Week 25 - WTA Premier ($712K) - Eastbourne, UK Grass

tony_orient · ATP qualifying

Week 25 - WTA Premier ($712K) - Eastbourne, UK Grass

indiana · Tennis legend

AliBlahBlah wrote:
I think I've seen just about every professional match of Heather's that it's been possible to see, and that was about the worst I've seen her play.
No idea why, could be any number of things, but she was poor and lacklustre today in all departments.

The much vaunted grass season, when the specialist Brits come to play and take advantage of players unfamiliar with the surface... can we please be done with this notion now, and actively discourage our players from focusing on grass? No, of course not. That wouldn't be British, no, would it?

Well given they're not really grass specialists or generally particularly more familiar with the surface we don't have any need to discourage our players from focussing on grass. They don't really as it is.

-- Edited by indiana on Monday 20th of June 2016 06:57:35 PM

Grachka · County player

Just for closure purposes:

[Q] Monica Puig PUR d. [WC] Naomi Broady GBR 6-1 6-1

briteny · Intermediate Club Player

is there any link that i can watch back yesterday matches especially tara's match ??
i was working... missed it

tony_orient · ATP qualifying

The less said about yesterday's matches the better - and judging by the number of posts on Heather and Naomi's matches that is a view shared by everyone!

The weather is set fair for today and JoKo is 4th on Centre, followed by Heather/Naomi doubles. Jo's opponent will be the winner of Zhang & Tsurenko who play this morning.

paulisi · Tennis legend

The conditions were awful yesterday. Heather played nicely in the circumstances, but that was a tough match on paper.

Naomi didn't cope with the conditions at all.

vohor · Grand Slam Champion

This is probably heresy because a lot of spectators no doubt enjoy the Eastbourne tournaments hugely but I'm not convinced it's the best location for getting tuned up for Wimbledon. It's frequently very windy and must play havoc with the players' timing, swing planes and so forth. Getting knocked out in R1 may be a blessing in disguise so here's hoping Heather and Naomi can find their best for the big one next week instead :)

Tara's was the easily the best effort of the 3 yesterday and hopefully she'll get at least one MD win at SW19 :)

Fingers crossed Jo, more used than most to Eastbourne conditions presumably, can re-discover the inspiration from last year's tournament which really lit the fuse on her rise up the rankings :)

indiana · Tennis legend

Whisper it, such thoughts re the Eastbourne winds have occurred to me too.

tony_orient · ATP qualifying

It's a difficult one as you wouldn't want to move the tournament as it is currently one of the best supported WTA only tournaments in the world, with good attendances throughout the week and even for qualifying. Moving it a week earlier would mean clashing with Queen's and so would probably mean losing the BBC coverage so also not a good option. Yesterday's weather was unusual even for Eastbourne.

vohor · Grand Slam Champion

The prior match on Centre has finished early by retirement so Jo should be on soon against Tsurenko UKR the world #42

vohor · Grand Slam Champion

No breaks, 1 BP saved apiece so far
2*-3

vohor · Grand Slam Champion

Still no breaks, 2 more BPs saved by Jo
3*-4

vohor · Grand Slam Champion

4*-5

-- Edited by vohor on Tuesday 21st of June 2016 03:39:40 PM

vohor · Grand Slam Champion

Still no breaks, 3 BPs saved apiece now
5-5*

5 BPs saved by Tsurenko now...6 BPs...holds

5*-6

-- Edited by vohor on Tuesday 21st of June 2016 03:57:01 PM

Jan · Hall of fame

I forgot this was on the Beeb..

Come on Johanna!