Ace Ventura wrote:

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Anyone shed any light on Panova? I'm familiar with pretty much all the current top 200 but I wasn't as big a fan 6 years ago when it looks like she was in her prime. I'm guessing injuries and using PR?

Looking at Her most recent results, doesn't appear to be in great form and Dart is 4/11 favourite- but then again, she was the favourite in each of her last 3 losses.

Should she advance then she could have the 4th Q seed Tomova in the FQR.

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From memory Panova has a good forehand, decent doubles player (partnered Hev a few times), injuries have marred a few come back attempts in recent years. Beatable but not a pushove.

Thanks Ace, almost missed this. Harriet holds for 5-3* - and it is two breaks to one in her favour.

2nd set not going too well though *1-4. (5-17 points)

Second set Harriet was hammered. 47% first serve percentage, 38% won, whilst Panova lost only 2 pts on serve the whole set. And now Harriet has been broken to love at the start of the third set. Omens are not good. 6-4 1-6 0-1*

PaulM wrote:

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This is becoming a regular pattern

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Yes, my thoughts. If she is going to continue to test herself at this level, she needs to improve her serve, and make sure she has the fitness necessary. Interesting that it looks like Gabi's strategy - albeit she has been injured - in contrast is to go back down to the level at which she was successful early in the year. Seeing that Gabi has points to defend in the coming months, and has not had a run of wins for a while, that's sensible. I'm not sure about Harriet's current strategy, though I hope she is learning.

Thing is, some of these opponents Harriet has been losing to recently won't look out of place in 25k draws, certainly not 60k anyway. It may look a higher level on paper being a full WTA event, but she would have been beating better players than these even before the grass season.

I didn't know much about Panova, but a quick look at her results shows she has been playing more doubles recently and she's lost her last 3 singles matches in recent weeks to Perrin, Hatouka and Samsonova, haven't heard of the latter two. To lose 6-1 6-1 after taking the first is pretty disappointing.

In theory, it probably will be better to drop back down to 25-60k level, but as I say, it's not as if she's been losing to emerging talents on the brink of the top 100 recently.