Cracking field for a W125k! Zhu and Hibino were 6th and 8th seed in Acapulco last week, they're 8th and 6th here.

Really good event idea having this just before the big one.

Doubles - not entirely unexpected to see these two

L16:- Mona Barthel (GER) / Emily Webley-Smith (GBR) CR253 (109+144) v Christina McHale (USA) / Anna Blinkova (RUS) CR215 (152+63)
L16:- Usue Maitane Arconada (USA) / Harriet Dart (GBR) CR315 (121+214)v Makot Ninomiya (JPN) / Zhaoxuan Yang (CHN) CR106 (59+47) [2]

Winners meet in the Quarter Finals

Amazon are showing Lyon and Monterrey, but no sign of Indian Wells at the moment.

Thanks SQ. Yeah, knew they weren't full WTA events, and half way between WTA and ITF, but just wasn't sure with them being included in the WTA TV package.

The matches are all on the usual sites, but I see there is an official stream for one WTA match:

oraclechallengerseries.com/indian-wells/score-center-indian-wells/watch-live/

There's about 4 for the men, and while it's no good for our girls tonight, it may come in handy should either Katie or Harriet reach the latter stages.

Harriet should be on soon as the match before hers is over. Lao is serving at *5-2 in the other, so shouldn't be too long for Katie either.

These both look like genuine 50/50 matches which could go either way. I'd personally be happy with one win between them.

I was going to say a break isn't a break until a hold with Harriet, but she has 

2-0*

Yep, making a mockery of my previous post (and the odds) at the moment. I know CD wasn't too impressed with Li when he saw her live, but she's started the year really well. Coming through 3 rounds of quals to qualify for Adelaide (beating top 100 Hibino), and then, like Harriet, coming through AO quals, and winning a R1 match, before going down to an accomplished opponent in R2, so is 7-2 and 2020.

-- Edited by Ace Ventura on Monday 2nd of March 2020 09:35:55 PM