That is mighty impressive, ruthless Tennis from Harriet, edging towards the top 250. If they do both get to the QF match up Harriet may be favourite. Having said that Laura sometimes wins when we dont expect her too and loses when we expect her to win. We could soon have 8 or 9 in the top 200 by grass season.
Wow, hold your horses, they are in danger of really galloping away !
Not saying it's impossible ( it's most certainly more than theoretically possible to get say 8 players all up to about 280 points and beyond by the grass court season ) and how good would that be, but as big asks go that's a bigggie, and from where we were not too long ago for just top 300 players even allowing for such combined significant progress.
For now just enjoying such a great start to the season by this progressive good of young and relatively young players, and hope they continue to rise. Some at least I am pretty sure will. And certainly all could progress a fair bit further in the relatively longer term.
JoKo, Hev, Naomi, Katie B, Gabi, Laura = 6
With Harriet and Katie Swan as the two next ones =8
And Katy D as a possible.
That's 10
Not to mention long shots who aren't actually that far off in standard.
Call it Wednesday afternoon optimism, but you can let those horses go, Jaggy ! No need to hold onto them
Would be great if Katy D managed it if she counts as 2
Anyway seriously, as in other threads I've certainly been following and enjoying their progress. And although my realistic side certainly suggests otherwise I'd absolutely love to see at least 8 there by the grass season.
Would be great if Katy D managed it if she counts as 2
Anyway seriously, as in other threads I've certainly been following and enjoying their progress. And although my realistic side certainly suggests otherwise I'd absolutely love to see at least 8 there by the grass season.
Ahhhh - fair point, Mr Picky - I had got my Katies confused and didn't change it.
Anyway, 9 ...... that'll do
And you forgot about the 'surprise guest' - you've always got to leave one place at the table free for her !
-- Edited by Coup Droit on Wednesday 7th of March 2018 06:13:21 PM
If that unexpected happens, there should be room OK. I'd imagine that at least a couple of the named guests won't turn up even if they make admirable efforts to join the party.
-- Edited by indiana on Wednesday 7th of March 2018 06:28:14 PM
I put the significant line in a slightly different place - direct acceptance into the next GS qualies - with somewhere around 250-260 points required. Looking at the confirmed points already acquired for 5 weeks time, from here...
Gabi - 260 should be good
KB - 252, maybe, but could do with a couple of match wins
Laura, 249, ditto
KD, 221, needs a (repeat) 25k RU
Harriet - 204, needs a (repeat) 25k tournament win
Jo + Hev MD, Naomi+Gabi almost certain qDAs, KB+Laura very likely, KD + HD entirely possible.
Im assuming Harriet has won 6-3 7-5 as ITF scores are stuck on match point and they now have Laura warming up. So halfway there to a guaranteed SF for us here.