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It's also quite amusing how one little side comment has subsequently resulted in a couple of pages of speculation and digging up of rules and past squads biggrin. Someone just coming in from work and seeing a W15 thread with 75 posts on a Wednesday would probably assume something really significant had happened, ha.



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On Thursday, Katie is first match on Court 3 against Zhibek Kulambayeva (Kaz). Is anybody familiar with Katie's opponent's career? 



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ROSAMUND wrote:

On Thursday, Katie is first match on Court 3 against Zhibek Kulambayeva (Kaz). Is anybody familiar with Katie's opponent's career? 

 Just had a look on ITF site and she is 20 years old with a  current singles ranking of 658. Highest was 590 on 30/09/2019.



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ROSAMUND wrote:
ROSAMUND wrote:

On Thursday, Katie is first match on Court 3 against Zhibek Kulambayeva (Kaz). Is anybody familiar with Katie's opponent's career? 

 Just had a look on ITF site and she is 20 years old with a  current singles ranking of 658. Highest was 590 on 30/09/2019.

 She beat Freya 3 and 1 in the first round last week, losing in the SF to Joanna. But lost in the first round the week before.



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Ace Ventura wrote:

It's also quite amusing how one little side comment has subsequently resulted in a couple of pages of speculation and digging up of rules and past squads biggrin. Someone just coming in from work and seeing a W15 thread with 75 posts on a Wednesday would probably assume something really significant had happened, ha.

 A really significant 'discussion' had happened



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I've never seen her, or even heard of her until last week, but there doesn't look to be too much on her recent record that massively concerns me.

www.tennisexplorer.com/player/kulambayeva/

She did reach the SF here last week (losing to Garland), and seemingly beat Freya pretty convincingly in R1, but a few modest defeats as well, and Bet365 have her at 5/1 (even if there is less data/info at this level), so you'd like to think it should be a relatively safe passage. I think today's 19 year old opponent had a few more credentials on paper.

Edit - a lot of that referenced by TA.



-- Edited by Ace Ventura on Wednesday 21st of October 2020 07:39:02 PM

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Ace Ventura wrote:

I've never seen her, or even heard of her until last week, but there doesn't look to be too much on her recent record that massively concerns me.

www.tennisexplorer.com/player/kulambayeva/

She did reach the SF here last week (losing to Garland), and seemingly beat Freya pretty convincingly in R1, but a few modest defeats as well, and Bet365 have her at 5/1 (even if there is less data/info at this level), so you'd like to think it should be a relatively safe passage. I think today's 19 year old opponent had a few more credentials on paper.

Edit - a lot of that referenced by TA.



-- Edited by Ace Ventura on Wednesday 21st of October 2020 07:39:02 PM

 Should we expect Katie to go all the way at this level or still be working her way back to match fitness?



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None of the players in Katie's section are ranked inside the top 600, so she should be able to reach the semi-final where she would probably play the top seed, Gasanova WR290.
So if she's match-fit and finds form, there is no reason why she couldn't go all the way.

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Usual slow start from Katie, but has recovered from 0-2* to lead 5-3*

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There was a MTO at *5-4, and since then it's been a bit of a battle. Now in a tiebreak.

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Katie wins 7-6(5) 6-2 in two hours and 4 minutes.

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R2: BOULTER, Katie (GBR) 4 383/1476 def KULAMBAYEVA, Zhibek (KAZ) 658/142 7-6(6) 6-2

QF: BOULTER, Katie (GBR) 4 383/1476 (CH=82/1431 2019) v TIKHONOVA, Anastasia (RUS) Q 709/467 (CH=642/212 2019)



-- Edited by Peter too on Friday 23rd of October 2020 02:21:38 PM

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Katie's match is first on court1 on Friday. Joanna Garland plays Manon Leonard  of France 1st match on court 3. 



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Both Katie and Joanna streaking ahead,

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Yes, going well so far. 6-3 and 6-1. I see Scholsen took the first set 6-0 - she would play Joanna next.

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