Andy Parker wrote:

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Bogdan wins 6-3 6-1.

I feared for Harriet when I saw the draw - Bogdan is a good sound player, much better than her ranking would suggest; the Romanians have some really good players at the moment, no doubt all trying to be the next Halep. People will look at Bogdan's ranking and say Harriet has done really badly, but rankings so often don't tell the whole story. On the plus side, Harriet qualified and that is a sign that she deserves to be in the top 100 and can get there.

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Pity, Bogdan too good. 

I don't think that Harriet "deserves to be in the top 100". She's done well to again qualify for a Slam MD but she still has to prove more and earn that top 100 place.

I have a reasonable amount of confidence that she can get there but for now I don't see her as underranked. 

Andy Parker wrote:

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Bogdan wins 6-3 6-1.

I feared for Harriet when I saw the draw - Bogdan is a good sound player, much better than her ranking would suggest; the Romanians have some really good players at the moment, no doubt all trying to be the next Halep. People will look at Bogdan's ranking and say Harriet has done really badly, but rankings so often don't tell the whole story. On the plus side, Harriet qualified and that is a sign that she deserves to be in the top 100 and can get there.

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But Andy, Bogdan is 27 in a couple of months (so should really be in her prime) and is currently ranked 152, did feature in qualifying, and a few places adjusted here and there, Harriet could have faced her in quals. Likewise Babos, currently ranked 125, another mid 20s who was a mainstay of the top 100, but is where she is and beat Harriet comfortably a couple of weeks ago, which you watched. The amount of Anisimova's, Andreescu's, Yastremska's, Swiateks etc. just to name a few who are really arriving and have arrived means there are so many players who can be top 100, and it will be harder to get in. Flipkens, Niculescu, Cirstea, Bouchard, Barthel, Buzarnescu (injury issues) were all factors of the top 100 but are all currently outside that landmark.

Bogdan was the favourite here (as would about 90% of the draw have been), so no shame in losing, although the scoreline is a bit discouraging, but Harriet hasn't beaten one top 100 player in 2019, and had 2 opponents in qualfying who needed a QWC to get in, so still a long way to go on that front to say she deserves to be top 100 IMO.

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HarryGem wrote:

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Poor result for Harriet and let's hope Jo doesn't implode

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 You'd have hoped for a slightly closer score but I don't think it's a poor result - Bogdan was favourite, and rightly so, given her far higher CH ranking.

Now if Jo were to lose to Kasatkina, THAT would be a poor result (much as I like watching Kasatkina play and am a fan)

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I've just mentioned similar. But then, Wang Xiyu and Baptiste were also betting favourites by similar margins, like 4/9 vs 13/8, so she did well to win those, particularly Xiyu, so there are definitely positives for the past 7 days and I'm sure she would have taken the outcome this time last week, but still a lot of ? over how far she can eventually go, and being well beaten by Bogdan asks further questions IMO. FWIW, Harriet was 2/1 to beat Babos, and around 4/7 vs 5/4 against Duval, Loeb and Harrison, so it kind of shows the level where the bookies think Harriet currently is.