Week 41 - WTA International ($227K) - WTA International Hong Kong Hard

DavidC · Tennis legend

Week 41 - WTA International ($227K) - WTA International Hong Kong Hard

Kounosuke · Intermediate Club Player

Cibulkova has an early break in her match

edit: CSN breaks back, *1-2

-- Edited by Kounosuke on Saturday 15th of October 2016 12:20:36 PM

Jan · Hall of fame

Hev and Naomi have won 6-2 6-1

blob · All-time great

Absolutely stormed it

WTA final, at least, for Naomi, to join Hev, Jo, Laura, Annie K, & Tara
Title would enter her into select company this millennium - just Jo & Hev.
Play the Chan's though; tough.

indiana · Tennis legend

Yay

SF: Naomi Broady & Heather Watson CR 153 (73+80) beat Nao Hibino & Aleksandrina Naydenova (JPN/BUL) CR 202 (88+114) 6-2 6-1

FINAL:
Naomi Broady & Heather Watson CR 153 (73+80) vs (1) Hao-Ching Chan & Yung-Jan Chan (TPE/TPE) CR 18 (9+9)

DF · Tennis legend

A step up in the final,quite a challenge.

Go girls! smile

Kounosuke · Intermediate Club Player

Cibulkova now a set and a break up, looks like it's going to be Zhuhai for Johanna.

Spectator · All-time great

Indeed. But great that they're in a final!

indiana · Tennis legend

In Linz Cibulkova reaches the final winning 6-4 6-3 and thus confirming her ahead of Jo in the race and leaving Jo out of Shanghai assuming all turn up ( looking at you, Serena )

In the final Domi will face Viktoriya Golubic who 'won' her SF with a walkover against Keys, that following winning her QF with the third set retirement of Muguruza.

Assuming both Muguruza and Keys will be OK ( Muguruza did retire late on at 4-4 in that QF final set ), in the wider Shanghai picture, Muguruza is safe for top 8, but Keys in theory could still be overtaken by both Cibulkova and Kuznetsova ( if she won both the Tianjin and Moscow titles ).

Suarez Navarro's remaining very outside chance of top 8 goes if Cibulkova wins the Linz title.

-- Edited by indiana on Saturday 15th of October 2016 02:05:06 PM

paulisi · Tennis legend

It looks like BT Sport are showing live coverage of the doubles final.

Julia Carrot · All-time great

paulisi wrote:
It looks like BT Sport are showing live coverage of the doubles final.

Yup, starting now (Didn't think we'd get to see this, so a bit of treat !)

wolf · Tennis legend

The Chan sisters win the first set 6-3, Heather and Naomi had their chances (0-40 in one game, Heather missing an easy volley at 30-30 in another) but didn't take them.

wolf · Tennis legend

Heather double faulted on sudden death to go down 3-5 in the first set, and Naomi does the same in the first game of the second.

blob · All-time great

3-6 1-6

Nice little bonus though. The Chan's are pretty good, so no disgrace, and Latisha and Angel sure are feisty. (Part of me wanted Naomi to get her full dudgeon on... bad blob!)

indiana · Tennis legend

Great to get such a doubles run following their singles exits.

Both Naomi and Heather will now actually be ranked higher for doubles than singles though not anticipating them becoming doubles specialists anytime soon.