Week 5 - WTA Premier ($823K) - St. Petersburg, Russia Hard

TomTraubert · Futures level

RE: Week 5 - WTA Premier ($823K) - St. Petersburg, Russia Hard

TomTraubert · Futures level

improvement on kontas 14 ret against alexandrova in sydney would be good
seem like a tight close match

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Great news, Tom, for Katie.

JonH · All-time great

If she gets through alexandrova then another qualie in martincova - real opportunity, must grab it

Jan · Hall of fame

Sad for Domi, but really pleased for Katie!

indiana · Tennis legend

L32: (LL) Katie Boulter WR 88 (=CH) vs (Q) Ekaterina Alexandrova WR 78 (CH 69 in September 2017)

First up on Wednesday, 1 pm local, 10 am GMT.

Hopefully Katie can carry on her run of wins over the last year against against WRs 62 to 100.

Unless the WTA have changed their LL rules a win would give Katie 55 points instead of her 18 LL points rather than as well as, a swap I am sure she would be very happy with.

vohor · Grand Slam Champion

Good luck Katie :)

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

Katie a fairly sizeable underdog tomorrow, 9/4 vs 1/3, probably largely due to the aforementioned superb recent indoor record for Alexandrova, 14-1 en route to reaching WTA Linz final from qualifying and winning a 125k, plus coming through quals here, but as mentioned, Katie has a decent record against this sort of ranked player. As it was so late, it's an unexpected bonus whatever happens, but if she could somehow beat the two qualifiers and reach the QF, that would be absolutely massive for her.

Edit - she' drifted to 11/4 overnight.

-- Edited by Ace Ventura on Wednesday 30th of January 2019 09:28:16 AM

Peter too · Tennis legend

Katie v Ekaterina 1-1
Landsville 2016 Alexandrova 6-7(3) 1-6
Southsea 2018 Boulter 6-4 6-2

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

Boulter with the first break in the match *4-3.

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

Broken when trying to serve it out. 5-5*

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

5-3* to 5-7 :(

Michael D · All-time great

Katie had 4 BPs opening game of the 2nd set and failed to take any of them... 5-7 *1-2

An hour on the clock. She will need the digging in deep to take something from this match, seems unlikely but ...

Hold's again after being taken to deuce 2-2, but a very quick service game against and now *2-3

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

Get in, takes the 2nd set 6-4. Looked in a bit of an awkward position at *3-4, but recovered, broke and then held.

4th match in a row to go 3 sets.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

That was a really tight set - hardly anything in it.
But Katie played well.
Now to see if she has the resources for a third.....