Weeks 3-4 - Australian Open, Women's Main Draw - Melbourne, Australia - Hard

DF · Tennis legend

Weeks 3-4 - Australian Open, Women's Main Draw - Melbourne, Australia - Hard

seagull · Hall of fame

Are Heather and Harriet not playing today now?

Michael D · All-time great

seagull wrote:
Are Heather and Harriet not playing today now?

Harriet's match is still scheduled, with the men's singles in front now being in the third set, which could be the final one.

ROSAMUND · Futures level

ROSAMUND wrote:
JonH comes home wrote:
tennis abstract rates our ladies chances as:

JK - 66% chance to win first round, 40% to win 2nd round (v Garcia) and then likely to lose (19%) chance in last 32 v Yastremska

HW - 46% chance to win first round, just the underdog v Pliskova

KB - just a 15% chance versus Svitolina

They rate Osaka as favourite to beat Pliskova in the final
http://tennisabstract.com/current/2020AustralianOpenWomenForecast.html
Not too sure how they make Jo favourite against Jabeur. On their last meeting at Eastbourne Jo only won 5 games. The thing you can say about that was that the match was on court 1 and not the Centre Court and Jo might have been saving her energy for Wimbledon. However Jabeur was in good form this week.

-- Edited by JonH comes home on Friday 17th of January 2020 03:26:19 PM

Unfortunately I think my first sentence proved to be correct. After the match Jo commented that the knee felt ok and she dismissed the idea she might need surgery. But surely she must be getting advice about surgery or otherwise I don't want to be too pessimistic about tennis players and knee problems but some readers might remember Bettina Bunge from the 1980's. She was at Eastbourne in 1989 at the age of 26 and her knees were hurting so much that she only play doubles.Back to the present day on the one hand Jo is talking about playing more matches yet apart from last year's withdrawals she has already pulled out of Adelaide and won't play Fed Cup.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Harriet up an instant break

kundalini · Specialist Reporter + Intermediate Club Player

*1-0 Long first game.

-- Edited by kundalini on Tuesday 21st of January 2020 10:25:10 AM

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Coup Droit wrote:
Harriet up an instant break

But now back on serve - very even

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

kundalini wrote:
*1-0 Long first game.

Harriet? She's currently *2-3 30-30. Looks like Hev won't get on.

Lots of problems with the Eurosport Player..

the addict · Tennis legend

Hev's match was one of those postponed some time ago. They were being rather optimistic trying to get 96 matches done in one day

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Coup Droit wrote:
Coup Droit wrote:
Harriet up an instant break
But now back on serve - very even

And then not even at all cry

five games lost on the trot?

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

That first set went south quickly. 2-6

Pay for the Eurosport Player and back to good old Bet 365.

The 2 main Eurosport channels have been very male dominated as well - I recorded everything since 11.30am and caught up around 8am as about 80% combined of the matches on both channels were ATP, so was fastofrwarding chunks. They showed Konta in full, and VERY randomly showed Linette-Rus (ahead of Vekic-Sharapova), certainly the 2nd set of Boulter (perhaps it all), but after that just men, and a lot of them went 5, and not even Edmund's match.

DF · Tennis legend

Harriet down a set 2-6

after struggling to get the upper hand in that first game Harriet hasn't been able to follow through

Needs to turn this around, Still enough time

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

7 games in a row now for Doi, who holds first in the second set.

May not matter, but it would be Halep in R2 if she came through. Halep survived the first set on the tie break, but pulled away in the 2nd.

On the verge of 8 games in a row :(

Edit - she has come back from *0-40 to deuce, could be a huge game.

-- Edited by Ace Ventura on Tuesday 21st of January 2020 10:02:23 AM

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

Lots of breaks, as per most Harriet matches, but she's serving for the second set now, so fingers crossed. 2-6 *5-4.

Edit - she does. 40-0 became deuce, but won the next 2 points and into a decider. 2-6 6-4. Come on Harriet.

-- Edited by Ace Ventura on Tuesday 21st of January 2020 10:38:57 AM

DF · Tennis legend

Harriet levels the match. One set all