brendan wrote:

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no-one yet commented on the women's draw - looks pretty dreadful for our girls - Jo getting into the top 16 backfired horrendously with dangerous players at every turn in Puig, Bouchard, Cibulkova even before she meets a higher ranked player in Radwanska - only Tara maybe satisfied with Van Uytvanck having dropped down the rankings of late but even she beat Heather in the Fed Cup

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Not getting into the top 16 didn't particularly backfire for Jo, let alone horrendously.

Puig and potentially Bouchard, whatever one thinks of them, are simply the luck of the draw that any seed could have drawn and I see (19) Cibulkova as no worse looking than what would have been the alternative, one of (9) to (16), if she had still been (17) - i.e. Keys, Kvitova, Bacsinszky, Suarez Navarro, Kuznetsova, Stosur, Pliskova or Svitolina.