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Ace Ventura


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JonH wrote:

Possible opponents

twitter.com/SchoolerSport/status/1094340838501634048

 It'll be seeded, so it'll only become clear then which 4 of those 7 we could face - *new seedings will be out on Monday and it looks like we'll be unseeded with Brazil and Kazakhstan so probably won't be able to face either of those. Slovakia at home would give us a fair chance, Russia away - not so much.

*New rankings sorry, not seedings. Not sure what the criteria for the new rankings will be, but at the moment we're not seeded, whether our 10 match wins has any impact, time will tell.



-- Edited by Ace Ventura on Saturday 9th of February 2019 10:54:46 PM

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GB 2 Serbia 0

Katie Boulter WR 83 beat Ivana Jorovic WR 117 6-4 6-3
Johanna Konta WR 39 beat Aleksandra Krunic WR 57 7-6(1) 3-6 6-2

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Have only just finished watching as had things on earlier so recorded the BT stream and catching up.

In the end a fantastic result for the whole team and what a week in Bath it has been.

Well done to everybody and heres hoping for a favourable draw for April.

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Congratulations to Jo and Katie B, that will have done a world of good for Katie B, my view is DC was the making of Evo, indeed kept James Ward relevant and allowed him to break the top 100 and also inspired Kyle regularly giving him a real motivational lift as a developing player. What a great experience for Harriet, Katie Swan and Emma R, they will feel a real part of this success and want to contribute to similar in the future. Fantastic stuff, lets just wallow in it for a week or two!

 



-- Edited by Oakland2002 on Sunday 10th of February 2019 06:08:49 AM

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JonH wrote:

Possible opponents

twitter.com/SchoolerSport/status/1094340838501634048

 Some of the bigger names missing. No Osaka for Japan and no Muguruza for Spain.

You would want to avoid Russia, Spain. Slovakia would be difficult away.

Japan would be the only guaranteed home draw.



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Spain have just beaten Japan in the deciding doubles rubber, so Spain are ruled out.



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Spain have just beaten Japan 3-2, so Japan at home is a possibility, but Osaka twice????

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Again, we'll have to see who is seeded, I think Japan will be borderline now, but tbh, if a guaranteed home tie, I think I'd take that now. They'd be faves if Osaka played, but we'd probably be faves if she didn't. But, a home tie at a much bigger arena would be great and it would obviously be even bigger and cross over more if the 2 x reigning slam champ was involved - there'd be a lot more publicity and that could be great long term, even it it did end in another defeat.

I mainly want 2 things, a home tie and avoid Russia as I think Russia are superior in pretty much every area.

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Russia have loads of top players. For some reason, none turned out last year.

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paulisi wrote:

Russia have loads of top players. For some reason, none turned out last year.

Yeah it's crazy depth, 11 currently in the top 100 and a few more just outside (14 in top 114), so that's 14 players ranked higher than Dart and they don't get as many home tournaments as a lot of countries, so that'll generally be more natural placement. They've already lost that Moscow River Cup which went to Latvia and there was even talk about potentially losing the Kremlin Cup as well.

Their team against Slovakia this time lasy year was relatively weak, but they still had Pavs, Makarova and Vesnina against Latvia. Obviously Vesnina won't be in contention this year after her baby, but even that sort of team would be very tricky for us as we don't have 2 top 20 singles players and Ostapenko would have been fresh off her Miami Open final last April and she and Sevas were able to take 3 single's rubbers.

 

 



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Sevastova (Latvia), Andreescu (Canada) and Bencic (Swiss) are all a set up and in commanding positions in the second sets of their respective rubbers so those ties will likely be 3-0 and over very soon, leaving us with Slovakia, Italy, Netherlands, Japan, Russia, Kazakhstan and Brazil as potential opponents and we should learn of seedings tomorrow before Tuesday's draw.

Edit - Slovakia, Italy and Netherlands officially join Japan in the WG2 playoffs.



-- Edited by Ace Ventura on Sunday 10th of February 2019 12:28:00 PM

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Slovakia at home please



-- Edited by PaulM on Sunday 10th of February 2019 12:14:52 PM

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At the moment:


Netherlands
Russia
Slovakia
Japan

Italy
GB
Kazakhstan
Brazil

are the official current rankings. I've no idea how the latest results will affect things, but Russia being seeded seems the only thing absolutely certain and Italy unseeded also seems very likely.

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Great week for Team GB :D
Fingers crossed for that home play-off tie we are owed...

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The rankings explained isn't particularly helpful, but from looking at points awarded in previous years and making the assumption that February matches drop down a weighting level and not taking into account any bonus points I think the seeds are

1 Russia
2 Netherlands
3 Great Britain
4 Slovakia

But don't hold me to that

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