Week 8 - WTA International ($250k) - Acapulco, Mexico - Hard

dougie · Club Coach

Week 8 - WTA International ($250k) - Acapulco, Mexico - Hard

dougie · Club Coach

Heather holds quite comfortably after losing the first point and leads 5-2* in the 2nd set after taken the first set 7-6 (7-2)

-- Edited by dougie on Wednesday 26th of February 2020 11:49:39 PM

dougie · Club Coach

2: WATSON, Heather (GBR) 7 69 def BONDARENKO, Kateryna (UKR) 494 CH=29 2009 7-6(7-2), 6-2

dougie · Club Coach

Boulter serving to stay in the match *5-6

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

dougie wrote:
2: WATSON, Heather (GBR) 7 69 def BONDARENKO, Kateryna (UKR) 494 CH=29 2009 7-6(7-2), 6-2

Good result for heather. Reaches seeding.

dougie · Club Coach

R2: BOULTER, Katie (GBR) 394 lost to ZHU, Lin (CHN) 6 77 CH=69 17/2/20 6-7(2-7), 5-7

Close match but Zhu was just the more consistent when it mattered. Good to see Boulter back.

-- Edited by dougie on Wednesday 26th of February 2020 11:57:31 PM

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

Both ended pretty much exactly the same time. I guess that's what most would have expected 2 hours ago with a couple of seeds up against a couple of PR's, but good to see Katie fighting and competing with a top 100 player, and she was in a decent position in both sets - Zhu has to twice serve to stay in the first set, and Katie obviously had the break in the second.

Hopefully she still plays, and continues to build next week at the IW challenger.

the addict · Tennis legend

^^^^ Ace said what I was going to say.

Onwards and back up the rankings, Katie.

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

I mentioned this morning how this field now had a look of an ITF event, but to be fair, while another top 100 seed crashed out, the QFs do have 3 17 or 18 year old recent slam junior champions in X(iyu) Wang, Fernandez, and Potapova, the latter two play each other, so it'll be interesting to see where they all are in a year or two. Hard to believe Potapova is still just 18.

Watsons potential opponents (McHale and Dolehide) are still on in their first set (5-5).

Babfive · Satellite level

McHale won in three so she is up next for Heather.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Potapova now heads up tennis abstracts likely winner list, heather slips to 2nd. Kinder draw in top half.

Jan · Hall of fame

Nice to see another win for Heather!
Looks as though Katie put up a good fight too - heading in the right direction.

Peter too · Tennis legend

R2: WATSON, Heather (GBR) 7 69 def BONDARENKO, Kateryna (UKR) 494 7-6(2) 6-2
R2: BOULTER, Katie (GBR) 394 lost to ZHU, Lin (CHN) 6 77 6-7(2) 5-7

QF: WATSON, Heather (GBR) 7 69 v MCHALE, Christina (USA) 86 CH=24 2012

Sim · County player

Heather has a 1-3 record against McHale including at Acapulco in 2016.
All 4 matches were 3 setters, and in all 4 the winner of the first set lost the match.

Strongbow · All-time great

Sim wrote:
Heather has a 1-3 record against McHale including at Acapulco in 2016.
All 4 matches were 3 setters, and in all 4 the winner of the first set lost the match.

Hopefully, Heather can upset the trend and win in 2 sets