Laura serving for her match, and for a guaranteed Brit in the main draw, *6-5.
Jodie is 1/12 to beat her 18 year old French opponent, so while it looked like she stuttered earlier, hopefully she can get the job done. Doubt we can read too much into it, but Robbe lost 0 and 1 to Mandy C less than 2 weeks ago.
Laura vs Tara Sam vs Paar/Andrei Holly vs M Noel Jodie vs Robbe
Guaranteed a qualifier, I'd say 2 would be par (Jodie) and anything else would be a bonus. Holly is 7/1 to beat Noel, whereas she was just 7/2 pre match to beat Alicia, so it's maybe taking into account time on court or that Noel is more higher rated than Alicia, despite Alicia being the higher seed.
Jodie and Sam are on Courts 7 and 8 (with the others TBC), so we will be able to see those 2 matches as they are the streamed courts.
-- Edited by Ace Ventura on Monday 1st of April 2019 02:50:44 PM
Mpukusa soundly beaten 1-6 1-6, but Bektas was a monumental betting favourite there. Plus this was Kimberly's first match this year and she's not won a match since last July and Ireland 15k quals and her last 2 matches were 0-6 2-6 and 2-6 0-6 defeats.
And we do have all the MD WCs correct - so congrats to Victoria Allen for the WTA ranking she will gain , Ella Taylor, Alice Gillan and well deserved too for Sasha Hill.
Paar might be a bit screwed by the scheduling here. I posted 50 mins ago that she had just got past the 16 year old and her match with Sam follows Pauffley vs Farmer which is 6-0 4-0, so just about over. It says not before 4.45pm, but even that seems quite a sharp turnaround and would only be about 80/90 mins - could they push that further back or will it just be a case of getting on with it?
Of the MD placings there are a lot of favourable ones for Brits. Ironically the toughest first round draw goes to Maya who plays Lesley Kerkhove, 4th seed. Every other British player has avoided a seed, and since none of them are seeds that's quite remarkable!