Week 39 - WTA International ($250k) - Tashkent, Uzbekistan - Hard

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

Week 39 - WTA International ($250k) - Tashkent, Uzbekistan - Hard

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

Harriet having a second successive shot at Tashkent qualies. Savinykh is often in the UK events where she tends to partner Freya in doubles. She's actually a lot higher ranked than I thought, so she must have had a reasonable few months. There was a picture of Harriet and Valeria together on the courts yesterday, so they may well be playing doubles together here.

If Harriet wins, she's very likely to have a US Open rematch in the FQR against Ana Bogdan, as the Romanian has drawn an Uzbek QWC, so it will be pretty tough for her to make the main draw, but here's hoping.

Edit - managed to miss Naomi in a small 16 person Q draw, so it's 2 GB vs Russia matches.

-- Edited by Ace Ventura on Friday 20th of September 2019 12:10:00 PM

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

Yeah, Savinykh was ranked 271 at the Glasgow W25 in February, and 257 at the W25 in Sunderland in April, but since then she was won 2 Asian W25s, and reached a final in a third, so has gained 130 of her 370 points from that.

www.tennisabstract.com/cgi-bin/wplayer-classic.cgi

flamingowings · All-time great

Harriet has started

flamingowings · All-time great

She has the first set 7-6

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

And the second set 6-2

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

And the 1/100 Bogdan unsurprisingly won 1 and 0, so it is the US Open rematch.

Jan · Hall of fame

Well done Harriet!

HarryGem · Club Coach

Great result for Harriet. The next match will be tough but frankly these are the sort of matches she needs to start winning on a regular basis if she is to become a top 100 player. Bogdan is decent but not great and is beatable.

flamingowings · All-time great

Naomi has lost the first set 3-6

Miriambee · Futures level

and won the 2nd set! by the same score.

DF · Tennis legend

Unexpectedly Naomi takes the second 6-3 but already down a break in the deciding set

-- Edited by DF on Saturday 21st of September 2019 10:31:21 AM

the addict · Tennis legend

Naomi lost 6-3 3-6 6-1

Peter too · Tennis legend

Q1: DART, Harriet (GBR) 2 132 def SAVINYKH, Valeria (RUS) 169 7-6(5) 6-2
Q1: BROADY, Naomi (GBR) 435 lost to FLINK, Varvara (RUS) 6 149 3-6 6-3 1-6

Q2: DART, Harriet (GBR) 2 132 v BOGDAN, Ana (ROU) 5 143 CH=59 11/6/18

They played earlier this year at the US Open with Ana winning 3 & 1.

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

HarryGem wrote:
Great result for Harriet. The next match will be tough but frankly these are the sort of matches she needs to start winning on a regular basis if she is to become a top 100 player. Bogdan is decent but not great and is beatable.

I was in that midset 4 weeks ago when they were placed together at the US Open, but it wasn't particularly close, she was hanging on to her serve until 3-3 and then pretty much one way traffic thereafter, so less than 4 weeks later, same surface, plus Ana got some decent wins in Korea last week, I can't see there being much difference, so I'm in the 12 points in the bag, anything else would be a bonus camp here.