Week 20 - WTA Premier 5 ($3.45M) - Rome, Italy (Clay)

vohor · Grand Slam Champion

Week 20 - WTA Premier 5 ($3.45M) - Rome, Italy (Clay)

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

Fantastic news, and now definitely seeded for Paris. There's certainly unseeded players that can trouble her, and she's lost to a number of unseeded players in the recent past when she was a seed at slams as Rosamund pointed out the other day, but it must be a huge relief knowing that she now can't face the likes of Bertens, Kvitova, Halep, Ka Pliskova and co until at least the 3rd round.

Well done Jo.

-- Edited by Ace Ventura on Friday 17th of May 2019 04:53:44 PM

Status Quo · Intermediate Club Player

I'm done trying to rationalise or understand how and why this Brit clay queen has suddenly come to be.
I'm just thoroughly enjoying the wild ride.

Well done Ms. Konta

Jan · Hall of fame

Fabulous!!!

biggrin biggrin biggrin

Nix · Futures level

Fantastic Jo!

Spireman · Club Coach

A nice birthday present for her too!

Strongbow · All-time great

Spireman wrote:
A nice birthday present for her too!

indiana · Tennis legend

Yay biggrin

Kiki is up to live ranked #3, a win over Jo away from going live #2 and possibly WR 2 on Monday.

Time for our Clay Queen to put a stop to the rise and rise of Bertens.

flamingowings · All-time great

Way to go Jo! Fabulous birthday present! Looks like it's all coming together...again.

JonH · All-time great

Jo and Kyle are now both live 31 in world, no has chance to become top brit.

Which makes me ask questions has she ever been top brit before ie when Andy was up there was no ahead of him at any stage ?

Mervatron2 · Challenger qualifying

Cracking win from Jo

Status Quo · Intermediate Club Player

JonH wrote:
Jo and Kyle are now both live 31 in world, no has chance to become top brit.

Which makes me ask questions has she ever been top brit before ie when Andy was up there was no ahead of him at any stage ?

Yes, quite a lot.

e.g. a 23 week period consecutively from 6th November, 2017 through 9th April, 2018
Johanna was both our WTA #1, and higher ranked than our ATP #1's, Andy or Kyle, during that entire period - thus top ranked Brit during at least, but not limited to, that span

JonH · All-time great

Status Quo wrote:
JonH wrote:
Jo and Kyle are now both live 31 in world, no has chance to become top brit.

Which makes me ask questions has she ever been top brit before ie when Andy was up there was no ahead of him at any stage ?
Yes, quite a lot.
e.g. a 23 week period consecutively from 6th November, 2017 through 9th April, 2018
Johanna was both our WTA #1, and higher ranked than our ATP #1's, Andy or Kyle, during that entire period - thus top ranked Brit during at least, but not limited to, that span

Cool, never realised !

flamingowings · All-time great

Jo has more points with 1550 vs Kyle's 1325 so technically she is top Brit. At least as per live-tennis.eu's rankings.

wolf · Tennis legend

Rabat final rematch still on....