Katie *5-0.

To be honest, assuming there's no huge Emily Arb fightback here (in which case I'd look very silly), it would probably be much better if either Jodie or Katie gave a walkover in their group decider tomorrow. I don't think there's an obvious player in the other group who they would want to avoid (maybe Katie vs Freya at a push due to friendship reasons). Jodie would get a rare day off, and even Katie would get a break as I'm not sure if shes played 5 in 5 days yet since her comeback. Plus a potential Jodie vs Katie final would likely be better as a spectacle if we didn't see it 2 days earlier. 

Emily did break back, but Katie has the set 6-1.

 

Edit - Obviously for integrity reasons the above won't happen, but given it's been one issue after another since the start of (and even before) this tournament,  I think it would ironically help.

-- Edited by Ace Ventura on Wednesday 15th of July 2020 12:28:03 PM

Coup Droit wrote:

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Who is Aimee Gibson replacing?

Amazing, really, that Lilly and Aimee are playing on BBC tv in, effectively, an elite competition .....

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Sasha Hill

I didn't see any of that match, but the comms on centre court during the Boulter match said Victoria came from behind to beat Erin Richardson?

I guess I haven't watched many Maia matches outside of an ITF stream, but I've never heard 'Scottish #1' as much as I have this week.

Anyway, good come from behind win for Lissey in a long match to book her place in the semi final. So that's 2 matches tomorrow between those already qualified.

JonH comes home wrote:

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Ace Ventura wrote:

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I guess I haven't watched many Maia matches outside of an ITF stream, but I've never heard 'Scottish #1' as much as I have this week.

Anyway, good come from behind win for Lissey in a long match to book her place in the semi final. So that's 2 matches tomorrow between those already qualified.

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 Are the Premier level semifinalists confirmed then?

Jodie, Katie, Freya, and Alicia?

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Yeah, just need to work out the group order now, but nothing too significant on the line in either Premier match tomorrow.

indiana wrote:

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Ace Ventura wrote:

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I guess I haven't watched many Maia matches outside of an ITF stream, but I've never heard 'Scottish #1' as much as I have this week.

Anyway, good come from behind win for Lissey in a long match to book her place in the semi final. So that's 2 matches tomorrow between those already qualified.

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Maia needs to progress and others come through for future Scotland Fed Cup teams   

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True, becoming more of a realistic prospect, however, as it stands, with her nearest competition being #1102, it just felt quite a redundant statement. If there were a few others 400-600 then it would have been more noteworthy.

It's obviously a sensitive subject, but reading between the lines I think Maia would happily settle for given up her British perks if a Scottish Fed Cup team materialised in the not too distant future, but while Scotland is still part of the UK, as a British tennis fan, it did kind of make it feel like needless differentiation (for now), especially the amount if times it was mentioned.

On a similar note, I did notice the other werk that Ali C seems to be working a lot more with Judy Murray these days, and her Instagram profile suddenly changed from British tennis player to Scottish tennis player.