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Week 35 - WTA 125K (€3.15M) - Prague, Czech Republic (Clay)


Harriet due on court shortly, as the previous match has just finished

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First set 6-1 in just 23 minutes - and the 1 was an early service break !

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A big name from the past in the draw in Sabine Lisicki.I notice 2 other former Grand Slam runners up are in the draw in Sara Errani  and Eugenie Bouchard.



-- Edited by ROSAMUND on Saturday 29th of August 2020 01:11:04 PM

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To compensate for the lack of US qualifying by the look of it.



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Harriet lost her way in the second set. 2-6

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First set was very easy but she's gone totally off the boil

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Very disappointing later half of this match

*0-3 final set

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L128: Yuki Naito (JPN) WR 194 def (3) Harriet Dart WR 147 1-6 6-2 6-2

Not a good start to Harriet's clay-court season. Her plans for the next few weeks are the French tournaments in Saint-Malo (W60k+), Cagnes-Sur-Mer (W80) and then onto Roland Garos.

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Perhaps it was the heavy conditions but there was just absolutely no bite on any of Harriet's shots in the final two sets. She was letting herself get dragged all over the court and was unable to make any offensive plays.

Disappointing exit after a super start, 1-6 6-2 6-2

She still has several 1 point counters on her ranking but needs fairly big points hauls to move up towards the top 130. 



-- Edited by PaulM on Saturday 29th of August 2020 02:22:31 PM

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www.tennisexplorer.com/match-detail/

Naito was the pre match betting favourite, despite being lower ranked, at odds of roughly 1/2 vs 6/4, so it's not like a wow, that's an awful defeat, but it's obviously disappointing after such as strong start, and being a high seed with a lot of 300+ players in the draw.

At least she has plenty of forthcoming events as TA points out, so it's not like she's hanging around wondering where or when she'll next play, and it was very good money for just turning up, just a shame the way it went.

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Naito does list her favourite surface on the ITF website as being "sand"!

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Not sure if I've ever come across 'sand' before, ha, but she does seem to like playing on the clay:

www.tennisabstract.com/cgi-bin/wplayer-classic.cgi

I'd say roughly 75% of her pro matches have been on clay (unless I'm missing an exact stat on there somewhere), and she does have a couple of W25 clay titles, and some lower down at W15 level.

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PaulM wrote:

Naito does list her favourite surface on the ITF website as being "sand"!


Quite a lot of Japanese surfaces in recent years have apparently been very sandy "grass". 



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R128: JONES, Francesca (GBR) 321 def PALICOVA, Barbora (CZE) WC 1054 6-7(4) 6-2 6-1
R128: MURRAY SHARAN, Samantha (GBR) 23 180 v LISICKI, Sabine (GER) UNR
R128: CARRERAS, Amanda (GBR) 332 lost to MENDEZ, Seone (AUS) 275 2-6 2-6
R128: DART, Harriet (GBR) 3 147 lost to NAITO, Yuki (JPN) 194 6-1 2-6 2-6

R64: JONES, Francesca (GBR) 321 (CH=297 2019) v SRAMKOVA, Rebecca (SLV) 193 (CH=111 2017)


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Good to see fran back

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