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

PaulM · Tennis legend

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

indiana · Tennis legend

If this has been Katie inching towards the top 100 I'll be quite excited when she gets on a hurry up with her rankings progress

Be great if she could follow up the Krunic top 50 win of last week but would no doubt have to step up very significantly on yesterday.

Michael D · All-time great

indiana wrote:
If this has been Katie inching towards the top 100 I'll be quite excited when she gets on a hurry up with her rankings progress

Be great if she could follow up the Krunic top 50 win of last week but would no doubt have to step up very significantly on yesterday.

Yes, not my definition of inching either, unless you're meaning a daily inch Paul? wink ... Just 8 weeks ago Katie was WR156, now she is live rank 105... Heather was WR91 then, and Katie was still GB#4.

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

Jo & Zhang's first set against the Romanian duo was close throughout, but they finished the wrong side of the score
They're trying to redress the balance in set 2 however
4-6 *3-1

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

Second set goes to a TB, 4-6 6-6

On another court, Canadian Slam champ, Dabrowski, is playing with her regular partner, Xu, against Genie & Sloane. If anyone has coverage and can tell me who the crowd are cheering for in this match, I would be very interested to know.

indiana · Tennis legend

Just caught on livescore the Romanians winning the deuce point at 6-5* to Jo+ so rather than straight to a MTB Jo+ will have to win the 2nd set TB and then MTB.

indiana · Tennis legend

Part 1 accomplished rather tidily.

4-6 7-6(1)

MTB ...

indiana · Tennis legend

MTB at 6-6*

indiana · Tennis legend

MTB at *9-9. Had a MP at *9-8

indiana · Tennis legend

Yay, MTB won 11-9

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

Sevastova 'did a Boulter' and beat Krunic 6-1 6-0 (wonder what's got into Krunic recently) so it was looking like a much earlier start for Katie B, but the 2nd match between Gavrilova and Safarova has just gone into a third (6-4 4-6) so could be up to an hour before Katie is on. Gavrilova had *3-2 in that 2nd set so Safarova did well to turn that around.

indiana · Tennis legend

R32: Johanna KONTA/Shuai ZHANG (GBR/CHN) 199 (129 + 70) beat Irina-Camelia BEGU/Simona HALEP (ROU/ROU) 188 (26 + 162) 4-6 7-6(1) [11-9]

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

Yes, what Indy said
Jo shooting back up the dubs rankings!

-- Edited by AliBlahBlah on Monday 6th of August 2018 06:06:44 PM

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

Gavrilova now serving for the match.

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

There must have been some significant money going on Tsurenko today. I'm sure they started out at 8/15 (Tsurenko) vs 11/8 and it was definitely 4/9 vs 13/8 a few hours ago but it's now 1/3 vs 9/4 - that's quite a significant jump from 11/8 to 9/4 without a single ball being hit.

Lesia's first event since Wimbledon. She has retired twice in her last 3 events, and while its not nice seeing players retire/injured, if it ends up being 3 from 4 and Katie get's those 60 points, there'll be no complaints from me.