Week 32 - The Top Seed Open WTA International ($202K) - Lexington, USA (Hard)

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Week 32 - The Top Seed Open WTA International ($202K) - Lexington, USA (Hard)

ROSAMUND · Futures level

JonH comes home wrote:
Heather has drawn Jennifer Brady, Jo has drawn Bouzkova. They could play in Last 8.

Serena is top seed and will play Venus or Azarenka in round 2!

-- Edited by JonH comes home on Sunday 9th of August 2020 07:13:27 AM

-- Edited by JonH comes home on Sunday 9th of August 2020 07:15:04 AM

Bouzkova was Jo's last opponent before lockdown. That was when Jo was affected by her knee trouble during the match.Never too sure about looking ahead to potential matchups unless they are in the 1st round., On a couple of other websites Sabalenka is seen as the potential winner.

the addict · Tennis legend

R1:- Heather Watson (GBR) 50 v Jennifer Brady (USA) 48

R1:- Johanna Konta (GBR) 14 [3] v Marie Bouzkova (CZE) 47

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

It's a cracking field for the event level. Some of the biggest names in the sport, some of the most promising teenagers, and obviously the 2 main British WTA players. Looking forward to catching a fair bit if this in the evenings.

Sabalenka has won 3 of her last 8 events, all on hard, and all worth at least 700 points, and probably is in the better half, so she should be a main contender, although a potential R2 match with Gauff could be a banana skin.

They're 5 hours behind. Hopefully they don't have evening sessions starting at midnight.

PaulM · Tennis legend

Emily didn't manage to make it here from Palermo, perhaps not a huge surprise.

Tara and Emina have drawn a pair of local wildcards: Mattek-Sands and Sloane.

indiana · Tennis legend

Hugely better CR than the local WCs

R1: Tara Moore & Emina Bektas (USA) CR 466 (233+233) vs (WC) Bethanie Mattek-Sands & Sloane Stephens (USA/USA) CR 1210 (20+1190)

60 points for a R1 win. Tara's ( & Emina's ) current lowest counter is 18 points ).

cya · Strong Club Player

Any idea how to watch this please - sorry if it's been mentioned and I've missed it

PaulM · Tennis legend

Amazon Prime are covering it.

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

cya wrote:
Any idea how to watch this please - sorry if it's been mentioned and I've missed it

Amazon Prime, betting streams, or dodgy streams. I'm not sure of the actual schedule though, and whether they can play really late into their evenings.

the addict · Tennis legend

indiana wrote:
Hugely better CR than the local WCs

R1: Tara Moore & Emina Bektas (USA) CR 466 (233+233) vs (WC) Bethanie Mattek-Sands & Sloane Stephens (USA/USA) CR 1210 (20+1190)

60 points for a R1 win. Tara's ( & Emina's ) current lowest counter is 18 points ).

Ouch, what a draw ! I presume Sloane hardly ever plays doubles !

the addict · Tennis legend

PaulM wrote:
Emily didn't manage to make it here from Palermo, perhaps not a huge surprise.

Tara and Emina have drawn a pair of local wildcards: Mattek-Sands and Sloane.

I suspect Em didn't really intend to travel, but was keepig her options open. She was still in Palermo this morning, according to Instagram

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

Order of play finally out.

Heather 3rd on Court 2 where play begins at 3pm UK, so maybe 6/6.30ish for that.
Konta 4th on Centre Court, again starting at 3pm.

It obviously depends on how the prior matches go, but hopefully no direct clashes there. At least we know Amazon will cover it all, as back in the day, you'd be lucky if BT rolled out an additional red button stream.

Most of the bigger name matches are on the Tuesday. There doesn't appear to be any dedicated evening sessions, so hopefully play will be wrapped up not too much after 1am each day (that's generally speaking, not necessarily British focussed).

-- Edited by Ace Ventura on Sunday 9th of August 2020 11:16:39 PM

ROSAMUND · Futures level

Ace Ventura wrote:
Order of play finally out.

Heather 3rd on Court 2 where play begins at 3pm UK, so maybe 6/6.30ish for that.
Konta 4th on Centre Court, again starting at 3pm.

It obviously depends on how the prior matches go, but hopefully no direct clashes there. At least we know Amazon will cover it all, as back in the day, you'd be lucky if BT rolled out an additional red button stream.

Most of the bigger name matches are on the Tuesday. There doesn't appear to be any dedicated evening sessions, so hopefully play will be wrapped up not too much after 1am each day (that's generally speaking, not necessarily British focussed).

Is there any significance in refering to Heather by her christian name and Jo by her surname? In other people's posts on this tournament Tara and Em are refered to by their christian names.

-- Edited by ROSAMUND on Monday 10th of August 2020 06:13:29 AM

seagull · Hall of fame

What possible significance could there be? Strange question

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

seagull wrote:
What possible significance could there be? Strange question

I got called out last year for referring to one player by their first name and another by their last name too......

So seemingly not strange question...... cry

But, yeah, I'm with you - OF COURSE it has no significance, it's just because certain people have more catchy last names, or there's a lot with the same first name, or whatever.

Indeed, to me, I find 'Jo' a bit tricky because she's Yo-hanna and therefore I can't write Jo without thinking it's Yo, I hear Yo in my head as I write, which seems silly. So I always call her her JoKo which is YoKo which seems fine.