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


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PaulM wrote:

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


 Hmmm and she's hardly won a main draw match since giving Fitzy up as her coach. Doesn't seem that that decision has helped her, however she has or has not replaced him. If she loses her main weapon first serve... then there is still not too much left in her game. cry 



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Katie's match is up on LS.

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Naomi did seem to land on her feet with Fitzy and is now falling over.

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Katie 2-3 on serve at the mo.

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Katie lost the first set 6-3
and is a break down in the second

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Katie lost 6-3 6-3
Quite a lot of close games.

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Q1: BROADY, Naomi (GBR) 122 lost to ERAKOVIC, Marina (NZL) 20 107 5-7 4-6
Q1: SWAN, Katie (GBR) WC 338 lost to OZAKI, Risa (JPN) 87 3-6 3-6

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Oh dear, lost the second set 6-3.

Did anyone see the match to let me know how she played please. I'll put it down to experience otherwise

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Katie had 8 break points and took 1, her opponent had 9 break points and took 4. Katie's first serve won % was good, she just needed a few more of them.

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PaulM wrote:

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


 Although as I recall Katie made the top 100 largely on the strength of Challenger success and then just found herself out of her depth when she stepped up to Tour level. In contrast Naomi has had far more success at Tour level than Katie did, probably because she has more big weapons in her game, but her form just seems to have deserted her these last few months.



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Naomi is having a real bad spell. I'm afraid it's back down to ITF level to gain some confidence.
I understand she has committed to play Manchester ITF on grass(home tournament) rather than WTA event that week.

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Michael D wrote:
PaulM wrote:

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


 Hmmm and she's hardly won a main draw match since giving Fitzy up as her coach. Doesn't seem that that decision has helped her, however she has or has not replaced him. If she loses her main weapon first serve... then there is still not too much left in her game. cry 


She and Fitzy clearly did very well together at first but from March last year she played 20 tournaments to the end of the year and only won 6 main draw matches, winning back to back matches in only one tournament. So she was struggling long before she changed coach.

She made the top 100 by doing well in weak wta's and big itf's but since getting there has only played a few of these and has mainly played the best tournaments she can play, which is understandable, but really reduces her chances of wins. This along with playing a full clay season and world team tennis has hugely reduced her chances of getting big points scores.

Skipping most of the clay season and playing itf's in the far east certainly looks her best bet to me.

 

 



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R32: (WC) Heather WATSON/Ajla TOMJLANOVIC (GBR/AUS) UNR (80 + UNR) v. Timea BABOS/Anastsia PAVLYUCHENKOVA (HUN/RUS) 91 (12 + 79)
R32: Johanna KONTA/Daria GAVRILOVA (GBR/AUS) 205 (136 + 69) v. Svetlana KUZNETSOVA/Kristina MLADENOVIC (RUS/FRA) 63 (60 + 3)

Edit: Gavrilova, not Davrilova doh



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R96: Heather WATSON (GBR) 108 v. (Q) Patricia Maria TIG (ROU) 95

The qualifier placed into JoKo's section is Alexandra Sasnovich (BLR) 120

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