Emily dropping in on this new tournament, I am guessing to play doubles as well.

QR1: (qwc) Emily Webley-Smith WR 493 vs Julia Boserup (USA) WR 226 (CH 174 April 2012)

3 rounds of qualifying. Qualifying seeds in Emily's bracket are (q4) Kateryna Kozlova (UKR) WR 104 and (q8) Silvia Soler-Espinosa (ESP) WR128

-- Edited by indiana on Friday 10th of June 2016 06:48:41 PM

Got crunched 60 62 but not exactly a surprise! She lost a long opening service game missing a few game points and it was downhill from there really. Bad start and never got into it.

 

Ach well. All about doubles anyways. 

 

Looks a beautiful event. Stunning clubhouse and nice centre court.

-- Edited by PaulM on Saturday 11th of June 2016 01:01:25 PM

Jaggy1876 wrote:

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She ll need to find a full time doubles partner as the singles is over. Hibino is a future top 10 singles player therefore wont be concentrating on the lesser sport of doubles at this stage.

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 Huh? Hibino top 10? Surely you must be thinking of another player. 

-- Edited by LordBrownof on Saturday 11th of June 2016 02:10:16 PM

Top 20 anyway surely highly rated is Hibino

She's only just turned 21, I've seen her play 3 or 4 times and although not had the top results yet the quality of the field in the women's game isn't what it was a few years ago. If Jo can make the top 20 easily enough then Hibino can not much in it between these two. We ll see in 2-3 years I ll pull this thread back

Oh dear.

I think Em's maybe been trying to make a big statement to Wimbledon re her & Hibino over the last couple of weeks and it's not gone well.

I think so too.

I'm going to clutch at straws and say this is fate making sure she can play pre qualies and will defy the form book and come through. Overoptimism always a feature of the grass!