AliBlahBlah wrote:

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And so, Dommie Covington, in doubles in Santa Margherita di Pula is last Brit woman standing.
Who had that at the start of the week?

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Good for her  

Of course, pity she is alone.

On clay Jo goes from a top 10 player to a top 40 player. That's understandable, and not that big a problem, she's got a couple of years to get the hang of it and if she keeps picking up a handful of wins she's keeping herself ticking over until the stronger parts of the year.

Her results haven't been awful, it's just her strengths don't carry across as well and she ends up out of position and unable to finish points.

I don't really think it's worth getting too pent up over getting thumped by Halep and a fairly evenish loss to Sevastova. She'll be fine.

... and the AELTC would say phew, got out of that one.

Tracking back to the Anna/Naomi partnership...

1. They did pretty well here.

2. Anna may have been second fiddle in Jossanna; but second fiddle is a necessary role; and Naomi could well prove to be a more convincing virtuoso/soloist than Joss.

Thanks Kiki.

And thanks to Sharapova for hitting a volley that was going way out on the penultimate point.

Well, the WC was completely deserved, and justified, and put to fantastic use, by a very likable and entertaining player.
So, very well done

Spoiler

... to Laura Siegemund on using her WC this week to get to her second consecutive Stuttgart final, thrashing Halep in the SF