Harriet and Heather withdrew from the doubles due to Harriet's injury.

Ace Ventura wrote:

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She can at least now get to New York in good time for US Open quals. I see that quals start on Monday this year - I assume some will have their first Q1 match on Tuesday, and ideally the 2 finalists here, because it's a Sunday final starting from noon (M & W), so the second semi final could finish around 6pm, and Van is also 3 hours behind NY, so would be a bit of a nightmare if they did have to play on Monday.

Hopefully Hev will be worrying about this potential scenario in a few days.

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Just going back to this, someone on TF is saying that Vancouver finalists will be automatically removed from US Open qualifying as per the US Open factsheet (which I can't find). That would be an absolute farce if true. I remember a few months Wang Xiyu's final with Galfi in a Spanish W60 the week before the French Open was delayed until the Monday, but was played at 10.30am so she had time to rush to Paris (wasn't too far) to sign in just in time, but can anyone remember the Vickery-Mertens WTA Hobart R2 farce 2 years ago:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTRztlMthpo

https://www.businessinsider.com/tennis-match-ends-one-game-retire-australian-open-2017-1?r=US&IR=T

They played one game and both wanted to retire, Vickery eventually 'successful', and then went on to play AO quals 2 days later. Mertens did actually go on to win that title (her first WTA one), but could only play doubles at the AO, whereas Vickery ended up losing in Q1, so it worked out better for the Belgian in the end, but a mess.

I suppose here, a place in the final would be on the line rather than just a place in a QF (albeit a bigger event), but they both clearly wanted no part of it - what would you do if you were Hev IF this is actually true? She can't really win - she's defending F points at Van, but also qualifed for the US Open last year, and everyone wants to play in the biggest events - I think I'd prefer to 'lose' in the SFs. She's of course got to win tonight, which isn't a given, for any of this to be relevant.

 

Sunday final here is so daft. There will be withdrawals

Quite a few walkovers in the doubles already - don't know if any injuries are involved

Lepchenko, Rodionova, Bonaventure, Sanchez, Minnen, Van Uytvanck

Plus of course Harriet and Heather

I watched all of the Babos v Harriet match and just to report that it wasn't great quality - the main thing to report was how short the points were, either ending in some good winners down the line or bad mistakes. Babos did look the better player, hitting the ball far harder than Harriet and making less mistakes - there were a few breaks on serve and it wasn't always that sure that Babos would prevail - the first set was very close, and as for the injury time out, there it occurred at 2-1 in the second set I think and wasn't due to an obvious fall or any noticeable injury that happened, so who knows what it was. Not a terrible performance from Harriet, but not that great either. No atmosphere there - not a single clap, even on match point.

Taken with an ace. 6-3