Thank you, paulisi. Very good work and I am sure I am far from alone in now knowing a fair bit more in general about some of the players as well as being up on the latest events.
The doubles draw has peskies as the four seeded pairs ( indeed they are the only peskies in the draw ). Non-bold prediction - they won't be the four semi finalists.
Well done on Jodie & Freya beating the #2 seeds. A call out for non-bold predictions.
Yes, thanks again for the reports, paulisi, as yesterday.
Interesting to hear about Kasia Pitak.
I may well have got her wrong then (sorry, Kasia!)
Which will be great (but I'll be irked ) - I don't really go for whether they've improved or not - obviously players improve but the point about detection is to recognise those who are likely to make the improvement, before they do.
Great to see 10 British players in R2.
Good wildcard picks from the LTA/tournament too - with three out of four getting wins.
Yes, thanks again for the reports, paulisi, as yesterday.
Interesting to hear about Kasia Pitak. I may well have got her wrong then (sorry, Kasia!) Which will be great (but I'll be irked ) - I don't really go for whether they've improved or not - obviously players improve but the point about detection is to recognise those who are likely to make the improvement, before they do. Great to see 10 British players in R2. Good wildcard picks from the LTA/tournament too - with three out of four getting wins.
The reports are indeed great paulisi. I was also interested in your comment about Pitak the elder, and confirmation that Anna Loughlan has a great deal of potential. Glad to see Laura Sainsbury making her way back again from injury, she was a tad unlucky in her draw. Also sad to hear about Eleanor Dean, though it does seem to be it now. The other person who is missing at the moment is Manisha Foster, not that she has/ had Eleanor's potential, but she had peaked in the 600s and just won a 10k when injury forced her out, and this year she doesn't seem to have regained very much so maybe she won't play much more either.
Thanks for all your reports paulisi - always good to have a first-hand take on the matches.
diSarra + have withdrawn from the doubles, giving Alicia and Laura S a walkover.
Sam goes through 6-3 6-4. Good fight by Anna, saved 9 out of 11 break points, most of which were in the fourth game of the first set.
Freya wins 6-2 6-4