Weeks 26-27 - Wimbledon 2016 - London, UK - Grass

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

Weeks 26-27 - Wimbledon 2016 - London, UK - Grass

Etienne · Club Coach

Apart from Tara, and maybe Heather that is an utterly rotten draw.

tony_orient · ATP qualifying

I suppose you could describe this draw as better than the men's draw but it's still not good.

Heather should be pretty happy, avoids a seed in round 1 and then potentially 31st seed Mladenovic in round 2. If she gets past that it's a rematch vs Serena. Heather has done pretty well in Grand Slam draws recently, though she hasn't always taken advantage.
Tara is the big draw winner here, van Uytvanck has been sliding down the rankings since eliminating GB from the Fed Cup and if tara plays like she has recently, I can see her winning this.
Katie would have needed a really good draw as she is coming in with no grass court matches at all. Babos is not the worst draw, but not great either.
Jo has one of the toughest draws given she is a seed with Puig then probably Bouchard in R2

If the top half was OK then the bottom half was rough

Laura may have had a few good draws recently but by and large she has been pretty unlucky at Wimbledon - this is the 5th time she has been drawn against a top 32 player out of 7. Ironically, one of her two good draws was against Kerber.
Naomi can count herself pretty unlucky too. Svitolina may not be at her best on grass, but having done so well to get into the Wimbledon draw by right I would have liked to have seen Naomi get a bit more luck.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Etienne wrote:
Apart from Tara, and maybe Heather that is an utterly rotten draw.

Katie's is fine - it's a Grand Slam, after all.

Hev did well to avoid a seed or any really dangerous floater.

Puig is on a streaky run, in my view. Watched her match yesterday. Kiki played a stupid match (quelle surprise). It's not a great draw but not as bad as that of some of the other seeds.

Naomi got a bit unlucky.

For Laura R, it's all upside. No one could have expected her to win, pretty much whoever the opponent (she's arguably lucky to be there) so no pressure. Kerber will be a bit tight.

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

I have a weird gut feeling without any real justification, rationale, rhyme or reason, that Laura is among our most likely winners.
If it happens, I will refer you all back to these comments

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

AliBlahBlah wrote:
I have a weird gut feeling without any real justification, rationale, rhyme or reason, that Laura is among our most likely winners.
If it happens, I will refer you all back to these comments

Oh but I agree, AliB

Laura is well worth a punt. As said, she's nothing to lose. And Kerber will be tight. Definitely a possible upset.

More chance she'll win this than against a good top 50 player.

PaulM · Tennis legend

Beck is injured.

AVU is returning from long-term injury.

Both good draws.

Katie is still struggling with her injury and there was talk at Roehampton that she might not be recovered in time to play. We'll see. Obviously for your first time you would like someone ranked a bit lower than Babos is but it's not an outrageously bad draw.

Naomi gets unlucky but she can win that if she plays to her best and serves well. Would be disappointing to go winless on the grass.

Hard to know what to expect from Laura, her section is actually very soft, she just happened to draw the highest seed in it!

I think Jo's draw is tough. Puig playing well and very streaky (she could easily do a Georges in Paris and wipe Jo off the court), then either Rybarikova (good grass courter if struggling a bit lately) or Bouchard (former finalist but again out of form). All 3 of those players are dangerous, but if Jo plays like she just did against Makarova she will be fine.

Doubles draws a mixed bag, Joss and Anna get a stinker, as do Laura/Ash and Jo/Maria have a tricky one too. Hev and Naomi, and Tara/Conny have winnable matches though.

-- Edited by PaulM on Friday 24th of June 2016 02:22:08 PM

tony_orient · ATP qualifying

Coup Droit wrote:
AliBlahBlah wrote:
I have a weird gut feeling without any real justification, rationale, rhyme or reason, that Laura is among our most likely winners.
If it happens, I will refer you all back to these comments
Oh but I agree, AliB
Laura is well worth a punt. As said, she's nothing to lose. And Kerber will be tight. Definitely a possible upset.
More chance she'll win this than against a good top 50 player.

I think Laura's singles match could go either way, and we will know within 15 minutes if it is going to be a very quick exit or a chance of an upset. As much as Laura will have nothing to lose, I'm sure she would have much rather have the pressure of a more winnable match with the potential reward of 60 ranking points. Hopefully Laura can at least put in a good performance before the real work starts for her on the ITF circuit.

Didn't realise that the doubles draw is out too - and Laura has the #3 seeds there to go with the #4 in singles.

verveandsolley · Junior player

I always forget how it works, can anyone suggest likely matches on Monday and Tuesday? Going on Tuesday (queue) and would love to catch likes of Tara, Laura

wolf · Tennis legend

verveandsolley wrote:
I always forget how it works, can anyone suggest likely matches on Monday and Tuesday? Going on Tuesday (queue) and would love to catch likes of Tara, Laura

Whoever is in Kvitova's half (defending champion) will play on Tuesday. So that's Heather, Katie, Tara and JoKo. Laura and Naomi on Monday.

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

wolf wrote:
verveandsolley wrote:
I always forget how it works, can anyone suggest likely matches on Monday and Tuesday? Going on Tuesday (queue) and would love to catch likes of Tara, Laura

Whoever is in Kvitova's half (defending champion) will play on Tuesday. So that's Heather, Katie, Tara and JoKo. Laura and Naomi on Monday.

Kvitova was 2014, Serena won last year; the third leg of her attempt at the calendar grand slam.

wolf · Tennis legend

Ooops. Doesn't seem like two years ago Kvitova won! Either way, still the right half.

tony_orient · ATP qualifying

Tuesday will be the best day to go and see the British women in action, especially as Tara and Katie will probably not be on show courts.

philwrig · Hall of fame

tony_orient wrote:
Coup Droit wrote:
AliBlahBlah wrote:
I have a weird gut feeling without any real justification, rationale, rhyme or reason, that Laura is among our most likely winners.
If it happens, I will refer you all back to these comments
Oh but I agree, AliB
Laura is well worth a punt. As said, she's nothing to lose. And Kerber will be tight. Definitely a possible upset.
More chance she'll win this than against a good top 50 player.
I think Laura's singles match could go either way, and we will know within 15 minutes if it is going to be a very quick exit or a chance of an upset. As much as Laura will have nothing to lose, I'm sure she would have much rather have the pressure of a more winnable match with the potential reward of 60 ranking points. Hopefully Laura can at least put in a good performance before the real work starts for her on the ITF circuit.
Didn't realise that the doubles draw is out too - and Laura has the #3 seeds there to go with the #4 in singles.

Could go either way ?? 10/1 with the bookies. Personally I think there's a good chance Laura will put in a half decent performance, but that doesn't mean winning unless Kerber has a complete shocker.

I fear we will have zero players in the 2nd round, as the girls are really struggling at the moment other than Tara ( I'm still yet to be convinced Jo is back to her best) , who still needs to find a bit extra to beat AVU. Jo I fear will find Puig too tough. Jo's never won a match at Wimby and there will be a huge spotlight on her this year.

tony_orient · ATP qualifying

philwrig wrote:
tony_orient wrote:
Coup Droit wrote:
AliBlahBlah wrote:
I have a weird gut feeling without any real justification, rationale, rhyme or reason, that Laura is among our most likely winners.
If it happens, I will refer you all back to these comments
Oh but I agree, AliB
Laura is well worth a punt. As said, she's nothing to lose. And Kerber will be tight. Definitely a possible upset.
More chance she'll win this than against a good top 50 player.
I think Laura's singles match could go either way, and we will know within 15 minutes if it is going to be a very quick exit or a chance of an upset. As much as Laura will have nothing to lose, I'm sure she would have much rather have the pressure of a more winnable match with the potential reward of 60 ranking points. Hopefully Laura can at least put in a good performance before the real work starts for her on the ITF circuit.
Didn't realise that the doubles draw is out too - and Laura has the #3 seeds there to go with the #4 in singles.
Could go either way ?? 10/1 with the bookies. Personally I think there's a good chance Laura will put in a half decent performance, but that doesn't mean winning unless Kerber has a complete shocker.
I fear we will have zero players in the 2nd round, as the girls are really struggling at the moment other than Tara ( I'm still yet to be convinced Jo is back to her best) , who still needs to find a bit extra to beat AVU. Jo I fear will find Puig too tough. Jo's never won a match at Wimby and there will be a huge spotlight on her this year.

That was badly phrased, I meant it was 50:50 that Laura makes as game of it rather than losing heavily! Obviously chances of winning are much lower. I think we will definitely get at least one player through R1 and probably two out of Heather, Jo and Tara.