Week 29 - WTA International ($250K) Bucharest, Romania Clay

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

Week 29 - WTA International ($250K) Bucharest, Romania Clay

Michael D · All-time great

Ace Ventura wrote:
Bit of a missed opportunity for Naiktha here given her H2H record and that Xu has been in poor form the past few months. Also Xu's FQR opponent had just completed a near 4 hour 3 TB win - started at 10am local (8am here) and has just finished about 30 mins ago (3h 47m), and because it was delayed from yesterday, the opponent will have to face Xu later today, so that could turn out to be almost a bye / retirement and a good chance to qualify for a WTA main draw. Xu did also beat #461 Dinu yesterday in her Q2 match.

Yes, and it may cost her getting into US qualifying from your other comments...

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

FWIW, Cadantu actually won the first set, had a long medical time out and then lost sets 2 and 3 6-0 6-2, so was obviously clearly affected by her heroics a couple of hours earlier.

Mind, she, along with 2 others did manage to get in as LLs, so 7 of the 8 FQR participants got in.

indiana · Tennis legend

Michael D wrote:
Ace Ventura wrote:
Bit of a missed opportunity for Naiktha here given her H2H record and that Xu has been in poor form the past few months. Also Xu's FQR opponent had just completed a near 4 hour 3 TB win - started at 10am local (8am here) and has just finished about 30 mins ago (3h 47m), and because it was delayed from yesterday, the opponent will have to face Xu later today, so that could turn out to be almost a bye / retirement and a good chance to qualify for a WTA main draw. Xu did also beat #461 Dinu yesterday in her Q2 match.
Yes, and it may cost her getting into US qualifying from your other comments...

The US Open qualifying list will be based on the current 15/07 rankings and I imagine will be out in the next day or two. So anything achieved this week would have had no effect on that.

Naiktha is WR 231 at 15/07.

( edit: correction - MD list 15/07 rankings, Q list 29/07 ).

-- Edited by indiana on Tuesday 16th of July 2019 08:41:19 AM

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

indiana wrote:
Michael D wrote:
Ace Ventura wrote:
Bit of a missed opportunity for Naiktha here given her H2H record and that Xu has been in poor form the past few months. Also Xu's FQR opponent had just completed a near 4 hour 3 TB win - started at 10am local (8am here) and has just finished about 30 mins ago (3h 47m), and because it was delayed from yesterday, the opponent will have to face Xu later today, so that could turn out to be almost a bye / retirement and a good chance to qualify for a WTA main draw. Xu did also beat #461 Dinu yesterday in her Q2 match.
Yes, and it may cost her getting into US qualifying from your other comments...
The US Open qualifying list will be based on the current 15/07 rankings and I imagine will be out in the next day or two. So anything achieved this week would have had no effect on that.
Naiktha is WR 231 at 15/07.

The 15th is for the main draw. I thought quals would be a week later, but apparently its the 29th, so if that's true, Katie could potentially sneak back in if she does well in her W60, but Naiktha won't have a chance to improve hers.

the addict · Tennis legend

We could do with a thread in the entries section where the entry dates are posted for easy reference

indiana · Tennis legend

Correct. 15th for the MD and 29th for Q.

Apologies, Michael. A bit of a duh moment.

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

So Katie actually has 2 W60 attempts to boost her ranking over the next 2 weeks. Naiktha isn't in any W60+ ITF events, but it was a surprise to me when it turned out she was playing Bucharest, so maybe she will appear in either the Palermo or Latvia WTA qualifying and have another chance before the Q cut off.

Edit - just had a quick look and Naiktha isn't in either Q list yet, but the final Q entrants are low 200s, so she may be an alt on either ist.

-- Edited by Ace Ventura on Tuesday 16th of July 2019 08:51:28 AM

indiana · Tennis legend

L16: Naiktha Bains & Anastasia Grymalska (ITA) CR 365 (175+190) lost to (4) Viktoria Kuzmova & Kristyna Pliskova (SVK/CZE) CR 193 (72+121) by 4-6 6-3 [10-7]

Looks a very decent effort. 5 breaks of serve apiece. But not to be.

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

Nice story in Bucharest. Patricia Maria Tig has just beaten top 10 chasing, top seed and defending champion Sevastova. She's just 24 but took a break in Sept 17 due to injuries and since had a baby and then returned a few months ago on the Mexican W15 scene - I remember SQ being disappointed when Amelia Stuart drew her in Cancun in her first tournament back - that's a bit of a change of scenery, going from Amelia in a W15 to Sevastova in your home WTA event in just over 3 months. She's into the QF now, her last WTA main draw win before this week was Heather in Washington 2017, not long after Wimbledon.

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

Tig went on to beat the lesser Pliskova and then Siegemund to reach the final, and she's due to play one of the brightest young breakout stars of recent months in Rybakina, so that should be an interesting final on BT Sport tomorrow. First WTA final for Rybakina and Tig is chasing her first title having lost her previous final.

Michael D · All-time great

And just to be clear Tig's pathway to the WTA Bucharest final has been a series of W15 Cancun tournaments, culminating in two wins, and a Wimbledon QR1 loss.

So Tig has effectively gone from a series of W15 tournaments to a WTA final. Her WTA singles high is 83 but currently she doesn't even have a WTA ranking!!!

In just over two weeks the dual ranking system disappears, but if there was ever a case to illustrate it's ridiculousness, she is UNRANKED in a WTA final... confuse wink disbelief

-- Edited by Michael D on Saturday 20th of July 2019 07:35:41 PM