Apart from getting too far ahead of ourselves you need to look at who Jo would play in the 2nd round. One is Alexandrova who she retired to witha neck injury at Sydney this year and the other is Siniakova who she lost to at Shenzen in 2016. I know she had the great Wimbledon on 2017 but in the other 2 years she couldn't beat either Bouchard or Cibulkova on grass whereas she could beat them on hard courts.
Repeating the first round draw here before we start with the 1/7 rankings.
R128: Harriet DART (GBR) 182 vs Christina McHALE (USA) [LL] 108 (CH:24 Aug 12)
R128: Katie SWAN (GBR) [WC] 205 vs Laura SIEGEMUND (GER) 82 (CH:27 Aug 16)
R128: Johanna KONTA (GBR) [19] 18 vs Ana BOGDAN (ROU) [Q] 132 (CH:59 June 18)
R128: Heather WATSON (GBR) [WC] 122 vs Catherine McNALLY (USA) [Q] 165 (CH:164 June 19) 17yrs (JCH:6 March 19)
Repeating the first round draw here before we start with the 1/7 rankings.
R128: Harriet DART (GBR) 182 vs Christina McHALE (USA) [LL] 108 (CH:24 Aug 12) R128: Katie SWAN (GBR) [WC] 205 vs Laura SIEGEMUND (GER) 82 (CH:27 Aug 16) R128: Johanna KONTA (GBR) [19] 18 vs Ana BOGDAN (ROU) [Q] 132 (CH:59 June 18) R128: Heather WATSON (GBR) [WC] 122 vs Catherine McNALLY (USA) [Q] 165 (CH:164 June 19) 17yrs (JCH:6 March 19)
I think Konta will win. Heather is a favourite of mine but her form is do flaky not confident of a win against a US player who has been reasonably good on grass. To win tournament hopefully Pliskova or Kerber as long as it is not Serena
-- Edited by scottie1 on Sunday 30th of June 2019 03:54:58 PM