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

Michael D · All-time great

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

paulisi · Tennis legend

Scrappy match, but Jo is the more solid player.

-- Edited by paulisi on Saturday 1st of April 2017 07:23:35 PM

Michael D · All-time great

And I hope someone can post some highlights for this match too as i'm sitting in Kampala at the moment with no access to any live feed of this match, which is very frustrating... Hope Jo can hold her next serve...that's if she needs it

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

Oh lawd, Jo has a Championship point...

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

Whoa!

wimdledont · Challenger level

Biggest win for a British woman since 1977? Or certainly, since Amanda C won in Charleston qualies earlier.

Up to WR7, with just around 400 points to defend between now and the end of Wimbledon.

Now Number 2 in the Race, after missing a month out with a foot injury.

Michael D · All-time great

Wow, 1000 points, over $1 million, and up to #7 in the world, #2 in the live rankings.... Jo is really going places at the moment. So far this year her performances way out weigh those of AM's..... biggrin biggrin biggrin

-- Edited by Michael D on Saturday 1st of April 2017 06:55:41 PM

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

The final point: https://twitter.com/WTA/status/848245642170318848

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

33 winners, 19 UE.
Weirdly, I don't think Jo even played her best tennis for more than a couple of sets this tournament.
Just amazing, history re-writing achievements, yet again. Already seeing a lot of contributions about first this for forty years, first ever that.
What a magnificent day, and no April fool!

F: Johanna KONTA (GBR) [10] 11 defeated Caroline WOZNIACKI (DEN) [12] 14 6-4 6-3

steven · Tennis legend

wimdledont wrote:
Biggest win for a British woman since 1977? Or certainly, since Amanda C won in Charleston qualies earlier.

One of the journos DMd me to ask this so I did a quick check and I think it is. It's difficult to compare different tournament classifications (especially in the late 1970s and early 1980s when there weren't really any classifications at all) but no other Brit has won the singles title at a slam, Tier I or Premier Mandatory event (or an event which later became one of the latter two) since Wade won Wimbledon.

Tokyo (which Wade won twice after Wimbledon) has been a Premier and a Premier 5 but never a Premier Mandatory, Sydney (which Wade, Durie & Barker all won) is now a Premier event, etc.

Brits have certainly beaten higher-ranked players to win tournaments that JoKo had to beat here but as far as tournament status goes, it's much easier to make a solid case for this being the biggest GB win since Wimbledon 1977 than it is to make the opposite case.

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

I think this result is worthy of me making a rare excursion over to the Women's section.

Fantastic achievement from JoKo.

Spectator · All-time great

Wonderful. Justifies every emoji used above (and ABB, I am seriously impressed!) What a tremendous journey from shy, fragile, talented, just-outside-the-top-100 player to one of the strongest players in the world, in every sense.

Babfive · Satellite level

Fantastic win for Jo. :)

Sim · County player

Quite incredible to think that in just 3 months and 1 day of 2018 JoKo has already topped her performance in 2017.

2 WTA titles; one Premier and one Premier Mandatory and a new CH.

Given the way there is no-one, apart from perhaps Serena, who looks a class above the rest there is no reason why she can't go higher in the rankings, or dare we say win a slam........

vohor · Grand Slam Champion

Superb win for Jo; huge congrats :D
Next stop a GS title?! :)