Any of you night owls want to want Jodie, she's 2nd on Court 2 which has not long got underway, so probably around 2am and the match is being streamed.
On a side note, does anyone know much about the Aussie Erin Routliffe? She's playing Q8 Melisse and is 1/20 to win despite being 23 and a half and 749 in the world. Promising college grad or something? Meliss is 21 and currently 638, so not that much difference, especially at the level, but that's a crazy discrepancy in the odds.
Never nice to see a retirement, but to use a pun from here a few weeks back, Jodie's opponent did topple over and retired 5-0 down so Jodie makes the main draw.
That's got to be up there with the easiest route through 3 rounds of Qs for a 60k event. She only had to win 27 games instead of the usual 36 minimum and only lost 3 combined.
Options are 2 seeded Ausies in Fourlis and Perez, the talented Tere-Apisah and Zlochova who I assume she would prefer.
I was meant to be going to bed but keep checking the score. It's gone pretty South quickly for Katy who has lost 4 games in a row, 1-4*.
Kato has not a match since mid July and has only won matches at one event since March, that was a 25k event in Thailand where she was the top seed. Her ranking has plummeted after barely winning a match since reaching the Hiroshima final in 2017.