Week 25 - Wimbledon Women's Qualifying

Etienne · Club Coach

Week 25 - Wimbledon Women's Qualifying

kundalini · Specialist Reporter + Intermediate Club Player

Glad Ash Barty is out. Don't think she should have got a QWC; after all, it was her decision to take a break from tennis.

Vania holds after saving bp(s) *0-2

Gabi broken 0-3*

Vania holds after a long game *0-4

Vania serving for the match at 2-5*

Gabi breaks for *3-5

Gabi holds for 4-5*

Vania with 3 mps 4-6

Looks like only Harriet will be playing the final round of qualifying

-- Edited by kundalini on Wednesday 22nd of June 2016 06:54:38 PM

philwrig · Hall of fame

kundalini wrote:
Glad Ash Barty is out. Don't think she should have got a QWC; after all, it was her decision to take a break from tennis.
Vania holds after saving bp(s) *0-2
Gabi broken 0-3*
Looks like only Harriet will be playing the final round of qualifying

-- Edited by kundalini on Wednesday 22nd of June 2016 06:32:22 PM

I'm not glad Ash B is out, but it riled me a little that when she got that WC for Ilkley, she eventually scratched, when a Brit would have loved that WC.

wimdledont · Challenger level

Freya and KB have withdrawn from the doubles; and their wildcard is either reassigned to Rodina and Paszek, or they were the next on the list.

Etienne · Club Coach

Taylor not going gentle, from *1-5, now 4-5*

vohor · Grand Slam Champion

wales1994 wrote:
Harriet wins it 6-4 6-3! SCORE

YAY, well done Harriet biggrin

Freya played her part too smile

Gutted for Katie cry

DavidC · Tennis legend

DavidC wrote:
Brilliant day for both the men and women. I can't recall 8/9 getting through round 1 in the last 20 years whilst I have been following, but unfortunately don't have time to check when it last happened.

I've now found time to check, so here are some stats:

The 8 in round 2 equals the best in the last 20 years, achieved 3 times (1999, 2000 and 2001). In 1999 we had 6 men, while in 2001 we had 6 women - the only years in the last 20 when we had more than 4 of either sex

The 3 in final qualifying is the best since 1999, when all 3 (Danny Sapsford/Jamie Delgado/Arvind Parmar) qualified

Round 2 is the worst for percentage wins, particularly for the women. Of the 27 in round 2 this century (up to 2015), only 3 (Karen Cross in 2001, Naomi Cavaday in 2009 and Lisa Whybourn in 2010) won through, with just Karen making it to the main draw.

embee · Junior player

Once again, here's my short report on Lisa's match against Paszek.

www.cambridge-news.co.uk/wimbledon-dream-over-for-lisa-whybourn/story-29433719-detail/story.html

-- Edited by embee on Wednesday 22nd of June 2016 07:22:04 PM

DavidC · Tennis legend

Our one remaining doubles team, Harriet and Katy served for the second set against Aoyama/Ninomiya but are currently at 4-6 5*-6

DavidC · Tennis legend

Harriet and Katy go down 4-6 5-7

Peter too · Tennis legend

Q2: BOULTER, Katie (GBR) 592 lost to PETERSON, Rebecca (SWE) 13 125 6-4 6-7(3) 3-6
Q2: WHYBOURN, Lisa (GBR) 511 lost to PASZEK, Tamira (AUT) 7 110 3-6 6-7(3)
Q2: TAYLOR, Gabrielle (GBR) 419 lost to KING, Vania (USA) 7-5 4-6 4-6
Q2: DART, Harriet (GBR) 448 def OZAKI, Risa (JPN) 10 121 6-4 6-3

Q3: DART, Harriet (GBR) 448 v ALEXANDROVA, Ekaterina (RUS) 213 CH=212 23/5/16

-- Edited by Peter too on Wednesday 22nd of June 2016 09:30:37 PM

Oakland2002 · All-time great

Well done Harriet, a fair reward for some really consistent tennis, great pace around the court, consistent tennis, calm throughout.

Well played

Spectator · All-time great

As others have doubtless already mentioned, Vania King won Wimbledon doubles. Paszek has twice been a Wimbledon singles QFist. Those are fine results for Ms Whybourn and Ms Taylor. And a great one for Ms Dart, clearly.

tony_orient · ATP qualifying

Well done to Harriet for reaching the final qualifying round, and she should have a chance in that match too. Could have been even better but for a heartbreaking loss for Katie.

indiana · Tennis legend

Great for Harriet to reach the FQR. Her game seems to be really progressing again after not starting the year well, particularly when she looked rather bereft when I saw her surprisingly easily swept aside by Katie B on Katie's comeback match in Glasgow. 30 points so far takes Harriet up to 100 points precisely and close to the top 350.

For Katie herself it's not gone as seamlessly as I thought it might since then but there were maybe always likely to be hiccups after so long out. Good to see her form this last week and conquering these big nerves she has shown in her last two matches is hopefully very possible and can help lead on to good times. For now it's s big loss to have to take, but at least she still comes out of here with 20 more ranking points and up about 100 places into the top 500.