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Good comfortable progress for Ms. Broady.

Harriet is not to be underesttimated. Our yearle rankings predictions tournament shows that we collectively devalue Ms. Dart's expectations the most of our leading players; we still seem not to believe too much.
There are good precedents of players with less stellar junior careers than their national peers that nevertheless go on to greater success in the senior game. Harriets JCH was 55; Kerber's, for example was JCH37 (she played a full junior career - did not stop early).
I'm not saying Harriet is going to have Kerber's career, but based on this result alone, I think we can pencil her in for at least two Grand Slam titles. (NO WINK!)

It's a good win for Harriet. Her ambitious scheduling at WTA qualifying probably teaching her good lessons very quickly despite the chastening last experience.

Gabi's next step is certainly to start making progress in tournaments like this, and beating players at a higher ranking than she has managed thus far. She does, of course, have at least 18 months in the age dfference compared to the rest of the leading group to make inroads into that new goal. You'd rather that that step was made immediately, but like-for-like, she has that time; our players don't seem to be the rockets to the top, but slow-growers.



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That Harriet Dart's getting to be a bit of a Brit basher wink

Well done both, always sad to see Gabi lose but nice to see Harriet continuing to make progress. Good look to both in the QFs. 



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Naomi will play qualifier Abbie Myers, who just beat 5th seed, Jang (who beat Laura). Myers is a strange one, clearly hs talent, but, at 23, has never managed a better ranking than WR472 despite consisten play. Her current ranking of WR641 is misleading, as she missed 8 of the last 12 months.

Harriet will face top seed and recent Brit Bęte Noire, Nara, a Bęte Nara, if you will (igmc). Further Fed Cup debate shenanigans may ensue.

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Well done Harriet. I didn't see that coming. The race for GB no.4 has added a new competitor.

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Congrats to Harriet, a massive result for her, and evens up her matches this year with Gabi 1-1. Yes, maybe putting her toes into the WTA water, has helped her progress and mature a little bit more than Gabi, who has still seen and done less at bigger tournaments in her stellar run over the last few months.

So it is Harriet that will redo the Fed Cup match up with Kurumi rather than Gabi, of course being someone who was nowhere near Miki at the time. The 21 pts for Harriet so far this week is only +12 net, as she had a 9 pointer coming off, so her upward live movement is only 2 places thus far to a new CH 213. Gabi does have 50 pts coming off in two weeks time, so will slip back a bit then, unless she can manage a good run in one of the Japan events. The progress she has made so far this year is of course immense. Naomi is +8 pts so far and 2 places up at live rank 126.

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Naomi and Katy won their doubles match, whilst Em and Ksenia knocked out Laura and Harriet.

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Lovely to see Harriet really stringing it together after a fairly static 2017. Such a nice girl.

Delighted for Em and Ksenia, putting 3 missed match points behind them at *5-3 to easily win the tiebreak. Some much needed points.

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Against a team including Ninomiya, Emily will get a chance to show she should not have been left on the bench for the doubles rubber by Annie K.

QF: Dart/Robson (GBR/GBR) [3] 312 lost to Webley-Smith/Lykina (GBR/RUS) 472 3-6 6-7(3)
QF: Broady/Dunne (GBR/GBR) [2] 243 defeated (WC) Hayashi/Uchijima (JPN/JPN) 1584 6-3 6-4

SF: Webley-Smith/Lykina (GBR/RUS) 472 v. Hozumi/Ninomiya (JPN/JPN) [1] 100
SF: Broady/Dunne (GBR/GBR) [2] 243 v. Fujiwara/Naito (JPN/JPN) 494

Edit: SF opponents now known



-- Edited by blob on Thursday 3rd of May 2018 08:06:11 AM

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I see what you did there blob.....

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The down side for Emily is that if she wins her semi she may miss out on singles in China next week, unless she scrapes in the main draw.


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Well done, Harriet. Had money on her to win. (Although also had money on her and Laura in the doubles and that didn't work out).

But it just felt like her time. She has a big game, far bigger than some of the others, but needs to believe in it. In fact, it was The O's comment (I think) way back that I found most interesting - that Harriet had been a very defensive player as a kid, 100% just getting the ball back, and really has had to transform herself into an attacker - it's not easy, takes a decent coach and a real dedication and belief to do that. Looks like its paying dividends though. The best thing is that her best surface is probably grass - she's played some super matches at Surbiton and Wimbly qualis. Mind you, Gabi's not too shabby there either

Well done to Naomi too.

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QF: DART, Harriet (GBR) 215 v NARA, Kurumi, (JPN) 103 CH=32 2014
QF: BROADY, Naomi (GBR) 4 128 v MYERS, Abbie (AUS) Q 641 CH=472 15/6/15

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Delighted for Em and Ksenia, putting 3 missed match points behind them at *5-3 to easily win the tiebreak. Some much needed points.

Yes, Emily's doubles ranking is interesting because she is stuck in a range at the moment. She has so many lower counters, that anything lower than 15 pts doesn't add to her tally. She has replaced her last 12 pts that counted (ie 15k W) this week, so thus far is net 30 pts on the week, which will lift her 20 places from 286 to 266. But the range of her counters is only between 15 and 50 points now, with her 42 pts here so far being her second largest counter. But her largest, 50 from a 25k W at Hua Hin last year, drops off later this month, and so her ranking will regress again soon unless she can add further to her points this week or next. 

Ironically, Ksenia's ranking position has benefited much more from her two weeks with Em so far, with Ksenia's 42 pts here so far and her 9 pts from Karshi both adding to her total to move her up 29 places to 177 in the live rankings. But Ksenia has one 100 pt counter, which Emily does not have. Next week the two will go separate ways again.  



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Excellent win for Harriet....building nicely towards WR131 by year end wink
Also delighted for Em and here's hoping for 3 GBRs in the final smile



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vohor wrote:

Excellent win for Harriet....building nicely towards WR131 by year end wink

Your powers of augury for Ms. Dart & Taylor, G. are proving rather effective.
Still need to work on that promised reverse jinx effect for Ms. Robson



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