Lost in a MTB.

Never really been a Gavrilova fan, but after the other day, I hope she can get past Zhang.

JonH wrote:

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Not sure if anyone has spotted it but Harriet and Heather are a game away from winning against the third seeds!

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 Alas, they lost both the tie-break and the MTB. But what a great effort !

flamingowings wrote:

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Ace Ventura wrote:

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Lost in a MTB.

Never really been a Gavrilova fan, but after the other day, I hope she can get past Zhang.

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 Co-sign. However, Dasha's form has been woeful (as has the other Dasha, Kasatkina) for a while so it's a lot to hope for...

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It has indeed. I'm also not a big Sevastova fan, but was disappointed to see her withdrawing yesterday to allow Gav in as a LL. Hope Zhang doesn't got too far - I suppose at least it's just 30 points for that initial win over Swan  instead of 55 at Birmingham and would 'just' be around 55 (combined) if she were to win here as well. Will go up steep after that though.

 

-- Edited by Ace Ventura on Tuesday 25th of June 2019 01:50:20 PM

Jo has the break, Sakkari with her coach on court.

Yes, I noticed that, and she hadn't been in great form since reaching the Stuttgart final. She lost 5 of her 6 matches coming into the Harriet match (beating Barthel) and that's not a great result for her today. She's obviously high up in the rankings, but I often think her relationship with Sears is on a knife edge.

First set to Jo 6-4

flamingowings wrote:

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Ace Ventura wrote:

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Yes, I noticed that, and she hadn't been in great form since reaching the Stuttgart final. She lost 5 of her 6 matches coming into the Harriet match (beating Barthel) and that's not a great result for her today. She's obviously high up in the rankings, but I often think her relationship with Sears is on a knife edge.

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 Hmmm, perhaps so. Players have split with their coaches for less - players have also not split with their coaches for more, either (looking at you, Garbine!)

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I mean on paper it's good, she's in the top 20, but it's amazing how draws often up up for her due to retirements / walkovers. Wang Qiang was on a tear last year in Asia and reached the Wuhan semi final, but was physically done by the semi final and retired in their match. Andreescu after her IW exploits (in hindsight) shouldn't have played Miami, but she did and retired in their match meaning Anett reached the QF, and then Osaka gave her a full walkover to the Stuttgart final. Draws do open up all the time, but that's 3 fairly lucky breaks and those are significant extra points gained in huge tournaments, she might have won all 3 anyway, but that is a pretty fortunate streak, and she will probably know that. I do like her, and I do also like listening to Sears' OCC, so hope it works out, but I do just have a sneaky feeling.

I'm sure Sumyk must know something personal about Muguruza, ha.