Week 12-13 - WTA Premier Mandatory ($7M) - Miami, FL, USA - Hard

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

Week 12-13 - WTA Premier Mandatory ($7M) - Miami, FL, USA - Hard

Mervatron2 · Futures level

Explains Katie's WD from last week's 10k.

Good luck Katie.

Mervatron2 · Futures level

Oh and of course Naomi.

Helen40 · Grand Slam Champion

Miami seem to be into giving the youngsters WCs. Doesn't she train in the States too?

Good luck to them both.

steven · Tennis legend

Helen40 wrote:
Miami seem to be into giving the youngsters WCs. Doesn't she train in the States too?

Good luck to them both.

Sadly it's more a case of IMG handing out wild cards to players who have signed with them.

JonH · All-time great

Heather has drawn a qualifier and then Mladenovic if she wins through. Jo Konta has a qualifier or Alize Cornet, with, of course, a first round bye. Timea Babos is her first seeded projected opponent. Not a bad draw for Jo , if she is fit.

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

R96: Heather WATSON (GBR) 108 v. Qualifier
R96: Johanna KONTA (GBR) [10] 11 v. Bye

I'd agree with JonH, that draw for Jo does look like an opportunity; Dodin & Parmentier the others in her section.

DF · Tennis legend

Naomi's match up next on Court 3

PaulM · Tennis legend

Broken from 40-15

0-1*

PaulM · Tennis legend

Loses the first set 7-5

First serve not doing anything for her today.

Jan · Hall of fame

Naomi broke straight back and it was on serve until 5-5 when Erakovic broke and then took the set 7-5
Come on Naomi!

Jaggy1876 · Grand Slam Champion

Jan wrote:
Naomi broke straight back and it was on serve until 5-5 when Erakovic broke and then took the set 7-5
Come on Naomi!

Naomi was actually up 4-2 in the opening set.

Jan · Hall of fame

Jaggy1876 wrote:
Jan wrote:
Naomi broke straight back and it was on serve until 5-5 when Erakovic broke and then took the set 7-5
Come on Naomi!
Naomi was actually up 4-2 in the opening set.

Ah thanks - after I typed that I realised that I had made an assumption as I had been out of the room for a while! Ooops!

Julia Carrot · All-time great

Come on Naomi, you COULD still turn this round !

PaulM · Tennis legend

Loses 75 64. Had three break points in the final game.

Poor. Falling further away from top 100. Would be worth going to play the big challengers in the Far East and skipping the clay if she wants to have any shot at making Wimbledon on ranking.

At this point, there's more than a whiff of the Katie O'Briens about how her career is going.

-- Edited by PaulM on Monday 20th of March 2017 06:20:33 PM