Ace Ventura wrote:

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hoots wrote:

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Is there any reason why Harriet is not entered in the qualifying? Has she played since the Fed Cup?

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That remains a mystery. Her last singles match was exactly 7 weeks ago against Sharapova. She entered IW but withdrew last week and was still training in London a few days ago.

Whether she picked up a knock at the Fed Cup or just had her confidence knocked a bit by that double bagel and wants to work on a few things, who knows, but it does feel like ages and would be good to see her back in (single's) action soon to build on her great start to the year - it does seem like a chance missed to progress even further. 

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 Harriet posted on Instagram yesterday. Still in London training - said she hope to be fit in time for Miami.

 

Edit: - Typos, I'm always hitting the wrong keys on my tablet, and not spotting the typos until afterwards

-- Edited by the addict on Tuesday 5th of March 2019 08:42:45 AM

Well done Katie! 
Oh Heather. Great fight back, got so close 

Katie on first tonight, 7pm UK time. Golubic played W, T, F, S, S last week in the challenger and of course yesterday, so this is her 7th match in as many days. Most of her wins were in straight sets, but that's still a very tough schedule, so hopefully it'll catch up on her today.

Q1: WATSON, Heather (GBR) 18 113 lost to ERRANI, Sara (ITA) 143 2-6 7-6(3) 4-6
Q1: BOULTER, Katie (GBR) 6 85 def KIIcK, Allie (USA) 145 7-5 5-7 6-2

Q2: BOULTER, Katie (GBR) 6 85 v GOLUBIC, Viktorija (SUI) 82 CH=51 3/4/17

R1: KONTA, Johanna (GBR) 45 v PARMENTIER, Pauline (FRA) 54 CH=40 2008
H2H 3-1
Saint-Gaudens 2014 Parmentier 4-6 7-5 5-7
Nantes 2014 Konta 6-3 6-4
Vancouver 2015 Konta 6-3 6-1
Miami 2017 Konta 6-4 6-0

Katie has saved a few SPs, but still a lot of work to do. 3-5*

She got it back on serve and then saved 2 more SPs at 0-40, but couldn't save the third. 4-6.

-- Edited by Ace Ventura on Tuesday 5th of March 2019 07:53:17 PM

There were a few breaks throughout, but Golubic ended up getting one more in each set, so finished 4-6 3-6.

Can't really say too much without seeing the match. Slightly unlucky drawing the now higher ranked Golubic, despite her being the 6th seed, but then again, I guess drawing someone like Golubic in the main draw would have been considered decent and she probably is the type of player Katie will eventually need to be beating if she is going push towards the top 60. Mind, that's 7 wins in 7 days for the Swiss and 6 of those have been in straight sets, so fair play to her.

On to Miami next, where she'll have to win 2 Q matches to equal last year's efforts, assuming her QWC from last year isn't upgraded to a MDWC this year.

-- Edited by Ace Ventura on Tuesday 5th of March 2019 08:43:46 PM

Pretty much every women's FQR match has gone the other way to what I wanted and it's a shame because there's some really generous spots in the main draw. Q vs Q and about 4 or 5 vs WCs.