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Ace Ventura


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I'd fully expect that to be Vekic vs LL before Sunday.

Jo can't have any complaints with that. It obviously depends who she gets because drawing someone like Pera (who does have a tough FQR) or Nara/Perrin is different, but she is pretty much guaranteed to play someone outside the top 100 or just inside and then R2 is pretty favourable as well should she get there - US WC Lauren Davis or the lesser Pliskova and both of those are outside the Wimbledon cut off, so when you consider all the players she could have played - Azarenka, Ostapenko, Yastremska, healthier Vondrousova etc. then it could have been far worse. Should be a good chance to get that 1st RG win. Bertens will probably wait in R3, but I'm sure Jo would have snapped your hand off to lose in R3 before the draw, despite her recent exploits. I was getting concerned when watching the draw live as they placed the seeds in batches and the last batch was 25-32 and Yastremska was still lurking as a potential opponent, but she drew Carla SN instead.

Katie S still has a lot of work to do, but that would be an interesting potential R1 match...

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There is at least 1 LL spot because Giorgi pulled out late (before the draw), so there are 13 Q spots (or Q/LL) to place, not 12.

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No actual thread for the main draw...?

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Needs someone who knows how to do it to do one I think !

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JonH wrote:

Needs someone who knows how to do it to do one I think !

 Not much different to making a thread post. Would be done it myself but I hate doing it in my phone.



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Q2: SWAN, Katie (GBR) 208 def WANG, Xiyu (CHN) 144 6-4 0-6 7-5
Q2: WATSON, Heather (GBR) 5 105 lost to GRAMMATIKOPOULOU, Valentini (GRE) 193 5-7 7-6(6) 6-7(3)

Q2: SWAN, Katie (GBR) 208 v KUCOVA, Kristina (SVK) 189 CH=71 2016
H2H 1-0 Wimbledon 2015 Swan 6-3 6-4

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So pleased that Katie S won again today and she has a real chance tomorrow I think - Kucova came through quickly in straight sets and therefore might be the fresher player, but it has to be a winnable match for Katie S, and Peter Too's info showing the head to head with a win for Katie S at Wimbledon must give her some encouragement. I am glad it is third on court; any extra rest will help Katie S I think.

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Katie Swan's match is about to start on court 12.

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Started with a hold to 15 for the Slovak, *0-1.

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Not the best start with an instant break....

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Far better game as she, just, breaks back

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There's so many FQR matches I'm interested in, it's hard to keep up. I do have the ES Player, but I'm watching on Bet365 as the picture isn't much different and it's so much easier to flick between the matches without seeing McDonalds and Bet at Home adverts all the time.

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Yes, me too.

So important for Katie to have broken back. She played that service game far better (two aces, two first serve winners, plus a DF)

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Pera has just beaten Juvan in a deciding set tie break to qualify. She was just behind Minella (last in) at the initial entry list on 29th April with a ranking of 105 and after winning an W80 last week, her current ranking of 83 made her the top seed, so it's nice that she has qualified, especially with the LL spots opening up as she would (arguably should) have been in anyway.

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THat's the first bad service game I've seen from Katie.

She looked nervous, missed serves by a long way, and lost the game and the set 4-6

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