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Michael D


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Venus can't run. As the commentators are saying, she's clearly not fit. The games Venus got back at the start of the 2nd set are largely because of Jo error's... as soon as Jo places the ball wider, or drops it short, Venus is not running at all.

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Jo was up another break, but back to 3-3 now.
Come on Jo!

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Come on Jo! *5-4
One more hold please

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Hooray!!!!!!
She did it 6-2 6-4

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Yes, great for Jo. Her first Premier QF on clay. Venus has a knee injury that's affecting her push off and ability to stop too. Her service speed was down too, but a great day for JoKo nevertheless.

R16: Joanna KONTA (GBR) 42 beat Venus WILLIAMS (USA) 50 (CH:1 Feb 2002) 6-2 6-4

Kasatkina or Vondrousova next.

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Venus has been injured on and off for a while. Sure they were saying that during IW/Miami time as well.

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I didnt see the match but given the comments that Venus was injured it can be hard sometimes to play your normal game .

Given Jo had to play a three-setter earlier and beat Sloane Stephens she thoroughly deserves this win and her first Premier Clay quarter final .

She has a good chance to get to the semi finals .



-- Edited by nicofrance on Thursday 16th of May 2019 04:10:20 PM

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Quite amazing.
This being a Premier 5, not a Premier, these are very good points, more than covering her Nottingham Final points from last year.

She's more or less covered her entire grass - generally considered a strong surface for her - 2018 points with her exploits on the dirt thus far in 2019. Any onw see that coming 6 weeks ago?

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Quite amazing.
This being a Premier 5, not a Premier, these are very good points, more than covering her Nottingham Final points from last year.

She's more or less covered her entire grass - generally considered a strong surface for her - 2018 points with her exploits on the dirt thus far in 2019. Any onw see that coming 6 weeks ago?

 Unfortunately, the aim was to cover the 105 points from Rome from last year, which she has done in style - the grass court points will still have to be covered.



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If she were to win her QF, she'd stand a very good chance of an RG seeding; as things stand, she'd be tied for WR30.



-- Edited by wimdledont on Thursday 16th of May 2019 03:45:10 PM

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the addict wrote:
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Quite amazing.
This being a Premier 5, not a Premier, these are very good points, more than covering her Nottingham Final points from last year.

She's more or less covered her entire grass - generally considered a strong surface for her - 2018 points with her exploits on the dirt thus far in 2019. Any onw see that coming 6 weeks ago?

 Unfortunately, the aim was to cover the 105 points from Rome from last year, which she has done in style - the grass court points will still have to be covered.

Point still holds: Jo's 2019 clay points to date ~= to her 2018 grass points total. No one would've predicted that (or indeed, no one did).

 



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Status Quo wrote:

Quite amazing.
This being a Premier 5, not a Premier, these are very good points, more than covering her Nottingham Final points from last year.

She's more or less covered her entire grass - generally considered a strong surface for her - 2018 points with her exploits on the dirt thus far in 2019. Any onw see that coming 6 weeks ago?

 Been out for the day and seen tbe wonderful news that Jo has reached the q/f in Rome. More clay court main draw wins this year than in whole career before that. Didn't see anything like that happening when Yan Wang had 3  match points in 1St round  in Rabat.



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Great to see, even if Venus was clearly indisposed today.

When it was being said a little while ago that we had no women around that looked like possibly making the top 20 ( think it was 20 anyway  well at least older than just maybe Emma and she's just so early in her career, I did say I wouldn't discount Jo getting back there. Been there and done that and more ( neither would I actually discount everyone else given where Jo came from in her original big rise ). 

Obviously a fair bit to go yet but looking back on a good path just now, and on the dirt. Pleased for her 



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YAY; well done Jo :D


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Vondrousova and Kasatkina has just gone into a deciding set.

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