lot of matches quite narrowly.

vohor · Grand Slam Champion

Good question, Michael.
I see my post should have said all bar 1 of those 60 points, of course!

insomniacfolder · Challenger level

Good gosh! Schmiedlova is sl-um-pi-ng! Parmentier thrashes the defending champion 2 & 0, in under an hour, and so will be Naomi's next opponent.
R2: Naomi BROADY (GBR) 78 vs. Pauliine PARMENTIER (FRA) 113 (CH 40 07/2008)

vohor · Grand Slam Champion

Parmentier is on a very decent trot at the moment; think Naomi will prefer facing her in R2 over the 2nd seed though :)

indiana · Tennis legend

Interesting points distribution for Heather before this latest win.

Not surprisingly since she hasn't played much more doubles than the maximum 11 ranking counters she has a few ones (4) on her list and she also had a few tens (3) from R1 mandatory losses, leaving just 4 tournaments where she has won a match and then only one match in each.

So quite good to be WR 159 on the back of 4 wins in a year. Helps that two of these were in Slams.

Points : 130, 130, 100, 60, 10, 10, 10, 1, 1, 1, 1, totalling 454 points. As vohor says clearly one of these 1s now becomes at least 60.

insomniacfolder · Challenger level

Lots of rapid singles matches means Hev's doubles has been moved to the main court to fill in the schedule.
Being unscheduled on that court, it seems that no one is covering it though (yet).

2 breaks to start
1-1*

3 breaks each
5-5*

From *5-6, *40-15 - lose three straight points, and with it the set
5-7

-- Edited by insomniacfolder on Wednesday 6th of April 2016 03:05:15 PM

insomniacfolder · Challenger level

Second set; still pretty even. 2 breaks each
5-7 *3-4

Naomi's doubles is warming up on court now, and is streamed.

indiana · Tennis legend

Ostapenko beat Kristyna Pliskova 6-3 6-4

An Ostapenko vs Broady final would be great for Naomi and an interesting match-up

- and I do have expressed sympathies for Ostapenko re the previous.

( Ostapenko fairly been surging up the rankings, doing very well )

insomniacfolder · Challenger level

Hev & Klaudia are sunk 5-7 4-6

Only Naomi standing on the WTA now, and we'll have no one next week I think as there's only Bogota.

vohor · Grand Slam Champion

Over and out for Heather then :(

Naomi+ going well so far at 5*-1 :)

insomniacfolder · Challenger level

Naomi & Alicja look like they have a pretty good understanding, and shaping into a decent team, complementing each other well as a biggun-and-littlun combo. Rosolska good at the cut offs, allowing Naomi more room and space to let rip with the backhands.
6-2 2-0*