Week 40 - WTA Premier Mandatory ($5.4M) - Beijing, China - Hard

indiana · Tennis legend

RE: Week 40 - WTA Premier Mandatory ($5.4M) - Beijing, China - Hard

the addict · Tennis legend

Wow, bad day at the office.

Shuai Zhang beats Simona Halep 6-0 6-3 and will play Jo in the QF

indiana · Tennis legend

L16: (11) Johanna Konta WR 14 beat (5) Karolina Pliskova (CZE) WR 6 (=CH) 6-1 3-6 7-6(2)

QF: (11) Johanna Konta WR 14 vs Shuai Zhang (CHN) WR 36 (CH 30 in July 2014)

H2H: 3-1 with two straight set wins for Jo this year, 6-4 6-1 in the Australian Open QF and 6-3 6-3 in last week's Wuhan L32.

Peter too · Tennis legend

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-- Edited by Peter too on Thursday 6th of October 2016 01:10:27 PM

Miriambee · Futures level

Kerber out as well, lost to Svitolina.

indiana · Tennis legend

Quarter Finals :

(16) Svitolina vs Gavrilova
(3) Radwanska vs Cornet or Shvedova ( held over )
(11) Konta vs Zhang
(8) Keys vs (14) Kvitova

Spectator · All-time great

That last QF should be a particularly good one. Hope that Ms Konta meets whoever wins it. What a year ....

vohor · Grand Slam Champion

Brilliant result for Jo today biggrin

Here's hoping she repeats last week's outcome against Zhang; would guarantee a new CH on Monday leapfrogging Venus and Vika with Elina unable to catch her smile

-- Edited by vohor on Thursday 6th of October 2016 03:06:15 PM

philwrig · Hall of fame

I recorded it and watched most of it, wow that was stressful, Jo looked desperate to win this time, and KP was a little bit there for the taking on current form, so glad she finally got over the line. Zhang is obviously much better than Halep, but could be very tricky in front of a boisterous home crowd.

tony_orient · ATP qualifying

indiana wrote:
tony_orient wrote:
Great win - she did what Kasatkina couldn't do yesterday and defeated Pliskova in a deciding tie-break

According to the Resultina app Pliskova is the highest ranked player Jo has beaten this year at WR6, which is surprising given she is now in running top 10 in the race. She will probably get another chance to improve on that stat tomorrow.
Yes bit surprising, probably more in that she has played less than double figures matches against top 10 players. She is now up 5-4 in such matches this year. Only played ( and lost ) two matches against top 5 players at the time, Kerber WR 2 at the Olympics and Radwanska WR 5 in Cincinnati.

That's what surprised me about the stat - Jo has hardly struggled against top 5 players, she has just avoided them (or they have avoided her), and that trend continues today with Halep's defeat. Weird to think that Laura has played as many matches against top 5 opponents as Jo has so far this season.

Sim · County player

Impressive come-back from Jo. From 0-4 to win 6 games in a row to take 1st set 6-4.

Sim · County player

Now won 9 games in a row to take a 3-0 lead in 2nd set.

Jumping ahead a bit I know, but by my calculations and looking at live "race" standings if Jo-Ko wins the semi-final against Madison Keys she will move upto 8th place in the race - 10 pts more than Dominika Cibulkova and less than 100 behind Keys herself in 7th place.

Kounosuke · Intermediate Club Player

11 games in a row now, will it be 12 to win the match?

Peter too · Tennis legend

QF: KONTA, Johanna (GBR) 11 13 def ZHANG, Shuai (CHN) 36 6-4 6-0

SF: KONTA, Johanna (GBR) 11 13 v KEYS, Madison (USA) 8 9 =CH
H2H 0-1 Bahamon 2010 5-7 Ret.

Spectator · All-time great

Well that was comprehensive! SFs of a Premier Mandatory, to join the other accomplishments. Next match should be super.

PS: Is live rankings site correct that one more win would lead to Top 10, and winning the tournament to being in the Top 8?

-- Edited by Spectator on Friday 7th of October 2016 12:46:39 PM