Week 21 - WTA International ($250K) - Strasbourg, France - Clay [Doubles]

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

Week 21 - WTA International ($250K) - Strasbourg, France - Clay [Doubles]

Michael D · All-time great

Good to see Anna and Xenia playing together again... hope this means they will also pair up at the French Open. Their first performance this week in Slovakia was a bit hit and miss, still getting used to each other, but they seem to have a capacity for hanging in there together which is productive, and they are a lefty/ righty pair, which is helpful too (as are Beth and Olivia).

flamingowings · All-time great

They are indeed playing the FO together. I posted our women's doubles teams in Anna's current tournament thread.

Michael D · All-time great

flamingowings wrote:
They are indeed playing the FO together. I posted our women's doubles teams in Anna's current tournament thread.

Yes, I've seen it now thanks, I'm very pleased about that, and hope their partnership can flourish... She has some quite big points coming off over the next month, starting with 280 pts this week 21, so she needs a good partner and some good results.

adz1983 · Intermediate Club Player

AliBlahBlah wrote:
R16: Anna SMITH & Xenia KNOLL (GBR/SUI) 117 (48 + 69) v. Oksana KALASHNIKOVA/Alla KUDRYAVTSEVA (GEO/RUS) [4] 115 (67 + 38)
So close to being fourth seed themselves; they beat a team containing Kalashnikova yesterday/today, in the Trnava SF.

The doubles world #1, Latisha (Yung Jan) Chan, is here, and playing in an unseeded pair!

67+38 = 105

Strongbow · All-time great

Anna+ Starting

Michael D · All-time great

And Anna and Xenia have made a great start taking out the fourth seeds on another MTB... smile smile

Just to note that Anna's current ranking of 46 is a career high. The 280 pts from winning Nurnberg come off end of this week however, so she is currently -220, but only slips 3 places to 49 thus far. Best Anna can do from the week though is move back up to 47...

R16: Anna SMITH & Xenia KNOLL (GBR/SUI) 113 (46 + 67) beat Oksana KALASHNIKOVA/Alla KUDRYAVTSEVA (GEO/RUS) [4] 115 (67 + 38) 2-6 7-6(2) 10-5

QF: Anna SMITH & Xenia KNOLL (GBR/SUI) 113 (46 + 67) vs Qiang WANG/ Yafan WANG (CHN/CHN) 223 (143+80)

-- Edited by Michael D on Tuesday 22nd of May 2018 04:20:39 PM

-- Edited by Michael D on Tuesday 22nd of May 2018 04:26:32 PM

Strongbow · All-time great

Anna+ Starting - a real Britfest this morning.

TomTraubert · Futures level

could be carnage this morning for the brits

TomTraubert · Futures level

got the 1st set 63

TomTraubert · Futures level

84 in mtb
this pair aint winning pretty but getting the job done
95
would be f f sf in 3 events
10-5

real pleased for anna after slow start to 2018

vohor · Grand Slam Champion

10-5 in the MTB does the trick again; well done Anna & Xenia :D

Michael D · All-time great

The MTB specialists do it again... but still have to be able to take that skill into finals too. One more step to go before they have a chance at that this week, and it will be against the
Romanian pair that includes one of Anna's former partners this year, and who took out the top seeds in round one. And although unseeded, their ranking is in fact slightly higher than this week's 4th seeds whom Anna and Xenia in turn put out in the first round.

QF: Anna SMITH & Xenia KNOLL (GBR/SUI) 113 (46 + 67) beat Qiang WANG/ Yafan WANG (CHN/CHN) 223 (143+80) 6-3 3-6 10-5 smile

SF: Anna SMITH & Xenia KNOLL (GBR/SUI) 113 (46 + 67)Mihaela BUZARNESCU/ Raluca OLARU (ROU/ROU) 103 (61+42)

wolf · Tennis legend

Anna has just started her SF.

wolf · Tennis legend

3 breaks to start with and Anna and Xenia lead *2-1. Pretty sure I can see Dan Smethurst watching on the sidelines, presumably coaching Anna.