Odds are up:

Naiktha 9/2, opponent 1/7 - when you're losing to Freya and someone ranked outside the top 800, you're going to be an outsider against most of this field (although to be fair, Katie S was 6/1 to beat Tiechman at RG quals)
Harriet 4/7, opponent 5/4 - pretty much the same odds as her recent matches with Harrison and Duval. I think Cabrera was even closer
Katie S 1/7, opponent 9/2 - looking at the youngsters recent results you'd like to think Katie should win, but she did go 3 sets with Babos in WTA San Jose the other week and had 5-5 on both the sets she lost, so could be a bit of a banana skin
Heather 2/5, opponent 7/4

So looking at that, you'd like to think the 2 clear favourites would go through (hopefully Hev is recovered sufficiently in time), Naiktha will be up against it, and Harriet's should be pretty close and wouldn't be a surprise if it went either way - she went 3 sets with Harrison and Cabrera and lost to Duval in those 3 similar odds matches I referenced. She was 2/1 to beat Babos FWIW.

3 wins would be great, and while 2 might be slightly under par (judging by those odds and the respective ranking difference between our 3 favourites and their opponents), I probably would just about take it, if offered.

Misses 4 break points.

3-6 *0-0

Over and out 63 61.

If she had levelled at 4-4* from 0-40 down it might have got interesting but those doubles from game point were wild.

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0-3*

She looks a bit out her depth sadly, shots are very lightweight. Reminds me of Hannah Collin for those of that fan generation

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 Yes I remember Hannah Collin . She won the British  National championships at Telford aged 17. I think she had Jo Durie and Alan Jones coaching her at some stage or other. 

I guess I'm going to know the answer to this but is there any way in the UK of watching the US open buying into Amazon? Really struggle to get past my principle of not supporting them in any shape or form.

Technically you can get a free prime trial for a month and cancel it - not giving them money that way, otherwise it's a lot harder.

I see our Aussie friends are doing well thus far, 4 wins from 4 (some of them outsiders) and another 5 to come before tomorrow. That's in addition to 5 in the main draw. We take (from their POV) an also-ran off their hands and she instantly becomes one of our better players. No wonder Naiktha wanted to switch alliagences when you see they have 14 players involved here compared to our 5 (2 which actually switched from there). They've also had their injury issues, 170 Birrell has had elbow surgery so isn't here, and Myers has had her fair share of injuries.

Both traditional sporting countries, both host grand slams as well as 3 WTA events, and our popn is nearly 3 x bigger - the respective current landscapes shouldn't be that different IMO.