Week 41 - WTA International ($750k) - Hong Kong - Hard

Michael D · All-time great

Week 41 - WTA International ($750k) - Hong Kong - Hard

Peter too · Tennis legend

Heather 3-6 6-3 *0-0

Peter too · Tennis legend

After the first three games of set 3 going against service Lu manages to hold
Heather 3-6 6-3 *1-3

Peter too · Tennis legend

After breaking Heather's serve againLu was serving for the match at 2-5*
Heather then broke back *3-5 but is it too late.

Peter too · Tennis legend

Q1: WATSON, Heather (GBR) 1 90 lost to LU, Jia-Jing (CHN) 192 3-6 6-3 3-6 cry

flamingowings · All-time great

Urgh, Heather!

PaulM · Tennis legend

That's terrible

TomTraubert · Futures level

1st top 100 win for lu
chinese all gotten inspire by qiang wang + shuai zhang

-- Edited by TomTraubert on Saturday 6th of October 2018 07:41:52 AM

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

That is a very poor result and the first real set back since before Vancouver. The Diyas scoreline wasn't great last time out, but Zarina is at least a quality operator with notable wins and titles.

She has 60 points coming off soon from Luxembourg but she is in a couple more events before the end of the year - pretty sure it's Lux quals and then a French 80k ITF. She should be fine for main draw Aussie Open even if she didn't win another match, thanks to her recent resurgence, but she could do with one or two more wins just to make sure.

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

Lu then went on to lose 3 and 1 to Sharipova in the FQR so that potential Chinese inspiration didn't last long.

flamingowings · All-time great

Would Heather been better off playing Tiajin?

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

Just saw there were 3 LLs in the main draw due to a string of withdrawals including Osaka, so Hev almost certainly would have been in had she beaten Lu, regardless of how she got on in the FQR and with 6 Qs and 3 LLs and a lot of the bigger names withdrawing, a but of a missed chance.

-- Edited by Ace Ventura on Sunday 7th of October 2018 09:50:19 AM

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

flamingowings wrote:
Would Heather been better off playing Tiajin?

Tianjin looks much stronger with Singapore chasing Pliskova, plus Mertens and Sabalenka who have an outside chance (or certainly as the Alts), plus Garcia as well. I'm not sure of the cut, but with all the LL slots opening up in HK and the likes of Glushko getting in as a LL, I was just thinking Katie would have been far better off playing HK instead.

flamingowings · All-time great

Sorry I should have clarified my comment - even though the field is stronger in Tianjin, would Heather still have had to go through qualies there?

Edited for spelling

-- Edited by flamingowings on Sunday 7th of October 2018 09:54:23 AM

flamingowings · All-time great

No GB players in the doubles draw so GB interest has ended early here.

-- Edited by flamingowings on Sunday 7th of October 2018 09:59:47 AM