Week 29 - WTA Premier ($846K) - Stanford, CA, USA - Hard

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

Week 29 - WTA Premier ($846K) - Stanford, CA, USA - Hard

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

Phew!
Wow!
Phew

Good regroup.
Good match.
Phew!

6-2 4-6 6-3

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

Back-to-back Semi's in Premiers for Jo. Very good.
Doi or Mrs. Cibulkova await; who are next on court.

indiana · Tennis legend

Nice match, nice win, onward ...

Up to what would be a CH #17 in the live rankings, for now moving ahead of Sam Stosur who is in the QF in Washington. Up to #13 in the live race

vohor · Grand Slam Champion

YAY! well done Jo :D
One more win to move inside the top 16 :)

indiana · Tennis legend

QF: (3) Johanna Konta WR 18 beat Saisai Zhang (CHN) WR 74 (CH 61 11/15) 6-2 4-6 6-3

SF: (3) Johanna Konta WR 18 vs (2) Dominika Cibulkova (SVK) WR 12 (CH 10 03/14)
H2H: 0-1 Cibulkova won 7-6(6) 7-5 in Hobart in January this year.

Dominika beat Misaki Doi 7-5 6-0 so trust a new day breaks that game momentum.

Oakland2002 · All-time great

Great to see Jo really establishing herself at this level with an exciting challenge to come. I love Cibulkovas athleticism

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

indiana wrote:
Up to what would be a CH #17 in the live rankings, for now moving ahead of Sam Stosur who is in the QF in Washington. Up to #13 in the live race

Stosur lost (to Pegula!) so Jo is guaranteed another career high, of at least WR17.

If she manages the massive task of beating Domi, she'll be WR14, which is the best finish she can mange this week, even by winning the title.

indiana · Tennis legend

indiana wrote:
Nice match, nice win, onward ...

Up to what would be a CH #17 in the live rankings, for now moving ahead of Sam Stosur who is in the QF in Washington. Up to #13 in the live race

Sam Stosur lost her Washington QF to Jessica Pegula WR 173 (!) ensuring at least a new CH 17 for Jo. And she is a win against Cibulkova away from overtaking Bacsinszky, Bencic and Ka Pliskova to go to 14. Tough task though.

vohor · Grand Slam Champion

Congrats to Jo come what may then :D

Jan · Hall of fame

Phew. I have to confess I left the match before the end, so I'm really pleased top see that result this morning!

Kounosuke · Intermediate Club Player

Good Luck Jo, Cibulkova has been under-ranked for the past year or so, and I feel she's still under-ranked right now, I'd have her as favourite over Venus as well as Jo.

tony_orient · ATP qualifying

When the draw came out it was obvious that this was a great opportunity for Jo to reach the semi-finals, and she has taken full advantage.
There is a big step up in the level of opposition now though, with Cibulkova in great form and has impressively kept up her Wimbledon momentum even with getting married in between.

wimdledont · Challenger level

Cibulkova will be tough, but...

The two next targets for Jo should be to make the top ten and/or to make the top 8 in the end of year listings, and play for enormous financial and points rewards in Singapore. With Azarenka now sidelined by pregnancy, and Vinci unlikely, imho, to defend her 1300 points from Flushing Meadows, this pretty much amounts to the same thing.

Currently number 10 in the liverankings, Cibulkova. Can Jo usurp her place? She was beating top-tenners galore during the summer hardcourt swing of 2015. To make the top 10 herself, she needs to beat some more, starting soonish.

Lose to Cibulkova, and she's still around 500 points short of the top 10. If she won this tournament, she'll be wiithin 200 points.

Also, Jo is now up to WR17, WR14 if she makes the final here...

Does anybody know the highest ranking ever achieved by a player who has never won a WTA title?

Helen40 · Grand Slam Champion

I guess Jo's best surface is hard. It's been interesting following her over clay/grass seasons, and Genie was an unfortunate draw.

No Jo's back on hard and played well this week, I have great hopes for her for the rest of the year.