Week 32 - WTA Premier 5 ($2.8M) - Montreal, Canada Hard

Peter too · Tennis legend

Week 32 - WTA Premier 5 ($2.8M) - Montreal, Canada Hard

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

Hmm, tough. I like Donna and now Bencic is out of Washington I wanted her to win it, but even more so now.

indiana · Tennis legend

Well, in the FQR the winner plays ...

(wc) Leylah Fernandez (CAN) WR 730 (CH 723 in April), age 15, JCH 13 or (alt) Alicja Rosolka (POL) UNR (CH 636 in 2003), age 32, doubles WR 30

(21) Petkovic pulled out since she is through to the Washington SF. And presumably Vekic will follow if she also reaches the SF?

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

indiana wrote:
Well, in the FQR the winner plays ...

(wc) Leylah Fernandez (CAN) WR 730 (CH 723 in April), age 15, JCH 13 or (alt) Alicja Rosolka (POL) UNR (CH 636 in 2003), age 32, doubles WR 30

(21) Petkovic pulled out since she is through to the Washington SF. And presumably Vekic will follow if she also reaches the SF?

Just saw the full draw Indi and yes a good opportunity if she can get through the tie. Not sure if Petko was automatically withdrawn, but if so, then I'll massively be hoping Donna beats Linette.

Mind, we saw Stollar (probably at a similar level to Katie) push Vekic all the way last night so it's obviously not a foregone conclusion it that match up happens, although losing 6 straight games to Kiick was less encouraging.

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

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Main draw is about to start. Let's so who Jo faces...

newby · Junior player

Can you post the whole draw please...dont have facebook

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

newby wrote:
Can you post the whole draw please...dont have facebook

Will do, a lot of waffle with Simona now so can't see it happening any time soon although a nice time filler until Vika starts especially that Washington is rain delayed.

Think I like this better when the women are in Toronto.

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

Looks like Konta has a seed.

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

It's Ostapenko for Konta, probably Azarenka next if she wins as well. Tough.

I'll post the full draw up later.

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

Some interesting 1st round ties:

Konta vs Ostapenko is definitely the stand out (not just from this forums perspective)
Sakkari vs Kasatkina - French Open rematch and Sakkari is having a very good 2018, particularly on hard courts
S Williams vs Cornet - A bit of Wimbledon nostalgia there and the winner plays Kerber - more nostalgia should Serena could through.
Bouchard vs Mertens should be OK with Genie showing a bit of form recently and being the home town girl

Others - Kontaveit/Makarova, Ka Pliskova/Siniakova, Azarenka/Mladenovic

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

(1)Halep v BYE
Pavlyuchenkova v Q
Q v Cirstea
Q v (13)V.Williams
(12)Kasatkina v Sakkari
Sharapova v Q
Strycova v Rybarikova
BYE v (6)Garcia

(4)Kerber v BYE
S.Williams v Cornet
Van Uytvanck v Q
Begu v (15)Barty
(9)Ka.Pliskova v Siniakova
Zhao v Bertens
Makarova v Kontaveit
BYE v (7)Muguruza

(5)Svitolina v BYE
Krunic v Sevastova
Q v Gavrilova
Babos v (10)Goerges
(16)Osaka v Q
Tsurenko v Q
(wc)Abanda v Q
BYE v (3)Stephens

(8)Kvitova v BYE
Q v Buzarnescu
Azarenka v Mladenovic
Konta v (11)Ostapenko
(14)Mertens v (wc)Bouchard
Zhang v Q
Sabalenka v Q
BYE v (2)Wozniacki

So if Konta was to do well here, a potential path could be Ostapenko - Azarenka - Kvitova - Wozniacki - Svitolina/Stephen just to reach the final. Christ.

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

Not getting ahead of myself, but if Katie was to qualify then another hometown girl Abanda would definitely be the best option especially a she has beaten her in North America earlier this year. Zhang is in poor form as well so that would be an opportunity but I'm not really seeing any potential path where she might have a chance of picking up a couple of wins.

She's obviously got to get there first but if Vekic withdraws then there will be a half decent chance.

Peter too · Tennis legend

R1: KONTA, Johanna (GBR) 48 v OSTAPENKO, Jelena (LAT) 11 11 CH=5 19/3/18
H2H 1-1
Eastbourne 2017 Konta 7-5 3-6 6-4
Rome 2018 Ostapenko 6-2 3-6 4-6

-- Edited by Peter too on Friday 3rd of August 2018 11:36:39 PM

PaulM · Tennis legend

That draw is terrible.

Lots of doubles players in the qualy draw. A few girls will rightly be regretting their scheduling as they head off to play a very tough 60k qualies field instead.

flamingowings · All-time great

It's a premier 5 event...of course the draw is difficult...