Weeks 21-22 - Roland Garros 2016 - Paris, France - Clay

insomniacfolder · Challenger level

Weeks 21-22 - Roland Garros 2016 - Paris, France - Clay

tony_orient · ATP qualifying

Jo is the highest seed since 1987, but Laura was seeded 30 for the 2013 US Open

Whilst there are no easy draws there, it does give Heather a good chance of getting the win she needs to be 100% sure of her Olympic place. She would probably have to beat Kuznetsova to improve on her usual R2 finish though.

-- Edited by tony_orient on Friday 20th of May 2016 11:35:44 AM

insomniacfolder · Challenger level

Oh dear. Again,

The time has come.
I hereby withdraw from research. I can't do it anymore.
Best wishes

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Hang in there, insomni

everyone has little blips !

tony_orient · ATP qualifying

insomniacfolder wrote:
Oh dear. Again,
The time has come.
I hereby withdraw from research. I can't do it anymore.
Best wishes

Don't stop now - especially as there is a good chance Jo wins two or more matches here and we will need the first British woman since x stats to hand!

indiana · Tennis legend

Behave ISF

Already looking forward to your next research ...

Jan · Hall of fame

You appear to have been out-voted, ISF smile
Please don't stop!

philwrig · Hall of fame

All tricky draws, and no major confidence on any matchup. Could get 3 winners, could conceivably have none.

vohor · Grand Slam Champion

Coup Droit wrote:
Hang in there, insomni everyone has little blips !

Ditto; dig deep ISF smile

And well done JoKo rolling back the years to the 1980s again biggrin

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

philwrig wrote:
All tricky draws, and no major confidence on any matchup. Could get 3 winners, could conceivably have none.

That's all pretty much exactly how I see it.
Not just that we could have three winners, or none, but that I feel both outcomes are about equally likely too.

Two in each half of the draw should spread the matches out and hopefully avoid conflicts. Ah, the joys of having the dizzy heights of four in the main draw of Roland Garros to follow!
Happy days!

tony_orient · ATP qualifying

Based on the early betting odds, par for the first round would be 1.72 wins (with Heather given most chance of winning ahead of Jo). Less than a 2% chance of all 4 winning, and 8% chance of no wins at all.

vohor · Grand Slam Champion

Yes, it's great having 4 in the MD :D
If the rankings prevail 2 wins would be par; the bookies taking their cut! Good Luck everyone :)

Spectator · All-time great

Others have said it all (including sending waves of appreciation to IF!) Women's draws as tricky as the men's are (initially) relatively decent. Who knows? But four MDs is great. And when you consider that, barring unforeseen circumstances, several of our younger players could well be in qualies (at the least) next year, it's even more exciting.

cwej · Lower Club Player

It's worth mentioning that Gibbs has not had a top 100 win on clay in the last two years and no win at all on clay this year... I don't think Heather could have asked for a better draw (even the qualifiers would be a worse draw as they have all won 3 matches on clay coming in).

In fact her only ever top 100 win on clay was against Misaki Doi back in 2013.

I'd say Heather should go in as a very strong favourite.

cwej · Lower Club Player

I also think Broady's draw is a lot better than it seems. If you are going to play Vandeweghe, make it on clay... The same can be said for Naomi but she's proved she can win matches on it this year and should go in as confident as she can do for this surface. A win would be pretty huge for her. In the last three years Vandeweghe has had only one win over a top 100 player on clay (Lisicki which went to 7-5 in the third Last year). She does NOT like the dirt one little bit.

in fact, I'm going to predict three of our girls in the 2nd round.

-- Edited by cwej on Friday 20th of May 2016 05:53:06 PM