EWS and Ankita are in the doubles, but no breaks for them, they get the top seeds up first.

As well as beating her wildcard and KB winning her 2 matches of course.

Katie S obviously coming back from an injury lay off so even though rankings would suggest it might be an easy win, it may not be.
Good to see her back playing though.

JonH wrote:

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Live rankings shows Katie B moving ahead of Heather this week in the rankings, presumably that is correct? I see a good week could see her into the 80's in the ranks?

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Yes Jon, Heather will lose the 60 points she gained for reaching the Luxembourg QF last year on 22/10, and she only has 1 pointers to replace so she will fall to 628 points. Katie B can of course add further to her 647 points this week. But even if she doesn't the 18 points she has coming off on 29/10 will be replaced by a 9 pointer = 638 being the minimum she can be in two weeks time. Winning just one round here is 13 points, and she does have one 9 point counter, so would be +4. 

I use this to check points and rankings
openerarankings.com/WTAHome
If you look at the i next to the points, you get a drop down listing all counters, including non-counters.

Of course, nearer home, some Steven chap has this up to date again ( and similar for our men ) as well as his famous top 25 tables.

www.britishtennis.net/stats/ptdf.htm

Katie S is 1/33 fave to beat her 9/1 wildcard. I was quite surprised to see Boulter and Doi both 5/6 in their match. Katie is about 60 places higher but I suppose the Japanese woman has been in decent form, winning Vancouver and then getting a few wins in WTA Asia events, albeit mainly qualifiers. Still, obviously could have been far easier.