Week 30 - WTA Premier 5 ($2.7M) - Montreal, Canada - Hard

Helen40 · Grand Slam Champion

Week 30 - WTA Premier 5 ($2.7M) - Montreal, Canada - Hard

Peter too · Tennis legend

R1: KONTA, Johanna (GBR) 15 18 v ROGERS, Shelby (USA) 57
R1: WATSON, Heather (GBR) 64 v KUZNETSOVA, Svetlana (RUS) 9 10

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

Serena out.
Good break for Heather, as Sveta is bumped up and Hev now gets Stosur instead.

Jo would now meet Muguruza in R3 if they both progress.

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

R1: Heather WATSON (GBR) 64 v. Samantha STOSUR (AUS) [13] 14 (CH 4, Feb. 2011)
>H2H 0-1
>2015 Hong Kong - WTA International - Hard - QF - Stosur by (4), 3 & 0

scottie1 · Futures level

Has Serena broken a nail? good chance for Hev v Stosur

indiana · Tennis legend

Hmm, seems stange that (13) Stosur has taken (9) Kuznetsova's place. I would have thought the top non seed would have come in there i.e. a (17).

Altough I can see the argument for moving Stosur into the the now vacated ( by Kuznetsova moving ) spot from the (9) to (12) seeds I am pretty sure this is all more extensive rejigging than normal. Certainly I've seen the ATP ( and indeed Wimbledon ) do much less in similar circumstances than rebalancing all the seeding brackets, which seems to be what they have done here.

-- Edited by indiana on Sunday 24th of July 2016 05:58:34 PM

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

Doubles
R1: Naomi BROADY/Shelby ROGERS (GBR/USA) 271 v. María IRIGOYEN/Eri HOZUMI (ARG/JPN) 107
R1: Heather WATSON/Behanie MATTEK-SANDS (GBR/USA) 120 v. Daria KASATKINA/Svetlana KUZNETSOVA (RUS) 111

PaulM · Tennis legend

Moves Heather's chances from non existent to incredibly unlikely, but always a chance Sam will have one of those days when she is shanking everything in sight!

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

Naomi under way, 1 ace, 1 DF! *15-30 0-0

kundalini · Specialist Reporter + Intermediate Club Player

Awful start from Naomi 0-3*

Recovers one break *1-3

Then holds in game full of aces and dfs, at least 2 of each, making current totals 4 of each 2-3*

Nicole now landing her first serve yet gets broken again *3-3

Naomi holds for 4-3*

Nicole likewise for *4-4

Naomi now up to 7 aces and 5 dfs 5-4*

Nicole holds to 15 for *5-5

Naomi up to 9 aces 6-5*

Nicole holds comfortably 6-6

-- Edited by kundalini on Sunday 24th of July 2016 08:34:40 PM

DF · Tennis legend

Into a TB

DF · Tennis legend

which she loses and so is a set down 6-7(4)

DF · Tennis legend

Somehow Naomi levels the match taking the second set 6-3
Has to do the same again in the final set.

DF · Tennis legend

Naomi is 3-0 up

kundalini · Specialist Reporter + Intermediate Club Player

Nicole saves bp *3-1

Naomi's first serve goes missing, 3 dfs, yet she saves 2 bps before eventually holding 4-1*

Nicole again saves bp *4-2

Naomi saves bp in another long game 5-2*

Nicole holds relatively easily *5-3

Naomi loses the opening point but takes the next four for a super win 6-3. Finished with 15 aces and 15 dfs. 51% of first serves in play, winning 84/34. Managed to save 8 bps in the 2nd and 3rd sets having gone 0/2 in the opening set. Also managed to win 5/7 bps on return.

-- Edited by kundalini on Sunday 24th of July 2016 10:00:38 PM