Week 9 - WTA International ($250K) - Monterrey, Mexico Hard

PockyTastic · Futures level

Week 9 - WTA International ($250K) - Monterrey, Mexico Hard

Jan · Hall of fame

Oh well done Jo! I really like Kim, but Jo needed this so much more.

ROSAMUND · Futures level

Apart from Wimbledon and the US Open, that was Jo's 1st singles win since beating Maria Sakkari at Eastbourne .

SuperT · Futures level

Strongbow wrote:

KC JK

9 Aces 6
4 Double faults 1
60.00% First serve % 83.00%
67.00% Win % on 1st serve 80.00%
50.00% Win % on 2nd serve 75.00%
0/0 Break points 03/08
0 Tiebreaks won 0
12 Receiving points won 32
55 Points won 74
8 Games won 13
1 Max games won in a row 5
4 Max points won in a row 6
43 Service points won 42
8 Service games won
10
Well done Jo

-- Edited by Strongbow on Wednesday 4th of March 2020 02:45:59 AM

-- Edited by Strongbow on Wednesday 4th of March 2020 02:48:11 AM

I agree that Maria is the sort of tricky player that Jo often struggles with, but surely if she could produce such amazing service stats like this again she should be fine? Not that I want to tempt providence. I confidently predicted she would lose to Kim and couldn't have been more happy that I was wrong.

-- Edited by SuperT on Wednesday 4th of March 2020 09:13:12 AM

Michael D · All-time great

ROSAMUND wrote:
Apart from Wimbledon and the US Open, that was Jo's 1st singles win since beating Maria Sakkari at Eastbourne .

Just amazing it's been so long for someone still ranked at 15 in the world!

Of course, unless there is some upturn, her ranking will plummet once the season turns to the clay, well depending on how much of the clay season goes ahead at the moment...

ROSAMUND · Futures level

Michael D wrote:
ROSAMUND wrote:
Apart from Wimbledon and the US Open, that was Jo's 1st singles win since beating Maria Sakkari at Eastbourne .
Just amazing it's been so long for someone still ranked at 15 in the world!
Of course, unless there is some upturn, her ranking will plummet once the season turns to the clay, well depending on how much of the clay season goes ahead at the moment...

I wonder if Jo spends as much time worrying about this as we do? At the moment she has 2,694 ranking points of which 2,225 came from Rome, Paris, Wimbledon and US Open. If the clay court season was cancelled then other players ranking might plummet as well such as Vondrousova who has 2,307 points 1,300 are from Paris. What will happen later on in the season with the Chinese tournaments? This will not affect Jo's ranking. Similarly what will happen to the Fed Cup finals in Budapest? It is a global event. Wearing my pessimists fact hat, after she won Miami in 2017 , the 2019 US Open is the only outdoor hardcourt tournament in which Jo has won more than 2 matches. It's a shame in one way that we don't have Heather v. Jo 2nd round match in Monterrey but on the other hand how would the forum have reported it ? Would there have been any bias? Thankfully we'll never know.

RedSquirrel · Satellite level

ROSAMUND wrote:

Apart from Wimbledon and the US Open, that was Jo's 1st singles win since beating Maria Sakkari at Eastbourne .

Because Wimbledon and the US Open aren't important tournaments and her 8 wins there are insignificant? confuse

ROSAMUND · Futures level

RedSquirrel wrote:
ROSAMUND wrote:

Apart from Wimbledon and the US Open, that was Jo's 1st singles win since beating Maria Sakkari at Eastbourne .

Because Wimbledon and the US Open aren't important tournaments and her 8 wins there are insignificant?

I did not say Wimbledon and the US Open are not important. I was trying to point out on the main WTA tour Jo had not won any singles matches since Eastbourne until Monterrey this week.And she also went 6 months without a singles wn anywhere whether it was the Grand Slams or WTA tour.

Miriambee · Futures level

Jo and Elena give a walk over in doubles, but both still appear to be in their respective singles matches. Anyone any news?

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

This looks like it's from a Mexican verified presenter/journalist, who seems to think it was Konta:

twitter.com/ECavazos_/status/1235347026180743169

Badly translated:
Johanna Konta has retired from the doubles team of
@Abierto_GNP
due to injury, but everything seems to indicate that it will continue in the singles (it is number two of the planting).

Hopefully just a case of wanting to concentrate on the singles.

Michael D · All-time great

And her knee not being up to too many matches at once.

emmsie69 · Top national player

Thats a great translation, it is number 2 of the planting, bloody brilliant

ROSAMUND · Futures level

The first match today is due to start at 17.00 British time and Jo is scheduled to follow when that's finished. This assumes her knee lets her play. If it doesn't then sadly I would think her future tennis career was in jeopardy. As it is, this year has been play, pull out, play, no Fed Cup, play, pull out, play, pull out doubles here.

-- Edited by ROSAMUND on Thursday 5th of March 2020 07:09:13 AM

-- Edited by ROSAMUND on Thursday 5th of March 2020 08:59:08 AM

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

ROSAMUND wrote:
The first match today is due to start at 17.00 British time and Jo is scheduled to follow when that's finished. This assumes her knee lets her play. If it doesn't then sadly I would think her future tennis career was in jeopardy. As it is, this year has been play, pull out, play, no Fed Cup, play, pull out, play, pull out doubles here.

-- Edited by ROSAMUND on Thursday 5th of March 2020 07:09:13 AM

-- Edited by ROSAMUND on Thursday 5th of March 2020 08:59:08 AM

Are you sure? That would make FAR more sense, but Google and Bet365 are both showing 9pm UK for Konta (and 5pm for Potapova), and then the 2 other matches following on from each other from 1am. I did think it seemed the most random OOP having one match start at 5pm, another at 9pm, and then the 3rd at 1am, but if Jo does follow straight on from Potapova that would be more traditional.

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

Didn't realise there was a men's event here this week, and there is a men's match between Potapova and Konta, so that makes more sense, and Konta is NB 3pm local, so 9pm here, so it'll be 9pm at the earliest, depending on how the first 2 matches go.