Could have been easier, but not too bad. The Italian will likely be the favourite given that clay looks her preferred surface, and Naiktha would have obviously preferred a Chloe Compson like WC to ease her way through the draw, but she basically needs QF points anyway to improve her ranking as she has already got plenty of 25k R1 5 points in reserve, so would more than likely have to beat a seed in R1 or R2 to prosper and it's not the likes of Badosa Gibert, Rus or Bondar. If she can come through this she will face either a WC or Q for a place in the QF.
-- Edited by Ace Ventura on Monday 15th of April 2019 06:40:09 PM
Was just having a quick look at the odds and the opponent is a slight 4/7 favourite (Naiktha 5/4), but there is a little video sign next to her match, so Court 2 must be streamed. She's 3rd on after 1pm, so we're probably looking at 4.30/5pm UK.
Could be a while yet before Naiktha get on. Allertova has just come through a 3 set match on her court which would have lasted nearly 3 hours and Zimmerman is in the early stages of her match, so I doubt Bains will be on much before 6pm UK.
I tried to watch a few mins of the Zimmerman match and the stream isn't great - you can't really see the far line and it's so blustery if you have volume. I did switch over to the Astra Sharma match in an 80 or 100k green clay event is the US and that stream is so much better quality.
