An incredible result from Katie It lifts her live ranking up to 113 now and if she does manage to win her next match then she will be 103-5 and just one win away from the top 100. Her rise over the last couple of months has been unbelievably fast and impressive; the growth in her confidence and quality of her performances near Remember it was only 3 months back in April when Annie K thought she had only two players she could use for all three Fed Cup matches in Japan...
Indeed if you divide up her last year, the past few months have been fantastic.
Counting her 30 points ( so far ) this week, with no further addition she will have scored 586 points in the year to 06/08/18 from 26 scoring weeks, with a ranking points score from her best 16 of 574 points.
In that year 13 of the scores were prior to Miami this year ( where she scored 30 points for qualifying ) and the other 13 scores from Miami on.
The split in points is :
07/08/17 to 18/03/18 : 137 from 13 ( 30, 1, 28, 1, 18, 30, 1, 10, 2, 1, 9, 5, 1 ) - these last 6 being from a slowish start to 2018 prior to Miami.
Harriet is serving for the 1st set now at *5-2, she hasn't allowed Bencic to hold any of her 4 service games, though at 30-40, Bencic has a point to break her for the 3rd time too, which she takes - 5-3*
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GB on a shirt, Davis Cup still gleaming, 79 years of hurt, never stopped us dreaming ... 29/11/2015 that dream came true!
Oh my. Wozniacki has just withdrawn from Washington. What an opportunity now for either Katie to make the semi final now. Imagine a Boulter vs Swan WTA quarter final match.