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Michael D


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Well congrats to Harriet because she WILL now break into the top 200 next week BUT she needs to reach the final to remain there the following week when 18 pts come off. And her SF could be against the top seed WR134, unless the 8th seed can pull off a coup in their QF now underway.

But there is no doubt that if the rises of some of the others who have made them so far this year were predicted (even if not quite so rapidly), Harriet wins the reward for the surprise package of the year so far. May she continue, would be lovely to see her safely in that top 200 once the grass season kicks into gear. Not there yet though as she also has to cover those 50 pts for reaching the Surbiton SF last year, as Indy has already mentioned.

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Into a MTB for Harriet and Ankita 2-6 7-5

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And they did it. 6 points in a row. Another doubles final for Harriet.
2-6 7-5 10-5 biggrin


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Peter too wrote:

QF: DART, Harriet (GBR) 4 214 def THANDI, Karman Kaur (IND) 5 270 2-6 6-2 6-3

Harriet now has her SF opponent, and it will be the top seed. It will be a stern test for her, but Zhu only got through in 3 close sets and 2hrs 37 mins against the 8th seed, so there is still a good chance for Harriet here.

SF: DART, Harriet (GBR) [4] 214 vs ZHU, Lin (CHN) [1] 134 (CH:104 Oct 17)



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And doubles updated record... except their potential final opponents are still on court.

Opponents are eventually decided, and it is the unseeded pair who put out the 4th seeds in a MTB.

SF: Harriet Dart/ Ankita Raina (GBR/IND) [3] 405 beat Shuo Feng/ Jia-Qi Kang (CHN/CHN) 683 2-6 7-5 10-5

F: Harriet Dart/ Ankita Raina (GBR/IND) [3] 405 (197+208) vs Fangzhou Liu/ Fang Ying Xun (CHN/CHN) 1073 (1058+215)

 



-- Edited by Michael D on Friday 11th of May 2018 12:27:01 PM

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Another great day for Harriet :D

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Another great week for Harriet.

Zhu is the kind of player that Harriet needs to look to be beating to make the next step.

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Harriet's opponents in the dubs tomorrow play each other in the other singles SF. Harriet's SF is first so she'll have a longer rest period than her opponents.

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Mervatron2 wrote:

Another great week for Harriet.

Zhu is the kind of player that Harriet needs to look to be beating to make the next step.

She also benefits massively from having big WTA and ITF events in China. From her 22 events over the past 12 months, 11 were in China, 2 in nearby Taiwan and 3 in Japan. The remaining 6 included the 3 most recent Grand Slams and Dubai. We've seen first hand that this 60k event was very weak with Emily qualifying and the recent 125k's in Anning and ZhengZhou were not the strongest and MUCH weaker than the current 100k event in France and next week in Slovakia, so she is very lucky to be able to be able to hardly leave her region and still generate a ranking just outside the top 100 and vulture a lot of cheap and big points in her home country.



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Next weeks 100K in Trnava is shaping up to be as ridiculously over-stuffed as the now defunct, and lamented by nobody, Osprey $50K in the second week of Miami.

Zhu, however, is not really different to many Euro players staying in Europe, or the Amercans that barely leave the US, or at a stretch bravely venture to... Canada. She's no mug, and is the sort of WR150-250 potential player of which there are so many, and whose actual ranking fluctuates wildy based on hot streaks from about 80 to 300. She beat Kvitova in Tianjin.

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blob wrote:

Next weeks 100K in Trnava is shaping up to be as ridiculously over-stuffed as the now defunct, and lamented by nobody, Osprey $50K in the second week of Miami.

Zhu, however, is not really different to many Euro players staying in Europe, or the Amercans that barely leave the US, or at a stretch bravely venture to... Canada. She's no mug, and is the sort of WR150-250 potential player of which there are so many, and whose actual ranking fluctuates wildy based on hot streaks from about 80 to 300. She beat Kvitova in Tianjin.

She's at her lowest ranking of the year now at 134, been as high as 104 just 6 months ago. My main point was that it must be nice barely leaving her country and be able to hold a ranking that high. After the US Open in 2016, she had 11 events in a row in mainland China before the Aussie Open and unlike Europeans, she won't really have to deal with language and cultural differences like e.g. a Brit would in Bulgaria, which is a big advantage. Obviously that is largely when the tour is in it's 'Asian Swing' though.

The same can be said of Americans, but a lot of their ITFs do seem to be stronger (you'll know more with your charts) and you're more likely to have a more diverse field with more players willing / wanting to go there, but yes, if Katie Boulter or someone was playing e.g. Taylor Townsend who is probably even worse for it than Zhu, then I'd say her ranking of 80 or so is potentially pretty inflated.

That Slovakia field is unbelievably strong and to be the last direct entrant at #128 is insane.



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In sum, I'd put it this way: I not only hope for, but expect, Katie to win

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blob wrote:

In sum, I'd put it this way: I not only hope for, but expect, Katie to win

 smile haha



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Here we go then, the bid for the final, 1-1*
(almost guaranteed to fall asleep before this one is finished)

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Although... maybe not, if Harriet wraps it up in under an hour!
6-1

There is though, the infamous post-set reset attempting toilet break

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