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

vohor · Grand Slam Champion

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

paulisi · Tennis legend

Looking good and a decent payday coming up - already picked up $3310 so far for singles, a doubles win would earn $1820 per team and 60pts and with the top seeds gone, the draw is open to progress further.

Julia Carrot · All-time great

Wow, I just watched the last two games. The others had no chance !! Excellent stuff.

insomniacfolder · Challenger level

Naomi and Alicja considerably too good there

They earn another meeting with Knapp for Naomi, and Hev's friend, semi-honorary Brit (at least in my head) and Heatina stalwart, Erakovic, who beat the (albeit clay specialist) top seeds in R1.
R1: Naomi BROADY/Alicja ROSOLSKA (GBR/POL) 182 defeated Elena BOGDAN/Andreea MITU (ROU/ROU) 6-1 6-1

QF: Heather WATSON/Klaudia JANS-IGNACIK (GBR/POL) 223 lost to Stéphanie FORETZ/Amandine HESSE (FRA/FRA) 247 5-7 4-6

QF: Naomi BROADY/Alicja ROSOLSKA (GBR/POL) 182 vs. Marina ERAKOVIC/Karin KNAPP (NZL/ITA) 210

vohor · Grand Slam Champion

1&1; very nice :D

insomniacfolder · Challenger level

In singles, Naomi is second up, on the, seemingly slower, main court tomorrow.
Not before 12:30 UK

Long time reader · Lower Club Player

In the doubles Naomi and partner have got a walkover into the semis as Knapp has pulled out with an ankle injury.

indiana · Tennis legend

That's very probably a doubles CH for Naomi, taking out her February CH 114. Not the ideal way to get it with more injury woe for Karin, hope it not too bad. Two wins ( and a WTA title ) away from the doubles top 100.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

QF: Naomi Broady & Alicja Rosolska (POL) CR 184 (122+62) "defeated" Marina Erakovic & Karin Knapp (NZL/ITA) CR 210 (133+77) by a walkover

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SF: Naomi Broady & Alicja Rosolska (POL) CR 184 (122+62) vs Basak Eraydin & Lidziya Marozava (TUR/BLR) CR 293 (183+110) or Eri Hozumi & Miyu Kato (JPN/JPN) CR 181 (78+103)

The Turko-Belarusian pair took out the third seeds, Dushevina & Martínez (CR 157), in their first round match...

vohor · Grand Slam Champion

Ah well, can't be helped; GL in the SFs Naomi+ :)

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Stircrazy wrote:
QF: Naomi Broady & Alicja Rosolska (POL) CR 184 (122+62) "defeated" Marina Erakovic & Karin Knapp (NZL/ITA) CR 210 (133+77) by a walkover
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SF: Naomi Broady & Alicja Rosolska (POL) CR 184 (122+62) vs Basak Eraydin & Lidziya Marozava (TUR/BLR) CR 293 (183+110) or Eri Hozumi & Miyu Kato (JPN/JPN) CR 181 (78+103)
The Turko-Belarusian pair took out the third seeds, Dushevina & Martínez (CR 157), in their first round match...

And the more highly ranked Japanese pair it is:

SF: Naomi Broady & Alicja Rosolska (POL) CR 184 (122+62) vs Eri Hozumi & Miyu Kato (JPN/JPN) CR 181 (78+103)

insomniacfolder · Challenger level

Just started, streamed. Love hold to kick off. Pauline looks in really good shape compared to the last couple of times I saw her.
1-0*

jb288 · Satellite level

Naomi's groundstrokes looking a bit weak compared to Parmentier today, who is pretty impressive with depth/coverage...managed to ace herself out of trouble a few times but not a third. 2-3*

Jaffa · Challenger level

This court is sooooooooooo slowwwwww

kundalini · Specialist Reporter + Intermediate Club Player

Naomi is just so careless. Got herself broken because 3 times when she had game point, she missed a straight-forward shot when in control. Break point on Parmentier's serve, got a forehand cross-court completely wrong. Earlier there was a ridiculous point that ended with Naomi netting a smash and another astonishing miss in a later Broady service game. That's the difference between the players.

-- Edited by kundalini on Thursday 7th of April 2016 12:57:01 PM